There is plenty of blame to go around for the situation in Detroit and DPS and the ones that have lost the most are the children - I am sympathetic to that, however, there is a mind set in Detroit that has refused to acknowledge the problems and have refused help from out siders because they suggested uniforms for the students, charter schools, interns and on and on.  And some of those out siders were white and that was offensive to Detroiters.  Hell, Bill Cosby was called a racist by Detroiters for pointing out it's faults.

So don't go playing the race card.  Detroit is what it is.  A predominantly black city that is falling into an abyss because they don't want to look in the mirror and acknowledge their failures. And they are now rejecting common sense fixes. That is the reality.