race for mayor<\/a> will, in fact, be between a black woman and a white man, but I don\u2019t have any reason to belief that race is an issue. \u00a0Outside agitators are suspected \u2014 but which side are they on? \u00a0If they are racists hoping to get whites to rise up, they\u2019re the dumbest racist agitators I\u2019ve heard of.<\/p>\nUPDATE: \u00a0The more I think about it, the more I conclude that this second flyer makes it clear that this is a hoax meant to look like a racist threat. \u00a0After all, if you were a racist agitator wanting to rally closet racists to your cause, in Southfield, Michigan<\/em>, would you really choose these images? \u00a0IT\u2019s a KKK-robed man shooting a boy wearing a hoodie with Skittles in his hand, with a Confederate flag in the background. \u00a0These are images meant to speak to the fears of blacks, not whites \u2014 for whom you\u2019d choose images that speak to fears that Detroit\u2019s criminals have \u201chit 8 Mile Road\u201d and are\u00a0coming to Southfield.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southfield is a middle-class suburb directly adjoining Detroit. \u00a0I lived there for the first seven years of my life, in a three-bedroom ranch with a crawl space. \u00a0Growing up, it was a fairly white place, with the only \u201cethnic diversity\u201d being a significant Jewish population. \u00a0In the last generation, though, the area has changed substantially, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":2622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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