Help, help, we don’t exist

…And now I have joined them.  D’oh!

Seriously though, someone needs to help that city, in a real and urgent way. 

People there have it so hard, and it’s not their fault; they’re getting screwed.  Taxes are CRAZY high in Detroit, and people pay that money (whether they live there OR work there), and it doesn’t even get you snow plowing, or police that bother to show up, or your street being possible to drive on.  It all goes into the pockets of corrupt officials. 

Hello?  Mr. Historic First Dark-Skinned U.S. President?  There’s this huge American city–what’s left of it–and it’s occupied fully eighty percent by African-Americans* and it’s kind of lost most of its homeless shelters and food banks too, and the unemployment rate there is FIFTY PERCENT; can you do something now, please? 

*according to 2000 Census data; but the population has been dropping & increasing its percentage of minorities since then.  Oh, and you ought to ask why the city is 80% black, because it sure as hell isn’t an accident.