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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady I've lived in Michigan and California, and have family in the south (Virginia and Kentucky).
I have say, some of the worst racism I've ever witnessed was in Detroit. |
In Detroit? From who whites or blacks? I have been here all my life.
I can go back as far as the days the streetcars rode down the middle
of Woodward (1940's & 1950s). Them days White was the rulers of
Detroit, until the late 1950's when Blacks begin to move in, and guess
what Whites begin to move out.....Now tell me who is the racist?
Detroit was still full of racial attention which in 1967 triggered the
rebellion. Now here we are in 2007 whites are now crying racism
here in Detroit. So who is to be held responsibile? However here in
Detroit there is alots of interracial relationships & friendships, but
there is always a bad seed in all races that creates a problem, and
our Late Mayor Coleman Young addressed the issue by saying if you
don't like us then move across 8 mile.
Now since it has been established that Detroit is a racist city, what
about them small majority white cities that don't allow blacks in their
city after dark? This can be Ann Arbor, Benton Harbor, West Bloomfield
Hills (One have to make at least 140.000 a year to live there), and I
won't mention the many small Michigan towns where the Klan & skinheads meet.
So when we speak about racism we are not just talking about
one race but a bunch of Races. In closing Jim Crow is still alive
and well in the South.