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Detroit’s Outlook Falls Along With Home Prices

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Tim Jones, Chicago Tribune, January 29, 2009

It may be tough to get financing for a new car these days, but in Detroit you can buy a house with a credit card.

The median price of a home sold in Detroit in December was $7,500, according to Realcomp, a listing service.

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Among the many dispiriting numbers that bleakly depict the decrepitude of this onetime industrial behemoth, the steep slide of housing values helps define the daunting challenge to anyone who wants to lead this shrinking, poverty-pocked city of about 800,000 people.

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Despite the depth of the hole, Evans [Warren Evans, sheriff of Wayne County] is running for mayor. In fact, he is one of 15 people who have raised their hands to be mayor of Detroit and fill the remaining months in office of the former mayor who now wears a green jumpsuit and resides in Evans’ spartan house of justice, the Wayne County Jail.

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New York bond-rating houses this month lowered the city’s bond rating to junk status, a lowly assessment shared by New Orleans and few others.

On a positive note, Detroit’s homicide rate dropped 14 percent last year. That prompted mayoral candidate Stanley Christmas to tell the Detroit News recently, “I don’t mean to be sarcastic, but there just isn’t anyone left to kill.”

Detroit voters will choose two candidates in a Feb. 24 primary who will face off in May. In the meantime, the city faces a projected budget deficit of at least $300 million, with no clear view on how to erase it. “If we don’t get it right, we could be headed for a state takeover or receivership,” warned Dave Bing, a mayoral candidate best known for draining jump shots for the Detroit Pistons back in the 1960s and ’70s. {snip}

Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr., who assumed the mayor’s office by virtue of his being president of the City Council, promised he is “not going to let [receivership] happen.”

Detroit, which has lost half its population in the past 50 years, is deceptively large, covering 139 square miles. Manhattan, San Francisco and Boston could, as a group, fit inside the city’s boundaries. There is no major grocery chain in the city, and only two movie theaters. Much of the neighborhood economy revolves around rib joints, hot dog stands and liquor stores. The candidates travel around this sprawling city, some invoking the nostalgic era of Big Three dominance and vowing that Detroit can be great again.

Kilpatrick’s election in 2001 lured Henry Hassan back to Detroit from Minnesota. Hassan, who opened a restaurant on the city’s northwest side, said he was quickly disillusioned.

“You remember the riots in ‘67?” Hassan said, referring to the cataclysmic five days that left 43 dead and more than 2,000 buildings burned down. “It’s a little worse than that right now. . . . We need somebody to come in and care for the city more than they care for themselves.”

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“A thousand people are leaving the city every month,” Mogk [John Mogk, a professor at Wayne State University Law School.] said, “and the city does not have the financial resources and the economic base to solve its own problems.”

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To the surprise of many in this overwhelmingly black city (82 percent), only 53 percent of registered voters turned out for November’s presidential election, which featured the first African-American nominee. It wasn’t long ago that a Democrat couldn’t carry Michigan without a big turnout in Detroit. As it turned out, Detroit’s votes didn’t matter in the election.

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Email Tim Jones at tmjones@tribune.com.

(Posted on March 6, 2009)

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1 — Obscuratus wrote at 6:05 PM on March 6:

Hey, they managed to get a city populated and run by a black majority - I say just let them continue running it into the ground:
If whites do help them, they’ll start whining that “whites are stealing our jobs!
If whites help them, they’ll keep whining that “whites have abandoned us!

I pick Option 2, as it’s less expensive - and Whitey gets blamed anyways.

2 — Peejay in Frisco wrote at 6:26 PM on March 6:

In Detroit, I can buy 75 houses for the price of only one in San Francisco.This is mind boggling.What will the ratio be after GM goes extinct?

3 — Question Diversity wrote at 6:28 PM on March 6:

There was a house in Detroit that auctioned for $1. I made the joke at the time that, with the right financing, you could buy it for a penny a month.

4 — Tim Mc Hugh wrote at 6:33 PM on March 6:

“The median price of a home sold there was 7,500 dollars.”
All I can say is that if they expect people to buy a home and move there, they need to offer them MORE than $7,500!

