Inkster, Michigan

Q.  Would the author of Debunking Henry Ford like to say something for Black History Month?

 

A.  Yes, thank you:  Inkster, Michigan.

 

Inkster was a Black town near Dearborn, the home of Ford Motor Company, near Detroit.

 

I've read there is a book in progress claiming

Ford channeled Black people to Inkster

and away from Dearborn, to keep Dearborn white. 

 

I was already familiar with a related part of Inkster's history.

 

That Ford lavishly installed infrastructure

a state of the art water system

and refurbished, painted

 

while imposing a requirement

no more unions

no more membership in unions by residents of Inkster

no more pro-union sermons by preachers there

 

Ford was the smasher of unions

believing them to be the spawn

of world Jewish conspiracy

 

"The Dearborn Independent"  propaganda series

was Ford's explicit frontal attack on the Jewish people;

Inkster was Ford's devious attempt to buy off local Blacks,

and now allegations are surfacing,

Inkster was as well Ford's attempt to corral Black people,

an attempt to preserve racial segregation

 

Ford's lavish expenditures emerge 

as a tool of people management and social control

 

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for further reading

Beth Tompkins Bates, The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2012.  Details about Ford's Inkster Project are on pages 145-156. 

August Meier & Elliot Rudwick, Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW, Oxford University Press, NY, 1979. 

Neil Baldwin, Henry Ford and the Jews: the Mass Production of Hate, Public Affairs, New York, 2001.