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Charles Brown wrote:
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>  here in the era of plantclosings (especially in Detroit), but somehow the media theme remained that Detroit was not working or had lost its "world class status".
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> But the personality analysis I give falls into the error the media wants me to make. Coleman Young was not so much the problem as the overwhelmingly Black population, which was the basis of his election and reelections, carrying forth the spirit of activism and revolt from the 1967 rebellion etc.
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> Now all the big bourgeoisie are happy with current Mayor Archer, so Detroit gets a good grade as a reward , and good press. We are "coming back", according to them. Compuware is now going to locate a headquarters downtown. GM just moved its headquarters from midcity to downtown ( the significance being they didn't move it OUT of the city). Casinos are being built. Land values are going up. Archer wants to abolish the city business tax altogether.
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> To use  poetic imagination :>), the image that comes to my mind is a field left fallow for a long time becomes ripe for the picking and for cheap. They are coming in to reap the benefits of their scorched earth policy of twenty-five years. You are reading their celebration of reconquering what they never really lost control of.
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> Charles Brown

I lived in the Detroit Metro area for 3 years in the 80's. I would agree
with you. The wealthy folks in the burbs starved the area of capital to
turn it into a third world commuinity. They must be moving in to set up
their sweat shops and exploit cheap resources.

Brad Hatch