Hey Americans - what`s on with you ? Are you turned into occult, culturalless
people inspired by satan ? Have you lost your spirit ? Or are you infiltrated
by Islam ? If not, please repair your great looking buildings in the cities.
These chaotically and inharmoniously looking "Liebeskind","Venus-project",
"Astana" or "Dubai" buildings are not the way for you. Please create a modern ! American ! style reffering to your great roots and save the western world !!
Of course the first thing this asshole talks about is "African American Police Brutality." Hmm...I don't know which one is worse! The Police Brutality or the Black leadership that took over Detroit! Do you?
@mindspring57 Please don't make asumptions about me. I have been to all sorts of cities all over the world Beijing, Moscow, Rome, London, Paris, NYC, LA, among others. I don't look at Detroit through rose colored glasses - I just showed what I see. I've worked in downtown Detroit for 25 years and lived in the area since 1957. There is a lot of work to do here and a lot of attitudes that need to change but "dead, never to return" - I don't think so.
The Detroit riot was caused by a lawless mob. Despite Governor Romney's pleas, President Johnson at first refused to send federal troops to suppress the riots, and then when they were sent, he refused to give them adequate authority to deal with the emergency. Johnson was stunned. How could his "little darlings" do that, after all he had done for them through the civil rights legislation? In any event, the 1967 riotes were the beginning of the end, and Detroit is dead, never to return.
The police brutality was real and wrong - no doubt about that at all - but let's not forgive the rioters. The riot was not a revolution with political ends. It was men and women acting like animals. Many of the shops and homes burned down by rioters belonged to African Americans and to middle and lower class people. The city has never recovered, and the rioters can never be forgiven.
@FAHayek89 YES. The rioters dug the grave for a once vital city. And when Coleman Young was elected, he made it plain that he favored ethnic cleansing of whites from Detroit. Well, they wanted "Whitey" gone, and "Whitey" is gone for good!
@FAHayek89 Except for the part about police brutality, I agree completely. Are you saying that if the riot had "political ends" (i.e. the overthrow of the government?) it would have been okay?
@mind Not at all. A political focus wouldn’t have justified the riots, but there is a fad of trying to justify them as somehow political actions against oppression, when there is no evidence to that effect.
I do think the record is clear that there were some real race based abuses by the Detroit police before the ’67 and the ’43 riots. That isn’t a justification, just a fact. But the rioters weren’t an organized group fighting oppression. Mob looting and theft isn’t fighting oppression.
@7mileplainview I was born in Detroit, and I lived there or in its suburbs from 1957 to 1971. I loved it once, but the city I loved is gone forever. It is a sorrowful thing.
@mindspring57 Honestly it is sad but it's only gonna get worse if people continue to turn their backs on the city. This is where I was born and raised and no matter how bad it gets I just can't see myself calling any other place home no matter how great it is.
@7mileplainview Approximately 900,000 people still live in the city. Far fewer with a lot less have accomplished much more in other places. What is stopping the people of Detroit? For starters, they can clean up the debris in the neighborhoods. That requires effort and pride in one's surroundings, but little money.
I love the sign on 4:30 . . . Come on Motown! . . Fill up and fix up those empty buildings. . . come together share that Motown love with eachother! :) You know you want to!
1:28 Thats my church. But yeah the city has never really recovered after that riot and a lot of people (more particularly whites) moved out to the suburbs. The big problem is that suburbs should be held up by the city but with not many actually in the city, the city suffers and therefore the burbs.
Detroit of the 2000's is the result of 40 years of social welfare, democratic mayors, LBJ's War on Poverty, more like War on the Black family and corruption at all levels.
@MsKadrea God bless you my friend. All is good, no worries, things are going to be alright. People are watching Detriot, so make us proud. Rebuild, Rebuild, Rebuild...
I was shocked when I went to Detroit ten years ago, yet obsessively facinated by its decay. I've educated myself to the causes. Last year, I returned and it was worse. The foreclosure wave is the worst in the country because the banks don't bother foreclosing, leaving even more abandoned buildings, plus the overall Michigan economy... Detroit has some unique circumstances that will not allow for its renewal. The city has to manage smart "shrinkage" by bulldozing lots of derelict areas.
If GM can get that Volt(230 mpg) project going, could be the start of something big. The only thing that would be in the way is that lithium comes from South America and they would eventually become like OPEC!
The problem is not the car, not the auto companies (if not for them there would be no Detroit), not black nor white people. It's how the city is run, or has been run, in the past. Period. This city has a racial divide but it's mosty just geography. We are all together in this, and we can help the city survive.
I prayed that Detroit will be fix by the construction workers and us together and the city will never have the same problem like the 1967 riot. What did you think?
Detroit was destroyed by my fellow soul brothers after th 1967 riots. By 1970 it was a combat zone. TRhey can't blame it on the honkies. There aren't any in Detroit. Jesse Jackson give up accusing the hoinkies of being racist. They also can't blame it on the auto industry. Detroit was a war zone in 1970 when the Auto industry was thriving.
isnt it obvious rascism kick started the riots in the first place. Why should minorities give a shit about Detroit if the whites who build it dont give a shit. think a about it if someone picked on you would you fight back after awhile? Both sides destroyed Detroit just like Gary Indiana..the whites the blacks and the industries
yeah, Detroit and Gary Indiana are the result of white racism... cause we know how african-americans have made other cities meccas of education,arts, sciences and developed the rule of law.. like in...er...uh...West Compton, Camden, Newark, West Memphis,Calumet, East St. Louis, Flint, East Cleveland, Miami-Gardens, ... just the reverse Midas touch I guess... everything they touch turns to shit.
i live in pennsylvania and i have a strange facination with Detroit ive seen alot of the videos on here and one thing that disgusts me more than the destruction of a once beautiful city and that is rasicsm all i hear is that its the blacks fault well u kno what black ppl r jsut like us whites they have thier trash too i mean look at my town its pretty run down and look around not one black person within city limits its all the whites ppl need to stop hating for no reason
detroit represents the paradigm of our civilization. a city that had everything yet the product she made ( with a lot of guts,genious,hard work, determination) destroyed her. if people by necessity have to live and work together (rich,poor,black,white,inbetween) and not run away detroit would be the healthiest if not wealthiest city in north america. the problem is sadly the car.
Still boils down to the citizens being to busy sulking in their own self pity and not giving two shits about their own city. Most all Major cities have had rights and they have all bounced back and actually become bigger and better.
