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Coleman Young, Jr:
He’s not his father resurrected. © 2017
Barely two months after Trump’s election, you would have thought black voters might have resolved to become more astute and more focused voters. They are now witnessing the consequences of not voting or voting unwisely. But early signs suggest, too many black voters are still too politically uninformed and too easily led down the wrong path.
Enter Coleman Young, Jr. Detroit has an upcoming mayoral race coming up, and Coleman Young, Jr. has announced his candidacy.
Lest some people are clueless, Detroit isn’t the equivalent of a mom and pop store. This city is a billion dollar corporation. It has thousands of employees. It has over a half million customers—its residents, and It has over a thousand businesses within its corporate borders. Detroit is barely three years out of bankruptcy, and it’s on an upswing. Do we really want to go backwards or put the city in the hands of an amateur?
To be blunt, Coleman Young, Jr. doesn’t have the skills or the preparation to run a billion dollar corporation. If his name was Willie Jackson or Joel Loving, which is his real birth name, he would be lucky to get 100 votes.
Some of the black voters championing Young as a viable mayoral candidate are the mirror opposites of Trump’s supporters. Many don’t read, and they get most of their information, not from Fox News, but from black media equivalents that spins the victim and blame card all day. Like Trump supporters, they, too, are obsessed with race, as if race is the cause of all their problems.
The black community has been ripe for scams, and surprisingly most often by people who look like us.
The same poverty pimps and race hustlers who thought Kilpatrick, and convicted council members were “all that,” are now promoting Young with the hope of being hired as his “consultants.” Other than playing the race card from a black perspective, they have no other skills.
There’s nothing in Coleman Young, Jr.’s background to suggest he’s ready and capable of running a billion dollar corporation like the City of Detroit.
Black still is beautiful, and black matters, but you wouldn’t go to a black doctor who was not prepared and who never had a patient.
One of Coleman Young, Jr.’s campaign claims is that Blacks have been left out of downtown’s redevelopment. There’s some truth there, but whose fault is that? Michigan and Detroit have many wealthy Blacks in residence. But they have consistently shown an inability to unite economically. This is an “us” problem rather than a “they” problem.
As human beings, we are the product of both nature and nurture, with a strong emphasis on nurture. Coleman Young, Sr. was nurtured by his experiences at Tuskegee, in the war, during the time he worked at Ford auto plants, the post office, union struggles, and in the state legislature. More importantly, he was 55 years old when he was elected mayor. He was a well seasoned man.
You can’t say the same for Coleman Young, Jr. He does not have the same kind of nurturing that Coleman Young, Sr. had. He’s simply relying on his daddy’s name. Who knows, one day, years from now, Coleman Young, Jr. may establish his own legacy, and he won’t have to rely on his daddy’s name to get over.
But today is not that day.
He’s not his father resurrected. © 2017
Barely two months after Trump’s election, you would have thought black voters might have resolved to become more astute and more focused voters. They are now witnessing the consequences of not voting or voting unwisely. But early signs suggest, too many black voters are still too politically uninformed and too easily led down the wrong path.
Enter Coleman Young, Jr. Detroit has an upcoming mayoral race coming up, and Coleman Young, Jr. has announced his candidacy.
Lest some people are clueless, Detroit isn’t the equivalent of a mom and pop store. This city is a billion dollar corporation. It has thousands of employees. It has over a half million customers—its residents, and It has over a thousand businesses within its corporate borders. Detroit is barely three years out of bankruptcy, and it’s on an upswing. Do we really want to go backwards or put the city in the hands of an amateur?
To be blunt, Coleman Young, Jr. doesn’t have the skills or the preparation to run a billion dollar corporation. If his name was Willie Jackson or Joel Loving, which is his real birth name, he would be lucky to get 100 votes.
Some of the black voters championing Young as a viable mayoral candidate are the mirror opposites of Trump’s supporters. Many don’t read, and they get most of their information, not from Fox News, but from black media equivalents that spins the victim and blame card all day. Like Trump supporters, they, too, are obsessed with race, as if race is the cause of all their problems.
The black community has been ripe for scams, and surprisingly most often by people who look like us.
The same poverty pimps and race hustlers who thought Kilpatrick, and convicted council members were “all that,” are now promoting Young with the hope of being hired as his “consultants.” Other than playing the race card from a black perspective, they have no other skills.
There’s nothing in Coleman Young, Jr.’s background to suggest he’s ready and capable of running a billion dollar corporation like the City of Detroit.
Black still is beautiful, and black matters, but you wouldn’t go to a black doctor who was not prepared and who never had a patient.
One of Coleman Young, Jr.’s campaign claims is that Blacks have been left out of downtown’s redevelopment. There’s some truth there, but whose fault is that? Michigan and Detroit have many wealthy Blacks in residence. But they have consistently shown an inability to unite economically. This is an “us” problem rather than a “they” problem.
As human beings, we are the product of both nature and nurture, with a strong emphasis on nurture. Coleman Young, Sr. was nurtured by his experiences at Tuskegee, in the war, during the time he worked at Ford auto plants, the post office, union struggles, and in the state legislature. More importantly, he was 55 years old when he was elected mayor. He was a well seasoned man.
You can’t say the same for Coleman Young, Jr. He does not have the same kind of nurturing that Coleman Young, Sr. had. He’s simply relying on his daddy’s name. Who knows, one day, years from now, Coleman Young, Jr. may establish his own legacy, and he won’t have to rely on his daddy’s name to get over.
But today is not that day.