THE DESTRUCTION OF DETROIT MICHIGAN
By Frosty Wooldridge (Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist,
writer, environmentalist, traveler)
For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit ,
Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery,
gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs, and human
depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched
graffiti explode on
buildings, cars, trucks, buses, and school yards. Trash everywhere!
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it.
Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on
federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and
in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit
Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.
A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted.
I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" flourish in Detroit . If
you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking
money for doing nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America , outside
of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees... He set
the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black
man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge."
You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with
67 percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math
and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a
new life in another city or state.
Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the
same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much
so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000
throughout Michigan , but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved
out, the Muslims moved in.
As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful
Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much
shoplifting
that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations.
You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife!
Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure
dislike, and total separation from America .
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new
American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for
by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76
percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms
resemble more foreign countries than America . English? Few speak it!
The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the
city. In this week's Time Magazine October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of
Detroit : How a great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on
the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged
by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more
about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread
brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every
night.
Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated
the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest
of the country might take notice.
But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th, and slipping
rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow
unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.
Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its
signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than
to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their
dreadful decision making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount
of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs, and
illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death
from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people
out of every sector of decaying Detroit .
"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's
treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest
municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years
ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's
offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high
schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of
10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans ,
unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit , the
unemployment rate is 28.9%.
That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent." At the end
of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit , he
said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great
city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that
helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit
will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century. If
what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has
been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past?
And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about our
future?"
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, "$20 Per
Gallon", the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep
pouring more, and more uneducated third world immigrants from the
Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic
hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see
more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit .
Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
You have already seen it in Madrid , Spain ; London , England and Paris ,
France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers
grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that
negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and
subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see
more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers, and brothers that
demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims
prefer be-headings of women to scare the hell out of any other members
of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method
to kill our language, culture, country, and way of life.
I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND
SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY, AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS
WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU FOLLOW THE NEWS AT ALL YOU KNOW
THIS HAS HAPPENED IN ENGLAND , AND FRANCE AND SPAIN .
IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO
FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE
FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
~ Benjamin Franklin
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