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Thats the picture I was refering to....

A lot of people in the hinterland oc Michigan have a real bitterness towards black people...and what happened to Detroit.

All those vacant lots were nice, well kept homes...until the blacks came in and took them over...then it ALL just went downhill..until those houses were abandon, vandalized and eventually were burned down on He11 night and the city had to come out and raze them.

When I was a child visiting Detroit my Daddy took me to where he grew up...the area was largely black then and looked completely devastated...maybe one home on a block was taken care of and the rest just looked like those ruins...The people who lived in them had good jobs working in the auto factories..so it wasn't completely an issue of money. Compared to how nice and tidy the white neighborhoods were.

When I went back to see my Grandparents street there were only a handfull of homes left standing and several of them were in disrepair. Fortunately my Grandparents house was one of them...and it had iron bars over the windows, something I had never seen in that neighborhood when I was a child.

Detroit is a lawless city....where they tell you to keep your car doors locked while visiting the cemetary.