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that's a pretty racist statement backed up by no facts or causality. Detroit used to be rich even \w all these "African" as you call them.
by camus 13y ago
that's a pretty racist statement backed up by no facts or causality. Detroit used to be rich even \w all these "African" as you call them.
- Kudzu_Bob 13y agoYour first statement is an attempt to demonstrate moral superiority and therefore merits no response. Your second statement is misleading, in that it sweeps under the rug how Detroit's descent into poverty mirrored its changing demographics. You could, of course, attempt to disprove Daniel_Newby's contention that demographics is at the bottom of this. All that you need to do is provide a single counterexample by pointing out an instance--just one will suffice for our purposes--of a city that became richer or that economically speaking at least held its own even as the percentage of blacks comprising its population grew. This seems like a simple enough task.
- selimthegrim 13y agoI believe Metro Atlanta would like a word with you.
- Kudzu_Bob 13y agoI think that that city is too busy trying to keep the white suburbs from seceding, a move that would deprive Atlanta of its tax base, to have time to talk to the likes of me.
- alvilla 13y agoI remember reading several articles about massive "white plight" in Detroit. Especially in the middle class. 1950 - 16% black 2000 - 81% black http://historydetroit.com/statistics/ http://historydetroit.com/statistics/
- Kudzu_Bob 13y agoI believe that you mean "white flight," not "white plight," but a good catch on your part nonetheless.
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoYou really believe that? Congratulations, you have identified the greatest market development opportunity ever. Simply recruit a million Africans who are being kept down by racists like me, teach them to be engineers, and retire a billionaire on the recruiting commissions. Detroit used to be prosperous because blue collar Caucasians and Africans are damn valuable in a world without robots. Now they are cognitively obsolete. P.S. Bill Gates decided that the problem was that not everybody in our world of shameful inequalities could get a world-class university prep education. He paid out of his own pocket to make the pilot project happen. The result was ... almost no improvement.