How Detroit Went From A Booming Metropolis To A Shrinking City | NBC Nightly News

[@leileijoker8465]

A black Vietnam vet I met in Detroit two years ago told me he seen more combats in Detroit than Nam.

[@gangweedernigga4012]

lol for real?

[@VanquishMediaDE]

Detroit and ChIraq are the worst of the worst.

[@ezrahaskard3527]

a lot of Vietnam was waiting and long distance combat or calling in strikes on areas that potentially had vietkong, I can't remember the exact number but I think for every 2000 US bullets fired one Vietnamese soldier was killed by US, no disrespect to Vietnam vets or anything they had a ton against them but the average soldier probably didn't see much live combat. I have lived in Minneapolis for most of my life and have probably seen more combat than a vet did in vietnam. nonetheless detroit has it really bad

[@tim1245]

A massive hyperbole on your part..

[@gisangel12]

Vanquish Media Chicago is top 80 most dangerous, you ever heard of Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Compton?

[@iantempleton313]

As someone who lives, worked and went to school in Detroit, I don't care what skin color you are. If you're coming to Detroit and doing good, keep doing it!

[@hector5749]

Just moved here 8 months ago from California and could not be happier. I am working at a steel manufacturing plant in Detroit.

[@valeriem4022]

@@hector5749 really? They still have steel plants?

[@sixmile2360]

Valerie M One if the largest steel mills in the world is in nearby River Rouge and there is still a mill in Dearborn at the Rouge complex. People are under the mistaken impression that there is no industry left in South East Michigan. There are seven assembly plants with an additional two being built within 50 miles of the city along with two steel mills, si oem stamping facilities, three engine plants, four transmission plants and countless tier two supplier facilities along with massive engineering campuses.

[@kepop98]

I also moved from SoCal to Detroit, bought 3 homes , work at a local university, and getting my Masters✅🌻❤️

[@amirulasraf307]

How about if i bring more muslims?

[@kenp.9762]

And during that whole segment, not one mention of Coleman Young. Over 20 years they re-elected him. And he just ran the city into the ground

[@polarvortex3294]

Coleman Young was not Mayor during the riots; and after the riots no single man could have stopped the city's descent. I agree he was not good for the city, but I think he was as much a symptom as a cause, and was a reflection of the mind-set of the mass of the electorate who later gave us Kwame Kilpatrick.

[@dknowles60]

@@polarvortex3294 wrong. coleman young and frank kelly did every thing they could to destory detroit

[@dawitkbethel5849]

George Washington Carver =car. Created mass production and the invention of the Automobile and ford only funded the invention and branded his name on it.

[@sanechicagoan5432]

Yep. Good of you for noticing that.

[@bigpicturethinking5620]

@@dawitkbethel5849 lol we wuz Kangs and sheet. Lmao.

[@Warpig350]

Grew up in Detroit and the happiest moment in my life was moving away from the corruption and crime

[@pyramidhead138]

i grew up in KC and MY happiest moment was moving away from THAT shithole

[@DanielGarcia1980]

@Jeremiah Daniel Truth! I live in Denver. Great city, but no shortage of corruption and crime, and expensive AF. But worth it, to say I live in Denver... and not Detroit or Cleveland. LOL

[@killeryhiltons8499]

Lmao

[@stayminty2682]

I grew up in London and the happiest moment was leaving that city of crime

[@obviousanonymous358]

@Jeremiah Daniel considering the important things :thumbup:

[@haseebkhan6621]

This documentary doesn’t mention the corrupt past governments of the city. Look it up everyone!

[@connorgolden4]

It’s almost comical how bad the leadership of Detroit has been for decades. I once heard about some high up school official being illiterate!

[@karyespino852]

Democrat gobernators.... ITS the problem

[@BG-sq7zf]

@@invaderzim1265 is no longer available. Please, give the title or some clue to find a video like that. Thanks in advance 💚🕊

[@tomsampson8084]

@@karyespino852 Yes, gobernators are often the problem, as is lack of education.

[@hakeemsd70m]

@Wagner PD Don't be asleep, Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same. The only one being fooled is the voters who think they're different.

[@Cakebattered]

As a former Detroiter, I can say there is plenty of details missing, but they nail all of the big issues with Detroit. If and When Detroit comes back, it won't be Detroit, it'll be something else. Too much of the city's history has been demolished.

[@barronbarron6784]

Detroit would have been great just like new York or Chicago Stop voting Democrat🔵 it wasn't the auto industry that destroyed Detroit it was union demands that drove businesses elsewhere but Detroit it almost happened to Chicago in 1950s in 1960s but they came to there census

[@joshuarodriguez210]

Better that way

[@Cacowninja]

Don't worry by 2038 everything in this city will be better than ever before... But then the androids rebel!

[@mikeg.8904]

I 👀 what you did there

[@Cacowninja]

@@mikeg.8904 Glad somebody got that reference. I mean I just got the game and finished it and Detroit really does look so much better. Just realize as I said before the androids rebel!

[@mikeg.8904]

@@Cacowninja But Androids still take everyone's jobs 😂

[@nengthao5618]

Haha.

[@nengthao5618]

Find Jericho

[@bulgingbattery2050]

When an entire city's economy depends mostly on a single industry (automotive) and there is an economic downturn in that particular industry, that city also suffers economically.

[@rhnstjegilrhkscvn1djhrj969]

government ran the city into the ground

[@hakeemsd70m]

A massive oversimplification of the history of Detroit, but whatever makes you feel better...

[@Adgeatic]

@@hakeemsd70m I agree, though there is some truth to that notion. Most cities that had multiple major industries (or developed new ones) don't suffer in the way that Detroit did. However, it does depend on the times and also corrupt governing and poor city managing (like NYC in the 70's, though that can be also blamed on interstates and 'white flight').

[@arthurbanton6391]

The best example of how a city largely dependent on one industry had diversified and avoided the pitfalls of Detroit is Pittsburgh. The steel city is now a technology hub and dubbed by some as silicon valley east.

[@brucebeamon5460]

ESPECIALLY when that industry takes there jobs and moves outside the city ... and then the state government in Lansing creates laws where pubic service employees police fire etc are able to move outside city limits taking that population tax base increasing the housing vacancy rate , then charter ( for profit )schools are opened removing students from the pubic system, then more students leave because more laws are enacted to allow another third of the students to leave and go to schools outside the city limits draining a lot what’s left of its resources , And YES CORRUPTION at city services units THAT IS STILL going on with some city council members , And might I add city home inspectors that aren’t doing proper inspections ( 1st hand knowledge) I’ve been told that the ones that show up aren’t certified , The one that came out asking me what’s the problems and still did NOTHING to verify my complaints

[@superlyger]

I never experienced racism in Michigan until I started working in Detroit and black people were calling me all kinds of racial slurs. An elderly lady even told me to go back to my country. I was born here and I’m Navajo! I made sure I left Detroit. The problem is the culture people chose to follow. Not the skin color.

