*My thoughts on this topic will be in the next post.*

For context, back in April 2022, a writer for the Metro Times recently published an article about Twin Peaks [[a national chain similar to Hooters) opening a new location in Auburn Hills.

https://www.metrotimes.com/food-drin...hills-29723954


She apparently took issue with this quote from CEO of Twin Peaks about this new location below:


"We’re excited to bring our unmatched sports fan experience to more of the Greater Detroit area,” said Twin Peaks CEO Joe Hummel. “With wall-to-wall TVs, the loyal Motor City fanbase won’t miss a moment of the Lions, Pistons, Tigers or Red Wings, plus every primetime game, event and fight. Also, we offer a best-in-class food and beverage selection that takes the gameday experience to another level. We’re looking forward to opening the lodge and joining the Auburn Hills community.”



In response, the writer passive-aggressively inserted an editorialized comment into the article that implied suburbanites in the Greater Detroit area aren't actually "Motor City Fans" because they don't live in Detroit proper.

He must mean the “Motor City fanbase” that lives in Auburn Hills [[not actually the Motor City, aka Detroit). Got it.



Aa stupid as that was, some individual [[or a group of individuals) claiming to be with some obscure organization called the "Detroit Suburban League" submitted a response to the Metro Times going into a deranged rant about the writer's comment that was filled with racist dog whistles and outrage bait, which was published by the editor in chief this past Thursday [[9/1):

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/an-entitled-letter-from-detroits-suburbs-30971253

We recently read your piece regarding the upcoming Twin Peaks restaurant in Auburn Hills, part of the greater Detroit area and truly a part of the Motor City, and we were concerned by the sentiment and attitude that you conveyed in your article.


Firstly, residents of Auburn Hills and other Detroit suburban communities are, in fact, residents of the Motor City, and have not only earned this title through birth, but through being the people who financially support the city of Detroit through the taxes they pay, on their income, that they get from the jobs that they have. The city of Detroit is supported by the hard-earned tax dollars of the suburban residents who actually work for the money they have.


Without suburban tax dollars, the city of Detroit would implode in a conflagration of debt, crime, and welfare checks. We pay for the city of Detroit and you will respect us. You can’t run an economy on sit-ins, marches, and rioting. An economy needs producers to function, and the Detroit producers, for the most part, live in greater-Detroit, aka the suburbs.


Second, we do not appreciate you being such a divisive voice in our community that is in need of healing. You seem to be following the footsteps of dividers like Coleman A. Young and Orville Hubbard, spreading hatred and ignorance, further driving Detroiters apart when we should exist as one loving community that supports one another. We should raise one another up, not tear one another down.


Third, Detroit is not just “the hood.” Saying Detroit is only the hood is like saying Rochester Hills is just the one trailer park within its city limits. Moreover, what you call “the hood” was once a thriving multi-ethnic community that only began to decline after the racial pogroms committed in the Detroit Uprising in 1968. Most suburbanites are descended from Americans who left the city limits after these pogroms and an increase in violent crime. Therefore, they are, in fact, real Detroiters, and maybe someday, they will reclaim the city like the Jewish community reclaimed Israel.


You seem to forget that you write for the “metro” times, not the “inside the city limits of the municipality of Detroit” times, and it really shows.


We hope you choose to abandon ignorance and embrace knowledge and community. Please educate yourself in inter-cultural dialogue, cultural sensitivity, and community harmony.


You’re welcome,