Why Detroit Still Matters

[Valin]

Dewey From Detroit:

2/24/13

 

Good news Detroit: We’re #1 again! In a head-to-head contest with real contenders like Chicago, New York, Cleveland (At Least We’re Not Detroit!) and Atlanta, Detroit once again grabbed victory through the misery of defeat. Numero uno on . Heady stuff for a city on the verge of insolvency and far beyond societal breakdown.

 

 

Much should be made of the fact that Detroit, along with the other top-10 miserable winners, is reaping the fruits of decades of liberal husbandry. Unfortunately all that carefully cultivated fruit has been left to ferment on the ground.

 

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Charlie is a street wise and at times entertaining local news reporter with impeccable journalistic creds. Still, he’s not ready for prime time, unless you’re looking for another talking head capable of spinning an artful dodge of the inconvenient truths that plague liberal politics.

 

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Charlie is a street wise and at times entertaining local news reporter with impeccable journalistic creds. Still, he’s not ready for prime time, unless you’re looking for another talking head capable of spinning an artful dodge of the inconvenient truths that plague liberal politics.

 

[Valin]

[Valin]

Detroit: An American Autopsy

Charles Hurt

10 Mar 2013

 

WASHINGTON -- "Go ahead and laugh at Detroit," Charlie LeDuff sneers defiantly as the once-great metropolis teeters on the brink of collapse. "Because you are laughing at yourself."

 

So begins LeDuff's haunting, angry and deeply personal account of what is left of his hometown. The city was once heralded as "Paris of the Midwest" for its cosmopolitan luxuries, broad boulevards and sweeping views of the Detroit River. Yet it was quintessentially American because of its unstinting work ethic and tireless inventiveness.

 

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LeDuff's memoir is devoid of any petty, partisan slant. It is not a book about competing political philosophies. He is too good for that. And it would bore him, probably, anyway. Instead, this book is the story of a once-great city where people have quit working or cannot find jobs and the welfare bureaucracy has collapsed under the crushing weight of hopeless poverty and corruption. Not only is work scarce, it is belittled and derided.

 

LeDuff does not shy away from acrid race relations that dominate most treatments of Detroit. He gives the plight of blacks its fair due. But this story is about so much more than race......(Snip)

 

 

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This book has already gotten 100 reviews, and only 1 one star review....

 

 

Ms Clalina Johnson "MS. LINA" (GREEN COVE SPRINGS, FL)

(REAL NAME)

This review is from: Detroit: An American Autopsy (Kindle Edition)

I was disappointed I had to give this book a review. Ron and raised in Detroit. Vey disappointed how things are going or the city. Straight BS book.

 

 

she r gots hol loots of more edumakashuns