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Is Detroit The America Of Tomorrow?

7 points by l33tbro 14y ago

suyash 14y ago
It was the America of yesterday, so chances are it will be the America of tomorrow!
phalanx101 14y ago
What I think the author misses here is why the Emergency Manager law is necessary. The political situation is a disaster. The elected officials of Detroit are corrupt and unwilling to fix the issues at hand. It seems like everyone in the city has not come to terms that they aren't what they used to be and instead is acting on a sense of entitlement that is causing them to make as many petty power grabs as possible. Some prime examples are below. Detroit City Council Behavior: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1207964046 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1207964046 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1207964046 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1207964046 General Irresponsibility and Stupidity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXoidHdzNs8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXoidHdzNs8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zti_508FRrE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zti_508FRrE Honestly it's unbelievable in Detroit. It's like a mixture of Judge Dredd and Idiocracy. I'm all for the emergency manager law. If Detroit goes bankrupt, guess who pays for it? Either the rest of Michigan or the Federal government.
- bilbo0s 14y ago
  Do you live in Detroit? Serious question. I was just wondering.
  - phalanx101 14y ago
    No but I'm a Michigander!
pyre 14y ago
| predominately all-white suburban enclaves usually | feared as bastions of racists and bigots jacked up | on Starbucks and 5-Hour Energy shots. What? Not the suburbs that I knew, but maybe I just happened to avoid all of the racists and bigots? No mention of how Dearborn (a Detroit suburb) is almost half Arabic[1]? [1]: According to Wikipedia the 2010 census has Dearborn at 40% Arabic. The largest portion of Arab American in the US.
- bilbo0s 14y ago
  You can see the bad in anyone... if that's what you choose to see. I have never been to Detroit or any of it's suburbs, but I don't necessarily believe that all of the white suburbanites are racist and 'bad'. Any more than I believe that the blacks in Detroit are 'bad'. I really get the sense that this guy is just ranting. Which is not terribly helpful.
charlieflowers 14y ago
The article lost me at the weird line about white neighborhoods full of racists jacked up on 5 hour energy drinks. Huh? There are so many weird things about that sentence it's hard to enumerate them all. For example, why zero in on the white racists on 5 hour energy to the neglect of the white racists jacked up on Mountain Dew? Are the "5 hour energy racists" really that much worse than the Mountain Dew-ers (or god forbid, those crazy Starbuckers)?

7 points by l33tbro 14y ago

It was the America of yesterday, so chances are it will be the America of tomorrow!

What I think the author misses here is why the Emergency Manager law is necessary. The political situation is a disaster. The elected officials of Detroit are corrupt and unwilling to fix the issues at hand. It seems like everyone in the city has not come to terms that they aren't what they used to be and instead is acting on a sense of entitlement that is causing them to make as many petty power grabs as possible. Some prime examples are below. Detroit City Council Behavior: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1207964046 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1207964046 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1207964046 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1207964046 General Irresponsibility and Stupidity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXoidHdzNs8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXoidHdzNs8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zti_508FRrE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zti_508FRrE Honestly it's unbelievable in Detroit. It's like a mixture of Judge Dredd and Idiocracy. I'm all for the emergency manager law. If Detroit goes bankrupt, guess who pays for it? Either the rest of Michigan or the Federal government.

bilbo0s 14y ago
Do you live in Detroit? Serious question. I was just wondering.
- phalanx101 14y ago
  No but I'm a Michigander!

pyre 14y ago

| predominately all-white suburban enclaves usually | feared as bastions of racists and bigots jacked up | on Starbucks and 5-Hour Energy shots. What? Not the suburbs that I knew, but maybe I just happened to avoid all of the racists and bigots? No mention of how Dearborn (a Detroit suburb) is almost half Arabic[1]? [1]: According to Wikipedia the 2010 census has Dearborn at 40% Arabic. The largest portion of Arab American in the US.

bilbo0s 14y ago
You can see the bad in anyone... if that's what you choose to see. I have never been to Detroit or any of it's suburbs, but I don't necessarily believe that all of the white suburbanites are racist and 'bad'. Any more than I believe that the blacks in Detroit are 'bad'. I really get the sense that this guy is just ranting. Which is not terribly helpful.

charlieflowers 14y ago

The article lost me at the weird line about white neighborhoods full of racists jacked up on 5 hour energy drinks. Huh? There are so many weird things about that sentence it's hard to enumerate them all. For example, why zero in on the white racists on 5 hour energy to the neglect of the white racists jacked up on Mountain Dew? Are the "5 hour energy racists" really that much worse than the Mountain Dew-ers (or god forbid, those crazy Starbuckers)?