An Insiders Perspective – Detroit
If you read one article today, read this. A Nod to The Political Commentator for the story.
With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.
A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America , outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees… He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, “I am the MFIC.” The IC meant “in charge”. You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent (now more) African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today (now 700,000). At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city for the free government handouts, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000 (now more). Mexicans number 400,000 (now more) throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit. As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America.
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I spent my youth living in Paterson, NJ. Or as it was known: “The Silk City”. Home to mostly textile mills, Locomotive factories and the original Colt firearms company.
I knew it from my grandfather’s stories of growing up in the early 1900’s. He was a Fireman and a son of Paterson. It was the only city he knew or cared about. It was fascinating to listen to his stories and about the struggle for an immigrant city to thrive through the “Great Depression”. But it did and hit the high water mark right after WW-II.
Back in the 1950’s it was a vibrant city with very little crime. I can remember my grandmother taking me by bus (she didn’t drive) into the city center. I was amazed, since she seem to know and greeted with a brief chat every 2nd person we met. The city center was spotless. A trolly system was gone but the cobble stones and rails were still in place. The city was alive, bright and more like a large community than a collection of strangers.
That all changed with the coming of the 1960’s “social revolution”. I haven’t been back to the city center in 25 years. Crimes like purse snatching, assaults, daylight robbery and even rape are very common. Murders and arson are daily events. The streets and, once grand old houses, are filthy, derelict and depressing.
When I was a lad the shops were mainly owned by Jewish merchants who worked around the clock to send their children to law & medical schools. Then came the Christian Lebanese from their war torn lands and they diplaced the jews. Currently, the Spanish are in the majority, but the Somalis and other Muslims are rapidly becoming the prevelent ethnic group. And poor old Paterson is being worn down by cultures who have no ethos of assimilating American values and culture.
My fore fathers came from Ireland, England & Scotland to Paterson in the late 1800’s. I thank God they can’t see it today and I’m glad I’ll only see it as it was 60 years ago in my memory.
Toejam – Nobody can stop progress, it’s a natural occurrence for thriving communities. But these changes are not progress, at least not as the average 50+ American would call it. It seems more like an infiltration, a take over, and as you mentioned, there is no apparent effort to assimilate American values, more over they are screaming for respect of their cultures which contradict American values.
People like you, who do not want to live in an environment of tension and conflict, cannot be blamed for wanting to move elsewhere never to return in favor of a more pleasant locale.
What sucks about it is that nobody is addressing the problem and American cities are turning into hornets nests of terror and crime. Left unchecked it will spread like a virus and we will be fighting cultural wars on our own soil.
Not what our fore fathers had in mind, in fact, it was what they warned us of. Freedom will not end from a foreign enemy, it will be destroyed from within. YIKES!
You make real sense jeff.
But how many of our Liberal friends have tried to make that sacrife and move into a world where the culture and values (or lack there of) eventually destroyed them or at the very least drove them back to the community they were comfortable and understood.
I don’t have the answer which will suddenly turn America into a multi-cultural nirvana where everyone respects everyone else despite vastly different beliefs.
I do look at Israel and Palestine and see in them that there may be a fragile symbiotic relationship for a period of time where conflict is replaced with a tacit attempt at Détente, but eventually one side or the other will try to establish its dominance and they’re back to square 1. In America that dominance is far too often economic.. Lack of skills and a culture of instant gratification condemn certain cultures to the social cellar and those who have the education, skills and adhere to a delayed gratification ethos eventually end up on top of the mountain. It’s a complex subject. Far too complex for me, an intellectually challenged 71 year who looks at the world through a fogged-up prism old to tackle.