Detroit's Forbidden Housing Projects Explained

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The Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit, constructed between 1935 and 1955, were among the first federally funded public housing projects in the United States. Initially intended to provide decent, affordable housing for African American families, they symbolized hope and progress during a period of rampant racial segregation and economic disparity. Named after prominent African American figures, these projects were once a thriving community that included notable residents such as Diana Ross and the Supremes. However, over the decades, the Brewster-Douglass homes fell into decline due to economic downturns, neglect, and systemic issues within public housing administration. By the early 2000s, the deteriorated conditions led to the demolition of the buildings, marking the end of an era for a significant piece of Detroit's social and architectural history.
Video Chapters:
0:00 The Rise & Fall of Detroit's Brewster-Douglas Homes
0:38 The Paris of the West
2:42 The History of the Brewster-Douglas Homes
4:42 Who is Fredrick Douglas
5:53 There Were Rules
7:28 The Downfall of the Brewster-Douglas Homes
10:00 Disturbing Events Doomed These Homes
11:53 Where are the Brewster-Douglas Homes Today?
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[@maxb4074]

Money to build a project and money to maintain a project are two separate things.

[@beaurodriguez5640]

Facts.

[@matismf]

@@beaurodriguez5640 But demographics are demographics.

[@TheDigitalslayer]

@@matismf That's true, once higher incomers leave, everyone else is left behind and the budget for maintenance begins to decrease creating a vicious downward cycle. To combat this they lower restrictions until the point where the structures are deemed dangerous and uninhabitable blight.

[@choossuck7653]

The people you put in the project matters

[@BigKerm]

Building structures that look nice without quality education or enough quality jobs will eventually result in failure. And we know of one demographic in particular that has always been (as a collective) segregated from those two crucial standards for functional living in this country. Whenever this particular demographic accomplished setting up their own successful cities, towns & districts, we have witnessed their destruction using mob violence by the dominant demographic (see Tulsa OK, 1921 or Rosewood FL 1923, Wilmington NC 1898 etc). But it's always easier to use political & municipal levers to keep certain communities depressed. They'll eventually collapse in on themselves. If anyone disagrees with this, show me a place & time in the history of America where quality education & jobs were equally available to all demographics, but resulted in slum conditions 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

Interesting history. The Detroit projects were predictive of what was to happen later in St. Louis and Chicago with their housing projects. Good idea at first, but doomed to fail due to poor management and crime. Thanks for posting.

[@ITSHISTORY]

Thank you for sharing

[@DB-rw9ld]

@@stephenmoerlein8470 New York was the first example for all housing projects....

[@candynickel]

Poverty really was the root cause. Crime is a side effect

[@thinmintish]

@@candynickelthank you! Ppl are so easily side tracked

[@Slappysan]

"Commerical Park"? This is the one that stopped me in my tracks....

[@lisareed5669]

​@lorankutheresistable Douglass

[@marklenkner2932]

He's clearly not from Detroit. lol

[@jacobwhipple7848]

Then happened the introduction of crack cocaine.

[@avatarmikephantom153]

Thank you for this. I’m huge on Detroit History, but I learn something new all of the time. This is great.

[@ITSHISTORY]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@craigdvance]

I moved out of Detroit in 96. I missed multiple rises and falls, and it is completely unrecognizable to my memory now. It is quite surreal to see all these old structures gone. I went to wayne state and passed these buildings almost everyday.

[@avatarmikephantom153]

11:05 it’s actually “Comerica Park”

[@MerelyGifted]

...and Ford Field, not Ford's.

[@Styxswimmer]

So many govt projects look good on paper, but then one issue always arises: maintenance. The govt provides the money to build it, but rarely funds its maintenance.

[@alainarchambault2331]

It's politically sexy to build a solution but no one gives a fig for maintenance.

[@harrymaciolek9629]

I worked in the low rise section in the 80’s when they were being demolished. They seemed nice though the rooms were a bit small. The courtyards were beautiful though to be fair the trees were at their maximum growth by then.

[@kingmidus1032]

I remember visiting my grandma at the Brewsters on the 12th floor I can see Tigers Stadium with the lights on c When the e game was played.

[@northdetroit7994]

You give one group of men a pile of bricks and you get a city. You give another group of men a city and you get a pile bricks. Detroit.

