Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has chosen an emergency manager to take control of the city of Detroit during its fiscal crisis. In a controversial move seen by many as undemocratic, the city’s leadership will now cede broad powers to Kevyn Orr, a lawyer who handled Chrysler’s bankruptcy and restructuring process in 2009. Orr’s salary will be $275,000, almost all of it paid by the state. Emergency management decrees have disproportionately affected people of color in Michigan. Half the state’s African-American population now lives under unelected leadership.