What Started the 1967 Detroit Riots? | History

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[@michaelvaristo5238]

I was there in 67. Worked downtown. She is incorrect on so many levels.

[@IgnasV]

Care to tell me more about things she intentionally left out?

[@kepler-444f3]

@@IgnasV by the sounds of it, they don't know, or haven't seen your reply.

[@johnharrison6745]

@@jimb1117 Very often, the original-poster WON'T SEE replies.

[@johnharrison6745]

@@jimb1117 And, very often, MY "lil bell" DOESN'T get a "lil red dingleberry dot in the corner" when I get replies to o.p.'s.

[@johnharrison6745]

@@jimb1117 "Yeah"; you ARE a freaking dingleberry.....

[@iw876-k7i]

So a brick started the riots and fires? A little more detail please

[@fsandoval92]

The first riot was on Watts, L.A. 1965

[@hackiehackerson]

Coleman Young and his speeches caused the upstart before he was even elected

[@I_love_mbs]

I’m sure they’re intentionally over simplifying the riot.

[@joshperez3436]

Read the book race in intelligentsia by Thomas sowell

[@tlove2108]

Yes! The brick had wings and an agenda to oppress the black community by causing the white folks to move out of their homes and jobs in the city.

[@felixromano3091]

They were not scared of integration the kids kept getting beat up for not being black

[@g1sokool669]

I was born and raised in south Detroit and attended school in Detroit in 1967 and the schools were integrated. I left on a midnight train going anywhere.

[@Yela927]

Selective history at its finest.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

You are too polite. It's biased, slanted history.

[@tommymogaka]

@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy - Then what is the truth? Asking for a friend... ;-)

[@Andre_Rose]

With out skin color. people knew that were destructive people moving in their neighborhoods and jobs in the area were diminishing. So they moved out and other people moved in. The new community members decided to open a bar illegally, police shut it down. Those people destroyed the city they just moved to. Got it!

[@hatelibtards4292]

Your absolutely right, the corrupt politicians didn't do much to help Detroit before or after the riots!

[@tommymogaka]

@E Van That's ok... I never accept truth without testing it. 😀

[@weatherboi]

Detroit has never been the same ever since. I do remember living across the Detroit River, borders to Canada were blocked and we could see smoke rising from the blocks of houses being burned. "Love One Another".

[@jaminova_1969]

Detroit, a Democrat run "utopia". The "woke" crowd needs a reality check!

[@ironknightgaming5706]

detroit is doing better now than it was in late 60's. detroit was already on the decline and all the factorys were relocating to the burbs.

[@YAKKOSWorld]

@@jaminova_1969 Democrat or republican Detroit would still suffer the same fate.

[@theprofiler8531]

Burned by who? Blacks. Burn Loot Murder

[@palepride7530]

@@ironknightgaming5706 the southern migrants ruined Detroit

[@loriaverill5616]

God forbid the cops raid a business that isn't licensed making it illegal.

[@forrisgillard4169]

It was illegal because they wouldn't allow blacks to own businesses or keep liquor license. This was segregation. God forbid you accurately get accurate information before you blurt out ignorance.

[@pedanpontif]

@@forrisgillard4169 It was illegal because the people were having an unlicensed drinking club. When the police raided it; the people refused to comply.

[@forrisgillard4169]

@@pedanpontif and why did they not have license? Why was illegal? Ok ..Back to what I just said racist whites did not want blacks to own anything. So why should they obey a Jim crow law.

[@pedanpontif]

@@forrisgillard4169 They preferred to not pay the fees and get their license legally because it would make them more money. When the police came at 3am to break up the party, did they comply? No. You can sit there and try to insert race into everything but the bottom line is minorities only play the race card when they have no other leg to stand on. These people were in the wrong.

[@waytoocozy]

Jeffrey Kallas just say you’re a racist white man and go already

[@joemckraken7960]

what is wrong with detroit? they have had democrat mayors since 1962.

[@afterlife697]

A truer comment has never been made.

[@DissidentClipper]

you mean black people?

