I don’t think people in Detroit want a turnaround; they are content will the liberal status quo and shall remain so.
I do not think we will see Detroit bouncing back anytime in the near future. It took years to get to the point they now “enjoy” and it will take even more years to crawl out of the hole they are in.
PS.....”Timbuktu Academy of Science and Technology”?
Who in their right mind would name a school after a “desert” city in Africa.........Never mind, the question answered itself.
Here’s a timeline of events that led to the destruction of this city:
1960s Detroit city, MI......... 1,670,144 5th largest city
Sept. ’61: In Detroit, U.S. District Judge John Feikens dismisses a suit brought against the Highland Park school board by a group of parents and a neighborhood improvement association. The dispute involved charges of racial segregation in the assignment of pupils to Thomson Elementary School.
Oct. ’62: James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Riots at the campus leave two people dead.
June ’63 Martin Luther King delivers speech in Detroit. “I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
Aug. ’63: March on Washington draws more than 200,000 demonstrators in support of civil rights legislation. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech.
July ’64: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act outlawing segregation in public schools, restaurants and other public facilities.
1965: Westland Mall opens; unlike Northland and Eastland, shopping center is enclosed
July ’67 Riots break out in Detroit at 12th and Claremont. 43 dead and the 101 Airborne called in.
1968: City’s income tax doubles to 2 percent for Detroiters.
April 4, 1968 Dr. King is assassinated as he stands talking on the balcony of his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He dies in St. Joseph’s Hospital from a gunshot wound in the neck.
July ’68 Mini Riot in Detroit. Begins at Cass Tech
Oct, ’68 Detroit Tigers win the World Series
Early ’69: Black attorney Elbert L. Hatchett, then president of the Oakland County NAACP, files suit in federal court, complaining that Pontiac schools are deliberately segregated. Schools are either 90 percent white or 90 percent black.
1970s Detroit city, MI......... 1,511,482 5th Largest City
In 1971, Irene McCabe spearheaded the National Action Group, which sought to block busing-based desegregation.
Feb. ’70: U.S. District Judge Damon J. Keith finds Pontiac has violated the 14th Amendment by segregating its public schools. Judge Keith rules that Pontiac schools were intentionally segregated, and orders the district to bus pupils to achieve integration. School officials appeal and succeed in delaying the busing order.
April, ’70: The Detroit school board adopts a desegregation plan altering attendance boundaries of 12 high schools.
Aug., ’70: The NAACP files suit challenging the constitutionality of a state law overturning the Detroit desegregation plan. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Stephen Roth. The suit, Bradley v. Milliken, encompasses the question of whether Detroit schools intentionally segregated students.
1971; S.T.R.E.S.S Stop the Robberies Enjoy Safe Streets unit formed by the Detroit Police Department
1971: Catholic Archdiocese closes 62 schools.
April ’71: The U.S. Supreme Court authorizes the use of busing to desegregate public schools in North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district.
May, ’71: The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Keith’s decision. The Pontiac board votes to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but agrees to implement a busing plan in the meantime. Opponents continue efforts to block busing by petitioning Congress to pass a law banning busing for racial balance. The movement is spearheaded by a local homeowners’ group called the National Action Group (NAG), led by housewife Irene McCabe. McCabe insists that she and her followers aren’t anti-integration — only against busing to achieve it.
July ’71: The Citizen’s Committee for Better Education files a motion with Judge Roth to include as defendants in the integration case 85 school districts in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. The group contends Detroit schools cannot be racially integrated unless whites from outside the district are included.
Aug. ’71: After Judge Keith orders Pontiac to desegregate, a group of Ku Klux Klansmen blows up the buses that Pontiac needs to integrate the schools.
Sept. ’71: Judge Roth rules that Detroit schools are segregated because of the “actions and inactions” of local and state officials contrary to the U.S. Constitution and schedules a conference to discuss remedies.
Oct. ’71: Judge Roth orders the state to prepare a desegregation plan that could include some or all of the 86 school districts in the Metro Detroit area. He also directs the Detroit school board to prepare integration plans for Detroit schools.
