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The context of this discussion is the "rebirth" of Detroit, not race riots or the 1950s. If Detroit's rebirth is a high-skill, high-tech industry, the exclusion
by personZ 12y ago
The context of this discussion is the "rebirth" of Detroit, not race riots or the 1950s. If Detroit's rebirth is a high-skill, high-tech industry, the exclusion of many Detroit residents has everything to do with skills and education, and absolutely nothing to do with race.
- dahart 12y agoQuoting Wikipedia: "Detroit remains one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States." This is about today, not about the 1950s. The rebirth of Detroit depends in part on the racial conditions that led to today, and the racial conditions we have today. "De facto educational segregation in Detroit (and by extension elsewhere) was legally permitted by the U.S. Supreme Court in Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974).[42]" How do you expect skills and education to have nothing to do with race when Detroit's education system is bounded and defined by race?
- personZ 12y agoThis is an absurd extrapolation. By this definition we can say that literally everything is "a lot to do with race". Is that useful?
- AnimalMuppet 12y agoIf true, then yes, it's useful to note, and to say.