Thomas J. Sugrue (born 1962, Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian of the twentieth-century United States at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently David Boies Professor of History and Sociology.
Right, and how are things in Noo Yawk City?
Somehow, blacks moving away from blacks to live in white communities is racism by whites.
In addition to trying to get away from crime infested, crack ridden, gang controlled "neighborhoods", must black are moving to the burbs because they are trying to get their kids an education. The Detroit Public School system, despite receiving almost $2,500 more to "educate" each kid has a drop out rate of 75% - and those who do finish are performing at a 6th grade level.
The author may try to rationalize that racism is at play here, but the real story is that Detroit is a microcosm of Atlas Shrugged.
Funny how we were being sold a high speed rail system through detroit.
“words like “freedom from crime” were code for moving away from blacks.”
This nice liberal obviously thinks that there is an identity between black and crime. Definitely a racist.
God!I hate the NY Times.They can take any positive story and turn it into a hatefilled diatribe in no time at all.
All of a sudden the Blacks who are heading south were discriminated by the whites in Detroit. The times still doesn’t have a clue as to why the whites fled Detroit and liberal democrat cities like it.
Detroit blacks hate white people. All white people.
I live here.
Whites left because white culture is incompatible with black culture. Going to church and raising your kids to respect others and be responsible for your own success or failure is the opposite of the black urban culture of racist hate, perpetual victimhood and violent crime.
Especially violent crime. Let’s put an irrefutable face on this shall we - www.thugreport.com
...and when did human desire for self preservation become “racist”?
Exactly where does Thomas J Sugrue live?
...and would he consider living is Detroit City for a year?
I’d like to hear his opinion after walking a couple blocks to the market and back a few times.
I can see him at his computer hungry with bruised ribs, a bruised cheek bone and a knot on his head trying to justify his racism for wanting to leave.
My folks left that area in 1978 when my dad retired from the Detroit police dept. If you could see the brick tudor house we lived in today, you would cry........
As much as I hate to say it, the blacks who have moved to the suburbs such as Eastpoint, Roseville and Centerline are bringing the same blight and mentality with them as they brought to Detroit's east side...They let their homes in Detroit fall apart then moved out.
As a side note, my parent's house originally belonged to my grandparents who had it built when that area was a new subdivision in a wooded area.
The apologists from the Provence of Manhattan never cease to find problems that must be solved by more liberalism
Thomas J. Sugrue (born 1962, Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian of the twentieth-century United States at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently David Boies Professor of History and Sociology.
>>”From 1945 to 1965 whites attacked at least 250 black families...”
A sad story, to be sure, and something for those at the time who participated or who just looked the other way while it happened to be ashamed of.
But a close analysis of the statistics from, say, 1965 to 1985 would show many, many more than 250 white families attacked by blacks in Detroit. Why does the reporter not look at this aspect of Detroit’s white flight?
Detroit paradise:
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Detroit_MI/beds-4/price-1-5000#/sortby-1
Okay, okay, okay. Fine. Just for the sake of argument, let’s say you’re right. Now explain how it is that all the whites leaving Detroit resulted in the place becoming a third-world sh*thole.
When blacks move from the city to the suburbs it's a "silver lining". When whites move from the city to the suburbs, it's "racism".
1. He left the city too, the same thing he bitches about other whiteys doing.
2. He didn't mention the 1967 riots. Some hardliner blacks call it a "rebellion."
3. The decline in Detroit during the 60's started with progressive white leftist policies put in place by Jerome Cavanagh.
So far, Detroit’s black suburbanization has followed a well-trodden path. Those blacks heading outward from Detroit aren’t moving to all suburbs equally. Rather, they move into places with older houses, rundown shopping districts and declining tax revenues.
That describes the entire state of Michigan right now, dumbass. I thought you Ivy Leaguers are supposed to be smart. You don't know s**t.
Not counting areas which have been as long as I remember going back to the 70's as "suburbs in name only" (Pontiac, Inkster, that Oakland County portion of 8mile and Wyoming area near Ferndale, Highland Park, Ecorse, and River Rouge), Black suburbanization in the Detroit area until recently largely followed what was at the time white middle-upper middle class areas, not the working class areas. Southfield. Parts of West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills, Sterling Heights, and Canton. Exception in Oak Park, Romulus which is more working class. Only recently (last 15-20 years) did it expand more to Redford, more parts of Wayne/Westland, South Warren, Eastpointe, Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Park, eastern Livonia, etc. I'm not as familiar with Macomb County, so I don't know as much with Clinton Township and Mt Clemens. While many of those areas are working class, some of those are higher dollar, like GPP and Livonia.
It's not as simple as this clown stuck in 1967 believes.
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.
Wonder if the author of this piece lives in a hood?
Shouldn’t Detroit be a paradise, now that the racist whites are gone? /half sarc