Yes, I (Loonylisa), filmed everything. The old riot photos are provided courtesy of Wayne State University in Detroit. The other photos are mine. The music by my husband's band Chain Reaction.
It's too bad people can't just leave what happened in the past ,in the past, and focus on creating a better future for themselves and their children. Many of the posters on here seem to think of themselves as victims (white and blacks alike). As long as you think you're a victim you will be. Get over it and figure out what you can do to create a better life for yourself. Change begins with YOU.
@surgtek33 I love your comments...Believe in America! Look to the future and be positive. We are the ones that can really make a difference. When American people really apply themselves together as a family there is no stopping us. We can create a better country together. We all must believe that. I will do my best. Wont you???
Hey, is it a surprise that when the descendants of Europeans move to a city, it resembles a city in Europe; and when the descendants of Africans move into a city, it starts to resemble to cesspools of Africa?
Please explain which cities in Europe. Not all of them are London or Paris. In fact, most cities in Europe are dumps, with small exceptions. Now when you say cesspools in Africa are you referring to their cities or actual urban sewage plants? There are some dumps in Africa, its a fact. Think of this, what happened to Africans when Europeans came to their continent? What happened to Native Americans when Europeans came here? Read a book and learn about the world. Detroit is unique.
In 1967, Detroit was FAR from Drug Ridden. Have you ever seen pictures of 12th street before the riots? It was, however, a city that was just as segregated as those in the south, even if the segregation wasn't forced by city or state law.
delusional maybe...but bro if your from here you suffer the same thing as your neighbors...we might not all get along but hell who the fuck says we have...but we respect eachother...and we love were we come from, scars and all...its made us what we are...I thank God that I'm not some faggot suburban white kid that talks dumb as slang that we never heard on the corners, wearing there hats like Fred Durst...Cheers to Detroit!...my home!!!
i grew up on 8 mile and woodward and we where the only white family for 7 blocks and got treated like shit from so people but most where nice you really just have to grow up there most if not all your life to be welcome
There was a raid on an illegal bar and the patrons ganged up on the police. I lived through it, and that is what actually happened. Good film footage, but your commentary is totally racist.
Blacks in Detroit hate whites like no place I've ever seen before or since. It's not even like that in the South.
I have lots of black friends in Texas, 0.0 in Detroit. They couldn't be bothered with whitey.
The previous poster was right. You're not very worldly or experienced. Move somewhere else.
Your reality differs so much from mine. I am from Detroit and grew up there. The blacks were mostly very good to me. Unlike if you go into the suburbs, whites were never very nice to the blacks. That was my reality!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm with you tlcarroll999! I've lived in the suburbs and now live inside the city. I would rather have my car break down in the city and then outside the city. Most of the residents will pull over and help you out, while the suburbanites drive past in fear. Detroiters are much more introverted than in other parts of the country, and that can come across as unfriendly. But they will give their right arm for a stranger.
did u ever get stomped? or is that just something u saw in the news. WHITE FLIGHT. and whites keep blacks out of their cities with beatings, torture, graffiti, and of course negative black images. yes, some black people are not the best, some white people are less than human, and some of any other race will have problems, but a majority of people just want to live peacefully.
modestduck I nver got stomped because I left with all the other whites. Please name one of those cities where "whites keep blacks out of their cities with beatings, torture, graffiti, and of course negative black images" because I want to move there!
I have always said this. When we moved out of the city, people acted as if you did not exist, in Detroit people would give you the shirt of their back, even though they didn't have a penny more than you. I won't say it was always the safest place, but not everyone was bad, and the good people were far better than the people in the suburbs. They would at least invite you over for dinner and lend a hand when needed. At least on the East side where I was most of us got along, no matter the color.
what city you talking about i know its not detroit? its so out of control there are no major department stores in detroit no i am not saying everyone from the city is a thug but lots of thugs come to the suburbs to the malls and act like animals and if some one says anything theres a march the next day saying livonia or dearborn or novi is racisit.. detroit needs to help its self befor it ask's for help!!!
I've been all over the world- from LA to Moscow to Beijing & many wonderful cities in between. I have the means to travel. Many poor (whatever race or ethnicity) in the Detroit area don't have the means. Racism on EVERYONE'S part, socio-economic forces, lack of education & opportunity, greed of those in power -all lead to decline. We know what type of infrastructe makes a great city; more importantly the spirit of the people needs to put it in place. Detroiters need to act on their GREAT SPIRIT!
But, Detroit isn't going to change because it was made to be this way and only ignorance can blind a person from seeing that. There are plenty of educated, hard-working, decent people living in detroit and that's what we don't see or hear about. Yes it all comes down to racism....
Classic black behavior????......it doesn't shock me to hear comments like these it only sickens me. People shouldn't speak on matters they can't understand because they weren't born into it. Since you obviously didn't get this memo from your mothers u can recieve it from me...It's ignorant to stereo type.....don't judge all for the actions of few.
The opening words of this video are typical white guilt. If you're white, don't buy into this false thinking. The blacks destroyed the city and have done nothing with it since. And guilty whites will blame racism and economic factors. However, blacks run have run the city for over 30 years and it doesn't take a lot of money to pick up trash and keep things cleans. Detroit neighborhoods are like trash dumps. They don't give a shit. They just scream "racism." Don't buy it white people.
How can a city that has given so much to the US & the world (Cars , Techno , Motown , Detroit sport teams & help for US in WW2) have so little respect and hardly a single 'Thank you Detroit'. It is digusting that the US government wastes so much on bombs to destroy civilians in the Middle East not try to do something to help Detroit to "rise up from the ashes". This is to Lisa, has Eric got "A Tale of Two Cities" uploaded onto their MySpace music profile ?
"Tale of Two Cities" is not on their Myspace page. "Where's the Beauty", "Shallow Valor" and "Honey Child" are. Their Myspace page is chainreactiondetroit. I did a vid here on YouTube to "Honey Child". It's not that great a vid, but at least you can here the song. All the above songs are written by Eric. Oh, and BTW thanks for the kind words about Detroit.
Ha yea, ya think New Orleans is gettin a taste? Guess they know how we feel now? Id be willing to say New Orleans in its current state is still better than Detroit ever will be in the future.....Your right, our grandmoms and granddads saved the worlds ass from the Nazis.....who else built your tanks and planes and guns and bullets? Well lets hope we don't get into another big war. Detroit isn't here anymore and you may have to ask the Chineese for help, considering they have all our jobs now.
Get rid of the whites in southeastern Michigan and you will have... get rid of the blacks in Southeastern Michigan and you will have... fill in the blanks.
