Why didn't/hasn't Detroit become a Black Mecca? Over 80% blk, Democratic mayors since 1962. Half the time Dem gov. It had the infrastructure, homes

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Why didn't/hasn't Detroit become a Black Mecca? Over 80% blk, Democratic mayors since 1962. Half the time Dem gov. It had the infrastructure, homes

Yes, I know about the car manufacturing plants leaving

But with all that time, why didn't black folks begin/start new industries? Trade with Canada right there or something... begin to pivot into other industries.

I can understand Small towns like those in the south being slow to develop, but Detroit has had the infrastructure for transporting goods, lavish homes, and neighborhoods, etc.

Detroit was America's wealthiest city per capita in the 1950s

Chicago pivoted

 

[horizon]

Detroit was America's wealthiest city per capita in the 1950s

You do realize Detroit lost literally over a million people since the 1950s?

 

[Richard Glidewell]

You do realize Detroit lost literally over a million people since the 1950s?

Took away the industry that built up the city and nothing ever came to replace it........I wouldn't bet against it being on purpose

 

[DJSmooth]

Have you been to Detroit? It's looks like shyt these days.

It be whole blocks of abandoned and burnt down houses.

 

[Sbp]

It was breh from the late 40s to the late 60s

 

[3rdWorld]

White flight..
They destroyed Detroit by starving and suffocating it to make an example.

 

[King]

You didn’t vote for Kamala, that’s why

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Detroit was an excellent and prosperous city for Black people, there was the Black Bottom and Paradise Valley.

I made a post back in 2021 how Dr. Claud Anderson tried to rebuild the Black Bottom but he was sabotaged by c00ns and sellouts:

This reminds me of when Dr. Claud Anderson tried to rebuild Black Bottom in Detroit and the c00ns and sellout sold him out to stop it from being built. Right now they are building an express (train) down Crenshaw:

Paradise Valley | Detroit Historical Society

Paradise Valley was the business district and entertainment center of a densely-populated African-American residential area in Detroit known as Black Bottom, from the 1920s through the 1950s. During the 1920s, the Black population in Detroit swelled from 41,000 to 120,000 as migrants from the...

detroithistorical.org

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Motown?

 

[TheMailMan]

Have you been to Detroit? It's looks like shyt these days.

It be whole blocks of abandoned and burnt down houses.

It's been on the up n up. Duggan got the city going in the right direction. Im worried about the next mayor tho

 

[Kool]

It was breh from the late 40s to the late 60s

Detroit was the Black mecca way back in the day.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

I dont want it to be

Keep these housing prices LOW

 

[Human Torch]

Industry.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I dont want it to be

Keep these housing prices LOW

I had a friend pitch Detroit to me.. Apparently I can make a decent wage and find an affordable home. I wish I wanted to move there but I don’t.

 

[King Poetic]

Because we had some leaders of the past who fought for integration instead of resources and land

And doing and after the civil rights that white flight as well as the resources crippled black communities all over

And u add the drugs into the mix , it was/it is a wrap for places like Detroit and others

What also doesn’t help u have the kwame kilpatrick types who tariq the communities with bullshyt talk and end up cutting deals with white contractors for their own pockets