[@Texasjim2007]

@@DissidentClipper All black people aren't Democrats. That's just racial profiling.

[@snowfall5171]

Its the whites right to move wherever they want

[@akimsmith3910]

Snowfall yes it is..however when white people did move..the cities went down economically..and it contributed to segregation..black people were left in the cities that became inpoverished and almost desolate..while white people moved to the nice upper middle class suburbs..this only helped to increase racism.. segregation..and discrimination..and inequality..

[@akimsmith3910]

Snowfall white people incomes were far higher than that of black people..when white people left the cities..companies white people owned and ran..left also..leaving black people in economic depressed cities..with very little income of their own..also with public policies..the government creating these high rise tower apartments.."ghettos"..and the legacy of slavery and "racial laws like Jim crow"..are the reasons for Detroit riots...Newark riots..Los Angeles riots..etc

[@LOKSTED]

It's the black right to go back to Africa.

[@GAZAMAN93X]

Federal Bureau of Investigation really dude?

[@LOKSTED]

absolutely, unless you want to enslave them and force them to be here.

[@carsonbode8394]

Bruh I just needed help for my history paper, but I can never escape the propaganda

[@loriaverill5616]

It's not propaganda when this stuff happened here in Detroit.

[@kevinarias900]

Me too

[@LegowarriorYTAdventure1234]

Anything you don't like to hear is propaganda huh?

[@ronaszn9728]

Ok incel

[@BigDoeNuts]

White bread is served on Fox News, with a side of bs

[@edgabel6814]

I was there too. IMO This is very incomplete.

[@Bluestar-nn2uh]

Like how?

[@jeffscoggin7365]

Detroit has had Democrats as Mayor since 1960...

[@stevemurray4122]

Ha blame it on Democrat’s white & black were never meant to mix .white men work hard create good things excellent worlds black men sing songs rebel against everything blame white men for there problems

[@MrBluebirds22]

I don't know much about these riots and was hoping to find out. Clearly this was not the video.

[@doormouse1182]

got that right.

[@matthewjohnson2853]

There's much better documentaries on YT to watch than this History Propaganda Channel video! A little unbiased fact check & research wouldn't hurt, good luck!

[@KHH595]

Wait... it was 3 am and people were in the street to keep cool...because of a heat wave...at 3 am.

[@CYPT313]

That is when its cooler right? or should they go outside in the morning to keep cool?

[@billmclaren9390]

Yip I agree wholeheartedly . Its never their fault so blame someone or something .

[@loriaverill5616]

You don't know Michigan weather to well do you? We do get heat waves that come through Detroit that makes it so hot that even at night people still can't cool down in their homes and being outside is a way for them to stay a little cooler then what they were inside their home. I've gotten up in the middle of the night during a heat wave and it was still about 90 degrees outside. People tend to forget that Michigan gets a lot of humidity that drives the temperature up even more but at least it's not like Arizona where there are days that the temperature hits 130 to 135 degrees. It's not to uncommon for people without air conditioning to go outside at night to cool down a bit.

[@justmejo9008]

Due to segregation you had a lot of black people whom were "trying" to fit into the "white" dream. Basic human rights. Less of them had jobs and had to stay together for safety and sanity. Maybe it was the safest night to get together it being a Sunday and all the haters wouldn't harass them on the sabbath. I a white Canadian girl was 7 and watched from across the Detroit river from Windsor Canada. I don't remember my parents talking but I was afraid for the people so I must have heard some conversations. There is a breaking point for all of us.

[@weatherboi]

Yes, you heard of "heat island effect" in major urban centers. Remember too air conditioning wasn't as common back then-most could not afford it. Even during the 1930's heat waves, thousands of people slept outside to keep cool.

[@navinshringi4608]

It's only a one sided story

[@vettekid3326]

As usual they glossed over why whites were moving to the suburbs. Having lived through era there were some people that didn't want blacks moving into their neighborhood but there were others that moved once they had to deal with it. Not all but in a lot of the cases it wasn't just one family in a house but but an extended family of 10 or more with multiple cars taking up more than their share of on street parking. The added noise in the neighborhood along with a rise in crime convinced most to leave because if you stayed long enough you saw a real drop in your property value. It would take as little as five years to from mostly white to mostly black and most of the whites that stayed were retirees that couldn't afford to move.

