Love Detroit or you're a RAYCISS!

[lictor616]

http://atlantapost.com/2010/06/02/opinion-abandon-detroit-abandon-black-america/

Detroit: The city that represents the prospects and failures of American industry.The city that is the punch line of a million jokes. The city that is Blacker than nearly any other in this country. {snip}

{snip}

Detroit is a microcosm of Black America. I believe if you cannot love Detroit, you cannot fully love Black people. The Detroit Metropolitan area represents the best and the worst that Black folks in this country have to offer. The Black middle class was solidified in and around Detroit with steady unionized blue collar labor in the auto industry.

The middle class expanded as more Black folks with college educations occupied managerial positions. Detroiters experienced and vigilantly fought the racisms of housing redlining, riots, as well as White and Black flight. {snip} If there is a city that tells us about the promise and perils of Blackness, it’s Detroit. {snip}

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{snip} When I lived in Michigan, I hung out in Detroit and fell in love with the rich activism taking place. The strength of Detroiters and their voices are often missing from the reality shows and headlines. {snip}

Detroit communities are addressing the consequences of poverty—like violence—and more importantly, the roots of poverty—like education. On the ground, Detroiters are fighting back by forming the vanguard that is rethinking education, the media, health and youth issues. During the close of June, Detroit will host the Allied Media Conference, the United States Social Forum and the National Hip Hop Congress Conference.

{snip} It is time that we demand more of media, more of ourselves and help turn around the sullied gem of Black America.

I got this reply from a like minded poster (and an amiable lady) who had the displeasure of living in Detroit:

and I'd like to reproduce it here:

"Look at his phrases. Is he channeling the Mandated Progressive Diversity Privilege of Cynthia Tucker?

Black folks with college educations (helped along through easy admissions and easy test grading and easy graduation, all on scholarship, paid for with White people’s money)

occupied managerial positions (stolen from racially profiled Whites through Affirmative Diversity Action Race Privilege)

vigilantly fought the racisms (the hero complex perpetrated to make blacks look pitiful yet resilient and deserving of our admiration for being good Amerikans who fought against all injustice; too bad for Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome)

rich activism (superlative adjectives for anything that destroys White America)

strength of Detroiters (King Kwame, the strongest of all, headed to jail for five years because he was too incompetent and thuggish to understand the terms of his parole)

fighting back by forming the vanguard (caucusing with the splc, adl, aclu, naacp, and obamas for new and improved ways to shake down whitey for more money and more easy access to his White Daughters)

National Hip Hop Congress Conference (proud black culture, and please all you raciss Whitey Folks, just ignore the lyrics, knifings, and shootings)"

Edited June 5, 2010 by lictor616

[Peter F]

I love Detroit! and your a racist!

[lictor616]

I love Detroit! and your a racist!

care to expound on why you love that heaping garbage of a city. That malodorous cesspool... a veritable africa in our midsts?

[Guest TrueMetis]

care to expound on why you love that heaping garbage of a city. That malodorous cesspool... a veritable africa in our midsts?

Well if you hate it it can't be that bad.

[lictor616]

Well if you hate it it can't be that bad.

yes, by that standard you should move there!

[kimmy]

The premise that you can't love black people unless you love a city that most people on earth, including most black people, will never even visit, is pretty dumb.

I have not been to Detroit, but saw it from across the river in Windsor. As I walked along the riverside park with its busy trail filled with people of all colors and creeds, I saw joggers and cyclists and rollerskaters, I saw people fishing and flying kites. On the water, I watched the freighters heading east, carrying cargo of who-knows what to who-knows where. Across the river, I saw the Joe Louis Arena, home of the mighty Detroit Red Wings, a team in an American city playing Canada's favorite sport, a team beloved by many Canadians, especially in the southernmost tip of Ontario. I also saw many grand old buildings, beautiful and elaborate towers that in today's world would be built with featureless glass and panel sides. I saw the General Motors headquarters, that dated yet still imposing building, embodying some 1960s ideal of what the future would look like, home of a corporation, embattled then, but still an employer of huge numbers of Canadians as well as Americans. And when I reached the Ambassador Bridge, I was almost overcome. The huge highway trucks going across the bridge, both ways, looked like tiny toys, they were so dwarfed by the bridge. The bridge, I thought, was a beautiful and inspiring structure, a physical embodiment of the relationship between our countries.

I can not say that I love Detroit, but I do love that there is a place where the relationship between Canada and the United States is embodied in an almost literal, physical sense.

This is a wonderful place, I thought to myself. And I thought of the riverside houses for sale I had seen earlier that day, looking out at Belle Isle Park, houses that I could have bought for practically pocket change. And I thought "I should." But then I thought "But if I did, then I'd be unemployed and broke just like the rest of these deadbeats."

-k

[Peter F]

care to expound on why you love that heaping garbage of a city. That malodorous cesspool... a veritable africa in our midsts?

Don't feel any particular need to, so no: I don't care to expound. But I'll let you live with this - Because its "a veritable africa in our midsts"

'course, its not anywhere near africa nor even remotely comparable to africa. But, Hey! You're an idiot so I got to accept the concepts you understand.

Edited June 7, 2010 by Peter F

[lictor616]

Don't feel any particular need to, so no: I don't care to expound. But I'll let you live with this - Because its "a veritable africa in our midsts"

'course, its not anywhere near africa nor even remotely comparable to africa. But, Hey! You're an idiot so I got to accept the concepts you understand.

not anywhere near africa... well sub saharan africa to be more accurate... yes there is the low life expectancy, the high diseases rates, the widespread crime, buildings in ill-repair, squalor, shanty towns as you see in typical sub saharan black countries...

[dre]

Has this dork really gone on like this for 1700 posts?

[bush_cheney2004]

Has this dork really gone on like this for 1700 posts?

Yes...but he routinely gets time outs from the mods.

[Guest TrueMetis]

Has this dork really gone on like this for 1700 posts?

Actually I think he's worse now.

[lictor616]

Has this dork really gone on like this for 1700 posts?

and have you gone on making posts like these 300+ times s***d***

[dre]

and have you gone on making posts like these 300+ times s***d***

Nope. Im happy to say that was my first post making fun of an overtly racist troll!

[lictor616]

Nope. Im happy to say that was my first post making fun of an overtly racist troll!

I doubt that, not ready to tell me why i'm wrong... lemme guess: you don't care... well in that case why bother all together...

[Bonam]

I believe if you cannot love Detroit, you cannot fully love Black people.

Loving Detroit is not mandatory, nor is loving Black people. Additionally, the author of the article is free to believe whatever he pleases, without it necessarily being true.

[dre]

I doubt that, not ready to tell me why i'm wrong... lemme guess: you don't care... well in that case why bother all together...

Wrong about WHAT exactly? How am I supposed to tell you if youre right or wrong when you havent even expressed a coherent opinion about something?

[lictor616]

Wrong about WHAT exactly? How am I supposed to tell you if youre right or wrong when you havent even expressed a coherent opinion about something?

I was just bringing up a news swatch that I thought interesting, my opinion (as is obvious) is that its absurd to love such a decrepit cesspit as detroit.

[M.Dancer]

I doubt that, not ready to tell me why i'm wrong... lemme guess: you don't care... well in that case why bother all together...

Telling you you're wrong....? That's like telling a fish about water...