Have you seen White Entrepreneurial Detroit Guy on Facebook?
It's a satirical meme, a gallery of photos with captions that pokes fun at the heros of the Detroit gentrification movement, people whom Aaron Foley calls "local white-guy changemakers Phil Cooley, Josh Linkner, John Corcoran and ultimate white-guy Detroit changemaker (Crain's literally compared him to God) Dan Gilbert."
Some of the meme's photos are funny. Some seem like they were written by a person who has read too much anti-colonialism literature without watching "The Simpsons."
I am all for people moving into Detroit and helping rebuild this place. I think the term "Detroit is open for business" is a bit overused, but if it helps people invest here I'll let it slide. Let me also make clear that, if you didn't notice my profile photo, I am a black guy who lives in 80%-black Detroit, but I'm not going to be one of those "
"I do have a huge issue with the underlying premises behind some of the entrepreneurial ideas being tossed around here. Let me point you to a video of a failed coffee shop venture where a group of college grads on a mission from God wanted to move to a slum community to open a coffee shop in the Cass Corridor. That's their words, by the way..."