[@salsacalient1698]

VetteKid Thank you for ur insight

[@peacefulamerican4994]

Please read "The Slaughter of Cities" by P. Michael Jones. Exactly as you said, the same happened in Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee, L.A. and the list goes on.

[@Farandawayga]

so that was the reason all across America? And every black family had not just one car but multiple cars in the 60s? Every black household had ten occupants? We can tell the truth, many whites did not want to live next door to blacks. Don't forget Detroit had just had strikes where whites walked off the job because they did not want to work next to blacks. Let's not Polly Anna history. It was what it was. It is what it is. Let's just do better

[@nezarl8374]

@@Farandawayga Why would the blacks have a problem if the whites kept quiting their jobs? And why do they have to follow the white people where ever they go? Those are the real question

[@Farandawayga]

@@nezarl8374 they did not. They were fired bullied beaten and harassed, to retain white workers. As for following... Many people blame deteriorating neighborhoods on blacks, and it is true that impoverished black areas were undesirable, but decline also occurred due to an influx of a poor Eastern European immigrant population. As a black father working at Chrysler with an elevated economic status are you saying that he should not want more for his family? I guarantee you blacks dont follow white. There are plenty of dangerous white neighborhoods that they would not live in. Blacks typically do not populate trailer parks or other places low income whites live. They dont follow white. They follow good schools, grocery stores with unspoiled products, reliable public services and safety. I do not assume that you are white, but if you are perhaps you have an exaggerated sense of importance.

[@TruthMatters16]

Well that wasnt a biased report for History channel?

[@talii3110]

I'm not from america but I got curious about detroit riots so I wanted to learn more but this gives me liberal propaganda vibes. Do you know an objective video about the subject?

[@thehappypine]

of course they dont. The truth of white racism just doesnt fit the narrative they believe

[@PDGAF]

@@talii3110 Detroit willfully participated in anti black housing, banking, policing practices DECADES before the riots. The riots were just a result of all that institutionalized white racism and deliberate, racially motivated black lockout coming together to reach a boiling point. Can't keep treating ppl like dirt and expect the dirt not to come back and try to bury you. P

[@loriaverill5616]

Detroit is my home town and I see a lot that goes on around here like the fact that there's a lot of people that didn't put in the time and hard work into making themselves a success in life instead of blaming everyone around them for not being successful. People are their own worst enemy in life and they stand in their own way of becoming a success.

[@jayzipoy]

No, because stating facts about a situation means you're NOT biased about it.

[@booteefullmoosic]

A crowd of people were milling around outside an illegal bar in the street "trying to keep cool" at 3 a.m. in the morning? "A brick going through the window of a police car" is what triggered the rioting? Who threw the brick? They don't just throw themselves.

[@pygmalionsrobot1896]

Distorted and highly revisionistic. Also note that Detroit was one of the wealthiest cities in the world around this timeframe, and we see what it has become today.

[@thegadflygang5381]

It is bonkers revisionist. A bunch of drunken and high deadbeats hanging around a vacant that was selling drugs and booze decided to start hurling bricks.

[@thegadflygang5381]

Also, get a gander at every city in America over 500k in population.

[@kleepo7733]

White flight that's what happened.

[@panas1122]

yep. White people left and city became a landfill.

[@BoulderfistDalan]

Didn't know the history channel was liberal

[@adrianaser5997]

Trumptard

[@Malos_]

*Disagrees with something* "CLEAR LIBTARD"

[@r.pres.4121]

Matthew Navarro No it is open minded and informative.

[@paulburleson86]

Its sad isn’t it? We all thought you could trust it but this video is more bs than Ancient aliens

[@Hypercube9]

Why can't everyone just realize that only black lives matter?!? And seriously, how dare those cops shut down that bar, just because it was unlicensed and completely illegal!