[@BigKerm]

A more accurate measure is not what one is given, but what is being kept from them. Building structures that look nice without quality education or enough quality jobs will eventually result in failure. And we know of one demographic in particular that has always been (as a collective) segregated from those two crucial standards for functional living in this country. Whenever this particular demographic accomplished setting up their own successful cities, towns & districts, we have witnessed their destruction using mob violence by the dominant demographic (see Tulsa OK, 1921 or Rosewood FL 1923, Wilmington NC 1898 etc). But it's always easier to use political & municipal levers to keep certain communities depressed. They'll eventually collapse in on themselves. If anyone disagrees with this, show me a place & time in the history of America where quality education & jobs were equally available to all demographics, but resulted in slum conditions 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@MyName-pl7zn]

Kiss my azz, Detroit's population moved to the subs leaving a city of 3 million to under 1 million because you could buy a house with a lawn and have a good car to get there as wages increased. Detroit gave many people the opportunity to go from coal miners and farm labor to middle working class, they abandoned the city for more space

[@fracturedrealitygaming1326]

Channels like yours and The Fat Electrician have reignited my interest in all aspects of history. Thanks for doing what my pyooblic edumucation failed to do decade and a half ago

[@jaylinbakertrains2834]

I wondering would you like to look into an apartment high rise in Philadelphia called West Park Apts (46th and Market Street). This complex has rich history, also what it was before is ver interesting,US presidential candidates campaigned there,amenities were unmatched in the nation. I promise you won’t regret it- hope you get this

[@autobug2]

I never have seen the words 'rich history' and public housing used in the same sentence. One contradicts the other.

[@charleshildebrand9300]

Frederick Douglass was not alive in 1972. He died in 1895.

[@smiles0013]

i believe you made a mistake in your video @5:12 about Fredrick Douglas. you say he was a vice presidential candidate in 1972. don't you mean 1872?

[@lisareed5669]

Frederick Douglass

[@GeeEm1313]

I caught that as well.

[@duaneayers6117]

The reasons why these buildings became dilapidated slums. It was because the government didn't take care of the maintenance and the people living in them. It wasn't a win win for no one.

[@douglasharley2440]

detroit in the 1950s was an *amazing* city!...i grew up in lansing from early 1970s-mid-90s, and both detroit and flint's downfall was quite shocking (lansing;s also, but i was too close to see it clearly until i moved away). very glad to hear news that detroit is on the rise again in the 21st century.

[@autobug2]

.............IT IS?!

[@northdetroit7994]

It ain't.

[@douglasharley2440]

@@northdetroit7994 bullshit.

[@northdetroit7994]

@@douglasharley2440 Been there lately? Which area?

[@douglasharley2440]

@@northdetroit7994 i haven't, but my parents and sister have. no idea which parts. i have also read articles in the nytimes, and seen shorts on here.

[@Izzymeeyakii]

I live in Detroit and grew up here the Brewsters are still here just smaller it’s town houses now .. still low income .. I have great memories with friends who grew up over there .. ❤

[@autobug2]

The entire city of Detroit is low income!

[@thevaultbrotherhood6297]

There use to be a projects building near me. Some guy bought it and kick out all the folks who didn't have a job and was causing all the crime there. So after a month there was the older folks left who retired and the only way to get in their now is by having a job and a work history. The rent is the same as before, 200$ to 800$. But now its safer and cleaner.

[@joey193650]

Check out this project housing from when I was a kid. Foundation Park, Chesapeake VA . It has been demolished completely by now I am sure. I remember there was a bus that would ride through after school and during the summer. Like a ice cream truck , but you walked on and they had candy and other snacks as well as ice cream.

[@choossuck7653]

Fun fact: Detroit population is very very similar to Boston

[@chriswil5919]

Now ! But In the 50s 60s70s80s90s2000s Detroit was bigger..

[@AmariontaeDay]

I waited for this for a long time

[@leonb2637]

These projects were intended to keep racial segregation in place in their cities. The high-rises were huge mistakes, basically 'warehousing' people not realizing that people don't like being warehoused. The decline and decentralization industry in cities, need for fewer works due to automation, shifts, the rise of Japanese imports, were also factor that vacated other housing from these projects.

[@DavidYesUCan]

Unions demanding very high wages made the big 3 go other cheaper places to have their automobiles made.

[@dannettejackson202]

@@DavidYesUCan Oh believe me, the Big Three car industries can most definitely afford it with their company profits!

