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New statistics indicate that over 20 percent of Detroit is standing empty. One in 5 homes is abandoned or foreclosed on or both. And that is just one of many statistics that are so far over the top about the once-prosperous metropolis that they almost seem surreal. So it may come as no real surprise that the next step in the saga for Detroit is careful, contemplative, strategic destruction.

Turns out, Detroit officials have actually been considering reverting large swaths of the city back to farmland since the early 1990’s. Fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace empty neighborhoods, and the newly minimized metropolitan area would actually benefit, argue many urban development experts, because the people would be living in more concentrated patterns that would allow them to make better, more effective use of public services like transportation. Sound unthinkable? It certainly did to most Detroit natives until now.

“Things that were unthinkable and now becoming thinkable,” said James W. Hughes, dean of the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, in an interview with a member of the associated press.

But I am much familiar with the city of Philadelphia, more specifically south Philly, dating back to the mid 1950s. Today Vietnamese gangs have become a major problem.

“Tim, you make a very valid point. However they liked young boys, not old men.”

I don’t know how old you are but, how old you are is beside the point! Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, mutilated, and killed ppl of differing ages from children to those in their 20s & 30s. You should really try to be factually accurate. And it is sort of a mute point bc they are both dead. If you are older, middle aged, etc., perhaps a far better example would be Aileen Wuornos. She is also dead but, she did have an apparent seven victims all of them ranging from the age of 40 to 65.

“Yes, we shold all work for a world that is as hate free and fair as Chicago or Detroit. It will certainly be better than having to live in Mississippi.”

Well, I have to assume that you are being sarcastic! There isn’t anywhere, in the world realistically, that is free of hatred, regardless of the different types of hatred that exist, regardless of the different justifications used to condone or explain them.

“My point exactly. You won’t find no KKK in Detroit, Chicgao, Philly or DC. Those redneck know they would never survive.”

Perhaps you are not aware that hate groups of all different types do exist even in urban areas?! Search the SPLC site for “Hate Map” and see for yourself…

“I can see IslandGyal, has never had to survive daily subway on the night shift in Deroit or Chicago. Only an idiot goes unarmed. They may not wear sheets with hoods, but they all wear “their colors”, and will kill you for pocket change.”

I have had to survive a daily grind on the night shift, working many night shifts and having to take the subway in the city that I live in. I am forced to assume, from many of your comments, that you are biased against those who live in larger, urban areas, such as large cities, as well as against those urban areas and larger cities themselves. It is true that urban crime is a problem in urban areas, no big secret there. But, it is not the wild west that you have implied that it is…

The idea that certain areas are so dangerous that nobody should ever live or travel there, or the idea that other areas are safe that you need worry about nothing, is a ridiculously large misnomer! I hear ppl say all the time that living in a certain area of the United States is so dangerous that nobody should be allowed to do live there or, that it is so dangerous that if you decide to live there that by merely choosing to live there you have signed away your right to receive any sort of gov’t assistance, if some disaster happens. This philosophy has been applied to southern CA (earthquakes), any given coastal region in the country (tsunamis, hurricanes, flooding), the northwest (Mount St. Helens), the southern border with Mexico & the US (drugs, guns, & human smuggling), major cities across the country (crime, crime, & more crime…), etc…

If you want to live your entire life in one small area, well, that’s up to you! But, you really will not be safe and it won’t make your arguments any more compelling and voicing such opinions will only solidify your stance as someone who is guilty of fear mongering. In time, you could find yourself as someone who is listed on this site, not as a user but as an object of some concern!

Dangerous groups like the KKK exist in all 50 states, according to the SPLC hate map.

You’ll find 9 dangerous groups listed in DC alone, and over 50 in neighboring VA and MD including dangerous Neo Nazi and Neo Confederate groups.

And quit insulting Chicago. The Windy City has had enough of yours. “Dah Bearsss!!”

His paranoia is not based on actual experience.

I own a condo in Denver, a big city with gangs. I’ve visited most of the big cities in the US. My brother lives in Boston and used to live in Brooklyn. Neither of us have seen anything like what Dave is ranting about.

Dave talks like a typical nativist racist right winger. None of the are rational and neither is Dave.

Move.

I have some advice for Dave. If he doesn’t like the American freedom to live anywhere you please without fear of being victimized by racist criminal thugs…

Move.

Move to Iran, Dave. You think more like them.

You don’t think like an American, Dave.

We believe in freedom. You do not.

“Dave said,

on March 5th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Yes, we shold all work for a world that is as hate free and fair as Chicago or Detroit. It will certainly be better than having to live in Mississippi.”

You’re either completely ignorant about the SPLC or you’re a liar. Either way, you’re WRONG.

The SPLC tracks extremist groups of all types, including black supremacy groups who hate whites.

I’m particularly concerned these days about anti-black Latino gangs who are practicing ‘ethnic cleansing’ in their neighborhoods.

That’s a racial hate situation that doesn’t even involve Anglos.

Unfortunately, there is enough hate to go around, and whites are not the only group that has its share of hateful, evil people.

The AMERICAN PEOPLE own those cities, Dave.

You got a problem with that?

Move to Iran.