I believe that this crisis was caused many, many years before the 1965 legislative action took place. It was the consequence of the decisions made at the turn of the last century by those who were in 'control' at that time. You will find my added notes, along with other remarks from other readers, following the article that Mr. Wooldridge has so graciously allowed me to reprint:
The Tragedy of Detroit, Michigan, immigration and the Great Society
By Frosty Wooldridge
Detroit, Michigan: created by “The Great Society” of Lyndon Baines Johnson of unlimited welfare
(Frosty Wooldridge is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)
By Frosty Wooldridge
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.
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 Time Magazine's 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."
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, kickbacks 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 today, 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 America’s 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 beheadings 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 THINK MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FORIEGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER REALITY COMING.
"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
(the following are comments from this reader):
The original email I received that attached Mr. Wooldridges' article had this as its closing comment (words in blue are this reader's addition):
"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 THINK MEXICANS,ASIANS AND MUSLIMS AND ASIANS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN, YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE"..
The original email I received that attached Mr. Wooldridges' article had this as its closing comment (words in blue are this reader's addition):
"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 THINK MEXICANS,ASIANS AND MUSLIMS AND ASIANS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN, YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE"..
(these comments are from other readers of the article):
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 FOR AMERICA - A COUNTRY SO GREAT, THAT SHE ONCE STOOD AS THE MANUFACTURING CENTER OF THE WORLD. SHE WAS PROUD OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO LIVE. SHE IS NOW BEING RAVISHED AND TURNING INTO GHETTOS, ALL BECAUSE OF THE ILL DECISIONS OF OUR LEADERS. LEADERS WHO LIE, AND ARE ARROGANT, AND WHO HAVE LITERALLY PUT OUR GREAT NATION ON THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION, ALONG WITH THESE POWER MONGERING CONTROL FREAKS. IT IS TIME TO RID OURSELVES OF THESE LEECHES, ONCE AND FOR ALL!
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 FOR AMERICA - A COUNTRY SO GREAT, THAT SHE ONCE STOOD AS THE MANUFACTURING CENTER OF THE WORLD. SHE WAS PROUD OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO LIVE. SHE IS NOW BEING RAVISHED AND TURNING INTO GHETTOS, ALL BECAUSE OF THE ILL DECISIONS OF OUR LEADERS. LEADERS WHO LIE, AND ARE ARROGANT, AND WHO HAVE LITERALLY PUT OUR GREAT NATION ON THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION, ALONG WITH THESE POWER MONGERING CONTROL FREAKS. IT IS TIME TO RID OURSELVES OF THESE LEECHES, ONCE AND FOR ALL!
PS. Detroit is only 700 miles from Quebec.......
(comments below from this reader):
(comments below from this reader):
This is what has happened to the infamous Motor City, once one of the greatest manufacturing centers of the world.
Why? How? Because we TRUSTED a few men - men who have corrupted our country. Men who have bought our leaders, and repeatedly lied to us. Men who are not American, in any sense of the word. They belong to no country. They may have started companies here, but as soon as the working people figured out they were being used, and being lied to, they 'disappeared', and now base their overly-wealthy mega-conglomerate companies elsewhere. These men play with countries as if these countries and all the inhabitants were Chess pieces- and the common people- the ones who have always made nations great- are their pawns.
Why? How? Because we TRUSTED a few men - men who have corrupted our country. Men who have bought our leaders, and repeatedly lied to us. Men who are not American, in any sense of the word. They belong to no country. They may have started companies here, but as soon as the working people figured out they were being used, and being lied to, they 'disappeared', and now base their overly-wealthy mega-conglomerate companies elsewhere. These men play with countries as if these countries and all the inhabitants were Chess pieces- and the common people- the ones who have always made nations great- are their pawns.
These men have done this same thing to every country they have engaged in their game. They strip the country of its cultural heritage, its values, its economy, all the while polluting and poisoning the hearts, bodies, minds, and souls of the countrymen. Once they have infiltrated a country, claiming they are American companies, they substitute once great products with shoddy ones. They de-educate the young, disrespect our elders, and try to impress upon us that what they offer is far better than what we had.
