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."
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.
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?
Shades of "Roger and Me"