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I was born and raised in Detroit. It was called the Venice of America...Every street was lined with huge elms trees and in the summer when you drove down the street it was like a tunnel of green...and that was the majority of the streets in Detroit. There was no public housing and the colored (that is what Afro-Americans were called and didn't find it offensive) area's were well kept. No graffiti streets clean and anyone could walk in any area's without fear.My graduating class was 500 kids and about 25 % black...some a lot smarter than I was and education was important to both races.

What started Detroit down was forced busing...There was a principal of a colored school that went on TV greatly offended that whites in Washington thought his children could only learn if they sat next to a white kid...Many that could leave, both black and white left for the suburbs. That left the poor, both black and white and no tax base. With the riots of the 60's, business's moved out...Coleman Young was a racist and ran that town for about 20 years. When he finally was gone, so was Detroit...Everything was the white man's fault...just like today....He told those that committee crimes in the city to go out past 8 Mile(the border for Detroit) and commit crimes on the white folks...

Gee, I wonder why it has become a hell hole...