[@lonewolfandcub668]

I wish programmes were honest about white flight. Terrified and you run,

[@maddisonsmom512]

Daddo And Son. Don’t forget to call the popos and snitch-

[@IgnasV]

@@r.pres.4121 why would they? Not their problem.

[@upcom1ng116]

What make you think it's dishonest?

[@Hellbunnyfelicia]

Terrified of not having white privilege, scary thought huh?

[@garyoakham9723]

@@Hellbunnyfelicia white flight is not being killed for being white?

[@MarkHolzhauer_Holzy]

.......Detroit simply became unsafe

[@galemiller7422]

@Austin Statin thank you! Surprising how few people know what this was about! 🙏🙏🙏

[@galemiller7422]

@Austin Statin that would be Miss Miller and yes I am surprised how few people know! Or care! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@matthewjohnson2853]

Case Close!🤣

[@Ebolter1]

so that brick through the windshield caused all the arson too , interesting

[@ronjames1914]

I know what caused it Cradle to grave professional full time victims at every turn on every occasion yet zero personal responsibility ever

[@matthewjohnson2853]

Right On!

[@duosable]

The woman even said herself, black neighborhood = deterioration 1:04

[@Doug1943]

Summary: It was somebody else's fault!!!!

[@Farandawayga]

As it was 1943? 1863?

[@matthewjohnson2853]

@@Farandawayga Yes!🤣

[@willielucky8464]

“While it was late , residents were outside trying to keep cool at an unlicensed liquor bar, because it was hot” lol man i hate when they get activist as historians , they were drunk and riled up and went wild smh it’s just kind of letting them off the hook still with the nice tone for the rioters

[@unclehorse3344]

This is completely insane. Is she being paid to lie? Omg

[@rascal0175]

She is pitching the party line. Look how young she is. I’m a former Detroiter who was 20 during the riot. I’m about to turn 74. If you want to know about the riot talk to someone who was there.

[@firefightergoggie]

I thought this was the "history" channel? Pretty condensed, prefabricated, vacuum sealed, version of events. Lot of crime and murder in those neighbourhoods over the years leading up to the riots. Lots of frustration with cops and cops frustrated with the local population.

[@blubedroom]

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.....

[@MarkHolzhauer_Holzy]

Propaganda. I was there.

[@rg-dz4rm]

As CNN would have said ,it was mostly peaceful.

[@C3Solo]

Still 7 percent and nor blm just a bunch of criminals taking advantage

[@matthewjohnson2853]

Leftwing cnn would say mostly peaceful or it's justified to burn a country down because of injustice!

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

“But it’s not an insurrection”-cnn

[@overaveragalystoopid9737]

Underrated comment😂

[@kevinhoffman6592]

Not and 68 it got really ugly and i had to leave being a young white kid . MLK April then exactly month later Robert Kennedy month after that i was having rocks n things thrown at me

[@bobdobb9017]

lack of impulse control.

[@will3447]

This video is highly one-sided and biased

[@rodradcliff3491]

Detroit went from the best city to live in in the 1950s to worst by the 1970s . Thanks to social engineering.

[@duosable]

you mean black engineering?

[@lonewolfandcub668]

Didn't need to burn down your own city.

[@wolfezilla100]

We'll when you brutalize a people in their own city as you call it make a people feel like they don't belong you think their going to feel like that's their city what if the shoe was on the other foot what if blacks did whites the way whites do the blacks you wouldn't do anything about you would just sit there and take a beating you would just sit there and watch your child get murdered by the people who say they are in your community to protect and serve...no you wouldn't this is why white people like to ask questions like this y'all don't know how it feels to be black in America but one day y'all will

[@nedrawarwick3840]

Exactly what happened and of course there was looting also. Curfews were put in place for EVERYONE. I remember we needed a slip of paper from our employers stating that we worked the second shift at the factory I worked at and you better have it on you .

[@osairqable]

1:44 ... That sentient brick should be held accountable for what it did!

