A great HBO documentary about how the 68 Tigers, at least for a short while, brought the people of Detroit together after the riots.
Well, at least it won’t happen again. Nothing left to burn.
And white flight happened, look at Detroit now.
He said it all stemmed from that.
Of course he is a raging liberal marxist.
Probably just Times’ way of showing whitey what to expect if Obama isn’t reelected.
We lived close enough to see the smoke. Within a month, my parents packed up everything we owned, and moved us 300 miles north.
It's now a 'rat hell hole.
Newark, NJ had riots the same summer.
It has never recovered either.
Very sad to see what an empty shell Detroit is. Virtually none of the “business” streets in Detroit, outside of the casino and other small, protected areas, have any business on them.
A while back, the local left was making a big stink about why there are no grocery stores left in the city. They shut up when it came out that the reason was, the “customers” (and employees) were stealing everything that wasn’t nailed down.
I have to wonder about the timing. Seems like it was meant to be a warning...or a threat.
There was a riot there is 1943, too!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Race_Riot_%281943%29
A great HBO documentary about how the 68 Tigers, at least for a short while, brought the people of Detroit together after the riots.
Hmmm...........National Guard, 82nd Airborne............Where are all the screams about Posse Comitatus, banding together to defend against an encroaching government, and NWO?
Get ready for more such riots when Obama loses Nov. 6
This tells you how dishonest the article is. The liberal Democrat politicians who controlled Detroit in 1967 let Black thugs run wild and refused to protect homeowners and business owners. Rioters were allowed to keep going until dozens of people died and millions of dollars of property were destroyed. The mayor of Detroit was LBJ's favorite mayor and the head of LBJ's Model Cities program. Only after the National Guard was sent in was order restored.
Detroit continued in a “quiet riot” for the next 45 years. Blacks looting stores, committing crime and authorities allowing it to continue and refusing to take action. Today Detroit is destroyed. It is a bankrupt, violence prone hellhole. It is the end result of liberal Democrat policies and liberal, Democrat politicians.
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Detroit was Beta Version 1.0 of LBJ’s Great Society.
Damn! A wax car wash cost 9 cents back then?
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I grew up in Deetroit and left for good in 1976.
I went back in July 2009 for my mother’s funeral.
Driving on the freeway through the city on the way back to the airport I thought it looked like there had been heavy artillery bombardment in most of the areas I could see - burned out shells of houses, holes in roofs, decay, decay, decay...
The majority of the people who still live there are either too poor or too drug addled (or both) to get out. It wasn’t just white flight that depopulated that sh!thole - it was decent people flight.
This is what owebama and his commiecrats envision for the middle class in this county - total destruction.