1972: Kmart Corp. moves headquarters from Detroit to Troy
1972 L.Brooks Patterson elected Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney, 1972-88
1972: Jeffries Freeway, Interstate-96, opens.
Nov ’73 : Coleman A. Young elected Mayor of Detroit
June ’74: A federal judge orders school busing in Boston. The decision, aimed at achieving racial balance in the city’s public schools, triggers rioting.
July ’74: In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reverses Judge Roth. The ruling put an end nationally to attempts to integrate urban schools with suburban children. The court did order Detroit’s schools desegregated — an order that many believe sent the city’s
1975: The Pontiac Silverdome opens, and hosts the Detroit Lions and Pistons as well as rock concerts, religious rallies and tractor pulls.
Nov. ’75: U.S. District Judge Robert DeMascio rules city must begin integration. He angers the NAACP by ordering a “modest” desegregation plan involving the busing of 13,200 black students and 8,800 white students and reassigning 8,000 students based on boundary changes.
Jan. ’76: 22,000 children board buses and the desegregation of the Detroit schools begins.
1976 Oakland County Child Killer rampage begins.
June ’78: The Supreme Court declares that colleges can use race as a factor in admissions but bars the use of quotas.
1980s Detroit city, MI......... 1,203,339 6th largest city
Aug. ’81: Congress, at the urging of President Reagan’s administration, repeals the federal law that funded school desegregation efforts.
1981: Detroit schools prepare to expand busing for further racial integration;
1981: Ferndale schools begins busing.
1981 Wayne County Board of Commissioners orders Sheriff William Lucas to close the Wayne County Road Patrol Section.
1982 William Lucas elected first Wayne County Executive. Board of Commissioners disbanded
1983: Hudson’s closes its flagship store, ending 102 years downtown.
1988: The federal district court relinquishes oversight of city schools desegregation.
1988: L. Brooks Patterson Elected Oakland County Executive
1988: The Palace of Auburn Hills opens as the new home of the Pistons.
1989: Walter Reuther Freeway, I-696, becomes major east-west corridor.
1989: 27 Catholic churches close in Detroit, the largest mass closing of Catholic churches in U.S. history.
1990s Detroit city, MI......... 1,027,974 7th Largest City
1991: Chrysler Corp. headquarters moves from Highland Park to Auburn Hills
1992: Governor’s commission calls lack of coordinated planning a major environmental threat.
Nov, 1992 Black motorist Malice Green was pulled over for a traffic stop on November 5, 1992. Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn were charged with murder and convicted.
1993: Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer takes office, promising downtown redevelopment and an era of cooperation with suburbs.
1993 810 area code is implemented, breaking away Oakland and Macomb counties from 313
1994: Republican caucus in state House draws up 21-point plan for improving planning and growth management. Eight years later, little has been implemented.
1994: Detroit voters pass $1.5 billion to repair deteriorating schools. It is the largest bond issue in state history.
1996: Compuware announces plans to move world headquarters from Farmington Hills to downtown Detroit.
1996: Michigan raises gas tax to pay for crumbling roads and freeways.
1997 248 Area Code is implemented for Oakland County
1999: Casinos open in Detroit, drawing some suburbanites back downtown for the first time in a generation.
June ’95: The Supreme Court says Missouri may stop making improvements to schools in the heavily black Kansas City school system to attract white students from suburbs. Ruling signaled high court’s willingness to end desegregation programs.
2000s Detroit population: 950,000
2001: 30-year fixed mortgage rates fall under 6.5%, the lowest rates in 30 years.
2001: African-American Brenda Lawrence is elected mayor of Southfield, signaling suburbanization of black political power.
2001: Planning reform stalls in Michigan Legislature.
2002: Formerly rural South Lyon, Brighton and Howell are combined in a new federally designated urban area.
June ’03: The Supreme Court, in a University of Michigan case, rules that colleges can favor minorities in admissions.
It is easier and less stressful to live for “free” in squalor than it is to work your way out of it. The politicians are happy, the peasants are happy, win - win.