Virtually all-white ad, ‘See Detroit Like We Do,’ raises eyebrows

[Lifejennings]

He should have made it all Chinese since they bought up everything.

There will be a Renaissance. Detroit is the biggest Gentrification project in American history, bigger than San Francisco and the Five Boroughs combined.

The two darkest skin men are surrounding the white man playing trumpet Nawlins style. Their faces are partially obscured.

The white woman's purse is very prominently displayed, saying it will be safe to come out soon.

Nikkas we did this one to ourselves

Yep Detroit 20 years from now will be a beacon of gentrification. They are going to make that city, so modern and unaffordable for the current residents it'd make you think NYC gentrification was a joke. A damn shame. All that dirt cheap property there. I'd someone really wanted toone they could make Detroit better for us.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Yep Detroit 20 years from now will be a beacon of gentrification. They are going to make that city, so modern and unaffordable for the current residents it'd make you think NYC gentrification was a joke. A damn shame. All that dirt cheap property there. I'd someone really wanted toone they could make Detroit better for us.

You know...Downtown is not an entire city. fukk the city is still above 80% black...of ALL income levels. If there is one thing black folks DO need to do is start moving back. Which is the wave for retirees people realizing when they don't need schools (because their kids are grown) living in the burbs is hyper expensive. Now, safety is still the issue which wouldn't be if we had police and fire that had to live in the city....to you know...help PAY for police and fire.

 

[Prince Mongo]

Detroit is one of the cities I just don't give a damn about. Much like Chicago and Baltimore.

What makes your opinion matter?

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Wrong...well not wrong...just misinformed.

1. Urban sprawl is a part of the main reason Detroit was left to crumble. That and a total divestment from the city by the surrounding areas. Mass Transit, jobs programs, etc. These are all regional things that could have easily stopped Detroit's decline. Chicago has participation from all its surrounding counties, same for most big cities...Detroit NEVER had that.

2. There are MANY areas of Detroit that a perfectly fine and isn't the fukking walking dead.

3. I moved downtown because yes, gentrification is in full effect, however, wasn't shyt there because black business owners were essentially frozen out of buying the land for decades...remember Don Barden and Micheal Jackson were a part of the consortium trying to bring the casinos here and make the black owned. They were denied. Also what the popular national media DOESN'T say is that black owned businesses are surging in Detroit. I actually ate three meals out on Saturday and they all were at black owned restaurants, my girl got her nails done at a black owned salon and I'm currently drinking coffee from a black owned cafe. All downtown (cept for the cafe...cuz its by my job)

4. Insurance for virtually everything costs EXPONENTIALLY more in Detroit....explain to me why certain people are paying in excess of $500/mo on CAR insurance...oh i know why. Because the Ford, GM and others lobbied too keep mass transit off the table thus FORCING people to get cars...and when car insurance is MANDATORY in Michigan...and Detroit is the population center....you get my drift.

What WAS done by black folks was...
1. Allowing police and fire to not have residency requirements. One of the largest, stable tax bases in the city pooof gone almost overnight.

2. Moving out to Oakland and Macomb county trying to keep up with white folks and now realizing that the infrastructure costs way more and FURTHER reducing the tax base.

3. Not supporting many of the black owned business that were there. nikkas love taking they ass out to Oakland county to spend they money.

4. Letting gentrification scare us into thinking we have no say in Detroit's future. All of the thriving neighborhoods have non-profit, business collectives that work to see the needs of a particular area and does their best to bring dollars to the area. This has happened in Midtown and Corktown and Mexicantown. However, other areas like Palmer Park, Brightmoor, Rosedale and others have either started or are making theirs.

You just summed up Michigan as a whole. They've probably done just as much harm as good to the economy here. When Granholm wanted to bring a Toyota plant up here, those UAW cacs acted a damn fool. Meanwhile Big Three plants were/are closing left and right.

And these law making cacs got nerve enough to say "Driving is a privilege, not a right ." Bull fukking shyt . Since we have shytty public transportation, that shyt is damn near a necessity now. How the fukk you expect to hold down a job with no car or at least an license? And don't get me started on that. The first thing they want to do is fukk with somebody's license. It don't matter if the crime was auto related or not.

 

[levitate]

As someone that has lived in Detroit for 4 years, sadly i too feel Detroit needs more white people. Detroit shows that there are black folk that just don't know how to act when no being controlled by white folk. Severe dysfunction from the street level to the highest levels of city government. Furthermore, the state governent is racist as fukk so its a interesting dynamic to say the least. After living through the Kwame Kilpatrick situation i can never wish that type of dysfunction on anyone else.

I'm in Houston now thank God.

Oh, so blacks are at fault and incapable developing solutions?

Got it.

 

[Prince Mongo]

You know...Downtown is not an entire city. fukk the city is still above 80% black...of ALL income levels. If there is one thing black folks DO need to do is start moving back. Which is the wave for retirees people realizing when they don't need schools (because their kids are grown) living in the burbs is hyper expensive. Now, safety is still the issue which wouldn't be if we had police and fire that had to live in the city....to you know...help PAY for police and fire.

