Why is Detroit About 80% African American?

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by Vicman

Thank Henry Ford; he hired many Black auto workers, partly because he felt Blacks would not be conducive to Unions.

Very true and that is something that many people don't know about. Heck, think about Inkster and why it's population is largely Black. That's due to restrictions in Dearborn, as far as Black people living there. Hence, many Blacks living in nearby Inkster.

[Cheeto]

Originally Posted by Frankawitz

If you watch local news reports we are seeing more crime in the suburbs cause there are more black families moving out of Detroit. Like just a month or so ago in Mt Clemens when that group of young blacks beat that guy up by the Mobile station there on Gratoit, and the other guy down by Gibraltar Trade Center was beat by these black punks while the guy's wife screamed for help. So they are bring Detroit to the suburbs, like today the news reported that the parking lot in Southfield where the PGA was parking cars they got broke into, The Southfield area is becoming more a black city since the Jewish folks moved to Bloomfield, just like Oak Park. I have no problem with black families wanting to move from Detroit in hopes of finding a safer better place to live, All I would say is leave the HOOD in the HOOD which is Detroit.

Next time do your research, Mount Clemens is one of the few suburbs that has had a large black population for generations so blacks moving from Detroit has nothing to do with the incident you cited! Southfield has been mostly black since the 80's and there are still mostly nice neighborhoods there. Detroit is messed up because the middle and upper classes left the city and took all their money with em, and this continues to happen while the city's services get worse and worse every year, inspiring more people to move as soon as they can afford it. Now it's more about money than race, it's sad that people need to be able to "afford" safety

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Originally Posted by Cliffie
Thanks for saying this Tina -- I grew up on the East side and my white dad worked primarily for Black clients. The hate and fear directed at Detroits -- and this always means Detroit's black population, as near as I can tell -- is largely nonsense. The violent crime rate there continues to drop despite Detroit being one of the least-policed cities in the whole country. It's the average Joes and Janes who are making that happen, by learning from the mistakes of the past and not committing crimes in the first place -- NOT the harried police force who are primarily there to mop up after the damage is already done.

Detroit's per capita part I crime rate is actually increasing. There are only half as many people there now as there were in the 60's. There are more part I crimes PER 100,000 people than there were back then. Go ahead and check the FBI's UCR reports. Also, Detroit is absolutely notorious for under reporting part I crimes. Especially homicides. One particularly bad year, they didn't even bother sending stats in to the feds.