I lived (and worked) there for almost three decades, finally now retired and living in the Freedom State of FL. I have driven thru the 'hoods. I have seen the gang-bangers up close and personal. I once fended off a carjacker at gunpoint from the cab of my Silverado on the infamous Eight Mile Road (remember the movie?). I raised a family just north of the city limits, worked with law enforcement, and even helped train the current Chief of Police in our younger days. I once dined with Martha Reeves (Motown) when she was on the City Council. I have seen the best and the worst of Detroit.
One cannot undo decades of neglect with a sweep of the hand. Many blighted areas are coming back - slowly, yes. There are still pockets of poverty right next to neighborhoods of well-kept homes. It will be a long slog and a painful transformation, but it does seem to be happening.
The lingering effects of unmarried "welfare" mothers will be felt for generations.
Remember when the MN riots were sweeping the country ? Detroit PD stepped up told the black "leaders" we will walk with you, we will protest peacefully with you, but we will not tolerate burning and looting and will arrest you if you get out of line. It mostly worked - there were a handful of arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct (a misdemeanor).
The video depicts the worst of Detroit, yet there is a sense of optimism bubbling upward and outward. The corruption runs deep and wide through the city (and the state)... I lived through much of it, so I think I have a unique perspective. Trust me, I don't miss it. Stretchin' Gretchen needs to go, along with many of her cronies.
Nowdays, I can be found by the pool with an adult beverage nearby. Life is better with freedom. Just my $0.02, worth exactly what you paid for it.
Ooh! Look what I found when searching about that disrespectful and obnoxious woman (Monica Conyers) from the video which was from April 2008. One year later, this happened:
What happened to Monica Conyers?
The Synagro bribery scandal and conviction
"On June 26, 2009, Conyers was charged with conspiring to commit bribery and pleaded guilty. On June 26, 2009, Conyers pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe in the Synagro Sludge scandal. Three days later, Conyers officially resigned from the Detroit City Council, effective July 6."
"The former councilwoman pleaded guilty in 2009 to using her position on council and a city pension fund board to solicit bribes from businessmen seeking city contracts or pension deals. She spent three years in federal prison. State law bans officeholders convicted of a felony involving deceit and fraud from holding office for 20 years."
Conyers ... Conyers ... where have I heard THAT name before.
There was a John Conyers in Congress (he ded now).
Could it be ... ?
He was from Michigan.
And ... he married a woman ... Monica ... who became Monica Conyers.
Yep.
Learned her corrupt govrnment ways from hubby, an absolute corrupt piece of garbage.
Conyers married Monica Esters, a teacher in Detroit, in 1990. She was 25 and he was 61; they had two sons together, John James III and Carl Edward Conyers. Monica Conyers served as vice administrator of Detroit's public schools, and in 2005 was elected to the Detroit City Council. Monica Conyers pleaded guilty to bribery charges on June 26, 2009 and served slightly more than 27 months in prison.
Oh man! That woman that kept interrupting needed to be taught some manners. They need to be able to cut someone's mic when they won't follow protocol.
How could anyone tolerate that unprofessional behavior? I doubt that she was raised with a father in the home. Probably has lots of baby daddies and not one husband.
Native Detroiter here, now living in a nearby red, mostly rural county surrounded by a sea of blue, since 1976.
This is not a new problem for Detroit. This isnt a result of the nations current problems. This has been happening since Coleman Young became mayor in 1972. He had his pay to play operation in gold krugerrands in the 70s. Kwame Kilpatrick is still in Federal prison for his pay to play schemes. The Detroit School system went bankrupt because teachers and admins robbed the system blind. There hadnt been a grocery store within city limits in 25 years. Street lights, snow plowing and trash pickup dont exist in its neighborhoods.
That said the current mayor has made progress. Some neighborhoods are being revitalized by Pulte Homes. Others are being razed and community farms established. Detroit is a city whose area provides for 3 million residents (the 1960 population when Detroit was the nations 4th largest city) but only contains 600k. There are vast vacant areas allowed to decay because Detroit has no tax base left to fund its downsizing.
Detroit has major problems mostly brought on by corrupt government (and truthfully the AME Church system) but it isnt a recent development that can be blamed on the current situation.
the real pandemic is the ideologies that are destroying communities & heritages, as it spreads throughout the country & the world.
they have to be woken up by not receiving any free shit. they cannot be allowed to be bailed out.
they must be forced to fix what they've allowed to happen. they must fix their own problems.
same goes for Mexico & the Mexican people. they must confront their own traitors & implanted globalists & take their once beautiful country back from the cartels & globalists.
stop looking for enemies. stop living as victims. wake up, take back control & start living together as a people.
No shit. I have come to hate the term “food dessert “. There’s a reason why the grocery stores folded up and boarded their windows. There’s a reason why there are “shopping desserts, restaurant desserts, gas desserts, etc.
"They want to keep us divided. Young vs. old, black vs. white, men vs. women, vaxxed vs. unvaxxed"...the list goes on and on.
The whole point of the Q movement is to expose this to everyone so they see and understand.
Then once people realize eternal debt slavery is no longer a fact of life, we take back Detroit and all our other cities.
Game over, Deep State.
