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What Killed Detroit: Democrats or Black People?
Today Detroit boasts a 82.7% African American population. This was not always the case. When she was at the height of her population in 1950 she had a population of 1.8 million people, 83% of whom where white. Today Detroit boasts a population of only 713,000, 10% of which are white. Of the 1.5 million whites that once called Detroit their home in 1950, all but 75,000 have left the city today. (Source)
Detroit used to be our fourth largest city and the cradle of American manufacturing. Due to Detroit's role in WWII it was nicknamed the "Arsenal of Democracy." Today, however, they are a bankrupt city with the 6th worst city crime rate in the United States. The 2013 per capita violent crime rate is 1348 per 100,000 citizens, and an overall crime rate of 8400 per 100,000 residents. 1 in 62 residents experiencing a car theft every year. In other words, your chances of falling victim to a crime is 1 out of every 11 in Detroit. (Source)
Large scale white flight happened after the 1967 race riots. By the 1970's census the white population was 55% of the city, a decline of over 28% since 1950. The white population on the run finally shifted the demographics into black political favor and in 1974 Coleman Young became the first black mayor of Detroit. He also became the most corrupt mayor in Detroit history. (Some say he is the most corrupt mayor in United States history)
Unbeknownst to Americans at the time, Coleman Young was a communist. (Source) Shortly after his election, though the people of Detroit knew it well before, it became obvious that he was a racist and promoter of "black power." Nevertheless, Detroit became the "black capital" whereas Ebony magazine boasted that “blacks exercised more power than blacks anywhere in the United States.” The white flight continued to which Mayor Young commented that he had "never been concerned about upsetting white people. I’d rather not, but I’m not going to back away from something I know is right just to please whites.” “We refuse in Detroit,” he told another reporter, “to kiss their behinds.” (Source)
Looking at the charts below you can see the demographic switch that gave rise to radical black power politics in Detroit.
Between 1950 and 2000:
•Detroit's overall population decreased 49%, from 1,849,668 to 951,270
•Detroit's White population decreased 93%, from 1,545,847 to 116,599
•Detroit's Black population increased 159% from 303,721 to 787,687
•Detroit's criminal homicide rate increased from 582%, from 6.1 to 41.6 per 100,000 residents annually
•Detroit's robbery rate rose from 596%, from 125 to 870 per 100,000 residents annually
•During the 1960's, Detroit's homicide rate rose 217% and the robbery rate rose 539%.
The fact that Coleman young quickly became the most corrupt mayor in Detroit history was of no consequence for the black voters who hailed him as a hero. Just like the African Americans who re-elected Marion Barry, Charlie Rangel, William Jefferson, and Sharpe James, corruption was ok so as long as a black politician who played to their racial whims was in charge. Here is what Kevin D. Williamson wrote of Coleman Young in his book [ame="http://www.amazon.com/What-Doomed-Detroit-Encounter-Broadside/dp/1594037469"]"What Doomed Detroit."[/ame]
Coleman Young's successor was the less corrupt Dennis Archer followed by the now felon, Kwame Kilpatrick, who enjoys a 28 year prison sentence. Kwame was yet another case where the blacks of Detroit were perfectly aware of his corruption, but refused to vote their man out. For a list of dubious scandals and examples of corruption click HERE.
And there we have the classic "White Flight" phenomenon. It usually goes in this order.
1. A large percentage of blacks move into a city (In this case black workers from the south filling the WWII labor shortage in Detroit)
2. Violence increases (Detroit Riots)
3. Whites move out taking tax revenue with them.
4. The black population rises to 35-50% due to white flight and out of control birth rates.
5. Violence increases more and blacks become politically empowered.
6. A black mayor and an all black city council is elected.
7. More whites move out taking tax revenue with them.
8. The mayor and city council becomes highly corrupt. (Happens all the time) (Source) (Source) (Source)
9. Violence increases, education declines, city services fall apart, and now even black people are leaving.
10. The city becomes bankrupt and is destroyed from the inside out.
11. Process complete, a city goes from being one of the most economically prosperous in the world to a third world city in 50 years.
It is obvious that this city is a big fan of Obama, or as Paul kersey once noted :"Of Detroit's over 700,000 people, eighty-two percent are black. Obama won the city’s voters by a margin not seen since the fall of Saddam Hussein, taking 98 percent of the votes cast in the 2012 election." (Source)
More Sources
How Coleman Young Ruined Detroit
Videos From Detroit 1
Videos From Detroit 2
Videos From Detroit 3
Videos From Detroit 4
Videos From Detroit 5
Videos From Detroit 6
Escape from Detroit:The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis
Now enjoy watching the City Council of Detroit deliberate on the pressing issues of the day. Note that the sweet mannered women speaking to the Chair is Monica Conyers, Rep John Conyers' Wife who is serving time in federal prison for bribery & racketeering.
Detroit's Demographics
WHITE
BLACK
Today Detroit boasts a 82.7% African American population. This was not always the case. When she was at the height of her population in 1950 she had a population of 1.8 million people, 83% of whom where white. Today Detroit boasts a population of only 713,000, 10% of which are white. Of the 1.5 million whites that once called Detroit their home in 1950, all but 75,000 have left the city today. (Source)
Detroit used to be our fourth largest city and the cradle of American manufacturing. Due to Detroit's role in WWII it was nicknamed the "Arsenal of Democracy." Today, however, they are a bankrupt city with the 6th worst city crime rate in the United States. The 2013 per capita violent crime rate is 1348 per 100,000 citizens, and an overall crime rate of 8400 per 100,000 residents. 1 in 62 residents experiencing a car theft every year. In other words, your chances of falling victim to a crime is 1 out of every 11 in Detroit. (Source)
Large scale white flight happened after the 1967 race riots. By the 1970's census the white population was 55% of the city, a decline of over 28% since 1950. The white population on the run finally shifted the demographics into black political favor and in 1974 Coleman Young became the first black mayor of Detroit. He also became the most corrupt mayor in Detroit history. (Some say he is the most corrupt mayor in United States history)
Unbeknownst to Americans at the time, Coleman Young was a communist. (Source) Shortly after his election, though the people of Detroit knew it well before, it became obvious that he was a racist and promoter of "black power." Nevertheless, Detroit became the "black capital" whereas Ebony magazine boasted that “blacks exercised more power than blacks anywhere in the United States.” The white flight continued to which Mayor Young commented that he had "never been concerned about upsetting white people. I’d rather not, but I’m not going to back away from something I know is right just to please whites.” “We refuse in Detroit,” he told another reporter, “to kiss their behinds.” (Source)
Looking at the charts below you can see the demographic switch that gave rise to radical black power politics in Detroit.