[@lorwally13]

Highly doubt but imma let have your “personal experience”

[@meatball5336]

@@lorwally13 Sounds like you think black people can't be racist. Cool. Nice of you to let someone have their personal experience.

[@lorwally13]

@@meatball5336 they can’t lmfaoooo

[@Fritolay72]

@@lorwally13 World needs ditch diggers too. Have fun staying brainwashed you clown

[@alexandercoffman8319]

I am so sorry 2 hear that, I think that they thought that you were Hispanic or something I guess.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

The Detroit city council is a joke.

[@carloscolon3331]

I challenge u to a street fight

[@RADIUMGLASS]

@@carloscolon3331 are u scared of a gun fight?

[@carloscolon3331]

@@RADIUMGLASS are scared to use your own fist

[@RADIUMGLASS]

@@carloscolon3331 I've got two and when I'm done you'll leave under a sheet.

[@carloscolon3331]

@@RADIUMGLASS BRING IT ON!!!

[@kurtlowder3276]

outsourcing, automation, racial issues, AC opening up the south, globalism, non-diversified economy, capital flight, etc, etc. There are numerous reasons why Detroit went down.

[@alexanderdenisenko4347]

Good day. Are you american?

[@kansasthunderman1]

You got that right. It's just the free market working and the auto manufacturers moved to places where the cost of doing business is cheaper. In many cases, that was out of the U.S.

[@sixmile2360]

Sandra Clark Sandra. Have you ever even been near an auto assembly plant? I am a recently retired engineering manager who spent my entire career working with union employees on the plant floor. The simple fact is that most of what happened to the domestic automakers is due to poor management decisions. How did you arrive at “breaking up unions” as your answer to the auto industry’s problems? I doubt very much that you will respond to my question.

[@caenleranzo4521]

If only Detriot went up by diversifying its economy by promoting entrepreneurs to improve Detroit's situation, deregulating the government's control on Detroit's economy to help Detroit's economy grow, getting rid of its racial issues, and making socialized education to improve the minds of people in Detroit and socialized healthcare to improve the health of people in Detriot. Also, getting rid of the gangs and drug dealers in Detroit to improve the behavior of people from Detroit.

[@scotchrobbins]

@ That combo of establishing satellite states to extract resources from the continent and most Africans in the Americas being taken over as slaves (followed by years of legally restraining them from education and better housing) probably acted as the stumbling block you're thinking of.

[@vandykeebbin4762]

I moved to Detroit 5 years ago to become a police officer for Detroit and the first thing I realized was the amount of abandon homes, building and vacant lots in neighborhoods and so I had to research why but what I found was like lost treasure! Detroit use to be the Hollywood of the mid-weat

[@kennethflores-hv7uf]

Stay safe out there

[@Happypucks]

City tax destroyed all parishes in which were installed in the 1950s. Has nothing to do with white flight or the riots. Whenever something is flourishing a tax is installed to keep it down. In Detroits case, completely destroyed the place

[@Happypucks]

Also municipal workers used to have to live in Detroit up until the early 1990s. When they could live outside the city, they did

[@Happypucks]

Never being told the real reasons why nationally

[@syrphilipgulmatico5352]

their economy wasn’t diverse and when the car companies left it tumbled..

[@bobshenix]

That and race riots turn out not to be good for business. Who knew?!?

[@ast-og-losta]

Exactly That is why many communities fail.

[@cagatayrider4036]

Yes. But how can we pin this on black people?

[@yosoyrand]

@@bobshenix what business? The auto industry which had already shut down at least 4 plants that employed over 50k people? Or the stove business that Detroit led in until they went fully auto?

[@americankulak2294]

Yes, that was the problem. It has nothing to do with big government Socialism. Rolls eyes.

[@loop5720]

This looks like a city from the DC comics....Because no one's there..

[@thetasworld]

Stop that

[@dg2010ful]

Can’t forget the graffiti in crazy places

[@kolilmd9967]

Gotham

[@lil_lyrix]

Haha that’s not true, there’s a time lapse of the new skyscrapers construction and you can see the road, gets pretty busy sometimes.

[@williambwilliams4548]

Oh there’s people here and are doing very well. Don’t believe all the media hype. I travel a lot and would live nowhere else.

[@wvadam]

Most skilled hard working people left to pursue a better life when the jobs started to disappear. The unskilled and the thugs and hustlers stayed. Note that the skilled black population also left. Detroit is just not a shining example for black folks the way it used to be. The problem with all the blaming going on here is that it keeps people stuck in their bad situation. I am poor because of these people. The companies moved so I don't have a job. etc. instead of thinking forward about how will I improve my situation the same way other people have done.

[@martymcfly5423]

All "thanks" to the mismanagement of the Democ-Rats. As soon as they got control over Detroit, the downfall began

[@zaidkhan6296]

@@martymcfly5423 lmao your far-right bs dominates the yt comment section XD

[@darienwashington510]

It’s not easy to gain a skill when you are broke and all the jobs were shipped over seas and the resources have been taken from your community by corrupt politicians. Skill development cost money good sir

[@Confettifun]

menckencynic Z umm Atlanta? Greenwood, Tulsa? Baldwin Hills, CA? There are affluent black cities and communities- you’re just too racist(with low too low of an IQ at that) too research it yourself. Please get off youtube and learn some critical thinking skills. And to add onto black success: black women hold the most degrees by race and gender and black women are the largest and fastest growing entrepreneurial group in the US. Not to mention the black community has the largest economic spending power in beauty products.

[@CutieRingoJoy]

wvadam thanks for bringing it up, I was wondering why there are people still living there, it’s because there are no jobs, skilled ones left, so the unskilled ones had no jobs because the jobs all left, making them now poor. Why is no one donating anything to them? Someone needs to start opening stores there so these people can earn money, it’s so sad.

[@gunscotthdgaming69420]

Corruption: =exists= This Video about Detroit: *Im going to pretend I didnt see that*

[@arielw.4133]

I think the government is probably the reason they couldn't add that in💀..they always want to look better.