@ the bold, people seem to read about Detroit, and other majority black cities (like Memphis), and think that everyone in the city limits is poor. They seem to have a hard time imagining self-sustaining, functional black people in urban areas

 

[Black Magisterialness]

You just summed up Michigan as a whole. They've probably done just as much harm as good to the economy here. When Granholm wanted to bring a Toyota plant up here, those UAW cacs acted a damn fool. Meanwhile Big Three plants were/are closing left and right.

And these law making cacs got nerve enough to say "Driving is a privilege, not a right ." Bull fukking shyt . Since we have shytty public transportation, that shyt is damn near a necessity now. How the fukk you expect to hold down a job with no car or at least an license? And don't get me started on that. The first thing they want to do is fukk with somebody's license. It don't matter if the crime was auto related or not.

Well the state is currently being sued over the responsibility fee so that's a step in the right direction.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

@ the bold, people seem to read about Detroit, and other majority black cities (like Memphis), and think that everyone in the city limits is poor. They seem to have a hard time imagining self-sustaining, functional black people in urban areas

Breh, I work at a black non-profit, with an all black staff, with a mostly black clientele, in an all black area. I see the FULL gamut of blackness damn near daily. S-Classes parked next to 97 Grand Prixs.

But since I been working here Can't NOBODY tell me Detroit can't thrive as a (mostly) black city. Period.

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Well the state is currently being sued over the responsibility fee so that's a step in the right direction.

I got hit with five years ago. Ironically, the judge I went before is the one that started the movement to get it repealed. I think right now it's reduced to a one time $200 fee, and in '18 it's totally gone.

 

[(Lean Ambrose)]

What makes your opinion matter?

He a racist cac...
@Barnett114 why is this fakkit @Birdie keep being allowed to come back and post here?...

 

[Black Magisterialness]

who gives a fukk???

blk ppl are fukking annoying.
1st off, nikkas act like racism is new, always acting surprised and shyt "o no i can't believe this is happening" ass nikkas. like do u pieces of shyt, bother reading a history book or a gaddamn news paper?

2nd, nikkas cry about racism all day, but don't do shyt about it... what's stopping nikkas from forming a group and investing in buying land in Detroit???

the problem is, u donkey ass nikkas are too busy competing with your own kind. all the while y'all try to befriend these cacs and other racial groups. while all these other racial groups are bossing the fukk up, dumb ass blk ppl are tryna be liked by others .
blk ppl are the only group of living things, where the majority wanna be around every body but they own. the only group that sabotage they're own..

then act clueless when reality strikes.. "o no i can't believe this is happening"

For Decades it was Detroit garbage imminent domain laws that made it impossible for the city to purchase vacant lots and resell them to potential buyers. So for literally 25 some odd years entire swaths of land/buildings laid vacant.

Then when it came to creating economic consortiums, black groups were either out bid or totally frozen out from the process. A private owner doesn't have to sell to ANYONE they don't want to. So basically shut the fukk up when you don't have any information AND didn't read the topic...

 

[Poitier]

who gives a fukk???

blk ppl are fukking annoying.

To a cac like you, I bet we are

2nd, nikkas cry about racism all day, but don't do shyt about it... what's stopping nikkas from forming a group and investing in buying land in Detroit???

I literally just posted an article a few post up explaining what stops black folks from investing in Detroit, you worthless white piece of shyt

the problem is, u donkey ass nikkas a
dumb ass blk ppl

Oh word? Folks need to start reporting this nonsense....no reason these cavemen should be allowed to get away with saying this shyt on a Black forum

 

[Poitier]

He a racist cac...
@Barnett114 why is this fakkit @Birdie keep being allowed to come back and post here?...

His Two Hands account was banned.......why is he allowed to use this alias? @Brooklynzson @barnett114

 

[Prince Mongo]

Breh, I work at a black non-profit, with an all black staff, with a mostly black clientele, in an all black area. I see the FULL gamut of blackness damn near daily. S-Classes parked next to 97 Grand Prixs.

But since I been working here Can't NOBODY tell me Detroit can't thrive as a (mostly) black city. Period.

It's the same thing they do when they tell us "there's nothing in Africa, we weren't civilized before slavery." If we have pride in our areas, our areas will become stronger. I see black people in the vast majority of white collar jobs in Memphis, because this is a black city. My mother is a healthcare professional, so I see black people with prominent job in the medical field often. We're the majority of city leadership. We're the majority of wealth within the city, because most white folks with money live in far out areas in Shelby or Desoto County

Despite all of that, there's still a self-defeated ass mentality here. I hate "we ain't got shyt without white folks" ass black people. Neighborhoods like Orange Mound are a testament to our ability to be self-sustaining, that was the first neighborhood in America built by and for black people. So if we were able to create our own self-sufficient neighborhoods, post slavery, why can't we have that in 2017?

 

[Cabbage Patch]

As someone that has lived in Detroit for 4 years, sadly i too feel Detroit needs more white people. Detroit shows that there are black folk that just don't know how to act when no being controlled by white folk. Severe dysfunction from the street level to the highest levels of city government. Furthermore, the state governent is racist as fukk so its a interesting dynamic to say the least. After living through the Kwame Kilpatrick situation i can never wish that type of dysfunction on anyone else.

I'm in Houston now thank God.

Looks like a lot of hurt nikkas didn"t want to hear this --- but let the Black Mafia comment roam free.