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July 23, 2013

You Break It, You've Bought It: “Detroit’s ours now.”

“What we had in [the 1967 race riots] was a surprise pregnancy,” he said.
“The baby had to be delivered… We had to go through some kind of trauma.” It would be a few years before Detroit would technically become a black city – before the population tipped and political control fell into black hands. But plainly, for most residents, the riot was the turning point that mattered. People began to talk proudly about the emerging “Black Metropolis.” “Detroit Is A Microcosm Of Black America”

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 23, 2013 4:10 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Until or unless you are willing to 'follow the money', from the taxpayers to the large finanial institutions you will not understand what happened to Detroit. East Saint Louis sufferred the same fate. The white political, business, mobsters leveraged ESL into unsustainablity and then abandoned the city, leaving the Blacks holding the bag and the blame. I'm sure the same happened in Detroit.

Posted by: Bobbye at July 23, 2013 10:07 AM

Detroit is the the left's chance to prove all their ideas right. They've had chance after chance there, and its just gotten horribly worse. Go to it guys. Move in, don't let the rats, crime, and rot scare you. Fix it all with your well meaning schemes and utopian ideas. Turn Detroit around.

Because real conservative power to implement our ideas without interference could do it in a decade or less.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 23, 2013 11:05 AM

And make sure all those progressive ideas are funded with your pocketbook...not someone else's money. And you can sure help out by picking up those Detroit munis at most any broker.

Posted by: indyjonesouthere at July 23, 2013 2:20 PM

When HIV was a gay white male disease, the gay and lesbian communities organized and built international organizations that were heavily funded with inspired events that displayed energy and brilliance. As HIV became a black disease, blacks moved on the gay whites in control and took over many of those organizations. It did not take long for the gay whites to leave and for the organizations to disappear or become shameful shadows of their former selves. It's not just cities that fall into ruin when they are run by blacks for blacks on somebody else's money.

Posted by: twolaneflash at July 23, 2013 6:43 PM

I heard a sound bite on the radio yesterday -- some guy, perhaps from the Detroit power structure (I didn't catch his name), making the laughable accusation that the fall of Detroit is all the fault of Republicans. Talk about chutzpah. I don't think anyone believes it for a second (except perhaps the low-information voters), but I'm sure he has no choice but to read from the script.

Posted by: Grizzly at July 23, 2013 8:37 PM

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