[@janibeg3247]

I can remember seeing soldiers standing on street corners just after the worst of the riots. It was downhill from there in Detroit. At the same time, shopping malls opened in the suburbs with lots of parking. There were very little free parking places in Detroit. It was even hard to find any parking near the downtown stores. One after another, the stores in the downtown closed. Detroit was always a violent city but murders, rapes, and robberies increased to outrageous levels. The schools went into the toilet. People with money fled to the suburbs to avoid crime, for good schools, and to avoid paying Detroit City Income tax.

[@kenbrymorgan]

What happened to Detroit cannot be explained by reference to a single "this was it." But a great deal of hubris was involved. Auto execs thought moving jobs to cheaper locales would serve their shareholder' and bondholders' interests (until it didn't). Union officials thought to get better and better current wages and pension benefits would serve their members' interests (until it didn't). Whites thought leaving the city would serve their cultural interests (until it didn't). Blacks thought having a predominately black administration would serve their cultural interests (until it didn't). City leaders in the 50s thought to serve the interests of the auto industry (e.g., tearing up the tracks of a well-developed mass transit system in favor of individual auto ownership) would be in the City's interest (until it wasn't). Wayne County historically is the most segregated county in the US - so it seems Detroit is an object lesson in the results of "us" vs. "them." No real community = no lasting community. Which is why the current revival holds promise - it seems there may be an understanding that everyone is in this together, for good or bad. We shall see.

[@pclubnetwork]

Agreed

[@brentjones4436]

Excellent observation Sir!!!!

[@karlwhalls2915]

Good synopsis. I grew up on Telegraph Rd and 5 Mile. Right on the red line in the 90’s.

[@karlwhalls2915]

starventure ^ Racism On Parade

[@karlwhalls2915]

starventure Under whose societal rule and law did they develop? You don’t understand survival culture?

[@sutherlandA1]

Not diversifying the economy and expecting the once mighty big 3 to remain and keep the city prosporous was very short sighted and was Detroits downfall

[@helpAmerica1]

well said

[@jessicah3450]

So it happened faster in Detroit. Now our tech jobs are being outsourced.

[@r.pres.4121]

What happened to Detroit has also happened to many smaller cities and small towns throughout much of the country. Being dependent on one industry even on one or two factories will eventually lead to economic decline and disaster. Detroit and Flint were ravaged by the decline of the auto industry, Youngstown, Cleveland, and Gary were ravaged by the decline of the steel industry, and Niagara Falls was ravaged by the decline of the chemical and metallurgical industries.

[@Maria.9094]

@@r.pres.4121 so true.

[@dynjarren8355]

I remember watching a program about Detroit autoworkers. One guy was laid off from his Union job making $20 an hour. He suddenly could no longer make his mortgage payments. He became seriously depressed and committed suicide. His life was over. Now he could have moved or sold his house or made other choices but he was so entrenched in his good paying job that when it was gone he was devastated and couldn’t cope anymore. He decided to check out. This is what losing a good paying job can do to a worker. They end up giving up. The whole city of Detroit declared Bankruptcy.

[@ironknightgaming5706]

people are too dependent.

[@americanteen97]

@@ironknightgaming5706 no they’re not too dependent, the government and unregulated capitalist failed them and never game them the option to become independent

[@lkeysolo]

Welcome to the comment section.

[@Kuzyapso]

Glad to be here

[@notsure6187]

thank you.

[@mmddyy]

Thank you mister!

[@mmddyy]

Hail Satan

[@MrMaus1972]

@@mmddyy Heil Odin

[@SK22000]

Just watch a city council meeting and you can soo what’s wrong with Detroit

[@Gavo2Skantless]

thats a lot of metro detroit and michigan too sadly.... it sucks

[@rhnstjegilrhkscvn1djhrj969]

lets not forget Cynthia Johnson and her threats to Trump supporters

[@jondstewart]

From post WW2 until the 1970’s, Detroit was a great place for a working man. You could get a job right out of high school at an auto plant, own a home in a few years, support a family, and work the same job for 30 years and retire comfortably. Clint Eastwood’s character in Gran Torino was a shining example.

[@jameshorton3692]

Sadly, that way of life is over for most of the us. I think it’s coming back for part of the us with companies being able to count on global supply chains less and less, but that’s mainly in the sunbelt. Detroit going to continue to die on the vine. It’s sad bc the folks still there are nice people.

[@matthew_natividad]

And being the automotive industrial heart of America at the time

[@DK-nv9zu]

In 2000 years when archeologists start uncovering present day Detroit metro area, they’ll hypothesis why the city was abandoned. It’ll be like Babylon or Troy

[@RADIUMGLASS]

The final nail in the coffin was in January 1974. Coleman A. Young's first day as mayor. In 1974, there were neighborhoods that were clean and full of life and by 1984, most neighborhoods were classified as ghetto. The population shifted overnight. In 1990, Young said the neighborhoods collapsed because the population left.

[@dknowles60]

that is for sure, Coleman young told every one that left dont let the door hit you in the rear out the way out. if you tryed to talk about detroits problems you were a biget

[@solinvictus4367]

I also find it interesting how everyone is quick to blame "the education system" What they don't tell you is that it's a two way street. Yes schools need to hire quality teachers but in my three years of teaching I have found a lot of problems come from home. Parents who don't parent, parents who work three jobs and are never home, discipline that ends when the student leaves the campus, parents considering Ds as "acceptable." Many parents refuse to be parents or they try to be the "fun" parent and let their kids do what they want. This combined with the fact that students cannot be expelled from public schools means that the kids act out and when they do it others do it. When that happens it turns into a losing 30 vs 1 war between the students and the teacher

[@juliandancingshadow4959]

Yep it all starts with the parents. well said

[@wtfhlostonparadise8278]

Im from Milwaukee and seen the same thing as a outside observer. The annual budget of the school system here is almost double the rest of the city's budget. We keep on dumping more money into the school system thinking it will save it. Nobody wants to confront the real issues and hold accountability to the parents that are not taking care of their children.

[@DCfan6767]

@@wtfhlostonparadise8278 what do u do with the money?

[@cagatayrider4036]

"parents who work three jobs and are never home" Yeah, what selfish losers. They must be addicted to minimum wage labor.

[@solinvictus4367]

@@cagatayrider4036 If you need to work three jobs to support children perhaps you shouldn't have one till you are ready. You can't just have a kid then dump them into someone else's lap to raise them because you are too busy

[@bettyslawinski8265]

I stayed for the first 45 yrs of my life.... Couldn't stay past 2014..... The schools need so much improvement..... But so do ALL schools... I moved to a much better district as far as teaching but almost all of the kids are messed up on drugs.....in ALL of the suburbs.. And I moved to the country...... Still bad kids....Detroit was a different set of problems... Help the school system for the future of the city.

