[MtnClimber]

Why would urban leaders want someone else to prosper?

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Fiji Hill]

The Motor City--The Satintones (1960)

[chajin]

Difficult as the 1967 riots were for the Motor City, key facts were hidden by leaders pushing their own narrative. Far from being angry and despairing, black families in Detroit that summer earned 95% of white income and enjoyed an unemployment rate lower than the national rate for whites. Groundbreaking black reporters including Louis Lomax, the first African-American TV journalist with a national following, and Sandra West, a UPI reporter who lived in the riot zone, wrote that the destruction was instigated by professional out-of-town operatives. Blacks and whites set fires together, watched stores burn together, went to jail together. The first sniper arrested by police was white. Congressman John Conyers tried to calm the situation, telling his fellow black residents to stop looting and go home, and had his office torched for his trouble.

These are not the characteristics of a race riot. Yet history has been hijacked to paint a picture very different from reality. So, instead of being guided by the truth of the past, cities are subject to being driven into a ditch by revisionism and heresy.

Sounds like the "mostly peaceful" astroturf riots of 2020, and the astroturf protests of 2024. To the left, the issue is always the revolution. Detroit, if it returns to success, will do so because its people will care more about their hometown than the revolution--i.e., making Detroit great again.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

From the article ---

"You can't learn from mistakes if you cover them up. City leaders will do whatever they can to pass the buck and blame their problems on the economy, the Federal government, past administrations, or anything except their own short-sightedness and lack of resolve. "

In a nutshell, this has been the Democrats' and some RINOs' playbook.

Our electorate has been fooled many times by "I'm not the other guy" campaign tactics.

[Vaduz]

100% chance of failure for any city or state ran by democrats it’s not by accident the main feed line for failure is kickbacks and stupidity and they own them.

The party has opted to bypass the small money gig and went to the top BIDEN WINS ELECTION and look what happened to the country fail.

If you keep touching fire the burns get worse.

[ridesthemiles]

IN CLEARLY REMEMBER WHEN DETROIT WOULD SELL ANY ABANDONED RUN DOWN PROPERTY TO A PERSON FOR $1 IF THEY WOULD RESTORE IT AND MAKE IT LIVABLE.

THIS OLD HOUSE DID A COUPLE OF EPISODES ON THE TOPIC

[rhinohunter]

Today two-thirds of those people are gone

But they all still vote dem...

[T.B. Yoits]

Detroit was doomed the day it was founded. It's an inland port and the St. Lawrence River is too small for the size of ships that launched in the 1950s, which have been surpassed by even larger ships since then.

Portland, Oregon is the most recent U.S. city (2015) to suffer the same fate.

[DownInFlames]

This all goes back to LBJ and his great society. Dump Trillions on blacks and you will have those ni$$$ers voting Democrat for the next 150 years.