Detroit: Let's Blame the Victims

The story of Detroit has been a sad one.  Ever since the race riots of 1967, few people with money have chosen to live there.  Nor would they start, or maintain businesses within the city.  And, without money, it's hard to have a functioning city.

I don't know how Detroit can recover... but some folks prefer to blame the victims.

The trouble is... they don't even know who the victims are.

DETROIT

By Frosty Wooldridge

(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)

I can't verify authorship of this piece.  But Mr. Woolridge's has posted his resume on-line.  I'll let my audience determine his qualifications as a journalist or environmentalist.

For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit, Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.

Of course.  Having multiple welfare babies is something that only minorities do.  Riiight.

A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great Society' flourish in Detroit. If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.

Yes... the welfare folks are living the high life in Detroit.  Much better than folks who have jobs.  Why... with how well they're doing, they've moved OUT of the city that's unable to provide their basic needs.  Right?

Oh.

Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees... He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance.

So, Chicago's more corrupt, and even more impoverished and unlivable, right?

It's not?  Oh.

As a black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge."

Sheesh.  I wonder how he feels about Mark Zuckerberg.

You can figure out the rest... Detroit became a majority black city, with 67 percent African-Americans.As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.

... I suppose the African-Americans didn't use his moving van.  Because they moved away from the crime, inadequate schools, and poor infrastructure too.  If they were able.

Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000.

Actually, that's 300,000 in Detroit and it's suburbs.  And most of the suburbs do not share the blight of the city itself.

Like I said, if you have money, and you value city services... you're not moving into Detroit.

Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit.

According to my sources, that's 47,167 of those 400,000.  Comprising 4.96% of Detroit's population.

Immigrants are usually drawn by economic opportunity.  Which ain't in Detroit.

As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.

A population trend that's present... nowhere.

As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace.  

We've already established that our world-acclaimed journalist didn't check the hispanic population of Detroit. Or, apparently, the definition of "torrid".

Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America.Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a ne w American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan, paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money.

According to my Google Maps search, there are 7 mosques in Detroit.  Chruches far outnumber them.

High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America .. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.

An 81.5% African-American population, and few speak English... Riiight.

Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine's October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise agai n," I choked on the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night." Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.
But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit."By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high sch ools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.
At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped bu ild the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century.If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about America's future?"

I don't think you'll see much disagreement with the fact that Detroit is an impoverished city.

As you rea d in my book review of Chris Steiner's book,"$20 Per Gallon," the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit, thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America. If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.

He hasn't proven this before.  And he hasn't proven it now.

As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder.

Not unless they can rewrite the constitution... and I don't see that happening.

We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.

I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON, AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA. IF YOU THINK MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FOREIGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE.
IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT?

I'll let that incoherent racial ranting stand for itself.