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Honestly, why are so many people upset with the comments made about Detroit?
I'm sorry but the truth hurts sometimes. Detroit has it's good & bad qualities, but the bad if definitely tipping the scales. Let's do a pro & cons table, shall we?
Pros: Greek Town, The Motor City & MGM Grand, Joe Luis Arena, Tiger Stadium, The Dream Cruise, & The Auto Show.
Cons: Abandoned buildings, high crime rate, low job rate, low graduation rate (35%), high property taxes, high business taxing, race relation problems, government corruption, poor policing, & underfunding of everything because there is NO money coming into the city!
Seriously, if I've mis-stated something please re-direct me to the facts. This is not a "dis", it's simply the truth.
I can't argue with you about all the facts you just stated.
What I find offensive is when people will only state negative facts about Detroit and come into this forum disrespecting the citizens of Detroit. Often time’s people will come on here and make disrespectful remarks about Detroit by making rude and sarcastic comments.
Yes I know Detroit is not the greatest city in America, however it's a city I had mostly good experiences in and one of the cities I have encountered the most polite people.
I have traveled to several different countries, cities and states all within the last 10 years of my life. You'll be surprised at what places I found most desirable in my travels, as far as places I have lived for at least a year. I always loved Detroit and always will love Detroit, I only moved because employment opportunities were better elsewhere in the south, and guess where I’m at in south that also recievs nothing but negative, stereotypical remarks, Mississippi. I’m a biracial person living in what is thought to be one of the most racist and backwoods redneck states ever, I had an open enough mind to test the waters before I say if it's cold or hot, and I turns out that it's very racially diverse where I stay at, and people down here seem to have a very good attitude and show good southern hospitality, so now anyone who prejudges Mississippi in a bad way, I will tell them why don't you come down here and try it out for at least a week. I guarantee a lot of people will change their mind.
My point is a lot of people come on here not just judging Detroit; they have a tendency to judge the people of Detroit in a bad way. And from time to time, you will have some racist troll come on here and pass judgments on certain ethnic backgrounds because of Detroit. I don't have a problem with people addressing Detroit’s problem, but leave the good citizens out of it for goodness sake, the people of this city are suffering bad enough as it is with the mess that’s going on, not to mention some people really do desperately want to leave, but are stuck here.
As far as the racial issues, I seen worse in other places, I know it’s not a city big enough to compare to Detroit, but grand Rapids has some of thee most racist black people I have ever seen who tend to bee racist against their own people because off complexion differences, I also have seen a lot worse in Miami Florida and L.A. California.
Every city has its bad points, but it’s not so much of an issue that is addressed in an insulting way in other travel forums. If people don’t like Detroit, they have a choice not to come here, that includes the Canadians who come over here a lot when the cross the bridge. So my overall answer is, yes I’m offended because it’s where I grew up, it’s where most of my family is, and I would rather see people use more energy towards thinking of ideas to improve the city instead of criticizing by insulting those who love the city and want to desperately get Kwamie out of office. Only one person who didn’t like the way things were going in Detroit actually did something besides criticize the people of Detroit. He posted on here awhile back with a petition to send to Graholm to remove Kwamie out of office.
EDIT: KYLA, it's a little off the subject, but do you know you joined YA's on my birthday? LOL.
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