5 — William Hendershot wrote at 7:09 PM on March 6:

Detroit, which has lost half its population in the past 50 years, is deceptively large, covering 139 square miles. Manhattan, San Francisco and Boston could, as a group, fit inside the city’s boundaries. There is no major grocery chain in the city, and only two movie theaters. Much of the neighborhood economy revolves around rib joints, hot dog stands and liquor stores. The candidates travel around this sprawling city, some invoking the nostalgic era of Big Three dominance and vowing that Detroit can be great again.

Groups of them attend nearly unworkable faux debate forums about how they will solve the city’s troubles, with responses to last no more than 60 seconds. Given the complexity of problems that defy sound-bite answers, their proposed solutions range from the predictable to the wacky:

More cops on the street.

Make high school graduation mandatory.

Grow your own food.

Bulldoze large stretches of the city and turn them into wind farms.

Procreate like there’s no tomorrow.


The African-Detroiters should have no trouble with this solution.

6 — q wrote at 7:56 PM on March 6:

“Median price of Detroit homes sold in December: $7,500.”

I saw that stat on a news show the other day, and had to laugh out loud.

Give the Obamanation enough time, and he’ll do his level best to reduce white wealth in the country in an attempt to get it in line with the black norm. He’s in the process of a shift in wealth right now, probably trying to keep from laughing everytime the stockmarket goes down substantially.

A black community organizer that makes upgrading blacks and only blacks his life’s work isn’t about to change his goals when he’s elected pres.

He has to be jumping for joy, because it’s get-back-at-whitey-time. Jeremiah the hater and Calypso Louie must be bursting with pride and joy as well.

7 — jayfresh wrote at 8:34 PM on March 6:

This is fascinating. One of the greatest cities in America is now a shell of its former self. I was always an admirer of Henry Ford. He would be rolling over in his grave if he knew of the disaster Detroit has become. I actually remember when I was younger reading of how the racial tensions in the city were escalating as blacks were moving in and taking over. This is a great lesson on how the Black man can turn gold into a big pile of nothing.

8 — Question Diversity wrote at 8:55 PM on March 6:

Jayfresh:

You might want to consider your admiration of Henry Ford.

Society is too complex for this to be completely the case, but if there is any one person who could be said to be the most responsible for Detroit being a heavily black and Arab city, it’s Henry Ford. He actively recruited among southern blacks and in the Middle East in the 1920s through the early 1940s to flood Detroit with people and cheap labor in order to break the emerging union movement. Of course, many southern blacks were eager to leave the South, because it was in between the world wars that southern agriculture finally became mechanized, and there became very little need for black stoop labor.

There are some on the right-wing, albeit not many, who idolize Henry Ford because he made a few comments about a certain ethnicity. These are the same kind of right-wingers who we’re supposed to think have all this foaming at the mouth “bigotry” against blacks, yet the idolize a man who helped turned Detroit black.

However, for the kind of responsible racial right-winger who doesn’t see a Jew under every rock and hiding between ever crevice, Henry Ford isn’t a hero.

9 — Anonymous wrote at 8:59 PM on March 6:

Imagine if Detroit had an all-White or Japanese population? I can’t imagine it would be like this. Detroit is, like Haiti, the way that it is because of black rule.

10 — Anonymous wrote at 9:28 PM on March 6:

At those prices, a wealthy entrepeneur could buy up the whole city for a song but I imagine the property taxes on a single home are alot more than the property is worth. There’s a lot of beautiful architecture in that city that is crumbling from years of decay and blight. No, I hope I never live to see the day that Detroit gentrifies because all those rising property values would drive the blacks out into the White suburbs. Detroit is just a holding pen for criminals, rapists, welfare cheats of society and it should stay that way.