One more thing: white flight did speed up after 1967 because 1. it gave them a reason (though a hypocritical one) to leave the city; 2. Whites did not want to take responsibility for the racial tension that they themselves had created. Books have been written on the subject of Detroit's segregation and racial oppression of Blacks, and the Detroit News ran some stories on it. The second reason is also why Detroit today is the most segregated metro area in the country.
As a Detroiter who moved back after living out-of-state, I can say that Metro Detroit is the poster child for modern-day racism.
Detroit's decline is largely due to racial strife. White flight began BEFORE the 1967 riots, beginning in the 1950s, although it did increase after 1967. Race riots occurred in Detroit before 1967 and were initiated by Whites, such as the race riot of 1943. But Blacks get blamed for being "unruly savages." That conclusion does not match up with the historical record.
TBone, silly I'm not on picket line. BTW-nice life you got there working 70-80 hrs/wk. Its b/c of oppressive working conditions that unions were created.The only reason america has(d) a middle class is b/c of the unions. And yeah working all those hours sure protects you--it must feel good to make someone else rich. Have a nice life shineboy. Edwards 08!
I just realized that union creation reasons were never taught in schools, not even high schools. Who writes history? Union organizers sacrificed to make a "middle class". America now has a two class society. Many so-called middle class have more debt than they could pay-off if called upon!!!
Tommypooh, so sorry to have offended your GOP sensibilities-NOT! Anyway, Germany has the largest export sector--yes flag waving moron-bigger then the USA.The usa is almost 4 times as large. The point is none of Germanys cities since WWII look as bad as Detroit (and many other Midwest/Northeastern Cities).
Furthermore, if you understood globalization you would know the Big 3 have been sending more and more jobs to china/Mexico and other slave wages states. Look I grew up in NYC,never been to Detroit but this shit happened in a lot of cities.Its pathetic that your pampered upbringing left you ignorant of Michigan history. Fuck you Scab.
Detroit evidently was deemed expenable, made all the more easy by its provincial, poorly educated population; fattened and unambitious due in large part to years of Union-led excess.
Though I would suggest to you that Liverpool is in a similar state, with all its gang problems and anarchy....
Expat1973--" I grew up in the rich white suburbs," So a rich douchebag who knows nothing about working for a living blames Detroits downfall on the Unions.Really? Then why is Japan/Germany workforce more unionized then ours? Their industry is doing fine.
Sir, the short answer is free trade (NAFTA, WTO, etc.), the GOP war on the middle/working/lower classes, deindustrialization, No investment in urban areas (redlining),and movement of the US pop. to the sunbelt. I agree w/ you it wouldn't happen in europe. I too am (sadly)fascinated by the decline of the rust belt. America needs more socialism!
Now the REAL TRUTH IS THE VERY SAME MOTHER FUCKERS WHO CONTROL THE ACLU AND THE KKK PLANNED AND FULLY ORCHESTRATED THE ENTIRE EVENT! FOR THE CAUSE! I DONT LIE! I PROMISE!
Detroit will never recover from that...because those who rioted still live there and never gave a fuck anyway obviously...those who didn't got the fuck out because it was to expensive and dangerous to stay
Most of the people (of all races) who came to Detroit from other locales, came here to work in the auto industry. From the 1920s and onward, working in the auto indusdry in Detroit offered one a very good living. Why "white flight" occured from the 1950s and onward I certainly don't have all the answers to.
blacks rioting fucking up a good portion of main area detroit doesn't really reflect your theory of ignorance and fear of white flight...it translates to less hassle in the subs...i'm a white dude still infatuated with detroit, living in Southwest Detroit...the memories are beautiful...but the riots fucked it up forever...
Detroit lost 100k jobs in 20 years starting in the 40s with a population decrease on 10k a year. The automakers couldn't use the same buildings, so they built new ones for increase productivity out in the suburbs. It was mainly white because they could obtain loans unlike the black population.
Why is Expat1973 so worried about Detroit and S.E. Michigan if he doesn't live here now? We are used too and actually sick of other cities and states bitchin' about us in the media. Are you other persons that fuckin' bored about your own cities and states to rip on Detroit and Michigan in general, or is it Envy??
God have mercy on the next city that declines and tries to re-build itself. It's like people love too bitch' about shit they don't know about except listening too all the negatives.
You shouldn't coddle and enable racist hillbillies, and characterize them using a pc-blase euphemism; "different segment of the population". You sir, are extremely disingenuous, and conflating "hypocrisy" and straight-out racism is an absolute distortion.
the fact that what bothered you, and what you chose to make a litte comment about, was someone "attacking your state". So you go out of your way to dig at this, but not at the guys claiming "white power" and using the "n" word farther down. Your apathy in this regard perfectly illustrates my earlier comment, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Was it bad to bash Mississipi during the Civil Rights Era for the lack of character in terms of race relations?
Those who did "bash" were called "hypocrits" too I bet. My point is thatthe average citizen of SE Michigan tolerates a greater level of racism than in any of the major cities of this country. You can see it reflected in all of these "Detroit related" YouTube samplings.
Sir, you just provided me a textbook example of the frightened, provincial racism that I was seeking to describe.
And that's not a good thing. Just to give you an example, in most modern society (outside of SE Michigan) it's not considered civilized to use the "N" word to describe black people. Again, it's pretty much Textbook Hillbilly, and is very typical for the area.
Why is SE Michigan the most racist backwards segregated area in the country? I grew up in the rich white suburbs north of Detroit, and left as soon as I was 18. I am white, and am really embarassed by how hillbilly the place really is. "You reap what you sow", they say, so I'm glad those hillbillies are now out of work. Thanks HillJacks, thanks UAW! Have fun in the breadlines in Waterford et al!
This Monday 23rd July 2007 will mark the 40th anniversiry(sp?) of the infamous "White Riot of '67". I believe Detroit can one day recover from this and like their motto says "We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes". Indeed it one day will rise from the ashes. God bless Detroit.
Go down by the River by the RenCen.....not all of Detroit is a cesspool. Every city over 200K has bad parts. Do you know that Detroit is still the 11th most populous city in the country?
Yeah I think EVERYONE in the area over 30 or so still knows the Mr. Belvedere phone number! He's still alive last I heard. Anyway, Detroit will come back, but it's going to take cooperation with the suburbs, not the city government alone.
