Detroit

Friday, May 3 at 8:00 PM • Saturday, May 4 at 8:00 PM
at the historic Redford Theatre
(on fashionable Lahser Road, just north of Grand River Ave.) Tickets: $15
Absolutely no one admitted under 17

Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling mosaic of life in the adult-film industry follows the surrogate family of director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds, in a career-topping performance)—among them the uniquely qualified star Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), nurturing Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), and sweetly pathetic boom operator Scotty J. (Philip Seymour Hoffman)—riding high in the late 1970s before changing tides and technologies render them has-beens in the 1980s. Brilliant acting by Anderson’s stock company and the writer/director’s sensitive approach to the challenging subject matter make his sophomore feature one of the greatest films of the 1990s.

The Redford Theatre is screening a recently struck 70mm film print, sponsored by the Motor City Cinema Society, but warns audiences that the very adult subject matter means that NO ONE UNDER 17 WILL BE ADMITTED.

See ya there, cinephiles!

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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…or is that Honor Among Thieves in Saginaw…? Quid Pro Quo in Action? Birds of a Feather Flock to Mid-State Michigan? l could go on and on, you know I could…

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, whose prison sentence was shortened by then-President Donald Trump in January 2021, attended a campaign rally for the Republican candidate on Wednesday in Saginaw County.

Kilpatrick was once a prominent Democratic politician in Michigan before he was sentenced in 2013 on two dozen counts of using his positions as mayor and state representative to carry out a decade-long criminal racket involving extortion, bribery, conspiracy and fraud.

Trump commuted Kilpatrick's sentence[…]16 years before Kilpatrick was initially set to be released from federal prison.

"This commutation is strongly supported by prominent members of the Detroit community," the Trump White House said in a statement in January 2021.

By who exactly?

From the Freep's article…

Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra − who knew Kilpatrick from his time as mayor and as a state legislator and Hoekstra's time as a congressman from west Michigan − told the Free Press he saw Kilpatrick, his wife and his children come into the hangar at MBS Airport in Freeland ahead of the event.

"He said, 'Hey, congressman, good to see you.' I didn't recognize him at first − my bad − and he said, 'Kwame Kilpatrick,'" Hoekstra said, adding that the two spoke briefly. Hoekstra also served in Congress with Kilpatrick's mother, former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit.

Alternate links for your convenience:

• Detroit News, Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick attends Donald Trump's rally in Michigan via archive.is
• Detroit Free Press, Kwame Kilpatrick among those who attended Donald Trump rally in Saginaw County via archive.is

Further reading:

• The Metro Times: Kwame Kilpatrick’s wife buys enormous house in Novi despite former mayor’s unpaid restitution
• The Freep: Kwame Kilpatrick has a new job, but he has shown he prefers thrills to paying his bills

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
!detroit@midwest.social ☆ !michigan@midwest.social ☆ !music@midwest.social

If I don’t read something, I'm just gonna stand here and cry. So, whatupdoe?

Awwwww. So said Detroit's newly appointed poet laureate, jessica Care moore, stylized as you see here, lower-case 'j', capital 'C', lower-case 'm'. But there is nothing "lower-case" about her.

Jessica Care Moore, founder and producer of Black WOMEN Rock! [something I've known pretty much all my life -- r^2^ ] and founder of The Moore Art House, a nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in Detroit, will take on the role. Moore's identifiable voice was behind the "Move the World" campaign, a video used to make a pitch for an Amazon headquarters in Detroit. The new poet laureate took the stage at Newlab at Michigan Central in the most Moore way — by poetically thanking officials for her position and reading a poem.

Moore is filling the role for [the late Naomi Long] Madgett, who died at 97 years old and served as poet laureate from 2001 to 2020, the year she died. Moore will not only plan and lead poetry events across Detroit, but she will also give an annual address to the city at the Detroit Public Library, participate in programs that reflect the city's diversity and write a poem for year-end presentation, according to the city.

