How can you be proud of this BAC? The use of violence did one thing only in Detroit. It destroyed the ethnic diversity of the City. in 1967 the city was approximately 60% White and 40% Black. Now it is almost 85% Black and approximately 9%-10% White..
The Riots only served to segregate the black community from all other Ethnic Groups. Is this what was desired? Was the Objective to take over the entire city? To make it Black only? If so the Riots did only one thing, set back race relations 20 years.
Now we have an interesting side note...Whites are moving back into Detroit in the Corktown neighborhood. And they are being harassed and taunted by others. The African Americans are trying to drive out the White "Hipsters" as they are known. Is this not the very racism that prompted the 1967 riots in the first place? Why is the African American community displaying the Hatred they fought against 46 years ago? The Riots accomplished one thing, the carved a huge scar across the racial fabric of the city, Damaging race relations beyond repair it seems.
Read the Article....
http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/arti...trification_in_southwest_detroit#.Uf4x9azzOV4
Detroit News columnist Neal Rubin writes about a battle between locals and hipster/gentrification folks in Southwest Detroit.
He writes:
Whoever painted anti-hipster graffiti on at least four buildings in the area over the weekend didn’t provide a lot of detail. But in what appears to be a locals-vs.-hipsters turf war, this could be just the tip of the spray can.
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Respect Our Roots,” read one advisory, in orange, on the side of a defunct party store at Bagley and 18th Street. “Stop Gentrification in Detroit,” said another, in black. “
This Is Southwest Go Home,” declared a third, in red. There was a fairly standard Spanish vulgarity — a bit of local color in a heavily Latino district — and then there was “
HIPSTER,” in red, circled, with a slash through it.
Here you have groups of young whites coming in and fixing up abandoned shops and houses, spending money and trying to make the community better and the Blacks and Hispanics tell them to "GO HOME" and tell them they are not welcome? Seems that when neighborhoods improve the Property Taxes go up.. Gentrification has that effect. So the people that have lived there since the 1970's would rather see low property taxes and have things continue on as they have? That is insanity.
BAC... If the people in Corktown act like this whats going to happen when gentrification comes to other areas of the City? Will the Riots break out again? Will racial tensions once again spill over and consume the new businesses and homes in flames? the scars from 1967 still show on the landscape and in the actions of the people. These young hipsters are just trying to make a life for themselves and because they are white or they are Gay/Lesbian and dress different they are being harassed?
Irony is this.... The Blacks that experienced the Racism and profiling and Corruption of the Police in 1967 are now themselves the Police of 1967. And they are paying it back on a few Whites/Gays and Lesbians who dare move in to Southwest/Corktown.
The servant has become the master and it is just as ugly as it was before.. They are unwilling to compromise.