[@johniii8147]

Bad schools Are pretty universal in the US your lower income areas you’re going to have bad schools in any city Since it’s funded by property taxes. It’s a fatal flaw in the system

[@kaiyoung9983]

@Existence Is Everything Funding alone does not guarantee how good a school is. DPS is facing a huge debt crisis, horrible infrastructure, outdated resources/supplies. There is a need to spend more to fix all of these things, but it's just not enough.

[@jshepard152]

The schools reflect the community not the other way around.

[@dknowles60]

@@johniii8147 wrong. at one time there was a 84 mill pro tax in detroit

[@Valentin-mrt]

GROUP 1: The Golden Era p.184 Video + map VIDEO How Detroit Went From A Booming Metropolis To A Shrinking City | NBC Nightly News 0:00 to 3:00 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3SlqHxpncqioK8 Take notes on: the development of trade and industry the expansion of the city the great migration GROUP 2 Glory days with Motown how it all began p.184: kzbin.info/www/bejne/goCwdqGvoL6pmc0 Define the Motown style Explain “it was the same as in the factories” Explain “we just had this family of people” GROUP 3: From Glory days to hard times p.185 Article p.185: find the main idea in each paragraph to sum up the article In your conclusion answer the question: How did Detroit’s African American community go from glory days to hard times? GROUP 4: From Glory days to the beginning of the end p.186 Documents p.186: find the causes of Detroit’s decline and evidence of Detroit’s decline. Calculate gas consumption per vehicle MPG = miles per gallon. 1 mile = 1,6 km. 1 US gallon = 3,785 L

[@roudyman777]

As a man who left Chicago four years ago I can only sympathize with all the men and women who left Detroit for the Suburbs/another state. Chicago is VERY quickly becoming what happened with Detroit and we all know what the main driving factor is. It would be too "racist" or "politically incorrect" for me to state what is actually happening, so I will let the masses insinuate. It's a shame what the potential of this amazing country used to be compared to what it is actually becoming.

[@kevinm2559]

lets pretend chicago wasn't a violent mafia strong hold as a white city. you guys are so separated from reality. your racism tints your ability to see the world openly.

[@paulspadafora9503]

My dad is a retired New Yorker living in Florida (I know shocking) but his neighbor and golfing buddy is a Detroit native who spends his Summers in Windsor Ontario and Winters n Florida to avoid Detroit. And he spent 30 years in the military and is no coward but can't handle what became of his city.

[@charliejohnson136]

I still love Detroit and I always be a Detroiter even though I don't live in the city no more but I'm still in the Metro Detroit area. I believe one day Detroit will bounce back but it's going to be a slow and very hard process. The schools, the crime, the segregation and other social issues that's hurting the city of Detroit today must change for the better. Also even though the downtown Detroit area and New Center area has seen growth and tremendous upswing of jobs and residential, the neighborhoods which is the core of the city must have the same effect as it is in downtown.

[@twhite3850]

I'm happy to say that Detroit is now a recent shrinking city, on its road to becoming a booming metropolis again. We recorded our first population growth, 5 years after this video.

[@dialduane]

I'm white flighting this comments section. I might gentrify it later.

[@Swagalious689]

Until people stop using terms as white or black or code words like gentrify and urban we will continue to see the racism problem.

[@deniselyman8136]

Boy you so crazy!

[@suggsbomber7004]

Chuka Nweze I’m black american and I like all races I don’t think all as black white asian all that I just refer them as people

[@hesliterallymebro]

Lol you wanna blame white ppl yet Detroit had a black mayor since the 60s.

[@bonzii420]

Well played good sir...well played!!

[@williamlidster5850]

I grew up in Detroit and it was heartbreaking watching that once great city turn into a Third World country!

[@cristhianmacias7867]

my city in the third world have more money and investment than this city. haha

[@Wahz011]

MURICA!!!

[@Ahmad-di9em]

Stop insulting third world countries in Pakistan,try checking Lahore karachi islamabad etc cities

[@wherethehoesat3358]

@Rfdddf Fftgyyghh its was auto industry

[@aamaravel2493]

@@Ahmad-di9em ok ahmad

[@TheseusTitan]

I think of “white flight” when Mayor Colman Young yelled out, “stay on the other side of 8 Mile!”

[@thatguyfrom313]

White were leaving 10 yrs-15 years before Coleman.... Once the automobile plants moved to the Suburbs it was over and the freeways were built in the 50s n 60s

[@davidbrown8303]

There's a lot of white flight in the UK but it's because of middle easterners.

[@jcman240]

I still remember Coleman Youngs phone number, it was fee fee fo - fee fee five fo

[@davidbrown8303]

@@jcman240 lol

[@supersnapp]

Blacks did a great job managing Detroit after they became racially isolated. They should be commended for how they improved Detroit after most of the whites mostly left.

[@PassportGods]

2:36 That picture is so wholesome! 😭

[@maddizzle1776able]

Biggest problem is crime. No doubt. I live 5 miles outside detroit and never go in the city.

[@mg5679]

Democrats have ruined that city.

[@chrissantos5580]

@@mg5679 if any city that needs republican leadership it’s Detroit

[@invaderzim1265]

I see little to no hope more am I expecting it coming out of the ashes anytime soon. Probably not gonna happen in our lifetime.

[@wherethehoesat3358]

@@chrissantos5580 nope they will trash it even more by letting the companys rule even more and that will be the final coffin

[@sygneg7348]

@@wherethehoesat3358 We can't trust both now

[@evolutionshapesourworld7009]

Suburbs around Detroit are still nice. They are still populated by the people who made Detroit nice in the first place.

[@PoipoleMujigae]

I think the most well-known Detroit suburb is Dearborn, which is the current headquarters of the Ford Motor Company.

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

That’s bs ; the plague that destroyed Detroit and all the other cities . Is now destroying the suburbs . Dearborn ? Just look at what has happened to fairlane mall

[@jessicah3450]

When my family moved to this country, they lived in a town outside of Dallas called DeSoto. Black people were not allowed to live there or in many of the towns surrounding Dallas. This was in the 1950's, so it's fairly recent history. In the 1970's, my mom wanted to buy her first house, but she had to pay a much larger down payment because she's a woman. They told her exactly why because that's just how things were. I'm sure this very obvious discrimination wasn't isolated to Texas.

[@carloscolon3331]

I doubt it

[@r.pres.4121]

It is mostly the suburbs that are further out and much younger that remain very nice. Most of the older inner ring suburbs are more like the central cities. So not all the suburbs are nice. The older ones next to the city have all been declining and deteriorating for the past 30-35 years.