"Wait a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow minute, here!" I can hear the less troglodyte of you cry. "With all the AI-ChatGPT-antisemitism-uncommited-tankie-donbas-crimea-shut-up-pornstar-red-vs-blue-dopamine-gazing-at-your-digital-navel-meta-x-amazon distractions we've got buzzing around our heads like mosquitoes in a Florida swamp, we can't keep up on the Detroit poetry front. What's jessica Care moore ever written?"…

• Words Don't Fit in My Mouth
• God is Not an American
• Black Statute of Liberty

Congratulations, Ms (with a capital 'M') moore! ❤️‍🔥

Alt link for your convenience via archive.is

Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Forgive all the what-might-seem hero worship…

Today Detroit-born guitarist Wayne Kramer, founding member of the MC5 (among other achievements and misadventures), would have celebrated his 76^th^ birthday. Unfortunately, being a mere human like ~~all~~ ~~most~~ some of us, pancreatic cancer took his life earlier this year, February 2, 2024, a mere two months ago.

I'd already written what I had to say regarding Wayne's career and his legacy in an earlier post. So today, in honor of Mr Kramer's would-have-been 76^th^, I leave you all with…

• Back When Dogs Could Talk

• Something's Broken In The Promised Land

• Looking At You 2022

RIP, Brother Wayne.

Michigan Central says it plans to hire 60 part-time “ambassadors” to welcome visitors to the renovated site at events this spring and summer.

It will host two job fairs for Detroiters to learn more about the opportunities:

• Monday, April 29, 4-8 p.m.
  Newlab at Michigan Central
  2050 Fifteenth St., Detroit

• Wednesday, May 1, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
  Detroit at Work Job Fair
  DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
  5801 Southfield Fwy, Detroit

The positions pay $20 an hour.

“The reopening of this iconic landmark is nearly here, and we want to have Detroiters join our team in welcoming visitors back to the Station for the first time in decades,” said Cornetta Lane-Smith, director of community engagement at Michigan Central.

I know, it comes as a shock to me, too.

Detroit has seen an increase in PM 2.5 pollution in recent years, reflecting this national trend as well as the disproportionate harm that communities of color suffer from air pollution. These fine particulates are 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair and can travel deep into the lungs and bloodstream.

The 2024 report ranked the metro Detroit area 13th among the 25 cities most polluted by annual particulate matter. Grand Rapids was 25th among those most affected by ozone. […] Ozone pollution can cause respiratory problems and increase the frequency of asthma attacks, while PM 2.5 is linked to cardiopulmonary problems and premature mortality.

The report also notes that the Biden administration has made significant progress toward addressing air pollution recently by updating particle pollution standards, addressing leaks from oil and gas production facilities, and improving pollution standards for cars, trucks, and buses.

At BridgeDetroit, journalist Tom Perkins reports…

Supporters of the [USD$60,000,000.00] tax break insisted at the time [2022] that the Hudson’s site would create 2,000 new jobs and net $71 million in new city tax revenue from the additional workers. […] But Detroit will not see a net gain in new jobs or local tax revenue for the estimated 850 GM RenCen employees – it simply moves existing jobs from one building to another [em. mine -- r^2^ ], which will not generate new tax revenue for the city.

This reduces Bedrock’s projected new job creation total to 1,150 and its new income tax impact by 43%, which means the Hudson’s Detroit site could now, at best, generate about $52 million in new tax revenue. Three economists who reviewed the analysis called it fair but “conservative,” and said the project will likely create very little, if any, net positive tax revenue.

“It was sold as a transformational project, but we were never told the transformation would include moving jobs a few blocks down the street,” said Michael LaFaive, director of the Mackinac Center For Policy, which analyzes and opposes corporate tax incentives.

Follow the lady! GM is merely shuffling jobs from Point A (RenCen) to Point B (new Hudson's Building). There's always 52 cards in the deck. Just like the nearby casinos, "The House" always wins. Jackpot: $8 million!

metroDetroit™-related article: Deal.

