The Metro: Why 'the last vestige of acceptable racism' is intensifying - WDET 101.9 FM

The Metro: Why 'the last vestige of acceptable racism' is intensifying - WDET 101.9 FM

A week ago, the Dearborn City Council moved its meeting to the public library because they expected a crowd. Police were outside in riot gear. Wayne County sent officers on horses. By the next morning, 22 people had been arrested from across Michigan, and from as far as New York and Tennessee. Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud told the council his own daughter didn’t go to daycare that day. Some businesses stayed closed. Sports practices were resc…