[Eepsy]

Plenty of beautiful black neighborhoods were ruined in the same timeframe. It wasn’t race invading the inner cities, but welfare and the Great Society that brought about the decline.

[cripplecreek]

Plenty of beautiful black neighborhoods were ruined in the same timeframe. It wasn’t race invading the inner cities, but welfare and the Great Society that brought about the decline.

Somewhere I used to have a picture saved that showed Detroit police protecting a black man as he loaded his car to flee during the riots. One of my neighbors is black and says his family fled Detroit during the rioting as well.

[Squawk 8888]

Don’t know if it applies to Detroit, but a lot of cities were destroyed by the “Urban Renewal” project that bulldozed a lot of viable black neighbourhoods and replaced them with government-run slums.