We shall rebuild the cities with based American businesses
I lived (and worked) there for almost three decades, finally now retired and living in the Freedom State of FL. I have driven thru the 'hoods. I have seen the gang-bangers up close and personal. I once fended off a carjacker at gunpoint from the cab of my Silverado on the infamous Eight Mile Road (remember the movie?). I raised a family just north of the city limits, worked with law enforcement, and even helped train the current Chief of Police in our younger days. I once dined with Martha Reeves (Motown) when she was on the City Council. I have seen the best and the worst of Detroit.
One cannot undo decades of neglect with a sweep of the hand. Many blighted areas are coming back - slowly, yes. There are still pockets of poverty right next to neighborhoods of well-kept homes. It will be a long slog and a painful transformation, but it does seem to be happening.
The lingering effects of unmarried "welfare" mothers will be felt for generations.
Remember when the MN riots were sweeping the country ? Detroit PD stepped up told the black "leaders" we will walk with you, we will protest peacefully with you, but we will not tolerate burning and looting and will arrest you if you get out of line. It mostly worked - there were a handful of arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct (a misdemeanor).
The video depicts the worst of Detroit, yet there is a sense of optimism bubbling upward and outward. The corruption runs deep and wide through the city (and the state)... I lived through much of it, so I think I have a unique perspective. Trust me, I don't miss it. Stretchin' Gretchen needs to go, along with many of her cronies.
Nowdays, I can be found by the pool with an adult beverage nearby. Life is better with freedom. Just my $0.02, worth exactly what you paid for it.
Wise words. Thx.
You just uppin leave me here with this shit governor and all this snow smh.
Watch this. Here's a Detroit city council meeting. Enough said. https://youtu.be/YZQLxVO-qjM
Ooh! Look what I found when searching about that disrespectful and obnoxious woman (Monica Conyers) from the video which was from April 2008. One year later, this happened:
What happened to Monica Conyers?
The Synagro bribery scandal and conviction
"On June 26, 2009, Conyers was charged with conspiring to commit bribery and pleaded guilty. On June 26, 2009, Conyers pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe in the Synagro Sludge scandal. Three days later, Conyers officially resigned from the Detroit City Council, effective July 6."
"The former councilwoman pleaded guilty in 2009 to using her position on council and a city pension fund board to solicit bribes from businessmen seeking city contracts or pension deals. She spent three years in federal prison. State law bans officeholders convicted of a felony involving deceit and fraud from holding office for 20 years."
Sounds like she finally was held to account!
Conyers ... Conyers ... where have I heard THAT name before.
There was a John Conyers in Congress (he ded now).
Could it be ... ?
He was from Michigan.
And ... he married a woman ... Monica ... who became Monica Conyers.
Yep.
Learned her corrupt govrnment ways from hubby, an absolute corrupt piece of garbage.
[See: Wiki -- I won't give them a link]
Boy, the story just keeps getting crazier and crazier, doesn't it!
Oh man! That woman that kept interrupting needed to be taught some manners. They need to be able to cut someone's mic when they won't follow protocol.
How could anyone tolerate that unprofessional behavior? I doubt that she was raised with a father in the home. Probably has lots of baby daddies and not one husband.
Women in general and black women in particular cant keep their mouths shut and just listen. Another reason they should not have the right to vote
You reap what you sow.
blacks inherit richest city in America
Let's check in a couple of decades later to see how it's going...
Ever wonder why one type of people used to say about another type of people after they move in down the street... "there goes the neighborhood"?
It's not a racist comment actually. It's a reality.
Native Detroiter here, now living in a nearby red, mostly rural county surrounded by a sea of blue, since 1976.
This is not a new problem for Detroit. This isnt a result of the nations current problems. This has been happening since Coleman Young became mayor in 1972. He had his pay to play operation in gold krugerrands in the 70s. Kwame Kilpatrick is still in Federal prison for his pay to play schemes. The Detroit School system went bankrupt because teachers and admins robbed the system blind. There hadnt been a grocery store within city limits in 25 years. Street lights, snow plowing and trash pickup dont exist in its neighborhoods.
That said the current mayor has made progress. Some neighborhoods are being revitalized by Pulte Homes. Others are being razed and community farms established. Detroit is a city whose area provides for 3 million residents (the 1960 population when Detroit was the nations 4th largest city) but only contains 600k. There are vast vacant areas allowed to decay because Detroit has no tax base left to fund its downsizing.
Detroit has major problems mostly brought on by corrupt government (and truthfully the AME Church system) but it isnt a recent development that can be blamed on the current situation.
Funny. Me too. "L.C."? lets get a beer XD
Yea LC
Oh and I thought Kwame was pardoned?
Trump commuted his sentence
Amen.
The Great Awakening.
the real pandemic is the ideologies that are destroying communities & heritages, as it spreads throughout the country & the world.
they have to be woken up by not receiving any free shit. they cannot be allowed to be bailed out.
they must be forced to fix what they've allowed to happen. they must fix their own problems.
same goes for Mexico & the Mexican people. they must confront their own traitors & implanted globalists & take their once beautiful country back from the cartels & globalists.
stop looking for enemies. stop living as victims. wake up, take back control & start living together as a people.
Very true words.
Guys,
I have been saying this. Most black people feel this way.
You never here it because communist have done a good job with calling us Uncle Toms.
Social Pressure does work.
No shit. I have come to hate the term “food dessert “. There’s a reason why the grocery stores folded up and boarded their windows. There’s a reason why there are “shopping desserts, restaurant desserts, gas desserts, etc.