11 — Anonymous wrote at 9:49 PM on March 6:

Reply to question diversity:

You make some good points. I knew that Ford had been instrumental in bringing Mississippi delta blacks to Detroit to use for “union-busting” but I wasn’t aware of his mideast connection. Would you be able to cite any sources on that? I would also mention that the great majority of Arabs that came too America at this time were Christians and had a westernized culture and outlook. They were a world away from the Arabs who arrive here today.

12 — Reader-1 wrote at 9:55 PM on March 6:


Reading that only 53 percent of registered voters turned out this past election makes me wonder if:

a) Previously registered voters had simiply left the city by then, or
b) A large number of the registrations were fraudulent, a la ACORN, but for some reason no one used them to put in fraudulent votes, or
c) Detroit voters are so low on the intellectual totem pole that they aren’t interested in voting, even when “their” candidate is black.

13 — Anonymous wrote at 11:13 PM on March 6:

You fill a city with Third World people, you get a Third World city.

If you fill a city with Swedes, Germans or Englishmen, you get a different result.

14 — Eric the Red wrote at 11:16 PM on March 6:

Anyone up for being a pioneer? We could go in
there with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other
and reclaim this land for America. Yes, we would have
to subdue the natives but think of the long term. We’d
be getting in on the ground floor of the new Detroit and
that means big money. In the meantime, we could buy up the
burned out lots and farm them. Forget the houses, we
tear them down and use the material to build a fort. No way
they’re going to pick us off one by one like they did the last
time both here and in Zimbabwe. It would be the Catholic Village
model not the American Protestant. We live semi-communally in the
fort and walk out together to work in the fields. The cold, lack
of heat, welfare, and all other Federal handouts will gradually
drive the natives back South. Our presence will just hurry them
along. Our descendents will follow them and conquer them there as
well.

15 — Taurus689 wrote at 1:53 AM on March 7:

There are some on the right-wing, albeit not many, who idolize Henry Ford because he made a few comments about a certain ethnicity. These are the same kind of right-wingers who we’re supposed to think have all this foaming at the mouth “bigotry” against blacks, yet the idolize a man who helped turned Detroit black.

However, for the kind of responsible racial right-winger who doesn’t see a Jew under every rock and hiding between ever crevice, Henry Ford isn’t a hero.

Posted by Question Diversity at 8:55 PM on March 6

I agree with you 100%. Ford either had no foresight or just didn’t care.
When’s the last time anyone was assaulted by roving gangs of Jewish “youfs”? When I was first married my wife and I bought our first house in a predominantly Jewish section of Northeast Philadelphia. They ranged from Orthodox to Conservative to Reform. We had 16 foot airlight row houses and were all middle class. No one was “rich”. We couldn’t have asked for better neighbors and several years of harmony and mutual respect. We attended each other’s children’s Bar Mitzvahs, First Communions, Confirmations and shared our grief over lost loved ones. Then even that area began to “change” as “diversity” approached and most of it is unrecognizable from what it was.

This obsession with ad nauseum Jew baiting needs to stop.

16 — Joe B wrote at 8:13 AM on March 7:

“In Detroit, I can buy 75 houses for the price of only one in San Francisco.This is mind boggling.What will the ratio be after GM goes extinct?”

That’s true, but you can’t afford to pay the property taxes on that $7000 house. It’s just like Buffalo and Rochester, NY. When government is the only employer, white homeowners become the piggy bank.

17 — T Rexx wrote at 10:33 AM on March 7:

blacks clamoured to be in power here, now they are and unlike the days when whites ran the town and EVERYONE prospered, today No One Prospers or is even SAFE anywhere in the city. blacks have shown over and over again that they do not have the ability to head just about anything, NOW we have their infiltration into Washington and our country seems to headed into the very same shambles we find in Detroit and any other black controlled area? blacks NEVER seem to build they seem to lie in wait for others to do something of value then cry out to be included and if and when they are what what good and great collapses under the weight of what they call Their Culture? Have you ever noticed when blacks want to Get Into A Better neighborhood it is Always White and never a Better black area, because that is non existent. CLOSE your eyes as I say “bad area” and when I do does a picture of little blonde headed children headed to school come into your mind? Of course not and it doesn’t in mine either?

