Is Detroit The America Of Tomorrow?

Re:Is Detroit The America Of Tomorrow? by pyre on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:27AM (#5290851)

  | predominately all-white suburban enclaves usually
  | feared as bastions of racists and bigots jacked up
  | on Starbucks and 5-Hour Energy shots.

What? Not the suburbs that I knew, but maybe I just happened to avoid all of the racists and bigots? No mention of how Dearborn (a Detroit suburb) is almost half Arabic[1]?

[1]: According to Wikipedia the 2010 census has Dearborn at 40% Arabic. The largest portion of Arab American in the US.

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Re:Is Detroit The America Of Tomorrow? by bilbo0s on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:40AM (#5290896)

You can see the bad in anyone... if that's what you choose to see. I have never been to Detroit or any of it's suburbs, but I don't necessarily believe that all of the white suburbanites are racist and 'bad'. Any more than I believe that the blacks in Detroit are 'bad'.

I really get the sense that this guy is just ranting. Which is not terribly helpful.

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