Michigan Statewide Singalong..there was no "Detroit" only places in it.

[michimoby]

Is this all such a surprise? Have you ever seen one state advertising to another to come look at our minority population? Unless that guy is blowing on a trumpet or playing a piano in a supper club, that is.

This is pretty radical by the typical parameters of state advertising. Feel lucky you didn't just get cherries, apple blossoms and freakin' fly fishing.

...or maybe they published the call for volunteers on Facebook and other social media sites, of which there's simply a higher volume of white users.

I'm not really sure what we're trying to extract from this discussion. Is there really a conspiracy theory that the minority population was intentionally swept under the rug for this one? The diverse set of kids singing at the Fox Theater didn't seem to notice nor care if that was the case.

[poobert]

The tension between two trends has never been more amusing.

The suburban and outstate forces, as well as our most timid marketing departments, flee from the name of Detroit, changing park names, city names and trying to rebrand the area as Southeastern Michigan [[don't exactly roll off the tongue, do it?). The Sunday paper drops "Detroit" from the masthead. Suburban communities engage in a fiction that they don't need a central city. It's comical.

Meanwhile, the international brand of Detroit is becoming more famous, more respected and more iconic.

Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...

When I was a pup, my Boy Scout council used to be the Detroit Area Council [[pretty logical, right?) - then when they merged with the Oakland County council, as part of the appeasement, they became the "Great Lakes Council." Of course, never mind that none of the three Metro Detroit Counties' landmasses even border a Great Lake, but anything to disassociate from that roach-infested hellhole!

[Gistok]

...or maybe they published the call for volunteers on Facebook and other social media sites, of which there's simply a higher volume of white users.

I'm not really sure what we're trying to extract from this discussion. Is there really a conspiracy theory that the minority population was intentionally swept under the rug for this one? The diverse set of kids singing at the Fox Theater didn't seem to notice nor care if that was the case.

Welcome to the forum michimoby... some folks just like to get up on their soap boxes and preach to the choir.... making a meal out of a morsel....

[dtowncitylover]

It appears to have been taken off YouTube for copyright claim.

[DetroitPlanner]

Whoops copywright issue? You think they would have figured that out prior to putting it out there.