Posted on 03/20/2005 6:17:14 AM PST by wingblade
Detroit was such a beautiful city. It's location (halfway between Chicago and Toronto) should have made it a gem. What a waste.
Check the date...Should read 3/17/2005.
The BS detector is off the scale!
"If it was a city of one million white people, of course you wouldn't have this urban decay, of course there would have been renewal, of course there would have been government intervention to bring in market forces that would benefit the city. But the story of Detroit is that it became a majority black city very quickly."
"Why are you building new structures, spending millions of dollars building new sports structures and entertainment centers, when you have the historic heritage of the city's right here abandoned across the street."
Why?
The reason is called LIBERALISM.
*chuckle*
Interesting though, they caught the current conditions of the historic buildings on tape.
Sounds fairly fascinating.
Been to Akron, Ohio, lately ? Same story on a smaller scale.
"But the story of Detroit is that it became a majority black city very quickly."
That is or may be just one of the stories of Detroit.
"If it was a city of one million white people, of course you wouldn't have this urban decay, of course there would have been renewal, of course there would have been government intervention to bring in market forces that would benefit the city. But the story of Detroit is that it became a majority black city very quickly."
This implies that blacks are inept at running cities. Typical liberal racism.
And it is absolutely striking when one crosses from Windsor, Ontario to Detroit - immediately the roadsides are totally littered with trash! As a U.S. citizen, I feel a sense of shame every time I see the trashy roadways of Detroit. It's no wonder the Canadians think we are all ill-mannered and wasteful.
They will not deal with that problem and until they do no one is going to move there.
If Bethlehem Steel would sell the lakefront property...and if there aren't any deadly toxins buried on same, Buffalo could revive.
It is a disgusting place right now and sinking fast despite placing lipstick on the sow's lips.
I was curious about that statement too. Was the writer trying to say that whites wouldn't allow their city to deteriorate? Was he saying that whites care more about their communities than blacks? Was he saying that it was the fault of the whites, who, by their leaving, made Detroit fail?
The welfare program bastardization of the blacks in America was a big player in this disaster... What left wing Democrats didn't destroy -- the unions destroyed.
Liberals have once again produced devastating unintended consequences with their "well meaning" liberal bullsquat theology...
The DNC's attempt to secure the black plantation and the black vote -- has destroyed a large percentage of several generations of black families...
Semper Fi
There are a lot of stories to tell about Detroit. Very few of them from the past 50 years are good.
This is a Liberal put down of American Blacks if ever there was one. It shows the true nature of Liberal thinking about blacks as a people.
Just like Johannesberg.
Of course it's not about color but of political philosophy.
If Blacks were predominantly Conservative, their leaders would be proudly pointing to monumental
achievements rather than be constantly crying the racism excuse for their failures.
The liberals' obscene political use of Blacks during the last half of the 20th century is racism on steroids.
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