[@knightrider693]

Other countries pack em in with more density then this but they aren't over riddled with drugs and crime. Weird 🤔

[@stevedyer7566]

​​@@DavidYesUCan. David what are discussing? The Big 3 still is concentrated in Detroit. [Ford GM and Chrysler] have more manufacturing plants here then anywhere. I know this bcuz I happily live this.

[@Chips2323]

As always Professor Socash great information, I was born in Atlanta back in the 50's (I know its not Detroit) but as a young child around 5 years old I remember living in the Projects in Atlanta, they were brick remember they were 2 story apts also remember very poor run down area,ya even as a kid I knew what was poor, then in 1956 my family we made what I call our Grapes of Wrath move to Calif with a 500 lbs Grandma in the back seat of that 1946/47 Hudson, as always, be Safe and be at Peace...

[@jacobsockness571]

Talent like them will never be born again.

[@candynickel]

Or they're being born and don't have access to quality education and healthcare, or they have a lack of opportunities due to their proximity to poverty.

[@TeaTime-1122]

My cousin lives in the new Brewster's now and they're very decent and better place to live

[@CyberspacedLoner]

What has happened to the cost of housing since 1980s ?!

[@weirdalfan37]

The inevitable, desired, and actively sought spiral of capitalism

[@AdmiralJT]

Fed and government, but yeah lets blame capitalism lmao... Capitalism is the thing that creates wealth, which we have shifted to a corporate socialist system... Real reason for costs skyrocketing, gov and fed devalues currency via inflation (printing more money) meaning higher costs.

[@GeeEm1313]

False appraisals and overvaluation of real estate.

[@daniels.3062]

This project was planned, build, and managed by the government, but somehow you blame capitalism?!?!

[@nobody93372]

BS: I am born and raised just outside of Detroit and I was in the army and ground pounded my ass around in an actual war zone. With that nugget of info... There is no way you are seeing me anywhere near this place unless it is a life or death reason and Im wearing body armor. and YES i have actually been to this housing block. and YES this soldier was shitting his pants we were driving past it.

[@cplinstructor]

The projects need to come back. The projects became politically incorrect because they were dumps, and hotbeds of crime, due to the mismanagement mentioned in this video (you have to be selective), as a result most have been shutdown and demolished. What the social do gooders did instead was decide to “de-centralize” the projects across the entire city via section 8, the result is blight and falling property values and crime spread out as opposed to being centralized in a contained area. Bringing back the projects would fix this.

[@showmestatefinest5412]

The projects were an experiment and it went as planned. Piling a bunch of poor ppl on top of each other is not a good idea. Section 8/hud private houses is way better option even tho the ppl tear up nice properties.

[@nicholascortez728]

​@@showmestatefinest5412 initially it seems like the idea was building housing to meet the incoming demand due to industrialization and prioritizing family and requiring men (head of the house hold) to have a job seemed to be working. The issue came when they relaxed the rules and even later got rid of them basically making them a place to lock away the poor and pretend they don't exist.

[@stevedyer7566]

That's not a good idea for the reason you just stated about the concentration of criminals. Understand living amongst the concentrated undesirables are good loving people, families children who day in and day out consist of living through daily horror. This can have a negative and or influential effect on children and people development and mobility.

[@sccarguy8242]

I would love to see your take on Coop City in the Bronx… tons of interesting history, as a former tenant it would be cool to see your take on things.

[@tonywestvirginia]

Growing up in Detroit in the 60,s Brewster-Douglass was high rise hoods! @11:07 it is Co-merica park.

[@throttleblip1]

And want reparations but ruin every gov housing anywhere they can find them.

[@Sacto1654]

I wonder why there wasn't a plan to completely rehabilitate these towers into a modern form. Fully modernized, the Douglas Housing Project now would command top dollar for each single residence in 2024.

[@ronaldraygun3591]

It probably cost too much especially if they had to remove lead paint

[@throttleblip1]

Detroit is over hyped and over valued. Until there is a cultural mindset change Detroits growth doesn't look good

[@HHSGDFootballJPD]

By the time they finished expanding the area, Detroit's city population was 1.8 million people. When they finished tearing it down in the 2010s, it was 775 thousand. They probably didn't have the demand for so many years to refurbish them.