Beautiful and affluent Oakland County is now the real Detroit. The city will never ever come back ~ crime is waaay too high. It's very sad to compare pictures of White Detroit in the 1950's and the Black Detroit of Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick. Most educated younger people (myself) included have left Michigan. We would have stayed if Detroit hadn't died :( Nashville is nice come visit.
just checked them out on that MySpace link you gave me, They are really good. I espically like the song in this video and the song Where's The Beauty on their 'space. Again your husbands band is good, kudos to him.
PS... seeing your name brings back a memory of Hagopian Carpet Cleaners, and a bunch of other memories, Mr Belvedere TY87100 YIKES i remember THAT phone #
and ride & play for hours on our own island. We'd also climb the Big stove (last I heard it was near the fairgrounds) that was located on a grassy patch @ Jefferson & the road to the Belle Isle bridge. I also remember the stinky tire factory there Uniroyal/Goodyear. Thanks for the memories Lisa
I lived in Detroit for 33 years, lived under curfew in the riot. We lived at Van Dyke & Jefferson having moved from Van Dyke & Kercheval 2 days before it started. Was scary having armed troops walking up/down the sidewalk. More pleasant memories are of days spent on Belle Isle (we lived at Field &Jefferson just off E. Grand Blvd.)we'd ride our bikes through the E. Grand Blvd tunnel under Jefferson( I think that's been closed/filled in for yrs now)...
I know very little about your city. We hear a lot about other American cities. I drove through it once on a bus but I think it was just the outer suburbs. Does your husband write about Detroit. I would love to hear more of his music.
That was so interesting. Fantastic music. Your husband's band is great. I love this kind of music. I love the interchange between shots of what used to be and the huge city that has been built on the remenants of what looked like a surban ghosttown. I loved the shot of the abandoned house. There is a sense of sadness to it. You get the feeling that it was a once loved family home, and then all that made it a home was gone. And on its grave was built a skyscraper.
I believe so too Lisa... if Detroit can change it can offer a model for the rest of the world in dealing with some of the toughest issues. Because the rest of the world is not a utopia.
Hey Americans - what`s on with you ? Are you turned into occult, culturalless
people inspired by satan ? Have you lost your spirit ? Or are you infiltrated
by Islam ? If not, please repair your great looking buildings in the cities.
These chaotically and inharmoniously looking "Liebeskind","Venus-project",
"Astana" or "Dubai" buildings are not the way for you. Please create a modern ! American ! style reffering to your great roots and save the western world !!
govi70 10 months ago
Of course the first thing this asshole talks about is "African American Police Brutality." Hmm...I don't know which one is worse! The Police Brutality or the Black leadership that took over Detroit! Do you?
wwefanworld 1 year ago
Its not simple, but Detroit needs to restart from the basics like a retreated army.
1)Declare bankruptcy and thus get out of debt and obligations.
2)Run the gangs and crooks out of town using the National Guard where necessary.
3)Rebuild with a green urban environment.
4)Rebuild from the best neighbourhoods outwards, shutting down the wastelands temporarily.
5)Accept private sector control and deliverance of services at term.
Be patient.
By the way, the music is terrible.
MsPsycho29 1 year ago
@mindspring57 Please don't make asumptions about me. I have been to all sorts of cities all over the world Beijing, Moscow, Rome, London, Paris, NYC, LA, among others. I don't look at Detroit through rose colored glasses - I just showed what I see. I've worked in downtown Detroit for 25 years and lived in the area since 1957. There is a lot of work to do here and a lot of attitudes that need to change but "dead, never to return" - I don't think so.
loonylisa 1 year ago 2
@loonylisa I would be delighted to be proved wrong.
mindspring57 1 year ago
The Detroit riot was caused by a lawless mob. Despite Governor Romney's pleas, President Johnson at first refused to send federal troops to suppress the riots, and then when they were sent, he refused to give them adequate authority to deal with the emergency. Johnson was stunned. How could his "little darlings" do that, after all he had done for them through the civil rights legislation? In any event, the 1967 riotes were the beginning of the end, and Detroit is dead, never to return.
mindspring57 1 year ago
@USMCFUCKYEA No more than any other city.
loonylisa 1 year ago
@loonylisa I guess you have never been to other cities. The destruction of Detroit is without parallel.
mindspring57 1 year ago
Good job! I like the music.....
bobg757 1 year ago
@bobg757 Thanks for commenting on the music!
loonylisa 1 year ago
Yeah how'd that "Stickin it to the MAN" work for ya?
richfisherman 1 year ago
The police brutality was real and wrong - no doubt about that at all - but let's not forgive the rioters. The riot was not a revolution with political ends. It was men and women acting like animals. Many of the shops and homes burned down by rioters belonged to African Americans and to middle and lower class people. The city has never recovered, and the rioters can never be forgiven.
FAHayek89 1 year ago 2
@FAHayek89 YES. The rioters dug the grave for a once vital city. And when Coleman Young was elected, he made it plain that he favored ethnic cleansing of whites from Detroit. Well, they wanted "Whitey" gone, and "Whitey" is gone for good!
boazrg 1 year ago
@FAHayek89 Except for the part about police brutality, I agree completely. Are you saying that if the riot had "political ends" (i.e. the overthrow of the government?) it would have been okay?
mindspring57 1 year ago
@mind Not at all. A political focus wouldn’t have justified the riots, but there is a fad of trying to justify them as somehow political actions against oppression, when there is no evidence to that effect.
I do think the record is clear that there were some real race based abuses by the Detroit police before the ’67 and the ’43 riots. That isn’t a justification, just a fact. But the rioters weren’t an organized group fighting oppression. Mob looting and theft isn’t fighting oppression.
FAHayek89 1 year ago
@FAHayek89 I think we are in substantial agreement. Thanks for the response.
mindspring57 1 year ago
I LOVE MY CITY
7mileplainview 1 year ago
@7mileplainview I was born in Detroit, and I lived there or in its suburbs from 1957 to 1971. I loved it once, but the city I loved is gone forever. It is a sorrowful thing.
mindspring57 1 year ago
@mindspring57 Honestly it is sad but it's only gonna get worse if people continue to turn their backs on the city. This is where I was born and raised and no matter how bad it gets I just can't see myself calling any other place home no matter how great it is.
7mileplainview 1 year ago
@7mileplainview Approximately 900,000 people still live in the city. Far fewer with a lot less have accomplished much more in other places. What is stopping the people of Detroit? For starters, they can clean up the debris in the neighborhoods. That requires effort and pride in one's surroundings, but little money.
mindspring57 1 year ago
@mindspring57 I think people are just too stuck in their ways. People always talk about change but nobody does anything.
7mileplainview 1 year ago
I love the sign on 4:30 . . . Come on Motown! . . Fill up and fix up those empty buildings. . . come together share that Motown love with eachother! :) You know you want to!