18 — Skipper wrote at 10:44 AM on March 7:

Let Detroit die.

There is no point in pursuing futile goals in an attempt to bring up dysfunctional groups or the areas they live in. Let them have total control and run the whole city into the ground. Then, they can have no one to blame but themselves and they will not be getting one tax dollar from me to save them.

It should be an interesting experiment if the state or national leadership has the guts to allow it to happen. In about ten years they will be armored bus adventure tours to drive through “America’s Chernobyl”.

19 — kassie wrote at 11:18 AM on March 7:

We can’t sell houses anywhere in this country anymore. With obama in the whitehouse, pretty soon we whites will be living in boxes under the viaducts. I can hardly afford my monthly bills and taxes now. Won’t be long before I lose everything I ever worked for because….I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT…FIRST MISTAKE, I KEPT A JOB AND PAID TAXES FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS. I should have had one kid after the other and went on welfare, then I would be sitting pretty today. What a jerk I have been!

20 — Simmons wrote at 11:32 AM on March 7:

The fortress model has some appeal, but eventually you have to interact with your neighbors. The current political debate is useless, left screams “racism” (whatever that is?) and those on the putative right cower or go into wordist disembling to cover themselves with a veneer. Its quite simple we whites simply do not accept anti-white behavior or policies even if they are done under the false banner of “anti-racism” (they mean anti-white). Once we stand up and say no to anti-white behavior and speak directly to our problems, you would be suprised how genial relations could become.

21 — josh wrote at 1:11 PM on March 7:

My plan:Bring in a good 10,00 Aafrikaners who want to leave their Black paradise and “homestead” them! Give ‘em land and houses,give them a tax free window of say 5 years or so. Allow them to create industry—and see what happens. And yes,as a previous writer noted,if they succeed,theyll be blamed;if they dont,theyll be blamed.

22 — William Hendershot wrote at 1:30 PM on March 7:

I never understood the animus for Jews that some people have. I agree with the above posters. They seem quite good at building stable, harmonius societies. When I’m in a jewish neighborhood I don’t feel fearful.

My theory on this is that people dislike Jews for the same reason that blacks don’t like whites-they are smarter. Jews have shown to have on average a higher IQ than other groups. I’ve read where Ashkenazi Jews have an average IQ of 117. This higher IQ naturally makes them more successful than other whites. This coupled with their strong group identity makes for a very potent economic force, giving them all sorts of economic power, which leads to jealousy and group hatred.

Blacks are the other side of this scenario. They see themselves outsmarted and outworked at every turn by the white man. They don’t quite understand the reasons for the white control of institutions, they just know they hate the white man for it.

23 — Alexandra wrote at 2:58 PM on March 7:

I don’t hate Jews and I don’t care if they’re smarter. A lot of my best friends in school were Jewish (I went to school in the Detroit suburbs).

Blacks don’t want to admit that they’re not equal with whitey. Hey, no two PEOPLE are equal! Not in terms of intelligence, talent, etc. Equal before the law, yes, equal in human worth, yes—but other than that, forget it.

24 — underdog wrote at 3:16 PM on March 7:

Eric The Red and Josh have the right idea, however Detroit (as are all Great Lakes cities) is going to be frozen toast anyway in the post peak petroleum age. Too hard to survive the winter there en masse no matter how productive a new wave of fort building colonists may be.

25 — Webspin wrote at 4:05 PM on March 7:

“…In the meantime, the city faces a projected budget deficit of at least $300 million, with no clear view on how to erase it. …”

What few realize is just how much the economy in Detroit they already pay for. Most think in terms of just welfare but that’s just the very tip of a huge support system. Most of the monies come from grants, hud, earmarks, department of education, road subsidies, energy subsidies, state subsidized property taxes. Even the few mainline businesses that target Detroit do so with the knowledge that it’s a tit for tat expense for favors from the feds. GM being the biggest example of this stupidity. Here’s a death bed company that bought the most expensive building in Detroit, with it’s massive property tax bill (The Renaissance Center) and just wasted $135 million building the “River Walk” at ground zero. Money that ultimately is paid for by the Federal bailout.

