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Shrinking Detroit has 12,000 abandoned homes
AFP ^ | Sun Aug 14, 5:03 PM ET

Posted on 08/15/2005 3:32:16 AM PDT by TimeLord

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To: Jacquerie
Are there any livable majority minority cities?

I believe Atlanta might fit that description.
141 posted on 08/15/2005 7:25:40 AM PDT by BJClinton ( + /_\)
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To: NZerFromHK

You bring up an excellent point. You analogy does extend to Canada, too, but on a much larger scale. Canadians desiring more and better opportunities are emigrating from Canada to the U.S., just like 'white flight' from liberal U.S. cities to the suburbs. There is little opportunity for carrer advancement under socialism and under the branch plant economy of Canada, so talented Canadians, like me, flock to the U.S. If the U.S. increased permanent immigration from Canada, there wouldn't be many people left and you would have an entire country resembling Detroit!


142 posted on 08/15/2005 7:26:57 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: Acts 2:38

OF COURSE THEY HAVE LEARNED!!!! They have learned to bully and bluff the white man into pouring more money down the hole of pure irresponsible laziness and crime.

There are MANY MANY educated hard working BLACKS that will tell you the freeloading segment of their race know how to work the system and the White man is intimidated and studpid to let it happen.

Let's all grow up and forget this PC position of not talking facts and truth. I am tired of it. I see our country being ruined by 3rd World immigrants WHO WILL BE TAKING OVER MY GRANDCHILDREN'S country that all the men in my family fought wars for. THESE hyphenated amkericans are ALL LOSERS. They add nothing to our country and we need to speak out.

Sorry but reading about Detroit is so scary because IT IS OUR FUTURE if we all who have any sense, Red, White, Blue, Black don't start standing up and calling these people, these programs the SHAM AND SCAM that they are. Then we might take this country back otherwise this country is going to look like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Dehli, Mexico City and aren't they just lovely, clean, beautiful well run economic boom sites.


143 posted on 08/15/2005 7:28:57 AM PDT by ladyL
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To: softwarecreator
Philadelphia is just as bad, tax-wise, and getting as bed as Detroit, environs-wise.

The Badlands just keep creeping further and further afield.

THIS is what happens when John Street's liberal Democrat "brothers and sisters" are in charge.

144 posted on 08/15/2005 7:29:02 AM PDT by Malacoda (*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*)
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To: GBA
I don't get it. How is someone moving their dead relatives out of the cemetery b/c they're afraid to go to the cemetery showing "the depth of racism"?

Ah, someone who's missed the PC re-education camps; don't worry, they'll be coming for you shortly. Hint: PC catechism dictates that decisions to reside and/or associate are not based on economics, family, schools, safety, etc; they are based on race avoidance.

145 posted on 08/15/2005 7:31:50 AM PDT by lemura
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To: Malacoda
THIS is what happens when John Street's liberal Democrat "brothers and sisters" are in charge

No kidding, we have to keep moving further and further north to get away from the "inner-city blight".  Pretty soon the Upper Penninsula will be the suburbs of Detroit.

146 posted on 08/15/2005 7:34:44 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: TimeLord

How many crimes have occurred in Detroit's cemeteries, I wonder?


147 posted on 08/15/2005 7:37:42 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: TimeLord

The ol' charge "racism" is wheeled out for the billionth time. It's as hokey as the charge of "witch" was in Salem, but this is the best liberalism can do, and look at what it produces.


148 posted on 08/15/2005 7:37:44 AM PDT by junta (Is Mexico an ally in the WOT?)
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To: TimeLord

"White flight" left blacks in charge of blacks and Detroit turned to crap.


149 posted on 08/15/2005 7:41:04 AM PDT by sandydipper (Less government is best government!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

"...Crime is high and so are taxes


Another connection to the population loss that they seem unable to make!..."

Detroit is what Memphis, Tn is becoming. If the voters keep re-electing King Willie Herenton mayor, the citizens that can will leave Memphis for area with less crime and lower taxes. That is already happening. Herenton is real estate agents dream. Desoto, Marshall, and Tunica counties in north Mississippi ar booming with ex-Memphians voting with their feet getting away from Willie World. As for Detroit, if the politicians running it weren't so corrupt, it would be a nice place to live. Political corruption and crime rates seem to go hand in hand. We have it here in Memphis.


150 posted on 08/15/2005 7:45:32 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT!!!!! IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: TimeLord

Now is the time for government to sieze land in the interest of economic growth. Don't wait for the property owner's okay. Like NIKE says, "Just do it."


151 posted on 08/15/2005 7:49:02 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: N. Theknow

The city looks that bad, but you'd be very hard pressed to find that many white people anywhere in the city. Not being racist about it, there just aren't any, and as a young white man, I got a lot of sidelong glances whenever I'd visit.


152 posted on 08/15/2005 7:49:13 AM PDT by leoncaruthers
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To: chadwimc

My brother live in MI. Their neighbor is a women who grew up in detroit in the 1950's and 60's. Her parents sold their home in the late '70's or early 80's due to crime and moved to the suburbs.


She said she always cries when she goes back to look at her childhood home every so often. She said it was a wonderful place to grow up in and very safe with wonderful memories.


153 posted on 08/15/2005 7:53:20 AM PDT by superiorslots (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: TimeLord; Congressman Billybob; Howlin; neverdem
OK, so the the number of houses and the population keeps going down.

But, the voter rolls (or at least the number of ballots cast... No. Wait.

Rather, the number of ballots counted ....

No. The number of (democrat) ballots REPORTED! keeps going up.

Yeah, that's it. At least the number of (democrat) ballots reported every election keeps going up.
154 posted on 08/15/2005 7:53:46 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: SCALEMAN
For years Detroit has experienced "Hell Night" which is the night before Halloween.

Excellently portrayed in the film "The Crow" (circa 1994, starring the late Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee's son, who you may remember was killed during filming by a bullet fragment mistakenly left in a stunt gun.)

155 posted on 08/15/2005 7:54:41 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: SCALEMAN

Atlanta/Fulton County/DeKalb County (all democrat/blue county black hole of government money and misuse and corruption) charges city taxes as well.


156 posted on 08/15/2005 7:57:09 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: TalBlack

Quote: "Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."



My brother has a client is one of the bad areas of detroit-small manufacturing comnpany. The business has no windows and has a fence around it like fort knox. They always tell him to come see them in the morning hours like 8:000-9:00 and too be out of the area by 12:00 before the populace starts waking up.


157 posted on 08/15/2005 7:59:01 AM PDT by superiorslots (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: SerpentDove

>Lead in bricks?<< Creeping in through windows?

Sounds like Jethro Tull lyrics.


158 posted on 08/15/2005 8:02:03 AM PDT by Rebelbase ("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
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To: TimeLord

They need more liberalism.


159 posted on 08/15/2005 8:03:52 AM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Conservatives are from Earth. Liberals are from Uranus.(c))
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To: Malacoda

Parts of Philadelphia are horrendous. I took a SEPTA train to visit the City Zoo and passed thru extended areas of the worst slums I've seen. Nearest stop to zoo was about two blocks down from the zoo and honest to heaven, I wished I had a gun or baseball bat for protection, it was so scary. Buildings that looked like the bomb had dropped. I was glad I had a friend with me, but we both felt antsy.


160 posted on 08/15/2005 8:12:14 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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