121Gigarocks 1 year ago
1:28 Thats my church. But yeah the city has never really recovered after that riot and a lot of people (more particularly whites) moved out to the suburbs. The big problem is that suburbs should be held up by the city but with not many actually in the city, the city suffers and therefore the burbs.
Good music by the way.
MrWiiPS360 1 year ago
that is a cool city it has turned out a lot of good talent and music
andy0705b 1 year ago 2
50 years of democrats, and entitlements liberal aftermath! Ron Paul 2012
joe035 2 years ago 4
The city might have died but the music lives forever,
xwsftassell 2 years ago
Absolutely!!!
loonylisa 2 years ago
@xwsftassell what? pff ahahahahhhah.
externalpower 1 year ago
Detroit the zombie moive. Lets bulldoze the dump.
SCHRUBBE1966 2 years ago 4
Detroit of the 2000's is the result of 40 years of social welfare, democratic mayors, LBJ's War on Poverty, more like War on the Black family and corruption at all levels.
larrysaul 2 years ago 4
Detroit looks like a post- apocalyptic landscape. I swear; I expect to see zombies shambling out of the wrecked homes.
deussolinvictus 2 years ago 4
Where you from cuz you have not right to be dissin us like this. We aint do nothing to you. Its hard out here. Post this TWICE!!!!!!!
MsKadrea 2 years ago
@MsKadrea God bless you my friend. All is good, no worries, things are going to be alright. People are watching Detriot, so make us proud. Rebuild, Rebuild, Rebuild...
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Where you from cuz you have not right to be dissin us like this. We aint do nothing to you. Its hard out here
MsKadrea 2 years ago
I was shocked when I went to Detroit ten years ago, yet obsessively facinated by its decay. I've educated myself to the causes. Last year, I returned and it was worse. The foreclosure wave is the worst in the country because the banks don't bother foreclosing, leaving even more abandoned buildings, plus the overall Michigan economy... Detroit has some unique circumstances that will not allow for its renewal. The city has to manage smart "shrinkage" by bulldozing lots of derelict areas.
beepeelow 2 years ago
If GM can get that Volt(230 mpg) project going, could be the start of something big. The only thing that would be in the way is that lithium comes from South America and they would eventually become like OPEC!
Navdan87 2 years ago
The problem is not the car, not the auto companies (if not for them there would be no Detroit), not black nor white people. It's how the city is run, or has been run, in the past. Period. This city has a racial divide but it's mosty just geography. We are all together in this, and we can help the city survive.
CoboHall14 2 years ago
I prayed that Detroit will be fix by the construction workers and us together and the city will never have the same problem like the 1967 riot. What did you think?
BurgnBurg 2 years ago
its the auto companies fault. why all the blame on the black people. more to the point its the unions fault.
externalpower 2 years ago
@externalpower - dont go around motown saying that out loud! (but i strongly agree with you).
jas22 2 years ago
Detroit was destroyed by my fellow soul brothers after th 1967 riots. By 1970 it was a combat zone. TRhey can't blame it on the honkies. There aren't any in Detroit. Jesse Jackson give up accusing the hoinkies of being racist. They also can't blame it on the auto industry. Detroit was a war zone in 1970 when the Auto industry was thriving.
jimbobm3121 2 years ago 4
isnt it obvious rascism kick started the riots in the first place. Why should minorities give a shit about Detroit if the whites who build it dont give a shit. think a about it if someone picked on you would you fight back after awhile? Both sides destroyed Detroit just like Gary Indiana..the whites the blacks and the industries
cigarillo22 2 years ago
yeah, Detroit and Gary Indiana are the result of white racism... cause we know how african-americans have made other cities meccas of education,arts, sciences and developed the rule of law.. like in...er...uh...West Compton, Camden, Newark, West Memphis,Calumet, East St. Louis, Flint, East Cleveland, Miami-Gardens, ... just the reverse Midas touch I guess... everything they touch turns to shit.
erman3155 2 years ago 4
i live in pennsylvania and i have a strange facination with Detroit ive seen alot of the videos on here and one thing that disgusts me more than the destruction of a once beautiful city and that is rasicsm all i hear is that its the blacks fault well u kno what black ppl r jsut like us whites they have thier trash too i mean look at my town its pretty run down and look around not one black person within city limits its all the whites ppl need to stop hating for no reason
Malibunightrider 2 years ago 4
i agree
cigarillo22 2 years ago
detroit represents the paradigm of our civilization. a city that had everything yet the product she made ( with a lot of guts,genious,hard work, determination) destroyed her. if people by necessity have to live and work together (rich,poor,black,white,inbetween) and not run away detroit would be the healthiest if not wealthiest city in north america. the problem is sadly the car.
toal5 2 years ago
how is the problem the car? the cars put Detroit on the map...the political corruption and racial unrest made Detroit what it is today.
willDANCEforPENNIES 2 years ago 2
Still boils down to the citizens being to busy sulking in their own self pity and not giving two shits about their own city. Most all Major cities have had rights and they have all bounced back and actually become bigger and better.
mustange550 3 years ago
Accountability of the population is a big problem in Detroit but still, the city is in a unique economic and social situation that prevents renewal.
joshuapeg 3 years ago
Detroit although in the north, became a southern city after the Great Migration. That's where the problem began.
heyzog 3 years ago
Where the clips filmed by you?
Ravensboy1995 3 years ago
Yes, I (Loonylisa), filmed everything. The old riot photos are provided courtesy of Wayne State University in Detroit. The other photos are mine. The music by my husband's band Chain Reaction.
loonylisa 3 years ago
It's too bad people can't just leave what happened in the past ,in the past, and focus on creating a better future for themselves and their children. Many of the posters on here seem to think of themselves as victims (white and blacks alike). As long as you think you're a victim you will be. Get over it and figure out what you can do to create a better life for yourself. Change begins with YOU.
surgtek33 3 years ago 4
Thanks for the thoughtful and POSITIVE comment! Lisa
loonylisa 3 years ago
@surgtek33 I love your comments...Believe in America! Look to the future and be positive. We are the ones that can really make a difference. When American people really apply themselves together as a family there is no stopping us. We can create a better country together. We all must believe that. I will do my best. Wont you???
