[Steely Tom]

To the frightened white residents who later abandoned Newark by the tens of thousands, it was a riot; for the black activists who gained a toehold in City Hall in the years that followed, it was a rebellion.

The white residents rebelled too. With moving vans.

[TWohlford]

“The white residents rebelled too. With moving vans.”

Ditto for Detroit. And those moving vans contained brains, talent, good will and money too. If it wasn’t for the high cost of Detroit’s crime problems, most white people of a certain age couldn’t care less about Detroit’s fate.