07-18-2013, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by whell
Actually,Zeke, my fact-challenged friend, since you're stuck on the 80’s, your sense of history on this topic is starts about 40 years too late. The beginning of the challenges for Detroit, and other urban centers, can be traced as far back as the 1940’s, when St. Franklin was Prez. Read and learn:
http://detroit1701.org/Black-WhiteWall.htm
Racial tensions / divides in Detroit still run deep. But programs like this, and the GI bill, well intentioned as they were, began the exodous from the city to the suburbs. The empty shell that is Detroit today began back then. |
Oh, please. You guy's memories always seem to stop at Roosevelt 2. Kinda disengenuous of you to bitch about someone else's recollections, doncha think? 
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