The Downfall of Detroit: White Flight and the 1967 Race Riots. The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot, was a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan that began in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967.
The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar then known as a blind pig, on the corner of 12th (today Rosa Parks Boulevard) and Clairmount streets on the city’s Near West Side. Police confrontations with patrons and observers on the street evolved into one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in United States history, lasting five days and surpassing the violence and property destruction of Detroit’s 1943 race riot, which occurred 24 years earlier.
To help end the disturbance, Governor George Romney ordered the Michigan National Guard into Detroit, and President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in Army troops. The result was 43 dead, 467 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed (Rutgers.edu). Works Cited Feagin, Joe R.. Like this: Like Loading... Detroit is a shocking example of "white flight." CofCC.org News Team “We moved away because of the crime.”
“We moved away because of the noise.” “We moved because our kids got attacked at the schools.” These are some of the excuses you hear from millions of middle class white people who have moved, sometimes multiple times, to get away from black neighbors. They are terrified to simply say that they fled the neighborhood to get away from black people. Detroit, Michigan is a giant monument to white flight. A Dream Still Deferred. Rush Limbaugh: Detroit Went Bankrupt Because Blacks Drove Out Whites. Economists are attributing Detroit’s recent bankruptcy filing to problems facing the entire Rust Belt region: a shrinking tax base, high health and pension costs, sprawl, and general dysfunction.
But on Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh added another cause to the long list of factors that have contributed to the city’s downfall: black people. During an appearance on Fox News’ On The Record with Greta Van Susteren on Tuesday, Limbaugh claimed that “unchecked” Democratic rule “since the last Republican mayor [in] 1957” created a lazy and bloated culture of out-of-control spending and corruption. For Detroit, a Crisis Born of Bad Decisions and False Hope. White Paper Tackles Bad Behavior in the Fire Service. Black Ruled Detroit in Collapse: The Shocking Example of White Flight. The Europe media uses the phrase “asylum seeker” as a politically correct euphemism for illegal alien. They enter the country illegally.
Once caught they apply for asylum, because it automatically allows them to legal stay in the country longer. An illegal alien from the Sudan should have been deported by the Norwegian government on Tuesday. Instead he was allowed to roam free. He went on a triple murder spree one day before he was supposed to show up for his deportation. The 31-year-old, who was living at an asylum reception centre in Årdal, near where the bus was hijacked, after having his application rejected in June. “This person had applied for asylum, and come to Norway in April,” a spokesman for Norway’s immigration directorate said. The man is accused of killing the bus’s driver, Arve Haug Bagn, 55; Margaret Molland Sanden, a 19-year-old biotechnology student, and a Swedish man in his 50s, who has not been named. (CofCC.org) Marilyn Salenger: ‘White flight’ and Detroit’s decline.
By Marilyn Salenger July 21, 2013 Marilyn Salenger is president of Strategic Communications Services and a former correspondent and news anchor for several CBS stations.
An almost palpable sadness has swept across the country at the news that the city of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy. While the possibility of this had been discussed, the reality of what was once the fourth-largest city in the United States sinking to such depths is disheartening, a moment people will remember for years to come. To understand that the decline and bankruptcy represent so much more than dollars and cents requires a step back to a time that many would prefer to forget but remains unforgettable. Population change in Metro Detroit. Continue Reading » Advertisement You will be redirected to the page you want to view in seconds.
The Detroit News Special Reports Data Center July 19, 2007 at 1:00 am Population change in Metro Detroit Problems viewing this graphic? Print See Also. Stuff Black People Don't Like - SBPDL: How Did it Come to This? WaPo Sheds Tears Over the Inevitable Collapse of Detroit. It is the opinion of SBPDL that the coming collapse of Detroit represents a watershed moment in American history.
A mere 100 years ago, Detroit was nearly 100 percent white. Beyond the horizon, these white citizens envisioned a magnificent city, with opulent buildings, grand theaters for entertainment and a thriving economy that would be the envy of the world. If you build it, they will come. From the southern United States flowed "The Great Migration," as Black people saw that same horizon and realized they could never build an infrastructure for a city near the grandeur of Detroit. For that matter, no record exists of any city that Black people have ever built with an economic infrastructure or low crime rate that didn't receive massive subsidization or entitlements from a government or charitable organization. Today, Detroit is 82 percent Black, a rotting shell of its former self. “How come all of the jurisdictions put under emergency management are majority African American?
Rep. Rep. The two Detroits: a city both collapsing and gentrifying at the same time. James Cadariu was born and bred in a neighbourhood that’s now falling to pieces.
Detroit files largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S history. Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the decade in which Detroit became the nation’s fourth-largest city.
It achieved that distinction in the 1940s, not the 1950s. Detroit was the nation’s fifth-largest city when its population peaked in the 1950s. This version has been corrected.