Henderson runs through all the usual bumf about how, in times past when the U.S. was doing well in the world, and prosperous at home, there were people left behind.
For blacks and other people of color, and women, whose misfortunes in the land of the free have often persisted in contrast to white, male, majority success.So, you're asking, where is the irony? At the bottom of the article it lists Henderson as
The editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press.OMG, the irony. If there is anyone anywhere in the entire United States who should understand the concept of "America's former greatness," it should be someone from Detroit.
Detroit was once a symbol of all that was great and powerful about the U.S., it was "Motor City." The factories hummed and black people streamed there from all across the South to build cars for the world and more affluent lives for themselves. And everyone loved the Motown Sound.
Today Detroit is a symbol of all that has gone to hell in the U.S.: thousands of abandoned homes, ruined schools, mass poverty and unemployment, civic bankruptcy, crime and dysfunction on steroids.
How someone from Detroit can misunderstand America's former greatness is beyond imagination. The willful blindness is astounding.
