Do Detroiters hate/resent themselves?
If you want, replace Detroiters with black americans in general, and I say the answer is yes either way.
The violence and lack of care we show each other's lives or well being is obvious. Almost 400 murders here. Almost 500 in Chicago. Shooting into a crowded subway train or bus in Philadelphia over a damn argument.
It's also the little things like the lack of respect. I personally sat in a car with a guy throwing his snotty napkins out the window all along Detroit, including my father's house, but the fucking minute we hit 8 Mile he stops. And this asshole LIVED in the city. You will have kids that throw trash on my lawn, their lawn, but won't even think about doing it to a white suburban home.
We refuse to support business in the city. And on the flipside alot of the business here have the fuck you attitude where they don't have to win your patronage anyway.
What kind of person walks through a door being held open, while screaming at their kids, and doesn't say thank you or anything else and doesn't even look at you or acknowledge that you're there?
And black women? It's not enough hours in the day to unravel that one.
It's obviously not all or even most. And not all of that conditioning was our doing. But we have got to find to a way to unfuck ourselves.