As a Detroit kid born 10 years after the riots, I knew that it would never happen again. All the Detroiters I knew regretted that it happened. But to this day, I haven't met anyone who admitted to actually participating in it.
I do remember as a small child, people raging about the way the cops were in the Sixties. But by the time crack hit, no one talked much about that anymore.
Has there ever been a sadder urban story in American history than the elegy of Detroit?
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