colt

I have only been home about 3 weeks all summer long due to work. I have traveled from Ohio, Indiana and other parts west and what I have seen outside Michigan and the Detroit area has been an eye opener.

1) when our govt tells us there are only 12 million illegals I am finding that to be total bs. In all my travels this summer i have seen more Hispanics than I ever have. Most fly their beloved Mexican flag and have festivals to celebrate their nations holidays, as what i have seen take place in Minnesota over the past week. These new immigrants do not want to become American and refuse to even speak our language.

2) In many areas I have seen the intergration of all races into some pretty nice middle class areas. I did not see one ' mixed' neighbor hood that was full of blight or young men with their pants down around their knees.

 Last night i was in Romulus and stopped at the McDonalds for a burger and I just had to look on in sadness. Here is a mixed community and they show the same culture that you can find on most streets of Detroit. Pants down to the knees, the f word being toss about while families were present and this even coming from the employees behind the counter.

3) Everywhere I went Detroit was only back on the map as some have said in this blog due to the Mayor and his legal battles. People see Detroit as a joke everywhere I have been.

Ken says this is the new era of hope. I hardly think so. As long as the culture of Detroit goes unchanged there is no "hope".

Look at the attacks on this blog site alone of those who wanted Kwamie to stay and those that did not.

Look at those who say people in the burbs have no right to say anything. How they do not seem to graps the fact that Detroit needs them and we need Detroit. I live in Wayne County which means my tax dollars that could have been used for other projects were suck away by a Mayor who refused to be a man. I have a right to voice my thoughts just as any other person in this area has. Be you from Detroit or Wayandotte to Redford to Rochester we all live and pay taxes and higher insurance because of what happens in Detroit.

                                                HOPE

Hope died for Detroit in 1967 and again when Coleman Young was elected Mayor it ushered in the era of a Detroit that lost it's values,morals and respect for it's self, that the rest of us will continue to pay for.

How can there be hope when its governent is full of corruption?

How can there be hope when the graduation rate in the Detroit Public Schools has been so low and for so long?

How can there be hope, when an elected offical is caught and the people blame the outsiders and stand behind a man that has cost the city more than we even know yet, both in the way others view us and the money that has been taken from the people?

Detroit will be hopeless until the people of the Detroit stand together and demand better from those they elect and stop blaming the people outside Detroit

UNTIL THEN THERE IS NO HOPE TO BE HAD.

Thats my views I am sure i will get various responses from agreement to all out hate, but have at it show the rest of us and the world how ignorant you are with your hate filled spews.

Colt