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A Dream Still Deferred In Detroit
New York Times ^ | March 26, 2011 | Thomas J Sugrue

Posted on 03/26/2011 10:44:17 PM PDT by WeatherGuy

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To: haroldeveryman
I'm certain his motives and needs were only of the highest order while everyone else’s were those of the bigot and racist.
While King said, “I Have a Dream”, and THE King sang, “Follow That Dream”, Detroit's ambulatory residents just want the nightmare to end and so they leave.
61 posted on 03/27/2011 3:28:18 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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One topic I have not seen (perhaps I missed it?) is the effects of attempts at so-called “urban renewal”.
Tearing down the housing of the poor got rid of the housing but not the poor and in addition destroyed the neighborhoods and their ability to provide for themselves.

No wonder upper income whites and black fled the creeping invasion of the Armies of the Poor.
America has always had a bias against living amongst the poor, a truly colorless class.

62 posted on 03/27/2011 4:10:37 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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Wonder if the author of this piece lives in a hood?


63 posted on 03/28/2011 1:41:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (For the first time in my adult life, I'm scared of my government.)
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Shouldn’t Detroit be a paradise, now that the racist whites are gone? /half sarc


64 posted on 03/28/2011 3:17:23 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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