Airplane Pyramid Scheme

Airplane Pyramid Scheme (June 27, 1988)
Duration: 00:28:19

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Themes: Leadership | Urban Challenges | Poverty, Progress, and the Rise of African-American Businesses and Professionals | Motor City and Motown |

Guests: Susan Watson, Richard Smart, Robert McTyre
Host : Ed Gordon
Producer : Ed Gordon, Trudy Gallant


Summary: This show is about the pyramid operation that was exclusively black, and whether that's the only reason it gained so much attention.

Guests include Richard Smart, the assistant deputy attorney general for Detroit; Detroit Free Press columnist Susan Watson, who wrote an article about the situation and has been receiving hate mail and threats because of it; and Robert McTyre of the Michigan Chronicle.