Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "DETROIT MICHIGAN VS GARY INDIANA - MOST ABANDONED" video.
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Hard to imagine that Gary was still a thriving city of 179,000 and 84% non-Hispanic white in 1950. The estimate is Gary was down to 75,000 in 2018 and about 5% of those remaining are non-Hispanic white. Detroit had a population 1,879,000 in 195o with 83.6% of those being non-Hispanic white. By 2018, it was down to 672,000, and the non-Hispanic white population had decreased to about 6%. Back in 2000, Gary had the largest percentage of black residents of any city over 100,000. Since Gary has now fallen considerably below 100,000, Detroit has gained the number one spot. Both cities had massive population declines between 2000 and 2010. Gary lost about 22% of its population then, but Detroit got top honors, with 25% of the population fleeing. Both cities have been vying for the number one spot in fastest population decline and highest murder rate. Both cities have about one-third of all structures vacant and abandoned.
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@bkbrown7489 Ah, yes, the urban version "We wuz Kangs!" It'/s also possible black babies were poisoned by space aliens, or that Catholic nuns were poisoning the water. I have just as much proof for those statements as you have for yours. Liquor stores in black areas would go out of business without customers. Drug dealers would go out of business without customers.
The hood would begin to improve if people spent time getting their GED or or going to trade schools instead of sitting on the stoop with a 40 or waiting for the other deliveries of, and using, substances that are also poison. The hood would begin to improve if lack men developed some responsibility at stopped laying down with every thicc hoe that walked by. The hood would begin to improve if black women stopped laying down with every bad boi that walked by. The hood would begin to improve if black people got married and waited to have children until they were. The hood would begin to improve if strong families were instrumental in improving schools and making sure that their kids went to school and weren't carrying knives and guns. Places like Detroit and Gary have over 40% of households led by single, primarily black women. You can't have strong families and kids with a future with those kinds of numbers. Stop pining away for the days of Black Wall Street. Most of those ended 100 years ago. If you think resegregation is the answer, place like Detroit and Gary, with 80%+ black populations and nearly 100% black political leadership should be thriving. With few exceptions, majority black large cities are disasters. Work on what can be done today, not what should have been done in 1920.
Stop waiting for the while savior to fix all your problems. They have been "fixing" things since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the beginning of the "Great Society" in the same time period. It's now 55 years later. Do you think things have gotten better or worse? Do you think another dump truck load of money dropped off at the feet of leaders like Kwame Kilpatrick will make things better or worse?
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