Tavis Smiley and Cornel West bring their poverty tour to Detroit
Posted: 08/08/2011
DETROIT (WXYZ) - Award winning public television host Tavis Smiley along with former Harvard professor Dr. Cornell West drove their poverty bus tour into Detroit Monday.
The town hall meeting was held in the auditorium at city hall and was packed with people supporting President Obama.
They had heard Smiley and West would be bashing the president for failing to make the plight of the poor an issue.
There was some rowdiness and rudeness that made it tough for Smiley to make some of his points but not enough to disrupt the meeting.
Earlier, Smiley told Action News "this is not an anti-Obama tour." However he also said the debt ceiling deal the President struck with Congress "does not extend unemployment benefits, close corporate loopholes or raise one cent for the poor."
The tour will travel to about two dozen cities.
Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
PRINT
More Detroit Headlines
-
Sheriff's tether contract under fire
Wayne County commissioners are fuming over news that Sheriff Benny Napoleon isn’t following a costly tether contract.
-
Questions unanswered in Detroit shooting
The 7 Action News team has learned several major issues remain unresolved in the Detroit Police shootout with a murder suspect on April 2.
-
Building fire in southwest Detroit
The Detroit Fire Department is on the scene of a fire at a vacant commercial building in southwest Detroit.
