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Every citizen has a vested interest in the property of their city. In this respect, all property within the limits is "theirs." With this in mind, every person who participated in the riot and is a citizen destroyed their own property.
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BS. They stole other peoples' things like common thieves everywhere do. They didn't care what that would do to their neighborhood because they didn't own anything there. They had no pride then and they don't now. The world to them is ethnocentric and "me" based.
After the Carter administration, it became much easier for people who shouldn't be able to buy things on credit to purchase things with other peoples' money. We're now reaping what we sowed.
It's the same thing all over again without the fire trucks. People like Kwame Kenyatta and Kym Worthy who agree to pay X amount of dollars for something and then walk away from the debt because of STUPID DECISIONS, are looting just the same as if they'd thrown a brick through an appliance store window because they couldn't do without the big screen TV.
The only difference is ALL of us have to pay for them now to a much greater extent than we did during the Urban Renewal years. Not just the dummy who was stupid enough to have an appliance store on 12th Street in July of 1967. Some people are just unproductive members of society no matter how much you pay them. They tend to think they "deserve" things without correlating any type of responsibility to pay for them (with their own money anyway).
They did not burn "their" community because there was no sense of "community" to begin with. "I Want A New TV" loot-fests don't happen when there is a viable sense of community. Since nobody wanted to call it what it was, they decided to market it as a "race riot" or better yet, an "urban rebellion". You can see what happened when the government tried to establish a sense of community and pride of ownership by making it easier to get money to buy houses. People who never should have been trusted with loans got more money than they ever could pay off in many cases, and more than they ever INTENDED to pay off in many cases.
Of course this is going on in the suburbs too, but it's being felt to a much greater extent in the very areas that were meant to be "saved" by this philosophy.
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I agree I can't believe the title, are you serious people come on now? Maybe it should be made a holiday every time a riot is bought up it's always the Detroit riot. Detroit is not the only city to have had riots in the country.
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Just a W.A.G., but I believe they probably talk about the Watts riot in the L.A. thread. Why shouldn't we talk about the 1967 Appliance Giveaway on the Detroit Forum?
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