Quote Originally Posted by daddeeo View Post
You know, I've felt since then, that almost every hot summer has had the potential for another riot.
Some folks have sarcastically said that there is nothing left to burn.
It is incredibly sad to see that many areas have never recovered and many others have followed suit in going down the drain.
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?