it don t take a genius to know what this is all about. they want our money and our land, and no one cares about us. and we re the ones who stuck around, not the white folks. members of the detroit city council today said they were likely to appeal the governor s decision. the reverend david bullock, who has been a guest on our shows with the rainbow-push coalition he calls it, quote, the death of democracy in detroit. he continued, it also means disaster for detroit with the track record of the emergency manager. the track record. what the reverend is referring to is the track record for putting an emergency manager in charge in michigan, because they have tried this before, right? they have done this in these
what powers those elected officials will have, though, will be up to the emergency manager. so have fun voting. no, it does not really matter anymore who you vote for. perhaps not surprisingly, a lot of people in detroit today did not react to this news with tons of excitement over having the state abolish the local democracy. some people welcomed the news, definitely. others did not. the head of the local naacp said the city does not need an emergency manager. quote, we urge the state to be our partner. we do not call upon the state to be our overseer. the news agency reuters, quote, it don t take a genius to know what this is all about. they want our money and our land, and no one cares about us. and we re the ones who stuck around, not the white folks. members of the detroit city council today said they were likely to appeal the governor s decision. the reverend david bullock, who has been a guest on our shows with the rainbow-push coalition he calls it, quote, the death of democrac
november ballot, they are getting to work on that. joining us now is reverend david bullock, pastor of st. matthew s baptist church and president of the detroit chapter of the rainbow p.u.s.h. coalition. he s an advocate for repeal of the emergency manager law. thank you for your time tonight. nice to see you again. rachel, good to see you. thank you for having me on the show. i imagine you re rather ecstatic about the court ruling, the fact that michigan is going to get a chance to vote on this. do you get to start your campaign in earnest to make your case to the state now? what s the first step? the first step is celebration. while it s a partial victory, today we realize that the people united can never be defeated. we were in the ring against the twin giants of technical difficulty and tyranny and we won a blow for democracy today. all of the volunteers in benton harbor, and flint, bishop jefferson, in detroit, the committee to stand up for democracy. the detroit branch naac
celebrate tonight, we have a meeting in the morning at 9:30 in the morning. we re planning on august 25th for a major march and mobilization. we re going to mobilize over 2,000 volunteers in a state-wide political education and mobilization campaign. we re going to win this thing. there s so much wind in our sails, we believe that we can fly. and we re going to get it done in michigan. reverend david bullock, pastor of st. matthew s church, i m not in the business of giving political advice on things like that, but that statistic you dropped talking to me, 61 pupils per class, if you put one statistic on a placard for that march, i would suggest that one. anywhere anyone sees a picture of that, you re going to drop jaws all over the country, sir. that s right, indeed. and we ve got other stats. we ve got the stats about 1400 lights being taken out of the city of highland park, stats about police and fire being cut,
celebrate tonight, we have a meeting in the morning at 9:30 in the morning. we re planning on august 25th for a major march and mobilization. we re going to mobilize over 2,000 volunteers in a statewide political education and mobilization campaign. we re going to win this thing. there s so much wind in our sails, we believe that we can fly. and we re going to get it done in michigan. reverend david bullock, paster of st. matthew s baptist church, president of the detroit chapter of the rainbow p.u.s.h. coalition. i m not in the business of giving political advice on things like that, but that statistic you dropped talking to me, 61 pupils per class, if you put one statistic on a placard for that march, i would suggest that one. because anywhere in the country anybody sees a picture of that statistic, you re going to drop jaws all over the country, sir. that s right, indeed. and we ve got other stats. we ve got the stats about 1,400 lights being taken out of the city of highland pa