Conyers Looks Beyond MLK

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

It would appear as if Monica Conyers, at least judging by her steamy commentary at a Detroit City Council meeting last week, has dispensed with all that Martin Luther King idealistic crap.

What matters most is how you look.

Speakers advocating for the deal were taunted by the crowd and cut short by Council President Monica Conyers, who presided over the hearing like an angry bulldog; whites were advised by the citizens to, "Go home."

Opponents were allowed to rant and ramble on uninterrupted about "those people" who want to steal Detroit's assets and profit from the city's labors.

A pitiful Teamster official who practically crawled to the table on his knees expressing profuse respect for this disrespectful body was battered by both the crowd and the council.

When he dared suggest that an improved Cobo Center would create more good-paying jobs for union workers, Conyers reminded him, "Those workers look like you; they don't look like me."

Monica, are you referring to skin color, or are you referring to that rabid foam at the corner of your mouth? Seriously, this is the individual entrusted to head the city council? This is the best person to be found for the job in a city with nearly a million people inside its borders? Good grief, wasn't Kwame Kilpatrick available?

How will Detroit ever woo significant businesses to the city with this sort of blatant idiocy bubbling out of the mouths of its leaders? All a competing city would ever have to do to get Detroit out of the picture is to show a taped session of a Detroit City Council meeting. Cleveland never looked so good.

And yet, this is who the voters of Detroit have chosen to lead them into the land of milk and honey, a gaggle of cacophonous malcontents who hate simply because the sensation feels so good and natural to them.

Martin Luther King had a dream all right, and Monica Conyers was not in it.

h/t Michelle Malkin