[@xenialafleur]

Detroit failed to diversify it's economy when they knew that eventually the car companies would leave.

[@kansasthunderman1]

Detroit is a city and not a definite group of people with no decision making capability. However, the auto industry was the 800 Lb. gorilla in the city and it left for greener pastures.

[@DavidGS66]

Crime is major reason. I'm in Edmonton, Canada; I've only once in my life seen convenience stores with everything behind bulletproof glass -- in Detroit

[@sophiakill2144]

Protected convenience stores are everywhere in America, not just Detroit

[@Metoo3232-pu2wc]

That is the USA full of guns. When you have easy access to guns you have gun crime. I believe in the right to bear arms. The problem with the US is they are to easily accessible. They also don't track gun purchases well enough. Canada has millions of guns and hardly any gun crime. The gun crime that there is is usually with guns that were smuggled from the US.

[@misakiyoshida]

Dude our fast food places have bulletproof glass in east Detroit. Everything does

[@anthonyrosa5006]

Why do Detroit poublic schools fail? 1. They are public schools that lack standards and must take every fool regardless of how lazy or violent. 2. Look at who attends. Blacks who come from poor homes wioth poor examples of success, no parental backing of students, little community support, broken families on government assistance and if they have fathers they often have a long history with the justice system. how can they not fail? You cant blame Whites. Why is it that Asians come here, were disliked but succeeded? They have a strong work ethic, strong family ties with families that respect their elders. They hold education and studies as the key to success. All things the self destructive black culture lacks.

[@deniselyman8136]

You had me until you called blacks self destructive.

[@MichaelLovely-mr6oh]

Your remarks about how Asians were able to succeed whereas blacks failed was made all too obvious during the LA riots of 1992 as the black community of South Central Los Angeles viciously attacked Koreatown.

[@jhonb6950]

I know for a fact that Kwame Kilpatrick took money from the city and gambled it away. He also had multiple people in on his schemes like the head of the water and sewer department. Not to mention that Kwame Kilpatrick had hitman targeting his rivals. Because of his PhD in law, he was able to Evade capture. It took over over 8 years for the FBI to get him.

[@danchris1852]

Detroit!!!

[@karlwhalls2915]

Black Lion Coleman Young 😂

[@starventure]

Free Kwame...

[@Nonchalant_248]

Kwame was the stereotypical corrupt politician. He deserves to be exactly where he is. But no surprise that there are still some fools who say that they would vote for him again he could run for office.

[@thefury617]

starventure How why we wanna free Kwame for?

[@carljacobs1260]

How could the name "Coleman Young" not appear in this video?

[@538frostrd]

Yeah he didn't help Detroit at all.

[@paulbeat2204]

Cause he was a thief

[@bluebo1212]

It's called denial and they don't want to call out an American Communist leader.

[@robertjones9190]

Cuz he's a true legend

[@RADIUMGLASS]

The media still shelters him. Even the Detroit Free Press named him as one of the best Mayors in the city history.

[@kenbash2951]

Anyone who grew up in and around Detroit knows exactly what happened to the city.

[@barronbarron6784]

Detroit would have been great just like new York or Chicago Stop voting Democrat🔵 it wasn't the auto industry that destroyed Detroit it was union demands that drove businesses elsewhere but Detroit it almost happened to Chicago in 1950s in 1960s but they came to there census

[@pieterniemandt1098]

Democrats burnt it down.

[@THEVISIONOFAITH]

Immigrants

[@Melnokina.-.]

​@@THEVISIONOFAITH so everyone who isn't a Native American

[@j.d.schultzsr.9215]

"The only reason I became mayor was that nobody else wanted the God-damned thing"---Coleman A. Young

[@tweedconstruction]

Well nobody else should of got it.

[@deniselyman8136]

Hahaha hilarious!

[@dknowles60]

nice lie and bull crap

[@dknowles60]

@rustbeltrefugee i live with in 40 miles of detroit. you have never lived in michigan. like i said nice bull crap

[@dknowles60]

@rustbeltrefugee like the facts said. i lived in mi, you did not. the book is a big fat lie. i know my mi history better then you will ever know. there were republican runing for mayor of detroit

[@Dweller415]

I’ve traveled to Detroit twice in the past 10 years and it is an awful place that looks like a war zone. It’s difficult to fathom that a city like that exists within the borders of the U.S. That being said, seeing Detroit today you can catch glimpses of what a stunning city it once was.

[@UrbanVision313]

Save yourself 19 minutes, just scroll down for the answer.

[@flash012234]

Nah, this is a great video.

[@carloscolon3331]

I'm enjoying this history

[@blagoevski336]

No thanks

[@courtjester1135]

I was looking to see what kind of excuses they had. Not disappointed.

[@Jonathan-zj6to]

I'd rather make my own decisions...

[@Aaron_R]

I live in Cleveland; Detroit is our bigger, badder brother! Bless Cleveland, Bless Detroit...

[@r.pres.4121]

I live in Buffalo a somewhat smaller bad brother. We have suffered the same decline and disinvestment as Detroit. Our east side is just as devastated as any of those impoverished abandoned neighborhoods in Detroit plus with areas of decay and distress in other parts of Buffalo.

[@philosoraptor2285]

Detroit has become one big unemployed ghetto. Anybody who wants to live there is out of their mind.

[@Mistertwentythirteen]

@@philosoraptor2285 this comment is unnecessary

[@Bobsloth13]

People started buying hondas and other foreign car (cheaper options) in the late 80s/90s instead of American and money ran out for automotive companies

[@johnschramm1880]

Union protecting the most useless employees.

[@redxsage]

The Honda I bought was built in Marysville OH.

[@ivanawatsonova4612]

Master of the obvious!

[@Bobsloth13]

Basically I was criticizing how they made a 2o min video on something that could be summed up in one sentence, be it a run on sentence

[@michaellovely6601]

@@pavelk1553 I agree. The Honda assembly plant in Marysville, OH has been providing residents of Marysville with jobs since 1982.

[@heru-deshet359]

Just look at who's been in control there for decades. You'll see why it's the mess it is.

[@george96]

just like the new south africa

[@Oc4ever12]

Exactly

[@TheKing-iz6ls]

Republicans

[@jwalk7134]

@@TheKing-iz6ls yes,republicans have been in charge in Detroit for the last 50 years 🙄

[@TheKing-iz6ls]

@@jwalk7134 they control the state legislature

[@eltonjohn3236]

I just wish the race issue could be resolved. Nobody benefits from this.

