I was out of the country when Mayor Archer was in office. How was he?
Archer was slightly better than Young, but that’s not saying much. I remember he thought the cure for Detroit’s ills was to bring in casino gambling. He was on the C-Span morning show a decade ago and somebody phoned in and said, “Mr. Mayor, do you honestly believe middle class White women are going to drive down from Oakland (County) to downtown Detroit to play in the casinos (inferring they could get mugged or raped) ?” The caller hung up laughing. Archer made a face. What Archer didn’t understand is that Detroit’s problem wasn’t lack of money, but the residents themselves and the entire city’s mindset.
I was on a private political discussion board that was MI-based several years ago and we were talking about the Detroit cesspool and its chronic epidemic of racist, Marxist, crooks that have run it for decades. In chimes a State Rep. from Detroit blasting me for not knowing what I was talking about and that Detroit was a “great place”, yada yada yada. A week later, that State Rep. was indicted for a multitude of criminal charges. Hey, Detroit is a great place for those running it, since they get to line their own pockets. For everyone else, it’s a miserable, crime ridden hellhole. They’re never going to change it, because they are the problem.