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The story of Detroit is far more complicated than what you describe, especially when you choose to gloss over decades of racist violence and humiliation that pr
by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The story of Detroit is far more complicated than what you describe, especially when you choose to gloss over decades of racist violence and humiliation that preceded its collapse.
And its economic collapse was also the product of broader right-wing attack on the political/economic power of working class people in the US. Under the guise of “free trade,” they were forced to compete with labor of poorer countries, while the wealthy and their administrators were largely exempt from the same pressures.