This blogger has been writing about the City of Detroit for years. Having lived in the Detroit area for four decades and worked in the City of Detroit part of that time, I have no doubt that Detroit cannot be saved in its present configuration.
The fate of Detroit was sealed by the 1967 riots and decades of corrupt black leadership, most notoriously Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick, who played upon the class and racial hatred of the city's black residents. Those who could... left; those who couldn't are sucking the husk of that once-great city dry. There are hundreds... thousands... of ideas about how to "fix" the city. There is only one solution: creative destruction.
Now the city will be highlighted in film. A 2012 Sundance winner is about to hit the screens. Here is a trailer.
The film won't compete with the latest James Bond flick. It is one of those "art" theater flicks and will have limited distribution. Perhaps it will be available someday on YouTube. Who knows. I'm guessing that most people will neither notice there is a film about Detroit's demise nor care.
Read the posts below that includes a personal letter to Detroit's mayor, Dave Bing. Then go to the blog's labels and click on "Detroit" which will return about 6 dozen posts covering the mundane, the absurd, the frustration, and the possible solutions of Detroit's present situation.
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