[@marvin60000]

The brick just flew threw the window lol

[@CruzDeJesusGonzalez]

Who else is watching during the 2020 Minneapolis riots?

[@brunoss.3273]

Sad to see not a lot has changed since the '60s in certain topics, I hope people will learn from this but the problem is that people don't learn they forget.

[@kel5944]

Cruz G you mean the nation wide riots?

[@nancyryan7971]

No not much has changed...what happened to George Floyd was horrific..but people trashing and burning down their communities makes no sense..this is Not jyst about Mr. Floyd though.

[@nancyryan7971]

@@kel5944 yes

[@nancyryan7971]

Just

[@bobdobb9017]

One problem…employment was available and plentiful for blacks in 1967. The Moynihan Report and the Coleman Report shed light.

[@joeydembeck6232]

Nobody is coming in to fix that part of city ever again

[@matthewjohnson2853]

Google Map 12th St. in Detroit in the general area of the riot & you won't see any of these buildings for the most part just open area's of grass, the old sidewalks, the old homes far from 12th street. It's unfortunate, all gone! Anyone should check out that location now!

[@DissidentClipper]

well yeah, the white people left and are never coming back

[@Farandawayga]

The problem with this video is that it speaks of racism but does not depict the conditions that sparked the riot. Poverty, employment discrimination, attacks on blacks by civilians, brutal policing, unequal education, unequal distribution of services, (utilities, police, fire), whites striking refusing to work along side blacks thus shutting down jobs, the deterioration or relocation of factory and industrial jobs, all played a part. You can't just say racism and not tell people what was racist. Why was white flight and segregation a catalyst to the violence? No answer. Detroit was a powder keg, the fuse flamed by a heat wave as well as perceived social injustices. The raid just lit the fuse. This was a sloppy video.

[@Farandawayga]

@Matthew Lombard burning their own homes? Fell right into that narrative didn't you? Let's not forget that it is white instigators stoking the fires.

[@Knightmessenger]

Ive also never been satisfied with the explanation of "white flight." Like sure plenty of people were probably racist but that doesn't explain the population loss Detroit suffered in the following decades. Recently, many african americans have moved out of Detroit to suburbs like Southfield, Eastpointe and Harper Woods in search of better schools, less crime and closer proximity to jobs. So "middle class flight" might be a better term. Other cities didn't see the same kind of abandonment so if there was less white flight in say Chicago or Minneapolis, does that mean people were way more racist in Detroit than those other cities? Lack of regional cooperation, major construction projects that created a fortress like appearance (RenCen being most prominent), and new factories that took out entire neighborhoods (Poletown and Jefferson North) also were contributing factors as better planning might have made the money spent help the surrounding areas more.

[@JL_Lux]

1:23 is when it does

[@shaddythewiz3836]

@@Knightmessenger white flight is usually directed to the process in the 60s-80s not what is happening now because back then it was kinda because of race . Now ik not everyone moved because of that but it was a large chunk it it’s called white flight because back then the large majority of people moving out was white . Also it happened all over the country . Also now we don’t call it white flight is cuz cities now have more people moving into the city center then leaving and like you said it’s not just white people . i understand the mix up as people do use it a lot with out a clear definition but for you it basically the event when a large amount of white Americans through 60s to the 80s moved out of city centers

[@ss6truks]

@@shaddythewiz3836 I know alot of boomers that still do it I helped a lady move out of her house she was sort of well off but she was going to some like retirement community for rich yuppies in Sedona Arizona and her whole thing was emphasizing how much the neighborhood is "changing" and you can infer what she meant but I always thought the cycle of white flight was so dumb because it's based on the fear of something irrational like the demographics of a neighborhood will naturally change over time??

[@johnsmith-fz3qk]

Need a little more detail on "white flight"... seems a bit wishy washy to throw that out there without ANY details other than "they were scared"... why though?

[@matthewjohnson2853]

This video is a disgrace, there's much better documentaries about the 1967 Detroit Riots than from the History Propaganda Channel!

