Paul Essien
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sealybobo
I can ride my ebike to Detroit. That's how close the most dangerous place in America is to me.
And you don't live in Detroit. You probably live in the burbs and rural areas, ya know, places that African-Americans were systematically banned from moving into due to redlining, housing discrimination, and economic oppression.
Then you talk about "Every man for himself" you need a whole system to achieve. Because that system has allowed most white communities outside of metro Detroit to thrive, leaving black communities to crumble through years of neglect and discriminatory practices and policies.
You talk about segregation you already have it and Detroit is a prime example of that.
Even today, Black Detroitans are still being marginalized into poverty and barely recovering from years of social and economic oppression. The city itself is still being allowed to crumble so wealthy, white investors can come in and buy up cheap property to sell off to potentially wealthy and middle class, mostly white homeowners and tenants, which causes everything in the city to become much more expensive and push poorer, black residents out - something called gentrification dude,
The city’s schools are largely underfunded and neglected by the state compared to schools in areas that are majority white. Police brutality and racial bias are prevalent in Detroit too. Racial tension also exists on both sides. The systemic racism that exists in Detroit is overwhelming anti-black.
This isn’t exclusive to Detroit either, we notice similar patterns in other majority black cities like Chicago, parts of Atlanta, Baltimore etc.
sealybobo
The most dangerous city in the United States is Detroit, Michigan. Detroit has a violent crime rate of 2,007.8 incidents per 100,000 people with a total of 261 homicides in 2018.
And that the fault of white people.
Much of Detroit is a ruin because of the decline of the American auto industry. It became home to all three of America's major auto manufacturers. They companies dominated the city's economy. The city grew and expanded to accommodate that expansive economy.
Then, starting in the sixties and seventies, the US companies started losing market share to foreign manufacturers. Then they started relocating plants to other states. The decline has been going on for decades so now the city no longer has a sufficient economic base to support itself.
Fewer manufacturing jobs means less tax revenue, that means fewer teachers, police officers and firefighters. Crime rises, education declines. People who can afford to leave, do so, leaving behind a population with high poverty and low education. High crime and a bad economy means that no one wants to start a business there. People who do have businesses tend to leave if they can. That makes the economy suffer even more, which means even worse public services, and so on. It's a death spiral that's almost impossible to pull out of, and for many reasons,
I can ride my ebike to Detroit. That's how close the most dangerous place in America is to me.
And you don't live in Detroit. You probably live in the burbs and rural areas, ya know, places that African-Americans were systematically banned from moving into due to redlining, housing discrimination, and economic oppression.
Then you talk about "Every man for himself" you need a whole system to achieve. Because that system has allowed most white communities outside of metro Detroit to thrive, leaving black communities to crumble through years of neglect and discriminatory practices and policies.
You talk about segregation you already have it and Detroit is a prime example of that.
Even today, Black Detroitans are still being marginalized into poverty and barely recovering from years of social and economic oppression. The city itself is still being allowed to crumble so wealthy, white investors can come in and buy up cheap property to sell off to potentially wealthy and middle class, mostly white homeowners and tenants, which causes everything in the city to become much more expensive and push poorer, black residents out - something called gentrification dude,
The city’s schools are largely underfunded and neglected by the state compared to schools in areas that are majority white. Police brutality and racial bias are prevalent in Detroit too. Racial tension also exists on both sides. The systemic racism that exists in Detroit is overwhelming anti-black.
This isn’t exclusive to Detroit either, we notice similar patterns in other majority black cities like Chicago, parts of Atlanta, Baltimore etc.
sealybobo
The most dangerous city in the United States is Detroit, Michigan. Detroit has a violent crime rate of 2,007.8 incidents per 100,000 people with a total of 261 homicides in 2018.
And that the fault of white people.
Much of Detroit is a ruin because of the decline of the American auto industry. It became home to all three of America's major auto manufacturers. They companies dominated the city's economy. The city grew and expanded to accommodate that expansive economy.
Then, starting in the sixties and seventies, the US companies started losing market share to foreign manufacturers. Then they started relocating plants to other states. The decline has been going on for decades so now the city no longer has a sufficient economic base to support itself.
Fewer manufacturing jobs means less tax revenue, that means fewer teachers, police officers and firefighters. Crime rises, education declines. People who can afford to leave, do so, leaving behind a population with high poverty and low education. High crime and a bad economy means that no one wants to start a business there. People who do have businesses tend to leave if they can. That makes the economy suffer even more, which means even worse public services, and so on. It's a death spiral that's almost impossible to pull out of, and for many reasons,
