http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...-detroit-ayn-rands-starnesville-come-to-life/ I gotta admit, I'm looking at her work in a completely different light now.
A Shocking Sight In Downtown Detroit: People Joann Muller, Forbes Staff "The city of Detroit is on the brink of insolvency. So why is it that Iâve never been more optimistic about its future? "A year ago, I wrote a Forbes cover story, Detroit: City of Hope, which included a conversation with many of the cityâs movers and shakers about the challenges of trying to reinvent the Motor City. The headlines since then certainly have been discouraging, at least on the government side. Mayor Dave Bing has been a disappointment and he and the do-nothing City Council canât seem to agree on anything. Meanwhile, the cityâs top lawyer is dithering in court to void an agreement with the state of Michigan for a financial oversight board. The political gamesmanship is probably just delaying the inevitable, which is either the governorâs appointment of a slash-and-burn emergency financial manager to run Detroit or a municipal bankruptcy filing, or both. "But all you have to do is visit Woodward Avenue, the spine of Detroitâs central business and cultural district, to see that something quite encouraging is happening. Woodward used to be Detroitâs Fifth Avenue or Broadway, a thriving retail and entertainment district anchored by the old Hudsonâs Department store and the famous Fox Theatre. By the time I moved to Detroit in the late 1980s, all that was gone, and Woodward was a Ghost Town, just one more of those scary, abandoned places you didnât go in the Motor City." More >>
"Illiteracy runs at around 47%" No. In a major city in the U.S. of A.? That can't be right. Aren't Detroitites edjumucated? Didn't they go to school and at least learn the three R's?
I've seen that number posted in other articles about Detroit. Seriously, who gives a rats ass. If illiteracy has anything to do with the failure of Detroit, then wtf, were schools just invented? Employers can offer all the incentives they want to entice people downtown, fuck that shit, people want good schools or they ain't never going to move to any urban area.
This is what saves Chicago. Chicago 37% white...public schools 2% white. Whites are enjoying that old Democratic game, separate but (un)equal. And the minorities endure the consequences.
Hardly. When it comes to education, the student gets out of it what he/she puts into it.... not to mention all the "affirmative action" bullshit. The biggest problem with minority students.. they don't make the effort. They don't go to school, they don't pay attention in school, they don't do their homework... then cry "woe is me". They're more interested in gang bangin' and being cool.