I graduated in '82 you really don't know that much about Detroit do you? Look up southwest Detroit. My area has large % white and still pretty evenly mixed. I don't pick my friends based on race. i moved in 2001 but all my friends are still in Detroit and i have no problem hanging out there quit often actually. I also have a service based business and work there almost every day in all parts of Detroit. I didn't flee, I just wanted some land. I also have no problem living there.You stereotype people. That's not a virtue actually, it's a hindrance to reality.
Mexican town? Those aren't whites. LOL. Actually I did hang out in that part of Detroit. Little bars on every corner, shots daily, etc. Bottom line is you moved. You didn't want land you wanted out. You wanted to feel safe. You sold out. That's ok, so did I. LOL
Sorry you can't make new friends in the burbs.
I wanted land too so I purchased 65 acres in Boyne. I didn't move there though.
And you know who does business in Detroit? People who have to. You see an opportunity in Detroit you can't find out in the burbs. That's why arabs and other immigrants open up party stores in Detroit. It's real cheap to get started. And I know a few who've been shot. Real brave of you to live and visit in hell.
I like Detroit. Screw working in Bloomfield for all those preppy people. So let me get this straight. You're 45 yrs old, and left Detroit in 1978. That would have made you 7yrs old. You said you went to Jr high there..Are you a genius? Did you start at 7?

. Mexican town is only one part of Southwest are you sure you're in Michigan?
A. Emerson MIDDLE SCHOOL was k-8. My last year there was 4th grade. I started school when I was 4. Graduated highschool when I was 17.
B. People in the burbs don't know what east side or west side or south side means. That's how you detroiters distinguish yourselves. In fact I grew up 6& evergreen and I still don't know what side that's on. It's all either downtown or shit. Sounds like you live in the whitest part of Detroit to me. You sure you didn't live just outside of Detroit? Grosse point?
B. What do you do and what % of your customers are black detroiters?
C. How many black detroiters agree with your politics? Maybe you're the racist.
6 and evergreen is Northwest side and fourth grade?..You didn't even grow up there. You were just a little kid when you left suburbanite boy.
You are right but still I went in once a week every week for 30 years. Really, without jobs, other than get out, what can those people all do? I suppose they can go to a community college but not much work opportunity there. Not like all us suburbanites who benefitted from parents with good jobs, good schools, good friends, safe, no gangs, no violence, every fight settled with fists. Even us kids could find jobs that paid $5 when minimum wage was $3.50.
I worked in a factory where they brought in blacks to meet the quota back during affirmative action. They treated the black very badly. Paid them less, didn't let them use the locker. White trash losers.
Don't try to pretend whites in Michigan aren't racist.
I used to have nightmares we had to move back. There were only 3 of us whites in the entire school. Our white principal was hospitalized! You grew up in a very soft part of Detroit. 6& evergreen was all white kindergarten, 50/50 first grade, 75% black in 2nd grade and all black 3rd and 4th.
Where we moved was paradise. My dad got a job at the wixom Lincoln continental plant. That plant helped Detroit out greatly. That plant is in mexico now.
Oh, and alot of those whites who fled to the burbs are your fellow republicans