From the "Things-I-Still-Can't-Fathom Dept."…

“White Lives Matter Michigan permeated[?] censorship to obtain three roadside billboards throughout Southeastern Michigan to dog-whistle morale boosting messages to pro-Whites for this 4/20 Day of Action!” the group tweeted Saturday.

A billboard on John R Road in Hazel Park, for instance, read, “Happy birthday, Uncle Adi. 88 climbs! Hugs & Kisses to HT, GDL, & GTV.” Next to it is a semi-silleauted [em. mine -- r^2^ ] face with Hitler’s distinctive peaked hat.

A trivial aside: can anyone tell me what silleauted means or is that a typo for silhouetted?

A billboard near the Gibraltar Trade Center in Mount Clemens read, “Go back to Africa!” and disguised itself as a congratulatory message to “Tryone” [sic] for earning a trip after scoring 1350 on the SATs. “1350” is a racist code that references an alleged FBI study that claimed 50% of crimes are committed by Black people, who represent 13% of the population.

And yet, the billboard leasing company claimed that these hateful, poisonous billboards escaped their eagle-eye filtering process. I guess with enough zeroes, advertising requests may be submitted in Braille.

Billboard4Me said the deceitful messaging was discreet enough to make it past the company’s filters [em. mine -- r^2^ ] and that the messages were purchased by “an organization that disguised itself and its purpose with deceptive imagery and wording.”

From the White Lives Matter comuniqué to the Metro Times…

“Whites face inevitable genocide if the current trend of brown immigration, anti-White hatred, and White victimization continue,” the representative wrote. “It’s openly stated that Whites will be minorities in their own nations within decades."

Why does this disgusting rhetoric remind me of a certain, indefensible Michigan House Representative and his recent online activities? Why does this disgusting rhetoric even exist in the 21^st^ century? Will we never be able to move forward as a nation?

Rick Haglund at Michigan Advance sustains…

[…]despite sweeping views from its glass towers, the Ren Cen is arguably Detroit’s most unloved building [emphasis mine -- r^2^ ]. Navigating its collection of towers is like trying to find your way through a corn maze. Jokes (I think) are told about people entering the Ren Cen, never to be seen again.

Most unloved building?! Really? Okay, Rick, we get it. Not a RenCen fan. Moving right along…

Early on, the Ren Cen did lead to some new business investment in Detroit and boosted revenues of local restaurants from visitors staying in the center’s 73-story hotel, now operated by Marriott. […] But it failed to spark the promised renaissance, which was likely a naïve assumption.

GM nearly abandoned the Ren Cen to cut costs as part of its 2009 bankruptcy reorganization plan. Then-GM CEO Fritz Henderson proposed moving the automaker’s headquarters out of the Ren Cen and into its sprawling technical center in suburban Warren. […] But the Obama administration, which was financing GM’s bankruptcy, nixed the idea as being potentially devastating to Detroit’s finances. The city filed the nation’s largest municipal bankruptcy in 2013.

Reducing a city landmark, however controversial, to rubble might seem unthinkable. But that’s probably what people thought about the downtown J.L. Hudson’s at its apex in the 1950s when the store employed 12,000 workers and hosted 100,000 shoppers a day.

I'd read a letter to the Editor on the Freep site a few days ago proposing, like Mr Haglund here, to raze the RenCen so I'd assume—right or wrong—there are those that agree with the demolition of Detroit's most visible landmark.

The Freep just yesterday published another article saying…

The Free Press spoke with several area architecture, development and real estate experts as to what possibilities they see for the icon that still dominates Detroit's skyline and is recognized around the world. […] None of those interviewed wished to see the RenCen torn down, [emphasis mine -- r^2^ ] a dramatic idea that gained traction in some quarters of social media[…]

Yeah, life goes on and all; if the demolition were to happen, within another generation the demolished RenCen probably would be as relevant to the city's future population as the Packard plant was to today's generation of Detroiters.

