Posted on 08/15/2005 9:59:30 AM PDT by Pikamax
AND the crime rate.. They are always in the top ten for Murder Capital.
i am white...i grew up in the suburbs of detroit...i later lived in the city...in the suburbs(warren, hazel park ect.) blacks are referd to by the n word and are veiwed as stupid lazy criminals...i’ve seen police in royal oak harrass blacks and say they needed to go back across 8mile...in the city you can find things such as “no whites” spray painted on the sides of buildings...the crime in detroit is because of the poverty...the poverty because there is not much in the way of work esp for blacks...i worked at a machine shop on e.seven mile in detroit and the employees were 100% white suburbanites...if a black came to apply we were told to say we were not hiring even if we were...that was in 1999...even as i read these posts i hear echos of the racism i grew up around...
Is that you Eminem?
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Must be “Resurrect Old Thread” day.
Can’t be any worst than Baltimore, with blocks of row-homes abandon.
Carolyn
Nobody fitting that profile would voluntarily live in Detroit. That's like asking a sheep to voluntarily live among hungry wolves.
More accurate.
A “home” implies someone lives there. A house is a building.
A new low for liberal lying academics: dead people can now feel fear!
It’s funny how the Democrats have run that cesspool for years. It continues to decline under their rule.
Yet the stupid citizens haven’t thought that maybe some new leadership is in order.
If Detroit could get a Mayor Giuliani...I bet you’d be surprised what could happen...and keep in mind, for President, I’m no Rudy fan. But he did clean up NYC, and bet a guy like him could do wonders for Detroit too.
Sure as hell couldn’t make it any worse, anyway.
I actually saw a home in Detroit for sale for a hundred bucks.
Sh*t, I’d buy 10 of them and figure if I lost money, so what...but if Detroit ever did turn around, whooooa, Nelly!
Another ivory tower denizen weighs in. Central planning, so beloved by collectivists, is the answer! Did Margaret Dewar think about informing the Detroit municipal government of her bright ideas?
Well, at least their voting rate tops 100+% every four years.
Sometime in the past year I have read a figure of 40,000 abandoned buildings in Detroit.
The solution to dorothy’s problem is really pretty simple. Have her husband set out rat traps and make her kids wear gas masks to ward off the lead fumes.
Here’s an idea:
-Send all welfare recipients to Mexico.
Problem solved. Two, actually.
You forgot New Orleans...
People talk of a revolution in America where we re-claim our Second Amendment rights.
Instead of that, why not do it to Detroit? Overthrow the city government, kick out the welfare queens to a faraway place (like Mexico) and start over?
Youngstown, OH is a mini-Detroit in that aspect.
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