[@fellowtemplar5679]

It should not. If it did, our descendants would all be black, since black skin is dominant.

[@efngpobruh94]

Easy, just stop blaming white people for everything bad that happens in your life

[@gregshearer423]

Fellow Templar please explain how that makes sense

[@RemindingRemedy]

@@fellowtemplar5679 What, What lol wtf r u saying.

[@fellowtemplar5679]

Mr. Choudhry Something you are not sharp enough to comprehend, apparently.

[@scoots8519]

Pretty simple, look at the ghost mining towns out West when the mine closed and the economy left. This is just on a bigger scale.

[@lorwally13]

I just watched a video on the mines & thought to myself this Detroit on a smaller scale

[@jrjr3412]

DO you have raging crime and gun play in those ghost mining towns? Nah don't think so. Much more to this than just car companies closing.

[@hakeemsd70m]

@@jrjr3412 where do you think all that crime and Gunplay came from? From a lack of job opportunities. No jobs equals no careers, which equals no hope, add in despair and hopelessness, and you get violence. Luckily, I made it out. When opportunities disappear in a neighborhood, despairation is always around the corner. That's just how it is. I urge you to do some research on the history of Detroit.

[@jrjr3412]

@@hakeemsd70m So let me ask you, why can't the community come together, like every other immigrant community does?

[@asdfdfggfd]

Well in the mining town the natural resource was the ore. In a factory town the resource is productive workers.

[@Lorijenken]

I live across the river and every night I hear gunshots from there :(

[@yahwehsonren]

Wow

[@marrgielaa22]

move out from there lol

[@OnGod1007]

No you dont. You are a liar that's a fact

[@WallTrapMedia]

" An entire generation of people without the skills needed to thrive in a modern economy!"

[@deniselyman8136]

On point brotha. And it aint about race. It is about skills, knowledge and education.

[@connorgolden4]

Sad but true. I once heard about a higher up school official who was illiterate. Crazy stuff.

[@chukkachick1879]

@Quincy Exactly. He clocked it. And it is only going to get worse.

[@mpa8336]

I lived about 50 miles from Detroit. People who had moved from Detroit, to my area, spoke routinely of pulling out shotguns for people attempting to break into their homes- while they were home. There were guards in every stairwell, of hospitals, with shotguns, with instructions to shoot first and ask questions later. The late hours markets, the small ones, had armed guards on site. I knew a guy who worked as a guard in one. His job was to be seen, with a semi-auto Thompson .45 M1921, say "oh, sorry", and then vanish into the back. My father knew a guy who moved to Detroit, to work in an auto factory. He quit. He was the subject of 3 stickups, and that was enough. The riots really did some damage to the city, which you can still see today, as nobody rebuilt much. I remember hearing about a group of 20+ gangbangers rushing people at the Renaissance Center, to rob them. I never went into the city. Ever.

[@wisecracker1814]

Atlanta. Baltimore. Chicongo. Detroit. St Louis... Hmmmmm. Someone should do a study er somethin' to see what common denominator (cancer) might be afflicting all these poor, down trodden inner city areas. One just can't IMAGINE what that might be... I guess a good place to start might be by asking the few survivors that USE to live in these cities before they tanked. Just a guess. Kno'm'sayin..?

[@rewarp4017]

democrats?

[@mlconnors6117]

I come to Detroit few times a year. They have really improved the downtown area and other small areas. Like the midtown and cork town area. What happened is all the poor black people were pushed out and white young people moved in which it seems was the mayor and the big business people’s plan. It’s worked to get young successful people with money into some of these areas that were dumps. But still all outside these areas I don’t feel safe at night high crime and it’s just a weird mix of people. Now I see the city is putting low income housing with regular market rents. Can you imagine living in a building where you have a lot of low income neighbors partying and playing music all night when you work at 6am and can’t sleep. If I’m paying 1200 a month for a 1 bed apartment I don’t want low income neighbors next door to me. It just seems they are building a city but the core is bad low income , low education , split families , lots of drug use for most of the city residents.

[@xoxomangakcorxoxo]

My mom works in detroit (we live in windsor, canada, 15min away from detroit) and she agrees that it greatly improved.

[@OnyxLee]

July 2018, I revisited Detroit, only heard positive stories and saw happy faces from everyone I met, both black and white people. They all told me the same, downtown is no longer a war zone any more. People are moving back. People also signed up very affordable programming courses and got great jobs with very decent pays from IT giants located in Detroit. Everyone I met looked happy and confident about the future. Even nearby cities like Toledo felt the positive impacts. Isn’t that also true?

[@CNSPORTZEDITZ]

That’s downtown tho. I drove past the downtown at the same time and it looked nice. The problem is everywhere else I’m pretty sure.

[@Wtfe2024]

God Toledo is worse than detroit so is flint

[@kevinpollock6017]

its the ghettos crimes & not fighting for the industries that killed this city

[@polarvortex3294]

I think people underestimate the devastating impact of crime on all facets of life.

[@luxurreview]

I’m 18, I currently live in Chattanooga but I’m going to move to Detroit within the next year. I have visited several times and I love Detroit. It needs my help, it needs people moving there. It isn’t much more dangerous than parts of Chattanooga, Nashville, D.C., or NYC.

[@dervishmichaels9147]

Your virtue-signaling doesn't make you a better person. If you choose to roll the dice, I wish you the best of luck. Stay safe.

[@nathanv4320]

Lol hope you're packing

[@luckyhaskins69]

aint more dangerous than chatanooga or nashville? good luck mane. The detroit motto- glad your back, we missed ya last time....

[@dougjones2506]

You don't know Detroit all i can tell you is be very careful

[@lindag5488]

Detroit is a beautiful city, Michigan has some of the best Universities, part of the problem of Detroit is the lack of diversification of industries. What to do with the swaths of land that sit empty, how about farming?

[@barronbarron6784]

Detroit would have been great just like new York or Chicago Stop voting Democrat🔵 it wasn't the auto industry that destroyed Detroit it was union demands that drove businesses elsewhere but Detroit it almost happened to Chicago in 1950s in 1960s but they came to there census

[@ChrisJ85]

There's 2 Detroits. Fact. -Detroit native

[@kingmaker1306]

@Mike Wible I also want to know

[@01denese]

Yes - white and black.

[@hayalna9803]

I live on joy road and Hubbell in Detroit, people will never understand

[@Sp1n1985]

@Adam Antonio Seattle sucks

[@dmack1988]

Iwarri Smith that’s part of it, but the real meaning of 2 Detroit’s is now, is that of downtown and the inner city neighborhoods.

