Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Detroit Churches should hit Eight Mile

Years ago, Coleman wanted all the criminals to hit "Eight Mile". I would suggest that this is exactly what Detroit churches should do.
They take up taxable land and, for the most part, add little to nothing to the neighborhoods they are in. Detroiter's hop in their cars to go every where so it ain't no big deal to drive to church in the suburbs. Put the weight of nonproductive assets where they don't burden the community.
Now, if churches really want to pull their weight they should combine together and tithe to the city by creating a type of bank that can be used to finance development. Skip the chandeliers, new organs and new wings and instead commit to putting 10% of their money into a Detroit Development Fund, which, will have a real fund manager, whose job isn't to make money but to preserve the capital and keep the thing going.
This falls on the churches because they are the chief repositories of money in the community and Detroit's problem is that money does not move in the city but out.
Of course, if the churches don't want to do this then they can just "hit Eight Mile".

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