"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.
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.
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.
"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."
Hehe no, you missed that point. What he's saying is that the US government cares about white people, so it would come in and save them if a white town ended up like this. Since our RepubliNazi government doesn't care about blacks, it has let the city go to ruin. He completely ignores the fact that it's not the job of the federal government to go around fixing up cities that have fallen into ruin.
Even a lot of the blacks are leaving now. They go to Southfield which is a mostly middle class area 60%+ black.
The black leaders (including former) demonstrated only an interest in their own self-promotion many times at the expense of those living out-state (the rest of Michigan). As far as I am concerned Detroit is an unsafe hell-hole. A result of desegregation and the politically correct term--urban sprawl?