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…it is so central to understanding post-war urban development, Freund says. People don’t fully understand the forces that created wealth for some and not for others, Freund says.
“…White, black, rich, poor, Hispanic. Yet the outcomes are often very different,” says David Freund. “People are so invested in that mythology of. ..pulling ourselves by our bootstraps. Yet people don’t know about the broader history of federal policies,’ that favored whites. The media and others need to know that broader history to understand [...]
… for decades, the FHA was heavily involved in creating policies that supported wealth for suburbanites and whites, (but not cities and African-Americans) says David Fruend, professor of University of Maryland.
“Yet that story isn’t told,”in the press, he says. Instead you have Time magazine blaming Coleman Young for racial division in Detroit.
.. smart, funny, guy. His Scottish accent doesn’t hurt either.
.. says Malcolm Dade, former chief political strategist to ex-Mayor Young It’s amazing that we still have to discuss his legacy this way. But panelist after panelist keeps saying the contemporary media use him as a major villian for our race issues.
… The most successful metropolitan regions get together to solve common issues. Detroit is not one of those regions, he says
NY Times: “Their Detroit coverage is dodgy…The riots keep coming up.”
Sugrue: “It hardens the mentality of us versus them. We get to say..’Look what they have done.’,’” . He’s describing when former Detroiter’s go back to a now black neighborhood and see the physical decline.
“Separate hostile and unequal,” is how he describes the situation.
Sugure saying: The policies supporting this date back decades. any racially-mixed neighborhood- meaning the presence of a single African American home – meant a downgrading of the neighborhood by real estate companies, banks, etc. In the 40s’ and the 60’s, some 200 white home-owners groups formed in Metro Detroit to keep neighborhoods segregated.
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.. between 1947 and 1963, Sugrue said. Well, before globalization. The Packard plant, which made the cover of Time, closed in 1957.