~Photo:~ ~David~ ~Rodriguez~ ~Muñoz,~ ~Detroit~ ~Free~ ~Press~

As other pedestrians passed by all the pieces of trash around them, this human-sized squirrel made it a point not to avoid a single piece of trash during her pickup route. […] The human-sized squirrel, with her bright-colored cheeks and small brown ears, is none other than Hamtramck resident Lynn Blasey, 40 [program manager, Community Arts Partnerships office, College for Creative Studies].

Blasey, known affectionately as "Trash Squirrel," scours the streets for everything from discarded doorknobs and plastic bottles to small candy wrappers and even car brake pads.

On each outing, Blasey picks up two to three trash bags full of debris. Even the tiniest piece of trash doesn’t stand a chance against her mighty litter picker.

~Photo:~ ~David~ ~Rodriguez~ ~Muñoz,~ ~Detroit~ ~Free~ ~Press~

Alt link for your convenience via archive.is

Music lovers — especially those who collect vinyl records — are anticipating another eventful Record Store Day on Saturday, April 20.

This year’s edition of the long-running retail holiday features exclusive and first-run releases ranging from pop stars like Sabrina Carpenter, critically-acclaimed acts such as Remi Wolf, and Michigan and Detroit legends like Iggy & the Stooges and Slum Village.

Hey! ~~Tomorrow is coincidentally(?)~~ April 21 is Iggy Pop's birthday!!! The "World's Forgotten Boy" will be a sprightly 77 years old! When asked the secret of his longevity, The Shirtless One replied, "I'm livin' on DOG FOOD!"

Read the rest of the article to find out who's participalating, the free discs being regaled this year and how to win a private tour of Third Man Pressing with WDET hosts. Ooh la la, Capitano!

From that handsome devil, award-winning reporter Malachi Barrett, over at BridgeDetroit…

The mayor [Mike Duggan] said Detroit’s prospects are tied to neighborhood success. The country sees Detroit’s star rising as the city sheds a sour reputation of bankruptcy, violence and “ruin porn,” Duggan said. He also said residents who thought their communities were abandoned are now seeing more investment and support from the city.

A year ago, the mayor announced his plan to pay community organizations for their work to reduce gun violence. At the time, Duggan said he wasn’t sure whether it would work but the approach was worth trying. […] Since November 2023, shootings are down 28% across the city. Areas served by four organizations posted a 44% decline in shootings, Duggan said, and will receive additional funding to continue their work for another year.

Duggan said he doggedly pursued funding to eliminate blight from the city, starting with federal funding that knocked down 21,000 houses in six years, followed by a voter-backed ballot initiative to take out 20,000 more. […] The mayor said there are 4,400 blighted properties left standing as of this week. There will be “next to zero” by the end of next year, he said.

~Activist~ ~Helen~ ~Moore~ ~at~ ~Mayor~ ~Duggan’s~ ~State~ ~of~ ~the~ ~City~ ~address.~ ~Photo:~ ~City~ ~of~ ~Detroit~

Duggan surprised Russell Woods community leader Helen Moore by announcing that a renovated recreation center will bear her name. […] The city is spending $8.5 million in federal pandemic relief funds to rehabilitate the Dexter-Elmhurst Recreation Center. […] “In the last 25 years of my life, my number one critic has been Helen Moore,” Duggan said. “Every time she brings me something, she’s right. There’s not an ounce of meanness in her, she wants things to be better for the children.”

In memorium of that recently defunct poet, rabble-rouser and hophead, John Sinclair (RIP), The Freep republishes the first time Sinclair and cohort William C. Wilson were arrested for selling—get this—200 grains (0.45 oz.) of marijuana…to a narc! Duh. Nice one, man.

John Sinclair, 23, of 4825 John Lodge, and William C. Wilson, 21, of 5882 Hobart, were charged with sale and possession of narcotics after a Detroit Police Narcotics Bureau undercover agent said he bought 200 grains of marijuana from them for $25.

