Exiled in the Promised Land

Beloved Detroit;
In an ironic twist of Detroit life, we find ourselves internally exiled. We are school board members and four of 9 city council members who stand in defiant opposition of immoral authority called emergency managers. "Emergency Manager" is actually a misnomer; this is a straw boss sent by the Emergency Creator, who is the governor of Michigan acting on behalf of the banks and bond holders.
The irony of the title of "exile" is this. In a Detroit Times article from 1928, "Exiles from the Promised Land," a story about Mexicans being deported from Detroit follows. My own father's family was among the thousands who left Detroit, their home, to their parents' homeland- not their own. The Depression brought the Repatriation, and Mexicans who came to work were scapegoated and exiled. This period of our history was so heartbreaking that for generations, we knew nothing. No one would talk about it or explain the strange behaviors of Mexican Americans- Chicanos- who spoke no Spanish and took their beloved heritage and culture inward.
Now as an elected school board member representing the Mexican/ Latino community, I am exiled, along with the other elected school board members. Anyone who fights back against the neo liberal agenda of austerity is exiled. - Tiny children carry the burden of debt they did nothing to create, Children are labeled "failures" before they have a chance to start school so they can be used as fodder for the Educational Achievement Authority. It's a privatization scheme for shareholders whose children would never be subjected to such conditions- all this is the brain child of philanthropy in charge. Detroit is being carved up and doled out to profiteers while we do without public transportation, health care, recreation and now public schools. This week, another 15 are slated to be closed by the little straw boss called Emergency Manager. They come with bad news to the people who live, work and pay taxes in Detroit and good news for Wall Street.
A change is gonna come.
Detroit will prevail; we need only to have faith in ourselves and turn off the mouthpiece media.
We must evict the functionaries carrying out the business of the banks.
Without them, this could not happen as easily and their positions will be laid bare. We know the banks and shareholders are looting our city.
We need to stop them now.