For the last 6 years, money was drained from the banking system by outright fraud as black appraisers, loan agents and home buyers colluded to churn $7500 slums at inflated prices of 50 to 60 thousand dollars. I’d guesstimate that Detroiters alone raped about 3 to 4 billion just from this.

Add in the 10’s of billions that Detroit blacks received under affirmative action programs and you stare to realize the scope of the theft. Now with the economy collapsing, many of these dollars will disappear and Detroit and other big cities will revert to true anarchy.

26 — Michael wrote at 4:30 PM on March 7:

“I never understood the animus for Jews that some people have. I agree with the above posters.”


Jews tend to be clannish—big deal. I wish whites were. Some white Christians will never get over the fact that the Jews were supposed to be somehow responsible for their god’s murder. Also, conspiracy believers like to think the world is run by a secret cabal of Jews (along with their toady white allies, like the Rockefellers). In my experience, Jews can be faulted for voting Democrat, but, then again, the Repubs haven’t been that much better. My relations with Jews have always been cordial.

27 — Anonymous wrote at 5:53 PM on March 7:

Does anyone remember the story of a majority-Black eastern U.S. city, where African administrators were elected/selected and they ran the city into the ground? Subsequently, they all gave up and brought Whites back in to administer the government properly.

28 — Alan wrote at 10:38 PM on March 7:

Homes going for only $7,500?

Sounds like a city ripe for a reconquista of our own. And if D.C. eventually bails out the auto industry - which it can, and should - then things will soon be looking up.

29 — Reader-1 wrote at 10:41 PM on March 7:


In reading these comments, I just remembered the classic movie “Robocop,” which takes place in a completely dysfunctional Detroit. The racial aspect isn’t touched on, but the idea that a city can thoroughly decay is beautifully portrayed.

Put it on your Weekend Entertainment List.

30 — White is Beautiful Robert wrote at 11:07 PM on March 7:

Jewish people in America are WHITE. When Blacks go on roving, wilding nights to prey on Whites, they don’t ask themselves if the prospective Jewish couple or teens are White or Jewish…. They just simply attack “To get back at the Man”. Now I know that their are Black Jewish people (Fallashas), but in the main, Jewish people are White here in the U.S. I only Wish they, as a group, would stop Identifying more with “People with color” and commiserate with the White plight, like Jewamongyou posts all the time.

31 — formerly (James from NOLA) wrote at 11:59 PM on March 7:

“Jews tend to be clannish—big deal. I wish whites were. Some white Christians will never get over the fact that the Jews were supposed to be somehow responsible for their god’s murder.”

Posted by Michael at 4:30 PM on March 7
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As a White Christian, I have no religious beef with the Jews. Jesus Was a Jew. Jews did not “murder” my God, my Messiah came willingly and gave himself up as a sacrafice for ALL.
As for your other point; Yes, Jews are very clannish and I wish us non-Jewish White people were allowed to be as well.
White people are not Allowed to organize any kind of group for our own causes or intersests without being called “Racist”, “Bigotted”, “Supremescist”, “Haters” etc…
My only bone of contention with Jews is with the secular (mostly Upper-Northeast Liberal) type Jews who infest the ADL that champion any and all anti-White causes, and slam even the most benign gathering of White Thought (such as Am. Ren.) as Hateful and Racist.
Millions of White Christians died in foreign lands fighting a regime that perpetrated Genocide on the Jewish people. It would be nice if the Jewish people could cut us a little slack when we mearly protest the slow genocide of the White Cristian in our own lands.

32 — coonbatter wrote at 12:39 AM on March 8:

Detroit and now DC are being led by blacks who have little to no concrete evidence to show they can manage anything let alone government. Throw in the horrible black crime stats across the country, as published by DOJ and it becomes obvious that massive failure is going to occur. A major example is the continent of Africa. When whites were tossed out these countries crumbled immediately, basic society broke down, government and military ran wild killing, raping and pillaging. SA Africa took over the farmlands from whites and instantly no food, meat, poultry or vegetables.