We have seen this happen to many countries in this past century. It is time we take back what we all worked for. It is time to oust these leeches, and take away from them the profits they have gotten at our expense. It is time to heal. It is time we helped our fellow nations recover from their devastation, and time we healed ourselves. America, the Great, did not get that way from the labor of these leeches- she got greatness from the labor and love of her countrymen- the common working people. And it will be the common working people who will be the ones who save their country. It will be them, also, who reach out to help to restore their neighbors who also have suffered at the hands of the controlling, greed-driven few.
The cultural diversity offered by countless nations cannot be stripped away without a loss to every one of us. None of us can be homogenized without great loss to all of us.
WE must step up to the plate. WE must do whatever is necessary. WE must, once again, become great. We MUST, once again, BECOME SELF-RELIANT, and we must assist all the other countries to become self-reliant, if they want our help. We are not alone - this has also happened to our neighbors, and it was stamped in the name of America, even though most countrymen had no idea of the diabolical agenda of these few controlling entities.
We can no longer rely on goods and services from those whose only agenda is to destroy what we all value so highly.
The illegal immigrants who refuse to integrate into and adopt a country's ways are the result of these power players crippling the country- and they, too, think that this destruction will not happen to them. They, too, mistakenly think that they will be able to control their environment if they allow these power mongers to assist them. They are being deluded, just as we all have been.
We MUST insist that these illegals GO HOME and work out own their country's problem, and we MUST work out ours. If they choose not to adopt the ways and culture of their adopted country, and they do not integrate, then they need to go home. Once we get our own country back on track, then we can assist other countries get self-reliant and reclaim their own culture if they want our help.
We have seen this happen to many countries in this past century. It is time we take back what we all worked for. It is time to oust these leeches, and take away from them the profits they have gotten at our expense. It is time to heal. It is time we helped our fellow nations recover from their devastation, and time we healed ourselves. America, the Great, did not get that way from the labor of these leeches- she got greatness from the labor and love of her countrymen- the common working people. And it will be the common working people who will be the ones who save their country. It will be them, also, who reach out to help to restore their neighbors who also have suffered at the hands of the controlling, greed-driven few.
The cultural diversity offered by countless nations cannot be stripped away without a loss to every one of us. None of us can be homogenized without great loss to all of us.
WE must step up to the plate. WE must do whatever is necessary. WE must, once again, become great. We MUST, once again, BECOME SELF-RELIANT, and we must assist all the other countries to become self-reliant, if they want our help. We are not alone - this has also happened to our neighbors, and it was stamped in the name of America, even though most countrymen had no idea of the diabolical agenda of these few controlling entities.
We can no longer rely on goods and services from those whose only agenda is to destroy what we all value so highly.
The illegal immigrants who refuse to integrate into and adopt a country's ways are the result of these power players crippling the country- and they, too, think that this destruction will not happen to them. They, too, mistakenly think that they will be able to control their environment if they allow these power mongers to assist them. They are being deluded, just as we all have been.
We MUST insist that these illegals GO HOME and work out own their country's problem, and we MUST work out ours. If they choose not to adopt the ways and culture of their adopted country, and they do not integrate, then they need to go home. Once we get our own country back on track, then we can assist other countries get self-reliant and reclaim their own culture if they want our help.
We can no longer be a dumping ground for those who wish to destroy us.
It is time to STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR WHAT WE ALL HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR. IT IS TIME TO RID OURSELVES OF THE REAL CAUSE OF THESE PROBLEMS. It is not the workers nor the common countrymen; it is not our form of government that is at the seat of the problem. We know what is at the root, and we WILL rid ourselves of this death grip. LET US STAND TOGETHER NOW AND HEAL.
It is our responsibility, our choice, and our duty.
Lest we forget....WE ARE THE MAJORITY. IT IS OUR COUNTRY, AND WE WILL SUCCEED!
It is time to STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR WHAT WE ALL HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR. IT IS TIME TO RID OURSELVES OF THE REAL CAUSE OF THESE PROBLEMS. It is not the workers nor the common countrymen; it is not our form of government that is at the seat of the problem. We know what is at the root, and we WILL rid ourselves of this death grip. LET US STAND TOGETHER NOW AND HEAL.
It is our responsibility, our choice, and our duty.
Lest we forget....WE ARE THE MAJORITY. IT IS OUR COUNTRY, AND WE WILL SUCCEED!
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