1988 Detroit Black Journal Clip - Coleman Young

A 1988 Detroit Black Journal conversation between Mayor Coleman Young and host Ed Gordon. Episode 4652/Segment 2

[@luvroxie4589]

One of the greatest black mayors ever...❤

[@panas1122]

You are not verry smart. He should die in jail.

[@chenzenzo]

This is the first Public Television Channel I subscribed to on KZbin. I'm from The East Bay California, though I'm proud that I've been to Detroit and I believe wholeheartedly that this city in which so many people have risen from the depths of hell will elevate Detroit above and beyond its former greatness and potential. Coleman may have been a bit unorthodox but he cared for everyone.

[@numba9792]

Little did they know he was letting Johnny curry push hundreds of millions of dollars worth of drugs 😭😭😭

[@brianlewis858]

That was what I was talking about in my comment

[@NaturallyConscience]

Coleman Young saw Detroit’s potential way back then and laid the blueprint for the Detroit of today.

[@user-pu5hr5xu3t]

And detroit is in such a good condition today.... (sarcasm)

[@bawbawl]

Not everyone thinks so

[@T..1147]

​@@user-pu5hr5xu3t It's not his fault it's az wipes in the city yes it's better today Don't disrespect the the man 😊

[@tdevianc679]

Coleman Young was the best mayor we had! We will never have another one like him!

[@sean70729]

All he did was take care of this city and his people and the rest of Michigan hated him for it to the point they had to punish the city by divesting and moving out major job sources, but up till the early 80s Detroit was paradise for black people.

[@billythekid5800]

Wrong! He helped the drug dealers and crooked cops. He was a crook. The current mayor, Mike Duggan, is the best mayor that Detroit has ever seen.

[@LifeIsNotorious]

Wow 20 years from this interview a black man became president. Two terms too!!

[@marliseisrael3017]

I 💗 how Mayor Coleman Young said "to think with our heads and not with our hearts"

[@marliseisrael3017]

The Detroit came out in both of them....Mayor Coleman never holds back, he'll cut you fir checking him, but neither does Ed Gordon 🤭

[@KyaraSakariShepherd]

This is so cool, i just found out that he is my great grandmother's first cousin.

[@stephenbrand5661]

The greatest, most perfect possible mayor couldn't have kept Detroit or Cleveland or Gary or Flint or Youngstown from declining. I always read these comments from people who blame Coleman Young for Detroit's problems when the same exact thing happened to cities all across the American Rust Belt and beyond. The obscenely wealthy people who profited from shipping American manufacturing overseas never seem to get as much blame as the poor people whose lives were ruined when those avenues to a middle class life were cut off.

[@user-kv3ut6pv4b]

Why...anit that his job....sounds like "mo excuses then a * going to jail. Wow!! Ok white lib here...not surprised

[@02WIFE]

I love Coleman

[@KCCardCo]

Coleman Young had a lot of personal vendettas. His last year in office he had the DPW workers go around the city and remove most of the historical plaques throughout the city. Something must have happened to him at Belle Isle because he had the entire roads Jefferson avenue and Grand boulevard rerouted at the Belle Isle bridge. There was no point in spending the money to do any of that.

[@bengermanbrowne4378]

Coleman Young is a politician

[@GodfatherXXI]

He would make a better talk show host.

[@brianlewis858]

I was listening to a podcast saying that mayor colman Was a big player in the drugs being sold in Detroit

[@worldbossdetroit827]

My mayor.

[@dme1016]

Your mayor was a corrupt POS who fiddled while Detroit burned.

[@marqusthetruth6614]

He was crupt

[@honorable5730]

You saying that to say what was he ever convicted of anything??

[@brianlewis858]

ASS HELL

[@aaronflowers8881]

​@@brianlewis858I'm so sick and tired of yall not knowing how to spell AS. It's AS!