[@nedrawarwick3840]

As crime raised in neighborhoods people choose to move their families to safer neighborhoods that simple who wants their children to grow up in an unsafe environment? But they called it white flight

[@Harley.Davidson]

The police raided a blind pig. It got worse from there. I remember this. I was 9 years old.

[@firefightergoggie]

So the history channel has gone liberal now?

[@TheWhiteTrashPanda]

They always were

[@leighfoulkes7297]

You do know that the US is actually a liberal country and that both capitalism and democracy are liberal ideas? Talk about being brainwashed by fascist!

[@Farandawayga]

I don't think a true history channel show would have been this flimsy. Sloppy to try to cram so much into 4 minutes

[@r.pres.4121]

SuperSix Delta better than conservative!

[@GoogleAccount-dc9ic]

white flight???? Sounds like to me extremely poor management I've been to Detroit over 5500 X worked there for years it had more to do with greed and mismanagement not a certain ethnic group that left

[@aimeesheppeck-reid994]

do you even know what ghettoization is or what

[@johnharrison6745]

@@aimeesheppeck-reid994 Yeah; it's the trashing that Blake's do to their own neighborhood.

[@matthewjohnson2853]

@@aimeesheppeck-reid994 When certain people move into a once clean, safe, prosperous neighborhood & ghettoize it to their standards?

[@mmee123456789]

Ayyy, most destructive honey? I think we own that title today.

[@cookiewreck1840]

Nah...

[@lavieestbelle6530]

Donkey national guard is gonna shoot all of em dead just wait

[@DFWFeelingCocky]

Grew up in Detroit. 1967 was the beginning of the end.

[@slund2473]

it’s almost as if people should live with their own people

[@jughound7923]

Modern Human People ? ( as we are all the SAME MANNER of People )

[@johnharrison6745]

@@jughound7923 No; we're not.

[@jughound7923]

@@johnharrison6745 OH YES WE ARE SIR ! For How are YOU of a Different MANNER Than I am ? - What Organs do YOU Have that I do not also have as well ? Isaac's oldest Son is the Sasquatch People beyond all doubt. Ask the Native Americans ( I did ) They will tell you of this Nocturnal Nation of People who they call the Sasquatch People. Who are of a different MANNER than You , Me , or ANY Other Modern Human. Who they call the Sasquatch People.

[@jughound7923]

@@johnharrison6745 What is it that makes YOU of a Different MANNER than I am ?

[@johnharrison6745]

@@jughound7923 No; we're not. Genetics makes me "of a different manner than you are". Also, you're /Vuts, and, I'm not.

[@user-dr4ey1qk5e]

My great uncle worked for the national guard in Detroit and I have a picture of him on a tank going to Detroit from TACOM

[@rafxelsierra]

When I find my self with time of trouble mother Mary comes to me

[@GlowingMpd]

Rafael Sierra that should be When I find myself IN TIMES of trouble...!!!

[@bubblesbubbles3415]

Catholicism is a cult

[@rafxelsierra]

Bubbles Bubbles Ik talking about the Beatles song...

[@stephensonselina]

No air conditioner that was the problem

[@Farandawayga]

All hail Andrew Carrier. That dude needs his own holiday.

[@darcydrake6787]

Some people only know one way to respond to anything.

[@mattthomas1442]

If only everybody would get along famously ...

[@Autobotmatt428]

Riots never solve anything.

[@Thinker669]

It cost the city money.

[@Autobotmatt428]

Mr. Nationwide it also makes people look bad.

[@brunoss.3273]

Didn't the U.S. riot against England to achieve independence? The truth is riots bring in change and they are a political statement to those that are not heard, forgotten, and mistreated by the system.

[@BigDoeNuts]

How did Ireland achieve independence ? How did the US achieve independence ? How did India achieve independence ? Etc

[@justamaninTN]

Zack Notice they only work when you’re the majority in the country.

[@chiefs816kc]

2:51 Why are these media outlets always linking the plight of African Americans with LGBT? We are totally different. The struggles of both groups are different.