[@stevedyer7566]

​@@throttleblip1you are entitled to your opinion because you don't know what it is

[@stevedyer7566]

​@@throttleblip1ok, I will bite. What are you basing your opinion on?

[@jimdandy9671]

VP candidate in 1972?

[@jminnick1990]

😂 1872 clearly

[@ThisWorks4Me]

There also was a similar project just west of the Lodge Freeway, south of Forest Ave. These were much closer to the center of the 67 riots. Nobody does well in dense housing. This has been show in models with rats too.

[@kdot3657]

The lesser talked about Jeffries projects.

[@ThisWorks4Me]

@@kdot3657 I couldn't remember their name. There was also a project off of Southfield and Joy Rd. These were two story buildings. Someone did a piece about it. I remember driving by all three.

[@Pits750]

We all know whh it turned to a crime and desolate place, look st the demographics there vs places thst thrived. Tupac said it best "i wont conceal the fact, the penetentiary is packed and its filled with......"

[@brandonjohnson8664]

Love this! Need more Detroit history videos🙌

[@HighPowerOptionsTrades]

Alvin “Blue” Lewis who fought Ali in Ireland is from there also 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@TheMightyCookieShow]

I don't know if I would call those skyscrapers iconic looking they just look like regular old brick buildings to me and I'm not crying me tears that they're gone no iconic measures have been lost here

[@atomic_wait]

They would have been striking and modern looking in the 1930s I suppose, 90 years ago.

[@louisstanko86]

When these were built buildings over 10 stories tall were considered skyscrapers, today it’s over 40 😊

[@throttleblip1]

Detroit barely has any sky scrapers since there is little invest from it's actual citizens...

[@DavidLovesJesus]

Thanks!

[@ITSHISTORY]

Welcome!🙏

[@THEWARMANN]

I remember launching mortar fireworks from the roof down to the passing cars on the freeway one night with a pile of friends up there lol.

[@josephpiskac2781]

Everything built should be assigned a service life schedule for modification and replacement. Housing should be integrated with economic resources.

[@giovannicarter3076]

Dang didnt know they were built before the projects in Chicago

[@throttleblip1]

Both huge wastes of time and money since they became run down by the tenants.

[@giovannicarter3076]

@throttleblip1 rather live there than EP Island

[@nickk05281982]

They are making more future projects today. Forced subsidized housing apartments. But worse yet they aren’t even making them cheaply

[@stevestreet2825]

Labarge thank You Great Video

[@freerbt4839]

NYCHA in NYC is also notorious and SAD.

[@washingtondc9290]

Anacostia in Southeast Washington DC, which is where I grew up, and is where Frederick Douglass house is, my 6 grade graduation was in Frederick Douglas front yard lol

[@polarlicht4758]

Can you do a video on the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond VA?

[@Captain_Char]

and now we're in an era were we need housing again the likes of that again

[@michaelsteele4587]

Things probably would have remained okay for the original residents if they hadn't added the high rises.

[@Zip_Zero_ZILCH]

Now they're putting in all these new condos to LCA Comerica and Ford Field so the noise pollution doesn't make any sense

[@KOOLBadger]

Chicago, Cabrini Green. These were death traps..😢

[@chicoredd7414]

@@KOOLBadger Cabrini-Green wasn't the only projects in Chicago

[@KOOLBadger]

@@chicoredd7414 I know this, there is also Cambell and Loomis. I lived here all my life! Cabrini still exists..

[@Adiscretefirm]

There are apartments and condos right next to many stadiums, why was noise an issue here?

[@GeeEm1313]

5:53 they kook really nice.

[@peterchaloner2877]

"Another Martini for Mother Cabrini." Lenny Bruce, memorialising the charitable nun.

[@HORSEYANIME2024]

Pls do a video on forgotten history of Lansing Michigan

[@Jaymoe-lh6rl]

Don't nobody care about Lansing.. 😂😂

[@dannydaw59]

I think there was a gym with boxing rings real close to those housing projects. Joe Louis visited in the early years of it.

[@stevedyer7566]

Yes, Wheeler Rec. Center, was at the heart of the Brewster projects community. It produced many talented people.

[@w123benzman]

"The Pj's" modeled the set after these project structures

[@inthemixwithleahbpodcast]

That was my show!

[@w123benzman]

@@inthemixwithleahbpodcast one of the top shows ever developed.. Well written, well casted... Just fantastic

[@TheGbelcher]

Let me guess, the automotive plants closed.

