Quote Originally Posted by Shollin View Post
I find it ironic mentioning making excuses when that is all Detroit has done for 40+ years. It's racism because any white person who choses to live in the suburbs instead of Detroit is racist. It's the freeways fault for allowing people to leave the city. We should've put measures in place to force people to stay in Detroit. Then it's mortgage interest deductions for Detroit's decline or the government doesn't give Detroit enough subsidies. Detroiters continue to blame the suburbs and white folks and then wonder why they won't come back. It's not like they left all at once. Detroit had over 1 million people as late as 1990.
so white people didn't abandon the city in droves? has any other city you've listed ever dealt with the kind of disinvestment experienced by Detroit by its former white inhabitants? it's what happened, not an excuse. sorry if you aren't comfortable with that fact or if stating it keeps you and other white people away.