detcatinva;c-9725498 said:
They had a special showing in detroit that my parents went to and they said it was really good.
This happenee in my grandma neighborhood.
Detroit was never the same after these riots.
White flight was gradually happening before the riots but afterwards the whites left to the northern suburbs
I was born and raised less than a few blocks from 12th where it happen (I was born and raised on the outskirts of Boston-Edison, on Longfellow / Atkinson by Rosa Parks Blvd -- otherwise known as 12t St. ...the riot happen a lil up the road close to Clairmount where the old Farmer's Jack used to be).
My grandparents had their own family they were raising near the area when it went down, Gramps had to send my mom and her siblings across the bridge to Canada (where my grandma from and her family) while he was working as an Detroit policeman during that time (he was still working Vice in the precinct based on Fort St. at the time). Said stuff was extra crazy.
Like @detcatinva and @konceptjones , we were born as one of the first generation near the end of the decade following the riots, so we were one of the first to really feel the effect of the white flight, the change and the gradual effect of crack taking over after the riots (and all the shit with Pony Down, Young Boys, White Boy Rick, etc... )
I think alot of America, especially "sports (professional)" America HATED Detroit after the riots, because they didn't want the same to happen to their cities....it put an unfair picture on Detroit, which is why to this day, sports fans in America are so quick to bash Detroit for any thing (and the Brawl in the Palace was started by SUBURBANS (and white folks not blacks) not FROM Detroit proper -- but yet native Detroiters were still being blamed for it).