[@stevedyer7566]

Nope

[@beaushaver3779]

It's not Comercial Park it's Comerica Park.

[@Musicradio77Network]

New York City has so many housing projects than Detroit did, but they still do. Thanks to NYCHA.

[@isaaccowan5316]

"Rust Belt". Does anyone remember those two words? Hard to make a qualification of "having a steady job" when there aren't any jobs.

[@HORSEYANIME2024]

Pls do a video on frank llyod wright Milwaukee Wisconsin Munkwitz Duplexes

[@Alie182]

See what happens when you relax the rules?

[@michaelwhite2823]

It got people out of the slums but people dont appreciate anything free or take care of it.

[@applegal3058]

I truly do not understand that mentality. No matter who owns something, I can't fathom destroying it except for normal wear or by accident. Perhaps it was my upbringing? Same thing with working. There is no job below me...anything that needs doing is worth doing it right. I did grow up in a poor household, but we were never destitute to the point of starvation or homelessness. In saying that, my mom went without so we could eat more or have small luxury.. Saving and spending wisely was ingrained in me, and damaging something for no reason was a shameful waste.

[@Slappysan]

​@@applegal3058"Mentality" as if this video actually got into that.

[@applegal3058]

@@Slappysan no, I'm commenting on the original poster's comment...how some people don't care for things when they come free...

[@michaelwhite2823]

@@lorankutheresistable Some people are never happy and ruin everything, even by fire. It still happens today. The people not even YOU want to live near.

[@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn]

Exactly

[@MrCtsSteve]

It's a damn shame whats happened to Detroit . From a population of just under 2 million which peaked in the 50's down to around 600,000 today .

[@stevedyer7566]

Yes it was. It was many mistakes made. Detroit is being revitalized and it feels gooood!

[@9davidlong]

When you have less of one thing and more of another thing your city goes to shit.

[@j.p.obregon1415]

Government housing is never a good idea, no matter how well-intentioned.

[@alainarchambault2331]

5:12 1972?

[@Runningwolf432]

My mother lived there

[@captaingrizzly5698]

NYC got it somewhat right...

[@user-fv5ot1mu2w]

The projects wrecked the neighboring neighborhood Brush Park ...

[@billmoon8518]

A Mkultra cointelpro groundzero(DPH in general)

[@adamm2716]

i can only imagine the build quality was horrible to being with

[@stevedyer7566]

Nope, they were over built, like a fortress. Exterior was all brick, interior No drywall, cement walls and floors.

[@stevedyer7566]

All of them are and so much more.

[@damaddog8065]

Simple, this was a government housing property, those living there had no investment in it, and thus did not care.

[@themalt-tonesbandnorthof8m593]

Comerica Park

[@E_Legal_Alien]

A certain demographic moved in and VOILA! end of story

[@bd3thoughtcriminal334]

Comerica Park, like the bank

[@inthemixwithleahbpodcast]

As a Detroiter, thank you for this video!❤

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

Well done Pruitt Igoe was the same way 1950's-1972

[@mfbfreak]

Vaguely similar things happened to Amsterdam's Bijlmer area, which comprised of a lot of massive, super modern high rise apartment blocks, with all the car-centric things 1960s politics loved. At the beginning, the population was mixed and the apartments were very well received, because they had modern (for 1960s) ameneties like garbage disposal chutes, large windows to let sunlight in, and central heating (which was really a new concept in the late 50s, early 60s). They were moderately expensive for their time. However, at that point in time, Amsterdam was much smaller and the city centre was almost half an hour away, with a lot of 'no man's land' in between, so residents felt detached from their home town. There wasn't much in the Bijlmer at that point when it came to entertainment and leisure. So the big blocks never really reached capacity. People preferred living in a worn out 19th century apartment in the city, over living in a very modern apartment in an 'empty' area. With the independence of Surinam, many Surinamese people decided to move to the Netherlands. A lot of them were 'cooped up' in the empty apartments by the city government. Not having a whole lot of money, they couldn't pay the significant fees for maintenance, house keeping and such, and the big blocks started to physically decline. More 1st gen residents moved out, more apartments went empty, squatters and criminals moved in who also didn't pay the maintenance fees, and a getto was born. It wasn't until the 1990s and 2000ss, that the problem was solved by demolishing part of the high rise blocks and mixing the with single family homes, and building a lot of offices around the area so it became an attractive place to work for the office workers. The only way to do projects right, is to include all types of people in them. Concentrating one demographic is bound to fail eventually. Part of the blocks need to be affordable rent and part of them need to be sold to individual buyers.

