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Originally Posted by jcommin
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This has got nothing to do with Obama. You yourself provided detail of what Detroit looked like years ago and over time. Many probably think he wasn't born here or lived in Kenya, Indonesia or wherever during Detroit's decline.
I wish you would stop giving this President credit for turning the mighty motor city into a war zone. No one has that much power. Stop inflating his skill or lack or skill.
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As Terveen said it is a parallel, the same mentality that brought Detroit down is now in the WH and in the Congressional Majority. Is there much difference between the Chicago Liberal mentality and the Detroit Liberal mentality?
I was in Detroit on a city bus the night the Detroit riot started in 67. I know what happened to Detroit in the following years. Yes the whites fled the city, not for the suburban lawns but out of fear.
All the houses in the white neighborhoods in the city in the early 60's had nice lawns and backyards with fruit trees. For the most part there wasn't a blade of grass out of place, people had pride in their homes. What was happening in Detroit back then was that a black family would buy a house on a white street for an exorbitant amount of money and all the other whites would sell cheap and block by block the blacks would take over. When the blacks did take over a section the section turned to shyte, the houses were run down, the lawns turned to dirt and if a home was empty it was stripped of anything of value. HOW DO I KNOW THIS I SAW IT WITH MY OWN TWO EYES. My Dad took me over to show me a house he lived in as a kid which had become a black area, and the contrast from the white neighborhoods to the black neighborhoods was astonishing..from picture perfect to a disaster area. That kind of blight and crime is what drove the whites out of Detroit.
It only escalated when Detroit got it's first Black mayor and the corruption set in after the 67 riots. All that Federal Urban Development money that was poured into Detroit after the Great Society was enacted in 65/66 has done wonders for Detroit..you can see it everywhere you go in the city..Kinda like the stimulus Bill
As I said I saw Detroit BURN in 67...whole sections of neighborhoods burned...Whole neighborhoods of what I went past on that bus that Saturday night were GONE..BURNED TO THE GROUND when I left 2 weeks later...NEVER TO BE REBUILT.
Recently I have taken a look at the Satellite photos of my Grand Parents home in Detroit, it is still there as most of the homes on that street are. However that little cul de sac of street (Molena) backing the Detroit City Airport is an island in a sea of vacant lots for several miles around. You can actually buy a home within a mile of my Grandparents home for a $1000. After looking at the photo I figured out why my Grandparents little street survived..there is a small park at the end of the cul de sac and backing the street is some kind of industrial building, along with a cemetary across Van Dyke. So this little street was an island of safety protected from the ravages that wiped out everything else.
Now you couple that with the decline in the Auto industry and you can see what ya got.