Eminem tribute to Detroit

[jcole]

They say we live in a global economy, but here we can't even get along from city to suburb.

[professorscott]

About the forum being "owned and operated by a suburbanite": Lowell is, I believe, a Highland Parker. I don't really consider Highland Park or Hamtramck as suburbs, since they form geographic donut holes inside the Detroit city limits. I call them "inurbs", which probably isn't a word, but there ought to be a different word than "suburb" for such an instance, which happens frequently enough.

[Gistok]

Sad thing is that Eminem's movie 8 MILE is about the divide that separates the city from the suburbs.... and some posters here like to throw fuel onto the fire of that divide.

When Eminem had his World Premier of that movie, where did he have it? ...Detroit!

Where was it filmed?.... Detrroit!

So he doesn't live in Detroit... big deal! He spent most of his life living in Detroit's suburbs.

Aretha Franklin doesn't live in Detroit proper either. So what?

At least they're still in Metro Detroit!

If you want to complain... complain about Madonna, Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, etc... who have all left the area long ago and hardly been back...

This "you don't live in Detroit, so you have nothing to say about Detroit... is a silly and immature viewpoint.