Quote Originally Posted by andybsg View Post
Wow, this thread clearly demonstrates the only reason, if any, that Detroit will never rise again. The attacks on Retroit for saying he agrees with the statement that people should stop taking offense at the truth are mindboggling. His proposal appears to be that these people instead devote their energy to correcting problems and accentuating what are the clear positives. That is exactly the attitude the city needs to begin moving forward. While the attitude demonstrated by several neanderthalish posters is exactly the attitude that he was addressing and it is exactly the attitude that holds Detroit back.
I disagree.

Retroit and others really like to point out how so many Detroit residents don't do enough, yet fails to acknowledge the situation that many Detroiters are in, which isn't exactly a position to change very much. How can a single mother of three, for example, or even a single male, change much when they are forced to be bussed out of a corrupt city hierarchy, an hour, into a minimum wage job at Great Lakes Crossing? Retroit, and others fail to also acknowledge that a number of Detroiters are the default owners of the city by the people who have thrown it away and left.

That isn't to even mention that even if all of Detroit's residents were wealthy upper middle class-men, they still would be inhabiting a city with half it's intended population.