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Apelanta shows all the signs of becoming the “Detroit of the South,” i.e., needing a state manager to take charge of it, after years of Black rule. [Article].
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Well, not exactly, but almost. Back in the 1970s, there was something called “home rule” in Washington, DC. Under home rule, Blacks managed that city without interference from outsiders, such as federal officials. But (surprise!) the Blacks bungled the job so badly that the federal government had to step in and take control of the […]
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Newbies, as sort of a supplement to the posts below about Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Clayton County, Georgia schools, let’s look back at Washington, D.C.’s disastrous “home rule,” in which Black mismanagement of that city led to the federal government taking over the management of D.C. in 1995. The home rule charter for D.C. […]
