Originally Posted by
SWMAP
Here again I disagree- that "everyone is aware of the City's ills."
If you have never been anywhere else to speak of, if you don't read too much, if your media consumption is pretty much B-movies and music videos, if you have been raised in typical neighborhoods on the east and west side, if your classroom was the sort the Detroitteacher so eloquently descibes as devoid of books, magazines, literature and opportunity - then you probably can't see the city's ills. Like the people in Lake Woebegone, you have an illusory sense if superiority - or at least of "averageness." That's why so many people in this City now think that double and even triple murders are routine, that Belle Isle is a "jewel," that neighborhoods are supposed to be blighted and strewn, that everyone's neighborhood is dominated by party stores and 24 hour gas stations.