Emergency Dictator Double-Standard in Michigan's Genesee County Alone

Kenneth B. Clark and the famous Doll Test.

On May 13, the Detroit Branch of the NAACP announced that it had filed a federal challenge to the current Emergency Manager Law in Michigan. In the section of their complaint (PDF) entitled "State Treasurer Process for Emergency Manager Selection was Discriminatory in its Application," they include Genesee County as an example of how the State's own methodology for determining if a "financial emergency" exists has been applied indiscriminately (or rather, quite discriminately as it were) :

73. In Genesee County, the City of Flint has a fiscal score of 8, and an Emergency Manager was appointed. Of further relevance is that Genesee Township (8.18% African American population) did not receive an Emergency Manager even though it had a fiscal score of 9, a higher score than Flint. Argentine (0.23% African American population) did not receive an Emergency Manager even though it had a fiscal score 6, equal to Pontiac’s score. Davison (1.8% African American population) did not receive an Emergency Manager even though it had a fiscal score 6, equal to Pontiac’s score. Flint Township (16.12% African American population) did not receive an Emergency Manager even though it had a fiscal score 7, a higher score than Pontiac. And Thetford Township (2.91% African American population) did not receive an Emergency Manager even though it had a fiscal score of 7, a higher score than Pontiac.

SEE: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/treasury/Genesee_341964_7.pdf