Flaming Pie
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Discrimination led to it. He was a teen during this period. It has to do with the anger one feels when being oppressed.
Who likes Ben Carson's radio rap ad "to appeal to the black vote"?
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Flaming Pie
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In the early 20th century, when blacks moved to Detroit in the Great Migration, the city had a rapidly increasing population and not enough housing. Blacks encountered strong discrimination in housing and jobs—they competed for lower scale work with rural white southern migrants as well as immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. Some of the patterns of racial and ethnic segregation (based in part on the differing religions of the Americans and Europeans), persisted after other social discrimination had eased by the mid-20th century. White mobs enforced thesegregation of housing up through the 1960s: upon learning that a new homebuyer was black, whites would congregate outside the home picketing, often breaking windows, committing arson, and attacking their new neighbors.[35] In 1956, the mayor of Dearborn-part of Metro Detroit-boasted to the Montgomery Advertiser that "Negroes can't get in here...These people are so anti-colored, much more than you in Alabama."[32]
Flaming Pie
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According to Violence in the Model City by University of Michigan's Sidney Fine, many African-American residents were dissatisfied with social conditions in Detroit before July 23, 1967 and believed that progress was too slow. After the riot, the Kerner Commission reported that their survey of blacks in Detroit found that none were "happy" about conditions in the city prior to the event. The areas of discriminationidentified by Fine were: policing, housing, employment, spatial segregation within the city, mistreatment by merchants, shortage of recreational facilities, poor quality of public education, access to medical services, and "the way the war on poverty operated in Detroit."[40]
UncleBuck
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yeah, racists are usually too stupid to understand what i am telling them.
Flaming Pie
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Care to explain how being angry about oppression makes me a racist?
If my vote goes to a black man and my husband is Mexican I must be one masochistic racist.
If my vote goes to a black man and my husband is Mexican I must be one masochistic racist.
Flaming Pie
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Flaming Pie: Descrimination, racial segregation, and oppression can make people angry.
Uncle Buck: You are a racist.
Uncle Buck: You are a racist.
Padawanbater2
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Do you feel the same way about 'Black Lives Matter'?
UncleBuck
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yep, and black people just get angry black man syndrome, a medically diagnosable condition.
that, and they are not trying to better themselves in life.
Padawanbater2
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ginwilly
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They are coming out of it. The Riverfront is beautiful, the new Mayor is a CEO type and the bankruptcy helped balance the books a bit.
The final straw of the Detroit Riots were because of the police interactions with blacks (sound familiar?). There were many after hour clubs in Detroit but the black clubs kept being harassed and shut down while the white clubs went untouched. The night before the riots the news showed 30 or 40 blacks being arrested for drinking after hours in a private club.
Detroit Tiger's Willie Horton (grew up in Detroit) left practice in uniform with his bat during the middle of the riot and calmed everyone down. He was the hero of the city, still is in a lot of ways, has a statue at the new stadium.
You can still the remnants of the riots if you travel down West Grand Blvd, houses and businesses were torched except Motown Records. It looked funny as a kid seeing one building in the middle of a war zone untouched.
National Guard actually had tanks going down the streets, I was way too young to know what it meant at the time, but US tanks in US cities was gross then, is gross now.