Possibly, I don’t know for sure. But I’d be willing to hazard a guess that this ‘urbanite’ doesn’t spend much time in Detroit proper at night. If he does, it’s from one protected zone to another.
You see this kind of hip-urban white guy/girl crap in Atlanta sometimes...there are enclaves where they live, little islands of protected isolationism and they (the inhabitants) just have a gay old time.
It’s when one ventures outside that area they are brought to reality.
I get email blasts every week from a major university here in downtown Atlanta (required by Federal Law) about some mugging, rape or worse on its students who live near the campus. Sometimes two or three on a weekend.
In this country today, despite the bleats of these people like the writer of the article, there is nothing urbane about urban life in America. To the contrary, it is often a lesson in devolvement and the utter inhumaneness of its denizens.
Not only that, the enclaves are only safe during the day.
Cities are designed for one scenario: Armed gangsters and unarmed victims. Mothers will vote for people who keep their aspiring rappers from being killed while they rob people.