Insert46 1 year ago 8
Hey, is it a surprise that when the descendants of Europeans move to a city, it resembles a city in Europe; and when the descendants of Africans move into a city, it starts to resemble to cesspools of Africa?
drexelur1 3 years ago
Please explain which cities in Europe. Not all of them are London or Paris. In fact, most cities in Europe are dumps, with small exceptions. Now when you say cesspools in Africa are you referring to their cities or actual urban sewage plants? There are some dumps in Africa, its a fact. Think of this, what happened to Africans when Europeans came to their continent? What happened to Native Americans when Europeans came here? Read a book and learn about the world. Detroit is unique.
glencannondr 3 years ago
should have read "fueled by a long standing legacy of police officers trying to maintain order in a drug ridden, lawless city"
inkey2 3 years ago
In 1967, Detroit was FAR from Drug Ridden. Have you ever seen pictures of 12th street before the riots? It was, however, a city that was just as segregated as those in the south, even if the segregation wasn't forced by city or state law.
BorgCoitus 3 years ago
delusional maybe...but bro if your from here you suffer the same thing as your neighbors...we might not all get along but hell who the fuck says we have...but we respect eachother...and we love were we come from, scars and all...its made us what we are...I thank God that I'm not some faggot suburban white kid that talks dumb as slang that we never heard on the corners, wearing there hats like Fred Durst...Cheers to Detroit!...my home!!!
bhoffman27 3 years ago
sorry, but wow - is that song shit!
IcannotBelieveYou 3 years ago
curtisthompson...
that is because a bunch of IDIOTS kept Mayor Young (an uneducated and corrupt man) in office for 30 years.
He had the resources to rebuild it.
Now after Reagonomincs, outsourcing jobs and privitization -- there is no work in Detroit; hence the highest unemployment rate in the US.
IcannotBelieveYou 3 years ago
since then the city hasn't changed
curtisthompson34 3 years ago
43 dead my ass....I saw that many as a National Guardman around 12th and Davidson...
hnymooner 3 years ago
i grew up on 8 mile and woodward and we where the only white family for 7 blocks and got treated like shit from so people but most where nice you really just have to grow up there most if not all your life to be welcome
killerjunk69 3 years ago
There was a raid on an illegal bar and the patrons ganged up on the police. I lived through it, and that is what actually happened. Good film footage, but your commentary is totally racist.
Blacks in Detroit hate whites like no place I've ever seen before or since. It's not even like that in the South.
I have lots of black friends in Texas, 0.0 in Detroit. They couldn't be bothered with whitey.
The previous poster was right. You're not very worldly or experienced. Move somewhere else.
katty2trips 3 years ago
I happen to be a "whitey" from Detroit.
Your reality differs so much from mine. I am from Detroit and grew up there. The blacks were mostly very good to me. Unlike if you go into the suburbs, whites were never very nice to the blacks. That was my reality!!!!!!!!!!!
tlcarroll999 3 years ago
I'm with you tlcarroll999! I've lived in the suburbs and now live inside the city. I would rather have my car break down in the city and then outside the city. Most of the residents will pull over and help you out, while the suburbanites drive past in fear. Detroiters are much more introverted than in other parts of the country, and that can come across as unfriendly. But they will give their right arm for a stranger.
TracyII77 3 years ago
The blacks are friendly now? I moved because they would knock whites to the ground and stomp us to death.
nihatrou 3 years ago
did u ever get stomped? or is that just something u saw in the news. WHITE FLIGHT. and whites keep blacks out of their cities with beatings, torture, graffiti, and of course negative black images. yes, some black people are not the best, some white people are less than human, and some of any other race will have problems, but a majority of people just want to live peacefully.
modestduck 3 years ago
modestduck I nver got stomped because I left with all the other whites. Please name one of those cities where "whites keep blacks out of their cities with beatings, torture, graffiti, and of course negative black images" because I want to move there!
nihatrou 3 years ago
I have always said this. When we moved out of the city, people acted as if you did not exist, in Detroit people would give you the shirt of their back, even though they didn't have a penny more than you. I won't say it was always the safest place, but not everyone was bad, and the good people were far better than the people in the suburbs. They would at least invite you over for dinner and lend a hand when needed. At least on the East side where I was most of us got along, no matter the color.
flyinbrian11 3 years ago
what city you talking about i know its not detroit? its so out of control there are no major department stores in detroit no i am not saying everyone from the city is a thug but lots of thugs come to the suburbs to the malls and act like animals and if some one says anything theres a march the next day saying livonia or dearborn or novi is racisit.. detroit needs to help its self befor it ask's for help!!!
plomoe666 2 years ago
I've been all over the world- from LA to Moscow to Beijing & many wonderful cities in between. I have the means to travel. Many poor (whatever race or ethnicity) in the Detroit area don't have the means. Racism on EVERYONE'S part, socio-economic forces, lack of education & opportunity, greed of those in power -all lead to decline. We know what type of infrastructe makes a great city; more importantly the spirit of the people needs to put it in place. Detroiters need to act on their GREAT SPIRIT!
loonylisa 3 years ago
have u been in romania?
Incognito5x3x2x1 3 years ago
But, Detroit isn't going to change because it was made to be this way and only ignorance can blind a person from seeing that. There are plenty of educated, hard-working, decent people living in detroit and that's what we don't see or hear about. Yes it all comes down to racism....
lilmzd313 3 years ago
Classic black behavior????......it doesn't shock me to hear comments like these it only sickens me. People shouldn't speak on matters they can't understand because they weren't born into it. Since you obviously didn't get this memo from your mothers u can recieve it from me...It's ignorant to stereo type.....don't judge all for the actions of few.
lilmzd313 3 years ago
Ohoho what the brothas today whoulda done to the white man then!!
kobraf150 3 years ago
The opening words of this video are typical white guilt. If you're white, don't buy into this false thinking. The blacks destroyed the city and have done nothing with it since. And guilty whites will blame racism and economic factors. However, blacks run have run the city for over 30 years and it doesn't take a lot of money to pick up trash and keep things cleans. Detroit neighborhoods are like trash dumps. They don't give a shit. They just scream "racism." Don't buy it white people.
spiritofdixie 3 years ago
THE SPIRIT WILL BE...
wefunkdotcom 4 years ago
How can a city that has given so much to the US & the world (Cars , Techno , Motown , Detroit sport teams & help for US in WW2) have so little respect and hardly a single 'Thank you Detroit'. It is digusting that the US government wastes so much on bombs to destroy civilians in the Middle East not try to do something to help Detroit to "rise up from the ashes". This is to Lisa, has Eric got "A Tale of Two Cities" uploaded onto their MySpace music profile ?
