Real Talk and Real Theft.....

I don't have cable. It is a luxury that I can not afford. It is more important to me to keep a roof over my head, utilities on, food in the house for my kids, and other basic amenities which are so hard to do currently. I did not see the Mayor's new show, "Real Talk." I listened to it on the radio. I hope someone will post it on YouTube.com later, so I can watch it then.

Hearing that Kilpatrick's first guests were City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers and Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, let me know that everything was going to be staged anyway. After seeing some of the show's clips on the Freep.com this morning, I felt from Bully-Cummings' demeanor, she was compelled to do the show by her boss. Conyers' performance was like a flirty, giddy teenager who is determined to assertive herself. Her demeanor was entirely different from what we see as she spars with fellow council members and what we saw when she had to catch herself while talking to that middle school student last week.


Although the show was cozy and amicable, I still can't help but wonder what does our Mayor have on both of these women? Conyers gave us a hint of whose pocket she is in when she admitted on the radio last week that she supports "strip joints as long as they are not near schools." The ones near me are located near and on nice looking blocks where Detroit citizens who are also parents of school age children. Those folks have and are keeping up their property. So she has no problem that they are situated in the neighborhoods though? I guess as long as she does not see them in her neighborhood, the strip joints in our city are not a problem for Mrs Monica Conyers, who is also a parent of two sons.


Unfortunately, Detroit Council Member and former Motown Singer Martha Reeves got a taste of what the citizens of Detroit have to deal with on a regular basis. Her childhood home was burglarized and audio/recording equipment among other things were taken. As I watched her on TV (WDIV, Channel 4 Detroit), I was amazed at her reaction that nobody saw anything and that someone of her stature did not have insurance on those items.

"I would cry if I wasn't an adult," Reeves said Monday after leaving a long City Council budget session. "And what can I do? You know, the police are not watching the neighborhood. Somebody should have called the police while this was happening. The neighbors are not going to talk."

Shoot, nobody saw anything when my home and the homes of both neighbor's on each side of me were burglarized. I can't get frustrated at my neighbors because they were at work or not watching what is going on outside, nor can they get upset with me. Since the break in, I have tried to get to know my neighbors more so that we can watch out for each other. I do truly feel for Martha Reeves' loss, and hope that the police do recover her property. The police told me that they would file a report after my incident, but was not going to check for evidence, like fingerprints. Both of my neighbors moved some months after their homes were invaded.

So right now I am stuck between two vacant houses. My daughter later found the laptop's screen on Seven Mile Road, but it did not do me any good. I guess whoever tried to sell it got ridiculed because the laptop was so old. The burglar probably got frustrated and destroyed it. But I lost all my writings and data. It taught me to back up my data, and reminded me that material things can be replaced, although it will be a while before I can replace my laptop which was used anyway.