[Guvmint_Cheese]

White Detroit did have a role in shaping the man. However, in terms of him coming back to haunt, he did more to hurt the black population of Detroit than the white population. He did his part in driving out the tax base, be it residential or business. His antagonism towards the suburbs put a nice bow on Detroit's fate.

One can admire the man as a civil rights activist. But as mayor, he was a criminal.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

I never said I admired him. I only say he was a creature of his time and place.

To do him credit, we don't know that he killed anybody. Other than that, he was Michigan's answer to a central African Big-Man type keptocrat, and he turned his city into a wasteland that still hates itself.