This is what Obama wants for this country to tear it down then bring it back under a Socialist regime with him as hero. I’m wondering what he will use as the final straw to break the camels back and declare himself Messiah officially?

Also please don’t associate jew haters with right wingers, they are in the Nationalist league if anything.

33 — Anonymous wrote at 11:20 AM on March 8:

Why so many posts on jews in an article about Detroit?

34 — Anonymous wrote at 11:47 AM on March 8:

Millions of White Christians died in foreign lands fighting a regime that perpetrated Genocide on the Jewish people. It would be nice if the Jewish people could cut us a little slack when we mearly protest the slow genocide of the White Cristian in our own lands.


Posted by formerly (James from NOLA) at 11:59 PM on March 7

James,
I WILL give you that! I sometimes feel that those exceedingly secular Jews are completely out of touch with reality. And with the ascendency of Blacks, the above mentioned seculars will not be cut any slack. We can only hope that they’ll see the light eventually.
Jews suffer the predations of Blacks like any other White people; the hideous murders and God knows what else of Eve Carson and Lauren Burk being two examples. I can’t forget the callous “they reaped what they sowed” sentiments expressed by some who post here.
Those beautiful young women were the products of the ideology with which they had been browbeaten since kindergarten. They were innocent victims of the “Progressive” society that ingrained in them the belief that all people are inherently good and that there are no traits, some sociopathic, that are peculiar to one race or ethnicity. It’s this doctrine that puts typically idealistic youth at grave risk. As an educator, I see it every day on the High School level. Young White girls constantly being “hit on” by Blacks who know that to reject them would be construed as racism. Several years ago a young student of mine came to me for advice because a Black boy was constantly soliciting her for a date and implying that she was racist if she refused.
At the risk of losing my job should she relate our conversation to someone else, I advised her that she was under no obligation to accept his advances simply because he is black and that she had the perfect right to her preferences, be they racial or religious and that she should in no way feel “guilty”.
We shouldn’t teach our kids to hate but certainly teach them the necessary survival skills. We send them away to colleges far from home, like lambs into a pack of hyenas, many times totally unprepared to survive.


35 — Anonymous wrote at 1:16 PM on March 8:


“The median price of a home sold in Detroit in December was $7,500, according to Realcomp, a listing service.”


I eagerly await the follow-up think-pieces in the MSM, explaining that Detroit has become an undesirable place to buy a home or raise a family due to all the loud house-parties held by Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, and the MC5.


36 — Anonymous wrote at 3:45 PM on March 8:

Does anyone not think that what happened to Detroit, Los Angeles and dozens of other cities was not by design? Whether it’s the NAACP, ACLU, SPLC, NOW, LaRAZA, LULAC or the ADL, all roads point in the same direction.

37 — unemployed WASP wrote at 6:18 PM on March 8:

Detroit, the fallen motor city and blueprint for an Obamanation.

38 — riverhound wrote at 11:49 AM on March 9:

But unlike Pittsburgh, which successfully reinvented itself after the decline of Big Steel, Detroit displays only islands of “prosperity amid a dismal landscape.”

There is also another stark difference between the 2 cities. At that time (1980-1985), Pittsburgh’s black population percentage was very close to the national avarage, no where near what Detroit’s is now. There is no way Detroit’s black leadership will be able to do what was done in Pittsburgh.

39 — Anonymous wrote at 12:46 PM on March 9:

Posted by Anonymous at 11:47 AM on March 8

That could be futher from the truth about Jews. Im part Jewish and let me tell if you walked into a temple and blacks were the center of topic you would hear the N-WORD more times than rap concert. We dont want them in our neighborhoods but we do think they desrve fair treatment and deserve respect.

I remember growing up and a black woman moved into an apartment building above mine. Kids threw rocks through her window, shouted racial epithets at her, keed her car, and graphittied her car, until she left. This was wrong but they knew they didnt want any blacks in their neighborhood.

