"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."
They never account for this decline of a once great city in the article but they do manage to accuse whitey, once again, of being a hate filled racist.
It wasn't racisim that forced my father out of East New York, it was VIOLENCE. I know because he raised me and neither he nor any of the men on the block were racist.
Question: If rotten whitey isn't there anymore WHAT is holding Detroit back? He doesn't live there, he doesn't run it and he doesn't vote (in numbers enough to matter) So what is holding the good citizens of Detroit from having a showcase city.
Because rotten whitey is no longer living there.
Excellent observation, most excellent question! A question to which there is no "feel-good" answer, only sound bites from the DNC play book.
Quote: "Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."
My brother has a client is one of the bad areas of detroit-small manufacturing comnpany. The business has no windows and has a fence around it like fort knox. They always tell him to come see them in the morning hours like 8:000-9:00 and too be out of the area by 12:00 before the populace starts waking up.
While I am sure it was true of your family (as was true of my family who were from Newark), the fact remains that there were plenty of white racists in places like East New York. There was even an organization in East New York, connected to organized crime called SPONGE (the Society for the Prevention of Niggers Getting Everything). You can look it up in any news report at the time. Lower class whites in East New York, for the most part, had no desire to live with low-class blacks, and vice versa.
Now that the yuppies are pushing out of Williamsburg into Bushwick, who knows if they'll make it to East New York in my lifetime. I doubt it (too far of a commute into Manhattan, poor housing stock), but I must say that at least the Bangladeshis and Dominicans who have moved into East New York/Cypress Hill have brought legitimate commercial activity back to the nabe.
This is the question that begs an answer.
My suggestion is that the black leaders don't give a rip about their brethren. The 83% that make up the city. I suspect the leaders' interest lie in lining their own pockets and blaming racism on the whitey and to get more funds from out-state.