This is a powerful message about the failure of the Great Society.
How in the world do we get out of this mess? This is a perfect example
of how good intentions without good foresight can produce an absolute
nightmare. Never underestimate the downside of human nature. The
author of the following piece is a U.S. journalist who writes for
seventeen national and two international magazines.
THE TRAGEDY OF DETROIT : HOW IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM
DESTROYED IT
By Frosty Wooldridge
For 15 years, from the mid 1970s to 1990, I worked in Detroit ,
Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery,
gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human
depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti
explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash was
everywhere!
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it and just ignored it.
Tens of thousands and then, hundreds of thousands today exist on
federal welfare, free housing and food stamps! With Aid to Dependent
Children, minority women birthed eight to 10 and, in one case, one
woman birthed 24 kids as reported by the Detroit Free Press-all on
American taxpayer dollars. A new child meant a new car payment, new TV
and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society"
flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will
get more hands out to take money for doing nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America ,
outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees.
He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence and arrogance. As a
black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant 'in charge'. You can
figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67
percent
African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching
math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van
for a new life in another city or state. Detroit plummeted from 1.8
million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal
immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over
300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan , but most work
in Detroit .
As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in. As the crimes became
more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at
a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores
no longer operate in many inner city locations.
You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may
be one our best (extreme) examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike
and total separation from America ! Today, you hear Muslim calls to
worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of
Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High
school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June according to NBC's
Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than
America . English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent
illiteracy rate and growing. Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as
the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine October 4, 2009,
"The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell and how it can rise
again," I choked on the writer's description of what happened.
"If Detroit had been savaged by a hurricane and submerged by a
ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent.
"If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city,
we'd see it on the evening news every night. Earthquake, tornadoes,
you name it - if natural disaster had devastated the city that was
once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country
might take notice.
But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping
rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow
unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even
the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature
industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the
people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their
dreadful decision-making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount
of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs and
illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death
from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people
out of every sector of decaying Detroit .
"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit
's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the
barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six
years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a
philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent
charter high schools, is in
receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain
unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans ,
unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit , the
unemployment rate is 28.9% That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight
point nine percent."
At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about
Detroit , he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply
one of a great city's collapse. It's also about the erosion of the
industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate
fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the
21st century. If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city
in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about
our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that
say about our future?"
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, $20 Per Gallon,
the auto industry won't come back (to Detroit ). Immigration will keep
pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the
Middle East into Detroit -thus creating a beachhead for Islamic
hegemony in America . If the 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will
see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of
Detroit . Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs. You have
already seen it in Madrid , Spain ; London , England and Paris ,
France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their
numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law
that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights
and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will
see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that
demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims
prefer to use beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other
members of their sect from straying.
Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture,
country and way of life.
I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T ALL STAND UP
AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON AND OUR CITY LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS
AMERICA . IF YOU FOLLOW THE NEWS AT ALL YOU KNOW THIS HAS HAPPENED IN
ENGLAND AND FRANCE AND SPAIN .. IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF
HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY,
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT.
Frosty Wooldridge
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