40 — Alexandra wrote at 12:59 PM on March 9:

@unemployed WASP—

Makes me more glad I live near Amish Country in Ohio now. Nice area, too. While I kind of miss the Detroit area, since I was born and raised there, I do not miss the, shall we call it, “law of the jungle” mentality of Metro Detroit.

41 — T Rexx wrote at 1:35 PM on March 9:

Wake Up America!
DETROIT is a clear example of life under black rule or domination. How did this ever happen? What is wrong, Not With Them, we already know that answer, But with US for allowing this trend to grow like a Rapid Killing Cancer..

42 — Matt wrote at 1:42 PM on March 9:

WHITE AMERICA. STOP being abused by the word RACISM. The true meaning of the word RACISM is The feeling of superiority to a race of people base not on what they have shown and done but based solely on their race. WHITE AMERICANS have pages of documentation PROVING who and what blacks are capable of. In todays world RACISM is saying anything no matter how true or verifiable about blacks (in particular) that is NEGATIVE. Quit being bullied by a WORD that is distorted to fill their agenda.
Tell them The Facts Speak for Themselves!

43 — krystal wrote at 3:12 PM on March 9:

If a white would buy one of those homes at $7500…they may as well paint a target on it cause said house would be either fire bombed or raided. Blacks don’t respect their own homes, why would they respect a white persons home??? I wouldn’t live in Detroit if THEY PAID ME!!!

44 — SKIP wrote at 4:29 PM on March 9:

We send them away to colleges far from home, like lambs into a pack of hyenas, many times totally unprepared to survive.

Many do not survive.

45 — A. Windaus wrote at 9:59 PM on March 9:

While the price may be right I’m not sure if you would want to live surrounded by hostile natives. My history books told me that the people of Jamestown Settlement had to shoot a lot of Indians when cordial relations broke down. The survival rate of the original colonists was less than five years from the day they landed because the majority of the good growing land was controlled by the natives and so 80% of the original population starved to death within the first three years when supplies ran out.

46 — Anonymous wrote at 12:29 AM on March 10:

Taxes are probably huge, even on a vacant lot. The NYTimes did a story this week on Cleveland, where the city government finds boarded up houses, then finds their owners, and fines them for failing to keep up the property. The alternative is demolition at an average cost of $8000 per house. So even at a dollar a house, it’s no bargain.

47 — Fed Up wrote at 8:04 AM on March 10:

Call it a “dumb” question, but… .

Where in hell is the help from those grossly overpaid Black athletes and entertainers? Why isn’ Opra donating a few million bucks to refurbish some of those Detroit hulks and offer them FREE to impoverished Blacks… with the stipulation those refurbished homes are theirs… if the new owners take care of them.

The story is always the same. Blacks move into a White town or neighborhood. Promptly trashing and destroying their area. Then sitting back, expecting White taxpayers to help them with their plight.

48 — Sardonicus wrote at 8:35 AM on March 10:

“Then even that area began to “change” as “diversity” approached and most of it is unrecognizable from what it was.” Taurus689

Alas, there’s the rub! Perfectly good neighborhoods ruined by the infusion of diversity. Years ago I knew a “red diaper” Jewish couple who lived in a good suburb of Philly, who at first welcomed the new diversity to their neighborhood, but later admitted to me that the whole thing had been a colossal social failure!

49 — T.Reilly wrote at 2:04 AM on March 17:

I would love to agree with the “let Detroit die” post-problem is the blacks don’t take responsibility for the city they have destroyed and try to repair it,they flee what they have created in come in increasing numbers to smaller midwestern cities like fargo ND and Sioux Falls SD and take advatage of good peoples inexeperince with blacks-could somone please let me know what steps I can take to act against these native invaders! supertrav28@yahoo.com

50 — Anonymous wrote at 1:33 PM on April 17:

Jane Jacobs reflected on Detroit’s growing economic problems in her book on economics of cities which she asserts began in the 1920’s when the car industry, or the Big Three developed the city into an export town. Producing products for World War 11 covered over the potential flaws in this economic system for several years but eventually the plan destroyed my lovely city.


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