Moral of this story: Never visit a town that uses a body part or human limb as a cultural icon.
Posted on 03/20/2005 6:17:14 AM PST by wingblade
There's lots of automotive industry jobs in the Detroit area -- out in the suburbs. Go ten miles northeast of Detroit, to Grosse Point, MI and you will see lots of impressive multi-million dollar mansions
Middle/upper class people simply don't like living next to drug dealers who might want to burn out the neighborhood if they get disrespected.
Once Detroit reached the tipping point where the welfare class was the dominant voting bloc, the middle class moved out. You can see the pattern repeating elsewhere
Moral of this story: Never visit a town that uses a body part or human limb as a cultural icon.
Why are you so quick to use the words 'Liberal' and 'Racism'?
The plain and simple facts are that corruption IS rampant and mismanagement is present as well. The school system is in chaos and collapse yet administrators spend millions on 'Retreats' for the teachers who haven't been laid off. The transit systems are being cut back drastically, a direct hurdle to thousands of working, productive people to get to work. Crime is, and has been for a very long time, out of control. Row upon row of decaying housing is everywhere. Roads are an abomination, in places barely usable and damaging to cars and safety. And this is just for starters, the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
But there is a new baseball stadium, a new arena replacing the not very old Silverdome, new police cars every year and SUV's for mid-level City Employees and on and on.
It's not a racial thing, nor is it a Liberal thing - It's a human thing - An expression of some of the baser cgaracteristics of that condition.
Holy cra cow!
One night in 1974 I spent a week there. (If you get my drift) It was a hell hole THEN - it looked like Beirut (or worse). By your account its got worse! That would seem humanly impossible.
The unions
Coleman Young was the end of the line from the riots
White flight from the riots
The auto industry avoiding the unions
My vote is the unions for their soviet style bargaining with the automakers. The brothers came for the auto jobs and weren't really the problem. If there were a vital tax base to maintain the infrastructure there would be a Detroit today just as there is a Chicago that weathered the same problems.
..."that's the problem when a city relies on just one industry..."
Wasn't Detroit a single major industry-dependant city when it wasn't so much of a problem? Actually, the entire US and our allies in WWII were dependant on Detroit as it became known for it's mass production capabilities as the Arsenal of Democracy. What happened after that was an abuse of real estate sales practices and social climbing at the expense of the people left behind. What happened after that was a product of "liberealism" not The Renaissance. Today, there is still enough left to make a "killing" at the expense of the city's financial status.
In 1967, we had the bloodiest race riots in American history in Detroit. Something like 15% of the structures in the city were burnt.
The white flight after that was rapid and devastating. A city of nearly 2 million is now a city of 900,000.
The government that resulted, of the black racist Coleman Young, was as incompetent and corrupt as it was inflammatory.
And he held onto power for term after term after term, keeping racial hatred at a full boil, and making it impossible to do anything reasonable within the city limits.
The Detroit police were gutted, leaving the city America's murder capital for a decade.
Detroit is what happens when there is toxic racist politics, corruption, and violence is allowed to go unchecked.
Disaster and despair, with no hope of recovery until all three of those things changes. There is no real desire to change any of it. It all feeds on itself, like a dog returning to its vomit.
Liberals believe that white people don't deserve what they have, because they got it by magic.
They therefore believe that blacks need whites around, so the blacks can benefit from that big white ju-ju.
If blacks ever find out what liberals really think about them, we will have a revolution in this country.
..."a California professor of geography describing the circumstances in which civilizations collapse."
Does this prof ever mention PC as a contributing factor?
I should read it for myself, I guess.
Yep. I moved here 5 years ago (Bloomfield Hills). Number of times I have been in Detroit City Limits ZERO. Not sure if the airport is in the City Limits - The only exception if it is.
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Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit,Washington DC..............
Luckily I only have to drive from the airport north to the suburb of Williamsville-Amherst (America's safest municipality)
Everything South of downtown looks like Beirut...on a good day.
Good place to be from...but couldn't possibly live there.
Of course not becasue if it was a city of a million white people they wouldnt keep mindlessly voting for the same politicians time and time and time again that destroyed the city and keep the city down with there marxist leninist socioeconomic policys thats the lesson that needsto be learned by the city of detriot with this documentary
Shades of "Roger and Me"
I lived in the Detroit metropolitan area for about ten years in the 80's and early 90's. Was always struck by the fact that there was as much money in the area as virtually anywhere in the country and what an absolute shame it was that the city hadn't developed in the way of Chicago, for example. Some of the greatest suburbs in the country can be found in the tri-county area but the city is an incredible mess.
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