Wilf1992 4 years ago 2
"Tale of Two Cities" is not on their Myspace page. "Where's the Beauty", "Shallow Valor" and "Honey Child" are. Their Myspace page is chainreactiondetroit. I did a vid here on YouTube to "Honey Child". It's not that great a vid, but at least you can here the song. All the above songs are written by Eric. Oh, and BTW thanks for the kind words about Detroit.
loonylisa 4 years ago
Ha yea, ya think New Orleans is gettin a taste? Guess they know how we feel now? Id be willing to say New Orleans in its current state is still better than Detroit ever will be in the future.....Your right, our grandmoms and granddads saved the worlds ass from the Nazis.....who else built your tanks and planes and guns and bullets? Well lets hope we don't get into another big war. Detroit isn't here anymore and you may have to ask the Chineese for help, considering they have all our jobs now.
Maxharddrive64 3 years ago
Get rid of the whites in southeastern Michigan and you will have... get rid of the blacks in Southeastern Michigan and you will have... fill in the blanks.
mfp508 4 years ago 2
One more thing: white flight did speed up after 1967 because 1. it gave them a reason (though a hypocritical one) to leave the city; 2. Whites did not want to take responsibility for the racial tension that they themselves had created. Books have been written on the subject of Detroit's segregation and racial oppression of Blacks, and the Detroit News ran some stories on it. The second reason is also why Detroit today is the most segregated metro area in the country.
marinabreeze 4 years ago
As a Detroiter who moved back after living out-of-state, I can say that Metro Detroit is the poster child for modern-day racism.
Detroit's decline is largely due to racial strife. White flight began BEFORE the 1967 riots, beginning in the 1950s, although it did increase after 1967. Race riots occurred in Detroit before 1967 and were initiated by Whites, such as the race riot of 1943. But Blacks get blamed for being "unruly savages." That conclusion does not match up with the historical record.
marinabreeze 4 years ago 2
Yes, this is all correct. I couldn't agree more, sad though the facts remain.
expat1973 4 years ago
the riots of 67 werent even race riots. white people were doing the shit too. it was more of an economy thing
deadfresh10 4 years ago
TBone, silly I'm not on picket line. BTW-nice life you got there working 70-80 hrs/wk. Its b/c of oppressive working conditions that unions were created.The only reason america has(d) a middle class is b/c of the unions. And yeah working all those hours sure protects you--it must feel good to make someone else rich. Have a nice life shineboy. Edwards 08!
jmcguire30 4 years ago
I just realized that union creation reasons were never taught in schools, not even high schools. Who writes history? Union organizers sacrificed to make a "middle class". America now has a two class society. Many so-called middle class have more debt than they could pay-off if called upon!!!
michaelsrulee 4 years ago
Tommypooh, so sorry to have offended your GOP sensibilities-NOT! Anyway, Germany has the largest export sector--yes flag waving moron-bigger then the USA.The usa is almost 4 times as large. The point is none of Germanys cities since WWII look as bad as Detroit (and many other Midwest/Northeastern Cities).
jmcguire30 4 years ago
Furthermore, if you understood globalization you would know the Big 3 have been sending more and more jobs to china/Mexico and other slave wages states. Look I grew up in NYC,never been to Detroit but this shit happened in a lot of cities.Its pathetic that your pampered upbringing left you ignorant of Michigan history. Fuck you Scab.
jmcguire30 4 years ago
What has happened to Detroit?
I am from england and find the whole history of the city from the fifties to today chilling.
How does the self professed greatest country in the world enable such tragedy to happen on its own doorstep?
This just would not be allowed to happen in europe.
An amazing case study in the frailty of humanity, a modern acropolis, like an ancient civilisation facing extinction in out times.
richythebadass 4 years ago
Detroit evidently was deemed expenable, made all the more easy by its provincial, poorly educated population; fattened and unambitious due in large part to years of Union-led excess.
Though I would suggest to you that Liverpool is in a similar state, with all its gang problems and anarchy....
expat1973 4 years ago
Expat1973--" I grew up in the rich white suburbs," So a rich douchebag who knows nothing about working for a living blames Detroits downfall on the Unions.Really? Then why is Japan/Germany workforce more unionized then ours? Their industry is doing fine.
jmcguire30 4 years ago 3
Sir, the short answer is free trade (NAFTA, WTO, etc.), the GOP war on the middle/working/lower classes, deindustrialization, No investment in urban areas (redlining),and movement of the US pop. to the sunbelt. I agree w/ you it wouldn't happen in europe. I too am (sadly)fascinated by the decline of the rust belt. America needs more socialism!
jmcguire30 4 years ago
funny u dudn't say the democrat driven nafta? hmmm. by the way, socialism was disproven about twenty years ago, chief.
percysnooky 4 years ago
Too bad Clinton and a Dem Congress put in NAFTA in 1994.
KaesoBrutus 3 years ago 2
andresonricky, the city was majority white until immediately after the 1967 riots. many of it's Middle Class citizens left he city before 1970.
vfreeck 4 years ago
Now the REAL TRUTH IS THE VERY SAME MOTHER FUCKERS WHO CONTROL THE ACLU AND THE KKK PLANNED AND FULLY ORCHESTRATED THE ENTIRE EVENT! FOR THE CAUSE! I DONT LIE! I PROMISE!
JoanneChristie 4 years ago
Detroit will never recover from that...because those who rioted still live there and never gave a fuck anyway obviously...those who didn't got the fuck out because it was to expensive and dangerous to stay
bhoffman27 4 years ago
you are obviously retarded
Jeffp2k5 4 years ago
YEA JEFFREY AND YOUR A FUCKING MORON!
JoanneChristie 4 years ago
Most of the people (of all races) who came to Detroit from other locales, came here to work in the auto industry. From the 1920s and onward, working in the auto indusdry in Detroit offered one a very good living. Why "white flight" occured from the 1950s and onward I certainly don't have all the answers to.
loonylisa 4 years ago
Many factors are involved in "white flight". Ignorance and fear, of course, being paramount.
loonylisa 4 years ago
blacks rioting fucking up a good portion of main area detroit doesn't really reflect your theory of ignorance and fear of white flight...it translates to less hassle in the subs...i'm a white dude still infatuated with detroit, living in Southwest Detroit...the memories are beautiful...but the riots fucked it up forever...
bhoffman27 4 years ago
Well, thats oppression for you.
motina10 3 years ago 2
Detroit lost 100k jobs in 20 years starting in the 40s with a population decrease on 10k a year. The automakers couldn't use the same buildings, so they built new ones for increase productivity out in the suburbs. It was mainly white because they could obtain loans unlike the black population.
