Black Flight Hits Detroit

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[Red in Blue PA]

DETROIT—This shrinking city needs to hang on to people like Johnette Barham: taxpaying, middle-class professionals who invest in local real estate, work and play downtown, and make their home here.

Ms. Barham just left. And she's not coming back.

In seven years as a homeowner in Detroit, she endured more than 10 burglaries and break-ins at her house and a nearby rental property she owned. Still, she defied friends' pleas to leave as she fortified her home with locks, bars, alarms and a dog.

Then, a week before Christmas, someone torched the house and destroyed almost everything she owned.

[Red in Blue PA]

Cannot imagine why!

[FlingWingFlyer]

What is going to happen if the “white flight” from California (posted earlier) collides with the “black flight” from Detroit? Gray areas?

[RC2]

Just like the Watts riots. The idiots burned their own city. Let them lie in the filth and starve.

[umgud]

Some day, society as a whole will have to declare war on the criminal class, or run out of places to flee to.

[Anti-Bubba182]

It would take Martial Law over years to restore Detroit.

Those people in the mansions nearby will be leaving too eventually.

[Ann Archy]

Obama, NALCO, Soros, Al Gore etc. are wanting the SOUTH to be a WASTELAND like DETROIT!! They will all be on the Government hand outs, so they will be Dems. FOREVER!! Just like Detroit!! Democrats RUINED that city and they get rewarded by VOTES!

[Persevero]

It seems to me a return to farmland is the best course of action for Detroit right now.

[garyhope]

They’re all moving to Atlanta.

[Frantzie]

Idoiots who pay for cable or sat TV enable and empower the criminal class. The 5 TV networks own 95% of the channels and they support Obama 100%. The NFL, NBA, MBL and NCAA support him as well.

The serfs will march towards slavery as long as they get their mindless TV.

$13 trillion in debt? Don’t worry - it is almost over.

[GOPsterinMA]

Yes!

[mrsixpack36]

They are all moving to red states. (Georgia, Texas, Wyoming, etc ) where the economy is not totally in the tank. These bottom-feeders destroyed what is left of their own area and move along like roaches to the new area to infect.

[mrreaganaut]

Oh, no, the mansions have been abandoned for years; that’s what the mobs burn on “hell Night” annually.

[truthkeeper]

My aunt and uncle were the last white people to leave their Detroit neighborhood in 1970. It took my uncle getting mugged in his own driveway to finally convince them to get the hell out.

May the force be with you, Ms. Barham.

[GregoryFul]

90 days for a “few” home break ins. I guess the governors are so stupid that they think that the crooks are going to pay their salaries and pensions.

[Pavegunner72]

Screw the ones left behind. They deserve the place they live in.

[dila813]

Let me guess Plan Z, amnesty for illegals as long as they live in Detroit for 15 years.

[XHogPilot]

Graphic and very sad photos depicting the Dems economic destruction of Detroit:
http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html

[no dems]

I talked to my son today who is visiting in the Detroit area. A mutual friend of ours is buying 3 bedroom brick homes for $3,000 each.

[GOPsterinMA]

Really. Democrat = Communist

Think about it, Detroit was a (the?) beacon of American industry. Now it looks like Cuba, after 50+ years of the Castros.

[GeronL]

but she will keep voting the same way