- Mar 11, 2015
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Same advice I'm giving people in coal country. Don't wait for Trump to bring jobs back. And no one, not even black businessmen will invest in Detroit. Downtown they will but the high crime keeps grocery stores and pharmacies and every other business from moving to Detroit.Excuses! I lived in Detroit till 4th grade. The counselor in my new school said "other than what my mom taught me I learned nothing in the detroit public school." Imagine how many parents don't care that their kids aren't learning.Yes! Exactly! White kids from divorced families are fucked up too! Now take a kid and put him in a high poverty high crime city and take his dad away. It's even worse.I've worked on those problems for 32 years of my life The overall problem is simply not what you say. There are too many studies done that show the issue is due to pubic policy, not some breakdown in family. This nation has a 50 percent rate of divorce. So the black family being broken is not it because the white family is broken too.
The white kid at least gets favoritism for jobs and jobs are available where he lives. So it's not as bad when a white kid has no father.
The fail you have is in not understanding the role public policy plays in creating poverty in certain communities. This thing is not about broken families. I will tell you that as I have worked in these communities.
So we got out. If you live in Detroit black or white you may need to move.
I don't disagree whites helped create a mess for the black community. Any black that wants better should leave. We moved 45 minutes away. My dad got a job in metro Detroit and got us out.
Blacks can succeed here and send their kids to better schools.
You know 700,000 detroiters left after the bush great recession? And blacks moved to Detroit from the south for jobs initially. Why are you all so stationary now?
Blacks do not need to leave the black community for things to change. Money needs to be invested in these communities. Just as they are in other areas.
Decades ago Ford Lincoln plant was here in metro Detroit and they hired a lot of blacks. Same with Chrysler and GM. Yes it made a difference and would again if they'd stop going to Mexico and China. I hate it that they don't move jobs here. But they aren't coming back. Stop waiting for them to. There are jobs in metro Detroit but detroiters feel stuck. I don't think they are. Only in their heads.
Blacks find jobs out here.
And if blacks think Detroit can be fixed and is the place to stay go for it. This is a free country
You need to get out of the advice giving business.