tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057646105981087139.post8477230443816211951..comments2024-01-18T04:37:03.214-05:00Comments on Rustbelt Intellectual: REQUIEM FOR A CITYTom Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02186723526374103977noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057646105981087139.post-13574540340292030752010-03-13T16:02:53.266-05:002010-03-13T16:02:53.266-05:00Well,...it's so easy to blame all of Detroit&#...Well,...it's so easy to blame all of Detroit's problems on "anti-black racism".<br /><br />The city's defenders always have some sorry-assed excuse for why the black-run city is such a basketcase. The city will not ever rise again with such a victimhood mentality.likwidshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13456933091208458017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057646105981087139.post-24298648650934392112009-04-24T14:19:00.000-04:002009-04-24T14:19:00.000-04:00Causal lines run all through the universe so it ma...Causal lines run all through the universe so it makes little sense to attribute Detroit's demise to a single factor but anti- black racism, I believe, played a larger role than the automobile industry. Look, for example, at how people who should have known better continued to defend Kwame Kilpatrick long after his behavior was indefensible.<br /><br />Their attitudes reflected the sort of siege mentality that is displayed by folks who feel they have long been under assault. It grows directly out of their experiences over generations as residents of Detroit and, no, it does not matter how long Coleman Young served as mayor or how long black folks have been running the city. This crap is in the city's DNA and it may never evolve into a more civil form of community.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057646105981087139.post-88349976641881125182009-04-24T13:54:00.000-04:002009-04-24T13:54:00.000-04:00@PT:
That's interesting,however Micheal Moore bla...@PT:<br /><br />That's interesting,however Micheal Moore blames it all on GM not racism.Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057646105981087139.post-75274784306177221922009-04-24T12:15:00.000-04:002009-04-24T12:15:00.000-04:00I should have added that whites in Detroit allowed...I should have added that whites in Detroit allowed their racism, whether overt or covert, to create and fuel a system that expropriated the value of the taxes, fees and other forms of revenue black tax payers paid into the city's coffers while systematically depriving these black residents and their neighborhoods of services that all residents of Detroit were entitled to receive under the law. The end, as the protagonist in <I>Invisible Man</I> declares, was in the beginning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057646105981087139.post-16615428781850801212009-04-24T11:59:00.000-04:002009-04-24T11:59:00.000-04:00Labor unions and their leaders did not destroy Det...Labor unions and their leaders did not destroy Detroit, at least not in their capacity as trade unionists. What sowed the seeds of Detroit's destruction was race and anti-black racism.<br /><br />If, for example, black folks had been allowed to live where ever they could afford to live both within the city and its surrounding suburbs, Detroit would have managed to escape many of the ills it faces today. Black folks who could afford to purchase homes in Detroit's white neighborhoods in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s were people who worked for wages just like their prospective white neighbors. The white working class in America is still not able to grasp this fact and move on with their lives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057646105981087139.post-15707151501754734212009-04-23T23:30:00.000-04:002009-04-23T23:30:00.000-04:00The Chinese send their appreciation to the proud u...The Chinese send their appreciation to the proud union leadership that destroyed these neighborhoods decade by decade. I hope he thanked them in the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com