Between 1950 and 2000:
•Detroit's overall population decreased 49%, from 1,849,668 to 951,270
•Detroit's White population decreased 93%, from 1,545,847 to 116,599
•Detroit's Black population increased 159% from 303,721 to 787,687
•Detroit's criminal homicide rate increased from 582%, from 6.1 to 41.6 per 100,000 residents annually
•Detroit's robbery rate rose from 596%, from 125 to 870 per 100,000 residents annually
•During the 1960's, Detroit's homicide rate rose 217% and the robbery rate rose 539%.
The fact that Coleman young quickly became the most corrupt mayor in Detroit history was of no consequence for the black voters who hailed him as a hero. Just like the African Americans who re-elected Marion Barry, Charlie Rangel, William Jefferson, and Sharpe James, corruption was ok so as long as a black politician who played to their racial whims was in charge. Here is what Kevin D. Williamson wrote of Coleman Young in his book [ame="http://www.amazon.com/What-Doomed-Detroit-Encounter-Broadside/dp/1594037469"]"What Doomed Detroit."[/ame]
Mohandas K. Gandhi famously told representatives of the British Raj that India, like any self-respecting country, would prefer bad government under its own people to good government under a foreign power. A similar notion has held sway in Detroit, but its motivating factor is racism rather than nationalism.
Detroit is a city in which black identity politics has trumped, and continues to trump, every other consideration, from basic finances to public safety. In 1974, Detroit's racial politics would come to full fruition with the election of Mayor Coleman Young, an incompetent administrator, a friend of corruption - two of his closest political allies, who happened to be serving as police chief and deputy police chief, managed to loot $2.6 million from city funds between the two of them - and practitioner of poisonous racial politics who nonetheless managed to keep himself in the mayor's office for 20 years, thereby foreclosing any opportunity the city might have had to reverse its course. As James Q. Wilson put it, "In Detroit, Mayor Coleman Young rejected the integrationist goal in favor of a flamboyant, black-power style that won him loyal followers, but he left the city a fiscal and social wreck.” Young's stock-in-trade was blaming whites for the problems of an increasingly whites-free city, charging that, in his words, "the money was carried out in the pockets of the businesses and the white people.
As Nolan Finely notes in the Detroit News, Mayor Young's spirit is very much alive in the "black nationalism that is now the dominant ideology of the council." Finely reported on the city council's debate regarding the expansion of a city convention center. Many of those backing the project, and many of the union members who would be employed to work on it, were white, which infuriated both the council members and the residents who showed up to denounce the project. The assembled crowd shouted that whites addressing the issue should "go home," while council president Monica Conyers dismissed the case of a white union representative with these words: "Those workers look like you - they don't look like me."
Other members of the city council have proposed the creation of blacks-only city contracts and a blacks-only enterprise zone. The city has considered restricting some grant money to black-owned businesses under the rubric of "minority" economic development - in a city that is 80 percent black. (p. 24-26)
Coleman Young's successor was the less corrupt Dennis Archer followed by the now felon, Kwame Kilpatrick, who enjoys a 28 year prison sentence. Kwame was yet another case where the blacks of Detroit were perfectly aware of his corruption, but refused to vote their man out. For a list of dubious scandals and examples of corruption click HERE.
And there we have the classic "White Flight" phenomenon. It usually goes in this order.
1. A large percentage of blacks move into a city (In this case black workers from the south filling the WWII labor shortage in Detroit)
2. Violence increases (Detroit Riots)
3. Whites move out taking tax revenue with them.
4. The black population rises to 35-50% due to white flight and out of control birth rates.
5. Violence increases more and blacks become politically empowered.
6. A black mayor and an all black city council is elected.
7. More whites move out taking tax revenue with them.
8. The mayor and city council becomes highly corrupt. (Happens all the time) (Source) (Source) (Source)
9. Violence increases, education declines, city services fall apart, and now even black people are leaving.
10. The city becomes bankrupt and is destroyed from the inside out.
11. Process complete, a city goes from being one of the most economically prosperous in the world to a third world city in 50 years.
It is obvious that this city is a big fan of Obama, or as Paul kersey once noted :"Of Detroit's over 700,000 people, eighty-two percent are black. Obama won the city’s voters by a margin not seen since the fall of Saddam Hussein, taking 98 percent of the votes cast in the 2012 election." (Source)
More Sources
How Coleman Young Ruined Detroit
Videos From Detroit 1
Videos From Detroit 2
Videos From Detroit 3
Videos From Detroit 4
Videos From Detroit 5
Videos From Detroit 6
Escape from Detroit:The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis
Now enjoy watching the City Council of Detroit deliberate on the pressing issues of the day. Note that the sweet mannered women speaking to the Chair is Monica Conyers, Rep John Conyers' Wife who is serving time in federal prison for bribery & racketeering.
Detroit's Demographics
WHITE
BLACK
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