Everyone says look at what 'those people' did to my city. And race is always an element. In 1950, Detroit had a population of 1.8 million; 80 percent were white, 20 percent black. Today the population is 900,000 and those percentages have more than reversed.
"Jerry Herron" is the Dean (education)/dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University . He was born in Abilene, Texas and received his Doctor of Philosophy/PhD and Master of Arts (postgraduate)/MA from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts/BA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written two books: Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline and AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History. He is also a The Detroit News writer.
More Jerry Herron on Wikipedia.But what people don't realize is that Detroit is the greatest success story in American history.
I'd love to see the city market its car culture, our automotive heritage. We invented the modern industrial world. We're still Motor City.
This is an interesting place with its own distinctive culture. It's not Chicago, it's not New York, it's Detroit--and you've got to like it for that.
The Super Bowl is over, Hurricane Katrina is finished, there are no hurricanes brewing in the Gulf. This will be big until the next big event.
This is a global industry we invented. We should be proud of it. We shouldn't disown it.
Detroit's the city everybody likes to look at as a place that's dangerous, abandoned and economically no longer viable. It's the most famous failed city in the United States.
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