I can't remember the last time I ran into a middle easterner let alone an obvious muslim. Now when I go to town I see stores full of spanish speakers.
There is a lot more to Michigan than Detroit.
Posted on 07/19/2011 7:30:20 AM PDT by flowerplough
What does “ruin porn” tell us about the motor city, ourselves, other American cities?
... Its impressive collection of pre-Depression skyscrapers have been memorably lionized as a “American Acropolis” by Camilo José Vergara, the pioneering photographer of American ghetto landscapes. Buildings that have escaped the wrecking ball have also, for the most part, escaped gentrification, since most of Detroit’s economic elite remain sequestered in the suburbs, with little of the desire for urbanity that one finds among the leisure classes of Chicago, New York, London, or (even) Philadelphia. Nor has the city ever been able to do on any significant scale what Pittsburgh has accomplished with its defunct Homestead steel mill, now a shopping mall, or what New York has done with upscale condos in old warehouses—leverage the hollow shells of a productive economy into the shell games of the credit economy.
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Coleman Young, Detroit’s charismatic and still-controversial mayor during the years of the city’s most precipitous decline in the nineteen seventies and eighties, put it well in his fascinating 1994 autobiography, Hard Stuff: “Detroit today,” he wrote, “is your town tomorrow.” From the 1967 riots, when Detroit became the flashpoint of the country’s political and racial crisis, to the deindustrialization and crime of the nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, the city has been a bellwether of each major urban crisis since World War II. Today, Detroit, to use an overused but appropriate metaphor given the city’s scarred appearance, is “ground zero” of the collapse of the finance and real estate economy in America. Detroit has been hit as hard as any city by the foreclosure crisis and by unemployment, and so it embodies the looming jobless future, or more precisely, our worst fears about that future.
(Excerpt) Read more at guernicamag.com ...
And a new baseball park right around the corner.........
Interesting how poor liberal cities (Det, Cle, Chi, etc) can find all that money for stadiums.
Muslims aren't taking over Michigan any more than Mexicans are taking over Tex....... uh, never mind.
You've got a bigger problem with illegal mexicans than Michigan has with its muslim population, which is primarily focused in the Dearborn area. Don't believe me, then read your local and state wide crime reports..........
As for your corner standing "day laborers", it's apparent that their short term employers aren't concerned about little things like work permits or green cards.
If I'm not mistaken, you folks just fried a Mexican illegal........
So don't be bashing Michigan until you can clean up your own illegal crap first.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit?vm=r
It is indeed. All those lovely books just sitting there rotting on the shelves. Such a waste.
I guess you're right, Michigan is the place to be. Jeff Daniels says so.
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Yes, I have to say, that’s just downright genius.
Drop by my place and I'll take you on a tour..........virtually every gas station and party store are owned by Chaldeans in Macomb County.........Personally I don't see that as a bad thing especially when you talk to them about "Muslims".......they hate them more than we do.
I play senior softball with a 62 year old Chaldean guy and a couple weeks ago I asked him exactly what a Chaldean was. His explanation was that they are "Baghdad Christians".......I then asked him about his thoughts on Muslims and he went into a profanity laced tirade about them....LOL!
But back to the point, Detroit is just a pinprick on the map of Michigan and does not represent what the state of Michigan has to offer. I'm starting to get pretty damn tired of all the folks around here bashing our state simply because of Detroit and the cloistered Muslim population in Dearborn.......
I took my own pictures there just last week, over a period of a few days. I covered several neighborhoods... and was amazed at how spread out the “typical” scenes really cover... amazing.
For anyone who’s interested, here are my photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23441454@N03/sets/72157627278854858/
Photos I took in the UP back in 08.
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/346923/index.html
Wish I had my good camera back then.
Nice pics... a bit different from the Detroit ones for sure!
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