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Old 05-16-2011, 04:35 PM
 
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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Ever asked anyone the capital city of Michigan? Inevitably, it's Detroit. In fact, majority of Americans think that Detroit is Michigan's capital city. Mention Lansing and people say, how far is that city from Detroit? Again, there's the automatic association.
this is true!.......when I was going to school in FL, many people even asked where Detroit was and when I said MI they said "Oh I didn't know about anything in MI" like Detroit was just floating around the midwest lol. Either every city was near Detroit or 8Mile (thanks Em lol) or MI was just place nobody paid attention to
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Old 05-16-2011, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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That has nothing to do with it.

People identify themselves and others better with landmark, or rather "prominent" features. That's why when people think of Michigan and Illinois they think Detroit and Chicago. That's just the way it is.

What's so important about Sterling Heights or Cicero that people outside the immediate area just have to know about these cities?
the difference is people who live 50 miles away from Chicago in IL will yell proudly and boast about Chicago, people who live as close as Eastpointe will damn near punch you in face for mentioning Detroit like anyone outside MI gives a damn about Eastpointe, MI smh
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Old 05-16-2011, 05:14 PM
 
Location: west mich
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the difference is people who live 50 miles away from Chicago in IL will yell proudly and boast about Chicago, people who live as close as Eastpointe will damn near punch you in face for mentioning Detroit like anyone outside MI gives a damn about Eastpointe, MI smh
Formerly "East Detroit" in case some people don't know! Had family there. Wondering what its contribution to the world is and what makes it "better" overall than Detroit, as some believe?

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Old 05-16-2011, 05:37 PM
 
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Formerly "East Detroit" in case some people don't know!
And becoming more and more like the real 'Detroit' every day! We just had to move my grandmother out as she did not feel safe anymore. She lives in Sterling Heights now. Lived there 62 years.
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Old 05-16-2011, 05:47 PM
 
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And where you live? Under a rock? That comment was so ignorant and means nothing. First of all, you spelled his name wrong and what major city does not have corrupt government? You don't listen to or read national news? Get your head out of the sand and open your eyes. Stop seeing what you want to see. It is what it is.
*cough* Coleman Young *cough*? Sorry, Detroit has had more than their share of corruption, throughout the Public School System, the Library System, the Police Department, city government...you name it, if money changed hands, there was probably corruption.

DO all cities have corruption? of course. Is it worse in Detroit? Over the course of the last 40 years, I'd say yes...in terms of damage to the city.
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Old 05-16-2011, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Detroit
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Ever notice that corruption is everywhere but it gets more play when the people are not white? Yeah, me too.
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Old 05-16-2011, 07:14 PM
 
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Ever notice that corruption is everywhere but it gets more play when the people are not white? Yeah, me too.
One word rebuttal: Illinois.

Disagree.
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Old 05-16-2011, 08:04 PM
 
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The difference between Detroit/Michigan's corruption and corruption elsewhere is the corrupt politicians elsewhere are at least smart enough to get the job done before stuffing their pockets and "hooking up" their families/friends.

See Chicago/Illinois.
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Old 05-16-2011, 09:02 PM
 
Location: west mich
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And becoming more and more like the real 'Detroit' every day! We just had to move my grandmother out as she did not feel safe anymore. She lives in Sterling Heights now. Lived there 62 years.
Sad to hear that. The near suburbs are losing population like Detroit did. Yet Detroit gets criticized for that very thing. Maybe it's time for people to work together for common purpose rather than fleeing the area as a "solution".
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*cough* Coleman Young *cough*? Sorry, Detroit has had more than their share of corruption, throughout the Public School System, the Library System, the Police Department, city government...you name it, if money changed hands, there was probably corruption.
The Coleman Young era was a negative for Detroit, though I respected him as a Tuskegee Airman doing his part in ww2 (that aint chopped liver!). I liked the guy, but I knew he was making mistakes. He carried some bitterness into the mayorship and didn't hide it. This gained him popularity in Detroit and animosity from the suburbs, but the suburbs held all the economic cards.
I have said that Grand Rapids, for instance, is Detroit without the Coleman Young era. Maybe oversimplified since G.R. has a diversified economic base and is smaller, but it's something to consider imo.
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Old 05-16-2011, 09:40 PM
 
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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*cough* Coleman Young *cough*? Sorry, Detroit has had more than their share of corruption, throughout the Public School System, the Library System, the Police Department, city government...you name it, if money changed hands, there was probably corruption.

DO all cities have corruption? of course. Is it worse in Detroit? Over the course of the last 40 years, I'd say yes...in terms of damage to the city.
this is what I don't understand, people talk down on Detroit for our "corruption" and voting in Kwame and Coleman more than once, BUT America takes the cake as a whole for voting the biggest idiot in history BUSH into office twice smh
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