[@shashidharshettar3846]

Wisdom says “where there is no culture then contributing people move away”.

[@shashidharshettar3846]

Thanks for your feedback. I will restrain myself from “honest to help my utterances”

[@cagatayrider4036]

Huh? How can there be "no culture"? Do you know what the word "culture" means?

[@justamaninTN]

Cagatay Rider Definitely no culture contributing people want to be apart of.

[@robinsss]

there is a culture in Detroit ghetto culture

[@lif3andthings763]

When suburbs become available and black people gained more political freedom its time to move away.

[@Millsy383]

If you want manufacturing and other business to come back to Detroit, then you need to make it cheaper and easier for companies to do business there. That means, disband unions, lower taxes and cut back regulations. The flow of effect will take care of itself. More manufacturing = more jobs, that mens more working people. That means more cafes, more restaurants, more cinemas, more shopping malls, more dry cleaners, more clothing stores, more beauty salons, more grocery stores and so on. More jobs means less homeless, less crime, less drug abuse and less alcohol abuse.

[@synthiapyre5618]

It's a great level of hate to go to a mans home and attempt to force him from his home in front of his family.

[@juanchoja]

I remember when I was a kid, during the late 80s, early 90s, I was always reading Popular Mechanics which had a section called "News from Detroit" with concept cars, new models to the market, all nice cars portraying Detroit as some Galactic Star Trek city. Look at it now, Detroit experienced the Venezuelan syndrome.

[@jumpman366]

juanchoja Um what about Detroit is like Venezuela? You cant even survive a day there

[@juanchoja]

@@jumpman366 It's not Venezuela, of course, miles away from it. I said "Venezuelan syndrome" which suffered from many of their problems from the same miss managements, but in a lesser extent, just like there are different stages of cancer and gravity within the same disease. Detroit is is on the light side, but the core remains.

[@deedonnerramone4757]

Detroit has improved! You should have been there in 1970's. That was bad.

[@technologyproductions-ye3px]

It will be sad when the beautiful city of Alanta becomes like Detroit.

[@sixmile2360]

juanchoja Have you ever even been to Detroit? I have lived my whole life in the city. Past mayors (Young and Patrick) were criminals. The present mayor is a pragmatic moderate who is working hard to build private investment. The notion that present day Detroit is a socialist municipality is simply ridiculous.

[@jeffs6090]

All their eggs were in one basket. The basket crumbled. The end.

[@sew_gal7340]

Some people destroy, some people create....those who destroy can only destroy and they know nothing else

[@UBJibbs]

the great sucking sound that Ross Perot warned us about , the de- industrialization for low wages in offshoring to third world countries is complete, everything Perot talked about has already came true.

[@spoda81]

Thank Coleman Young and Kwamme for the mess the city is in

[@alwillk]

No. It was going down before them.

[@justamaninTN]

al d Long before them. Detroit has been run by assclowns since the beginning of the 20th century.

[@rhnstjegilrhkscvn1djhrj969]

@@alwillk they put the final nail in the coffin...........Kwammes still in jail by the way

[@jamesr2888]

@@rhnstjegilrhkscvn1djhrj969 For 28 years I read.

[@gimel77]

IS in, or WAS in?

[@chrisk8187]

As a younger kid I accompanied my MIT educated mechanical engineering to Detroit several times. We visited his friends from MIT along with my sister and mother. We saw Dearborn Village, Cranbrook and one time toured the Ford plant. The last time I visited was with my wife in the early '90s. Already we noticed a great decline even as the new downtown urban development project was almost completed. It was suggested we stay out in the suburbs as far as motels and areas of interest. The roads into downtown were in bad repair.

[@LutwaffeSS]

I was there in 2013, but that town fascinated me despite the bankruptcy.

[@trwwn3804]

Detroit once had a "hip-hop" mayor, who was later convicted. That says it all.

[@donthomason8409]

They had Jimmy Hoffa too

[@michaelcowan3329]

In my humble opinion, education (or the lack thereof) is mostly at the root of Detroit's social woes. But I don't leave that comment as a criticism of the Detroit teachers. Rather, I leave it as a criticism of the families and students. I taught (or tried to) in Detroit a couple of years ago as a way to serve after a long career teaching mostly, with exceptions, privileged kids. I lasted a month in Motown. The fights in my classroom, the pandemonium in the halls, the absolute lack of respect for teachers, the lack of support from administration were too much for me. (I type that with a great deal of shame. I wish I was stronger.) To be sure, there are good teachers in the Detroit system, but a teacher can't force a child to learn and to see value in becoming smarter. I can't help but think that if the general population of Detroit was interested in, and saw the value in, becoming educated, things in the city would be different. (In case you're curious, I now teach in an alternative high school in Michigan's second-largest district, some say the state's largest functioning district [the Detroit system is the largest], and it's great.)

[@michaelcowan3329]

@Tarzan Nope. Experienced that attitude with all backgrounds during my career.

[@deepshotone]

In 2009 Dan Rather did a documentary on the Detroit public school system called "A National Disgrace". You can order it on amazon. It will make you cry...

[@famguy218]

They’re giving all of these backstories but all it comes down to is that Detroit only relied on one industry for its entire city; when that one industry leaves, you decline! They didn’t diversify like Chicago

[@NoahBodze]

How do you understand so little about economics? Or is that the line that the people who migrated to Detroit sold you as their excuse for sacking the city and hollowing it out with crime and degeneracy? You’re so easily lead.

[@IOSALive]

NBC News, Subscribed because your content is fantastic!

[@BlueCollar850]

The UAW and corporate greed destroyed the auto industry in Detroit

[@lissaleggs4136]

In the triumphant postwar era of the 1950s and ‘60s, the Detroit-based auto industry felt no pressure to improve quality. Instead of gunning for unbeatable improvements in durability or reliability, the Big Three habitually focused on faux-aerospace styling and horsepower wars. It’s not that American industry didn’t have the know-how: The total-quality system was already proven and embodied in the country’s own wartime quality guru, W. Edwards Deming, who revolutionized military production. Ignoring Mr. Deming was the United States’ first and biggest mistake in the past half-century. It was easy to ignore him at a time when the world needed U.S. products to rebuild, and imports to the United States were largely blocked. Mr. Deming was roundly rejected at home, based on the myth that pursuing a total-quality agenda would needlessly cost the car makers money, so car bodies kept rusting, tires kept exploding and crashes kept killing consumers. More ominously, fuel economy remained stagnant with little learning about how to rein it in. Without foreign competition, complacency flourished. No one had any idea of the coming cost. In 1950, Japan was a new military and industrial ally that desperately needed to catch up. Mr. Deming unfortunately became the United States’ most important export, personally teaching and instilling the quality culture in Japanese industry. The United States received no payment. Instead, this singular brain drain nearly wrecked Detroit as its auto industry fell behind Japan in both production efficiency and product quality. By 1980, two oil crises ensured that small Japanese cars would earn a large share of the U.S. market. Less well known than the vaunted reliability of Japanese cars, the focus on quality also resulted in great financial success. Waste was eliminated along with repairs in the factory and, as a result, productivity at Toyota factories outpaced GM by three times or more. Profits were stable, and even though Detroit belatedly adopted Japan’s methods, the financial cost to the U.S. economy dwarfed the supposed expense of Mr. Deming’s methods. Foreign competition in the 1950s might have forestalled the pain and the cost.