[@Alex-gc5pw]

History always repeats itself I stg

[@nezarl8374]

If I lived in a neighborhood where 8 out of 10 houses had black families I'm selling my house and moving out You can't force me to live next to them

[@kel5944]

👻boo

[@nezarl8374]

@@kel5944 I'm black Boom

[@Scarywesley4]

Yeah look again buddy. Most of the people doing the looting and burning today are ANTIFA (white people)...

[@nezarl8374]

@@Scarywesley4 I've seen every video Most were blacks

[@zart3374]

@@Scarywesley4 The people that are doing the looting and rioting, they dont care about justice. t They don't care about White people or Black people, they just care about using unfortunate scenarios to better themselves. To steal. To destroy. To hurt. To fight. To be selfish.

[@ichmich9324]

When I compare that to what happens today with the BLM movement, i begin to think that maybe racism isn't the problem. And the conclusion isn't really nice. Give guys like Thomas sowell the option to choose what they want, stay or go and the rest back to Africa. One of the simplest solutions

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

There was prosperous Liberia, & then the ilk of Charles Taylor happened.

[@alexishope2079]

Are you dumb? Black people are American. They aren't immigrants. If whites are that miserable go back to Britain. If that last statement makes no sense I've proven my point.

[@matthewjohnson2853]

@@alexishope2079"Anyone" born in America or legally immigrates to America is American plus you meant to say Europe not just Britain!🙄

[@ClapSniping]

Matthew Johnson no they’re not. If anyone can become American it is a useless term and country

[@cenote100]

Shame on The HISTORY® Channel! One of the worst documentaries I’ve heard in a long time

[@flsandye4639]

Yes.....I remember this. I lived about 15 miles north of Detroit.

[@markallen4637]

I lived in Pleasant Ridge at the time.

[@JaylenPotts-zs2qw]

The Detroit Riots are very historic civil disorders in our country which were very horrendous.

[@chipkroneman6910]

What about Cooper, Temple and Pollard?? and little Tania?

[@beckysnyder4591]

History--- they raided a Blind Pig as it was called. It was a private party. I was in Detroit visiting family who still lived there. Mom & I moved from West Detroit to a very small town in Ohio after she remarried after my dad passed. The news in other states was not very truthful about what happened.

[@dakruise1]

Obama supporters

[@Scarywesley4]

Didn't Michigan go for Trump in 2016? So are they Trump supporters now?

[@IgnasV]

@@Scarywesley4 dunno, the city of Detroit voted Democrat but the state is bigger than one of its failures.

[@aregularperson7573]

While this aged well

[@maddisonsmom512]

A brick started a fire!!!!! Wowwza!

What kind of fools would burn-out their own neighborhood stores? Cops should have shot down the looters and arsonists.

[@Thinker669]

I think the police did shoot them.

[@matthewjohnson2853]

Don't watch this manipulative video from the History Propaganda Channel, there's much better & honest documentaries on YT to watch!

[@Armyjg83]

Lost all respect for the history channel

[@matty54379]

they will never be happy .

[@philstall6262]

ONE OF THE WORST DAYS OF JULY 23 27 1967 I KNOWN OF A LADY THAT WAS COMING FROM DETROIT DRIVEING IN IT WAS VERY VERY BAD

[@arthurslayer]

Thank's

[@barrysmith3190]

So, the riot was caused by racism? I am so sick to my stomach of hearing that about every bad event that takes place in this country. Where have all the thinkers gone?

[@albusai]

Im Hispanic came to USA 1990 . Ones a few people from the hood moved to where i was majority white . There went the neighborhood 😮😮

[@doormouse1182]

half of the story, is better than none .....?

[@jakubjary9052]

NIce propaganda

[@christopherlee5719]

and it is now 2021 and what has changed?

[@matthewjohnson2853]

The cool cars, music & police uniforms have changed! Everything is worse now!🤣

[@alwaysmeepin9609]

What’s changed is systematic racism is gone now, there’s just a couple of racist people and now people call that systematic racism but it really isn’t

[@Ch33no]

This is a professor? From where?

