[Last Dakotan]

The so called "white flight" from the city centre began in the 1950s and, soon, as Sugrue puts it, "an increasingly black city was surrounded by a ring of communities that were all white". This "white noose", as one contemporary observer referred to it, helped strangle the inner city, both economically and socially, turning it into a series of large ghettos intercut by freeway.

Obviously current Detroit is the fault of white people. /heavy sarc

[Niuhuru]

Whites are leaving for a reason and it’s not the whites who are the reason. As for the ‘white noose,’ this is also not something that whites have caused.