It was the law in the United States that Africans were three-fifths of a person, that we could not vote, could not own property, said Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson during a public hearing Dec. 1, the day Gov. Snyder announced the first step in the takeover process, a 30-day initial review.
And that's what passes for political discourse not just in Detroit but the rest of the country. Never mind it is factually wrong.
I would have thought Dave Bing was a qualified person. But I suspect he lacked the power to do what needed to be done.