[@dannyboy5200]

Kangz university

[@lewisthomas2132]

Who’s watching now in 2020 thinking shiiii that’s nothing compared to what’s happening now 🤷‍♂️

[@kepler-444f3]

Yea. Pretty sad tbh

[@stephenmccall3569]

Respect works both ways. The looting, anarchy and violence is unacceptable and any rational person would not want to raise a family there. Not to mention the property values and money for services start becoming stagnant. Time for people to take responsibility for their own life and destiny because takes a community effort to make things better not social assistance or government intervention.

[@nedrawarwick3840]

I grew up in Detroit and back in the 60's nobody had air conditioning in their houses, maybe the rich in Grosse Pointe. I'm a white women and we had a fan to cool us while it slept at 3am. I remember the riots well and it was not a pretty sight so sad.

[@barbarosasmth2104]

We know what caused tge riots..... the same people that always cause tye riots

[@imperialguard28]

Is George Romney related to Mitt Romney?

[@robertzbiciak8976]

His father

[@Thinker669]

He also worked for AMC.

[@loriaverill5616]

I was wondering that myself.

[@loriaverill5616]

@@LatinaGaming88 that happens from time to time and it happened to me and my mom when we worked in the same casino in the same department people that didn't know me knew I was related to my mom and my friends always say that I'm her clone. Unless people are familiar with them they most likely won't know they are related, especially if they aren't from Michigan.

[@pistongreg]

The truth will set you free.

[@nancyryan7971]

2020..not much has changed...except Covid

[@rrsidentfrickhoe]

Exactly racism hasn't changed much

[@psgamerOO]

Why can’t detroit be better. I was born there but left to Lake orion. This sucks.

[@IgnasV]

I mean. You did move to a whiter community rather than fixing your city.

[@psgamerOO]

Iggy dude what can a 10 year old do? maybe when i grow up yeah i’ll help.

[@jasonkeighin9401]

bahahahahaha. yes. wht racism caused all of this. Not the actions of the perpetrators. please, enlighten us with more of your undending wisdom.

[@tinkertron]

Roit? I though by today standards this would be a peaceful protest?

[@Tom_Lynx_98626]

Blacks did !!!

[@martingamez2488]

How nice of her

[@nadamejazenterprisenadam]

robocop was late bout 2 decades..lol

[@timothymeehan181]

You omitted the actual start of it(and the irony involved therein). There were many “blind pigs” in Detroit-Informal bars & community centers, both black and white, that were used for “private parties”, etc. And yes, the cops were much more inclined to raid the black ones, which is what happened that night. 2 black army veterans had recently returned(having survived) from their 12 month tour of Vietnam, and their friends & family were having a “welcome home” party for them at one such blind pig. The cops raided the club that night, and began beating and arresting the people inside, and on this particular night, the people decided to fight back, and blacks in the surrounding neighborhood came out to protest & defend their friends and family, which then grew into a full scale riot and spread further & further. The irony is that 2 young black guys managed to survive their 12 month tour in Vietnam, only to come home and be attacked by cops in their own neighborhood upon their return. Detroit’s history(as racist & segregated as Birmingham, Alabama, Little Rock, Arkansas, etc) made such an evening almost inevitable. Chickens coming home to roost, indeed. And I say all this as a white guy who was 4 years old at the time in ‘67 and living on the northwest side of Detroit(Finkell & Outer Drive), my dad working at the GM building downtown at the time. I’ve heard far too many of my white friends & family over the years, with little or NO understanding of their city’s history, blame the black folks for that night. That night was a looong time coming….😔🙏🇱🇷

[@milhouse14]

Make a video about the Stonewall Riots too

[@ronsmith7739]

So what happened ?????????????

[@billbuschgen520]

I lived it. I was also in Miami for their riots...lucky me.

[@galemiller7422]

little girl holding sign that says white power is very unnerving! And sad 🙏

[@mikeclancy741]

Commie agent provocateurs also had a hand...

[@jrpacer6355]

I was only 2 days old then

[@myparadiseing]

Why the riots? No Kentucky Fried Chicken, is why!