Posted on 01/01/2009 8:10:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Yep, that caused all the problems.
Detroit is the best (and worst) example of black racial politics run wild. I fear for my country as this seems to be the direction that Obambi instinctively wants to take the country. As someone who was raised in the 50’s, I never thought I would see my country in the state it is today.
Mostly Cleveland is just boring and empty of major attractions.
....but I haven’t visited enough of them to judge. I’m sure others here will have their “favorite” nominees, but no one would leave Newark and Detroit off the list. Sad cases......
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I’m going to nominate Baltimore ,, it won’t win overall but parts of it could challenge Newark and Detroit...
Looking at that photo spread someone posted I would be real tempted to go to Detroit and salvage all that early 1900’s stonework and architectural detail items (clawfoot tubs and such) from the condemned buildings but as I’m white I could never get approval... If I lived there that’s how I’d make a living... truck it to LA , Boston or NYC and make a fortune even at wholesale...
“America doesn’t need Deetroit and by extension Michigan.”
That has to be the stupidest post I’ve read in a long time. Giving up on one of the nations large states is friggen stupid.
Sad but true, the only difference is, the media will cheerlead for Obamao and spread propaganda, they will NEVER examine the outcomes of Obamao’s proposals.
Look at this thread, most FReepers had no idea how destitute and destroyed Det-riot is, and has remained since the late 60’s.
The media never reports it, they only report the “celebrations”..see looting after a Det-riot team wins a sports championship.
only the weather prevents the populace from returning to their loincloth roots.
It gets my vote for quote of the day.
MINE TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It gets my vote for quote of the day.
LOL! Mine, too!
Well, it won't be a winning football team anytime soon, I daresay.
““Joe America” has literally no idea what Detriot is all about, or what it is like on the ground there.”
To be honest, neither did I until I read this article. But in other ways, I’ve know about Detroit for quite some time. The article portrays an America to be, the culmination of liberal policy executed by self interested bureaucrats on behalf of a disinterested and unmotivated population. There can be no other result, and evidence of the decay is openly visible in every population center in the country and very much so in the center of national bureaucracy: D.C.
OK, I have to admit, that's funny. But imagine Sarah Palin doing any of those things and the national outrage from the drive-by idiots.
Can someone explain to me why the big 3 couldn’t move to another state? Why are they tied to Michigan?
I like to post this URL in threads about Detroit: http://www.forgottendetroit.com. Take a look at http://www.forgottendetroit.com/fisher/photos.html. For some reason the name ‘Fisher Body’ has stuck with me through the years. I’m not a car person, but I can imagine that Fisher was a meaningful contributor to the automobile industry and this is what they’ve come to.
I went to UM in Ann Arbor for 2 degrees, my late husband’s people are from Dexter, my son went to UM. I feel connected to Michigan. Even when I was first there in the early ‘70s, fellow students were surprised that my family still lived in Wash DC, as they had all escaped Detroit after the ‘68 riots for the suburbs. Instead of being a place where college kids could go for a weekend or good time, we only went into Detroit to see rock acts at Cobo, then we’d high tail it back to A2. Like I said, this was back in the early ‘70s, and things have only gotten worse. It’s sad, really.
yes i agree. i live here in southwest detroit. ive been here 9 years. i got my house from my aunt when she died. i use to live on one of the best neighborhoods here! but now it is THE HOOD . i seen my neighbors all move away. and are replaced with drug dealers, squaters, hookers and streets of vacant homes. they steal everything from these homes , and then we have to keep our kids away from them. they wont tear them down. stray dogs and cats and rats are living in these homes. i want to stay here in detroit but something needs to be done. i cant change the whole city but i try to keep the peace here on my street. i wish more people would do the same.
the article says its from Dec 2008...but didnt this happen THIS year? or am I wrong?
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