“Because you’re an adult”
The first part of this video documents council member Monica Conyers turning a Detroit City Council meeting into an embarrassing, pathetic grade-school playground spat.
By itself, it would reinforce the notion of Detroit as a dying metropolis, but then there’s the second portion of the video, in which we see the hope for the Motor City’s future in one Kierra Bell, an eight grader with more wisdom, composure and sense of dignity and responsibility than Conyers ever conceived of. This exchange is just too good, too rich. Kierra Bell for mayor (on her way to taking Conyers’ husband’s position - that’s right, he’s John Conyers of the United States Congress) and then President!