[@lissaleggs4136]

@chief tp How bout Abrams MBT with Corinthian leather interior..

[@alecgurney9305]

South africa and rhodesia have something in common

[@frankchambers3042]

I drove to Detroit to see Madonna in 2001. I never saw anything like it. I thought it looked like a war area.

[@ICONICPARIS]

Lol

[@TAnd-nq6if]

Detroit lions please win a championship and give Detroit something to be proud of

[@jaybees5734]

Are you kidding? The city couldn't handle a celebration like that, although it's a nice thought.

[@FalconsWhiteSox]

I need the Falcons to win a championship.

[@rcmack2568]

As a child of Detroit from birth to age 50, I can honestly say that I’ve never seen the Detroit Lions win a game. I used to watch all the games, and went to many and, while I’ve heard that they’ve won some games, NOPE, never seen it. The term Detroit Choke is there for a reason. My favorite was when Detroit was up 49 to 6, and they still lost it. Don’t hold your breath.

[@zacm5618]

You’ve never heard of the red wings?

[@brotherricenetwork4450]

The Moral Compass Everybody that'll never happen in this lifetime!

[@andrewmachado6988]

Sad to see what seemed like once such a beautiful city in shambles. Based on this short documentary it seems like they finally have the right people in place to turn things around. I hope they’re able to do it and all goes well.

[@CarlosGarcia-yg9je]

I've lived in Detroit since 1978 and the two main problems that I can tell why Detroit is in the shape that it's in is 1) the majority of the automotive industry has moved to Mexico or oversees. Therefore, what was once considered middle class neighborhoods have turned into just 'hoods'. 2) The corruption at city hall starting at the Mayors office. Less we forget that our past Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, is in Federal Prison now serving his 28-year corruption sentence. So, between the automotive industry moving out and corrupt officials moving in, we have the Detroit of today. I'm sure there are other things that have contributed to it's current situation but, as a 41 year resident, these are to two blaring issues in our city.

[@cometwtf]

whos watching for school?

[@bbnnmm9]

These fallout games are getting way too realistic... great graphics!

[@GeoAggie11]

This is unquestionably one of those situations where the editor set out to tell a specific story with a specific agenda before they even began interviewing or filming. They had their goals already, facts be damned. It's very one-sided, misses a whole lot of what's going on in Detroit, and even goes as far as taking the good and twisting it to appear bad. I give it 0/10 and want back the time I wasted watching this drivel.

[@AnaRodriguez-wk1ol]

It happend cause of the Androids Detroit become human

[@Oxide21]

Good joke.

[@didncozosksma4466]

Two major reasons 1. Corrupt Government 2. Over reliance on the automotive industry (which wasn’t hesitant to outsource jobs from Detroit to much cheaper places in order to drive up profits). And many MANY other reasons as well.

[@tubby_1278]

I can't wait till Detroit gets on the "Abandoned" series lol. Anyone know BrightSunFilms? "Welcome to Abandoned, episode 200! This week we're going to look at Detroit! The city that is deteriorating!"

[@deecocheran1227]

Two words come to mind that explains it all. Democrats and unions

[@snebis]

What happened to Detroit is an example of what automation is going to do to whole human race in coming decades across countries and continents, and the process has already started.

[@tessarae9127]

THIS 🔥🔥🔥

[@iamgermane]

Minneapolis is in the same situation. While there is speculative construction fueled by non-real low interest rates, crime is up about 300%! During the riots of 2020, 180 buildings looted and burned to the ground, 1500 other businesses damaged!!! Not to mention the Mayor and Governor let a police station get looted and burned! Some of the offenders charged only got 2 years and some ridiculous fine they will never be able to repay!!!

[@charleslalonde2324]

they built plants in the suburbs because thats where you could find the large acreage to build the plants

[@deniselyman8136]

Thank you!

[@mrhvids4461]

Nah it was definitely because racism ✊🏾😬

[@scotchrobbins]

Most assembly sites in metro Detroit border freeways. Shipping is hard to do and gets expensive.

[@jhonb6950]

Most of the people who work in Detroit don’t live in Detroit. At the end of the work day, they go home outside of the city and the money goes with them. Leaving the city with nothing. I also blame like Dan Gilbert. He and some others are up to no good. General Motors left the packard plant abandoned instead of demolishing it, causing drug addics to live there.

[@sherry4914]

Jhon B at least they pay a city income tax. That helps a little. More people would live there if car insurance wasn’t literally insane there.

[@KZ3fps]

Yeah no, Dan Gilbert is one of the few people actually trying bring Detroit back. Simply saying "he's up to something" is ridiculous.

[@atlanta2076]

I hope Detroit is gonna push through!

[@samadams7006]

Islam will push through.... not good!

[@artofvalor9396]

No one wants to live in a place with sky high crime rates. That's a highly underrated statistic.

[@tutonreliablo2421]

Too many blacks just like Baltimore

[@Christian_Prepper]

*"Once a land becomes a desert it's easier to move than to cultivate the sand." --- Christian Prepper*

[@nathanielleeson7263]

Diversify the economy.

[@nezarl8374]

That worked very well obviously

[@connorgolden4]

Nezar L What? They didn’t do it, that’s a huge reason as to why it fell apart. In addition to racial issues, rising crime, and corrupt/inept leadership.

[@nezarl8374]

@@connorgolden4 EXCUSES that's all I hear

[@naknampucha5236]

@@nezarl8374 lol you can't just call it excuses when it did exist. It's pure stupidity to keep on pressing on without being reminded about the actual problems that blocks the city from doing progress.

[@thepepperlanders]

How? I'm sure it had nothing to do with becoming a black majority city. After all just look at everywhere else in the country that has cities with majority black residents and black politicians. Chicago is becoming a dream city. Baltimore is the place to be. Who knows what caused Detroit's decline.