Originally Posted by
erikd
If you want to know why LBP is viewed unfavorably by many Detroiters, take a look at this interview from 2014. This is just a small sample of the anti-Detroit sentiment that LBP has been promoting since the 1970s.
In 2014, the New Yorker came to metro Detroit to interview L Brooks Patterson for an article.
This is a sample of his direct quotes for a national article about our region:
“Anytime I talk about Detroit, it will not be positive. Therefore, I’m called a Detroit basher. The truth hurts, you know? Tough shit.”
“I used to say to my kids, ‘First of all, there’s no reason for you to go to Detroit. We’ve got restaurants out here.’ They don’t even have movie theatres in Detroit—not one.” He went on, “I can’t imagine finding something in Detroit that we don’t have in spades here. Except for live sports. We don’t have baseball, football. For that, fine—get in and get out. But park right next to the venue—spend the extra twenty or thirty bucks. And, before you go to Detroit, you get your gas out here. You do not, do not, __under any circumstances, stop in Detroit at a gas station! That’s just a call for a carjacking.”
“I made a prediction a long time ago, and it’s come to pass. I said, ‘What we’re gonna do is turn Detroit into an Indian reservation, where we herd all the Indians into the city, build a fence around it, and then throw in the blankets and corn.’ ”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/27/drop-dead-detroit