[@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn]

I'm guessing a lot of ppl didn't have vehicles..

[@MikeTrumitch-cg2zk]

My good friend and his buddies got ripped off there right before going to Vietnam 1967 . Said it was a scary place .

[@Slappysan]

Not going to mention what the buddies were there for, eh?

[@abigalanderson7494]

I can see why Axel Foley joined the Detroit police department in 1983🚔

[@GeeEm1313]

Monie Love. Not money

[@Mk99987]

Forbidding, not forbidden!

[@leeatterberry1239]

Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt's wife and cousin

[@twinminaj2]

313 gang 🤟🏾

[@glenlongstreet7]

I am not sure that Brewster was a Calvinist, I think he was a Separatist. Wasn't Calvin from the 1400's?

[@mrg8581]

I miss housing projects. And they were great for blacks.

[@franksavage8031]

Riff-Raff ruins everything. I think Frederick Douglass said that.

[@MWhaleK]

I have heard of Cabrini Green but not Brewster Douglas.

[@montananerd8244]

The true roots of preserving historical buildings are very ugly & to this day, aesthetics more than history seems to lead. While it is foolish to preserve buildings without long term funding & a plan for use, and it is true that historic buildings that are very pretty are more likely to be used commercially, we have to create museums, community centers, etc out of some of this extremely important history. Until the 1960s, history was primarily used to honor rich people & build a very specific patriotic identity, the history of all sorts of demographic sub-groups & cultures is absolutely essential if you want to use history to understand and improve the present. The creation of urban poverty was intentional, as far as I can tell historically

[@billping2633]

What happened to Detroit? How did it get like this? Everyone knows the answer to that question. Problem is no one wants to say it.

[@chriswil5919]

Sounds abt white opinion..

[@everythingunderthesun7803]

Those high rise buildings were not the Brewster Homes! Those WERE the Jeffries Homes better known as the Jeffries Projects! The Brewster Projects were 2 story low rise buildings and they were located across from the Jeffries projects. Also, the Brewster projects were torn down before the Jeffries!

[@Jaymoe-lh6rl]

I was thinking the same thing..

[@jeffstrongman7889]

The projects are built for and attract a certain group of people. That same group have a tendency to destroy everything around them. Therefore the projects were all doomed from day one. Though you’re not allowed to notice.

[@stevedyer7566]

That's not true. You suffer from outside looking in.

[@EmperorShang]

This group of folks got their own community and drove it into the ground. I doubt history would repeat itself

[@Slappysan]

Nope, but you believe a lot of things without facts...

[@EmperorShang]

@@Slappysan it's a fact that they drove their community into the ground lmao

[@Slappysan]

@@EmperorShang Someone will believe you, not me.

[@stevedyer7566]

Somethings can get distorted when you arrive with more biases than knowledge

[@BeauQuillen]

Good that you used European American, along side African American.

[@sc1338]

Why

[@FixIt1975]

Neither of these terms makes any sense. Unless you were born abroad and emigrated here, you're just an American

[@shawngordon4960]

Detroit was booming until a certain demographic took over. Happens all over the world. We’re not supposed to notice or discuss that though are we?

[@chriswil5919]

America was a better place before some certain ppl arrived.. claiming to discover it ..

[@shawngordon4960]

@@chriswil5919 Tough crap lady. We won, they lost, and now it’s ours. It wasn’t discovered, it was conquered. That’s how countries and nations have been formed since the beginning of time. Maybe they should have fought a little harder.

[@shawngordon4960]

@@chriswil5919 Calm down lady, I think you mean conquered it. The way nations have always been built.

[@chriswil5919]

@@shawngordon4960 What every make you feel better. The point I was making was America is not the mountains of Europe …

[@shawngordon4960]

@@chriswil5919 It’s not about feelings, it’s simple facts of life.

[@noname4u2see]

we had those in chicago, but were torn down. we need to rebuild them quick, right on top of the old landfill area

[@JRandall-nn6tn]

I remember as a kid riding on the freeway in the car and just looking at the buildings then I started hearing stories about it 😂and I’m still here Detroit what 😂🫡