motina10 3 years ago 2
Why is Expat1973 so worried about Detroit and S.E. Michigan if he doesn't live here now? We are used too and actually sick of other cities and states bitchin' about us in the media. Are you other persons that fuckin' bored about your own cities and states to rip on Detroit and Michigan in general, or is it Envy??
jaysen71 4 years ago
God have mercy on the next city that declines and tries to re-build itself. It's like people love too bitch' about shit they don't know about except listening too all the negatives.
jaysen71 4 years ago
Good luck to you sir. You take pride in very strange things!
expat1973 4 years ago
You shouldn't coddle and enable racist hillbillies, and characterize them using a pc-blase euphemism; "different segment of the population". You sir, are extremely disingenuous, and conflating "hypocrisy" and straight-out racism is an absolute distortion.
expat1973 4 years ago
and freeplay,
the fact that what bothered you, and what you chose to make a litte comment about, was someone "attacking your state". So you go out of your way to dig at this, but not at the guys claiming "white power" and using the "n" word farther down. Your apathy in this regard perfectly illustrates my earlier comment, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
expat1973 4 years ago
Sir,
Was it bad to bash Mississipi during the Civil Rights Era for the lack of character in terms of race relations?
Those who did "bash" were called "hypocrits" too I bet. My point is thatthe average citizen of SE Michigan tolerates a greater level of racism than in any of the major cities of this country. You can see it reflected in all of these "Detroit related" YouTube samplings.
expat1973 4 years ago
Sir, you just provided me a textbook example of the frightened, provincial racism that I was seeking to describe.
And that's not a good thing. Just to give you an example, in most modern society (outside of SE Michigan) it's not considered civilized to use the "N" word to describe black people. Again, it's pretty much Textbook Hillbilly, and is very typical for the area.
expat1973 4 years ago
Why is SE Michigan the most racist backwards segregated area in the country? I grew up in the rich white suburbs north of Detroit, and left as soon as I was 18. I am white, and am really embarassed by how hillbilly the place really is. "You reap what you sow", they say, so I'm glad those hillbillies are now out of work. Thanks HillJacks, thanks UAW! Have fun in the breadlines in Waterford et al!
expat1973 4 years ago 2
This Monday 23rd July 2007 will mark the 40th anniversiry(sp?) of the infamous "White Riot of '67". I believe Detroit can one day recover from this and like their motto says "We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes". Indeed it one day will rise from the ashes. God bless Detroit.
Wilf1992 4 years ago
mayb? Yeah, Tennessee is where it's at.
Go down by the River by the RenCen.....not all of Detroit is a cesspool. Every city over 200K has bad parts. Do you know that Detroit is still the 11th most populous city in the country?
rosevea1 4 years ago
Yeah I think EVERYONE in the area over 30 or so still knows the Mr. Belvedere phone number! He's still alive last I heard. Anyway, Detroit will come back, but it's going to take cooperation with the suburbs, not the city government alone.
testpress 4 years ago
Beautiful and affluent Oakland County is now the real Detroit. The city will never ever come back ~ crime is waaay too high. It's very sad to compare pictures of White Detroit in the 1950's and the Black Detroit of Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick. Most educated younger people (myself) included have left Michigan. We would have stayed if Detroit hadn't died :( Nashville is nice come visit.
mayb447 4 years ago
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DETROITCITY18144 4 years ago
Your husbands band Chain Reaction is good, Does Chain Reaction have a MySpace account ? Also good pictures used; captured the good & bad.
Wilf1992 4 years ago
Thanks for the comment. The band's Myspace user name is chainreactiondetroit.
loonylisa 4 years ago
just checked them out on that MySpace link you gave me, They are really good. I espically like the song in this video and the song Where's The Beauty on their 'space. Again your husbands band is good, kudos to him.
Wilf1992 4 years ago
...as much as people around the U.S. will dog Detroit...cities like Detroitr, Cleveland and Pittsburgh built this country...
HunnahFrancis 5 years ago
Thanks for remembering the hardworking folk.
loonylisa 5 years ago
Unfortunatley lassiez-faire (ideal, not actual, although it wouldn't matter) capitalism doesn't give a shit.
motina10 3 years ago
Very nicely done...I included one of my Detroit observations.
rondiscs 5 years ago
PS... seeing your name brings back a memory of Hagopian Carpet Cleaners, and a bunch of other memories, Mr Belvedere TY87100 YIKES i remember THAT phone #
proudyke 5 years ago
I don't think Mr. Belvedere is around any more, but isn't it amazing that we still have that darned phone number and jingle embedded in our brains!
loonylisa 5 years ago
Proves the power of some commercials. Now I'm hearing Roy O'Brien....9 mile and mack in my head...oh no!
proudyke 5 years ago
Faaaygo remembers...
loonylisa 5 years ago
and ride & play for hours on our own island. We'd also climb the Big stove (last I heard it was near the fairgrounds) that was located on a grassy patch @ Jefferson & the road to the Belle Isle bridge. I also remember the stinky tire factory there Uniroyal/Goodyear. Thanks for the memories Lisa
proudyke 5 years ago
I lived in Detroit for 33 years, lived under curfew in the riot. We lived at Van Dyke & Jefferson having moved from Van Dyke & Kercheval 2 days before it started. Was scary having armed troops walking up/down the sidewalk. More pleasant memories are of days spent on Belle Isle (we lived at Field &Jefferson just off E. Grand Blvd.)we'd ride our bikes through the E. Grand Blvd tunnel under Jefferson( I think that's been closed/filled in for yrs now)...
proudyke 5 years ago
I know very little about your city. We hear a lot about other American cities. I drove through it once on a bus but I think it was just the outer suburbs. Does your husband write about Detroit. I would love to hear more of his music.
dukesplain 5 years ago
That was so interesting. Fantastic music. Your husband's band is great. I love this kind of music. I love the interchange between shots of what used to be and the huge city that has been built on the remenants of what looked like a surban ghosttown. I loved the shot of the abandoned house. There is a sense of sadness to it. You get the feeling that it was a once loved family home, and then all that made it a home was gone. And on its grave was built a skyscraper.
dukesplain 5 years ago
Thanks for watching and for the comments. Detroit has a lot of complex issues but I believe there can be a bright future for the city.
loonylisa 5 years ago
I believe so too Lisa... if Detroit can change it can offer a model for the rest of the world in dealing with some of the toughest issues. Because the rest of the world is not a utopia.
ladylioness 3 years ago
Coolsome vid Lisa!
daligoddess2006 5 years ago