Five others, including Sinclair's German-born wife, Magdalene, 25, also were arrested in the raid Monday night but were released.

In honor of John Sinclair's first "drug bust" I say, if you happen to partake, roll a fatty and do a little revolutionary cosplay while your partner or friend (real or imaginary) beats down the door yelling, "This is a raid!"

The soundtrack is supplied by the late great John Coltrane, of course…

• Fresh from 1965, it's Coltrane's latest…A Love Supreme

For your revolutionary convenience, here's an alternate link from our comrades at archive.is, stickin' it to the man!

…or is that "Sign of The Helvetica Neue?"

I've been trying not to mention it since yesterday, actually since I saw the mockups weeks ago, but I can no longer stay silent. And I'm hoping you all can't stay silent either.

The D-E-T-R-O-I-T sign on eastbound I-94 stinks. That is what design by committee looks like. That sign falls squarely in the "My Kid Could Do That" category. Where the Avatar logo designer at least skimmed through the font list, whoever's nephew "designed" this sign just went "Helvetica Neue Bold"…aaaaaaand done. No neurons were harmed, much less awakened, in creating this outdoor sign. At least whoever's responsible didn't pick Arial.

I'm not even going to mention that green outline.

Tell me, from what hotel did they steal those letters from?

Okay, !detroit. Your turn. Go on. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm right. Tell me what you think about this horribly bland, imagination-less outdoor signage, a tribute to nothing.

Walter Reuther was an American visionary so far ahead of his times that although he died a quarter of a century ago, our Nation has yet to catch up to his dreams.

-- President Bill Clinton, in 1995

Walter Reuther is the only man I have ever met who could reminisce about the future.

-- Murray Kempton, journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient

Walter Reuther is the most dangerous man in Detroit because no one is more skillful in bringing about the revolution without seeming to disrupt the existing forms of society.

-- Governor George Romney

Over at the News, they've posted a selection of their archive photos of activist and former UAW president Walter P. Reuther. Yeah, that's the guy whose name is on the 696. For those who don't know who Reuther was, I highly suggest you read the linked Wikipedia article for starts.

The following legendary exchange is attributed to Reuther and a member of the Ford Motor Company management during a factory tour exalting the new (at the time) technologies and robotics on the assembly line…

Ford Manager: How are you going to collect union dues from these guys [the robots]?

WPR: How are you going to get them to buy Fords?

I can't help drawing parallels between Reuther's assessment and the present—and fast-approaching future—state of AI. Happy Sunday, everybody!

Alt link via archive.is

The phrase living legend is almost nowhere more applicable than describing today's honoree here at c/Detroit…singer, actress, entrepreneur, diva, the lovely Ms Diana (Diane) Ross, born today here in Detroit in 1944.

Today, I'll let the music do the talking. A short selection of Ms Ross' works:

• Ain't No Mountain High Enough, from Diana Ross (1970)
• You Are Everything, with Marvin Gaye, from Diana & Marvin (1973)
• Love Hangover, from Diana Ross (1976)
• Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To), from Diana Ross (1976)
• Upside Down, from Diana (1980)
• Endless Love, with Lionel Ritchie, from Endless Love single (1981)
• When You Tell Me That You Love Me, from The Force Behind The Power (1991)
• All Is Well, from Thank You (2021)
• Turn Up The Sunshine, with Tame Impala, from Minions: The Rise of Gru OST (2022)

Best wishes on your 80^th^ birthday, Ms Ross, from all of us at c/Detroit. We love you! 💘

This post is lovingly dedicated to Mr and Mrs Joseph and Angela Arco (RIP), our neighbors whom I loved dearly and schoolmates of Diana Ross.

…Herds of Nerds Swarm In Warren

The Great Lakes Comic Convention Friday, February 23 – Saturday, February 24 The Macomb Community College Expo Center 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The Neverending Story!
with actor Noah Hathaway (Atreyu)

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Mirage Studios Reunion!
Steve Lavigne - Jim Lawson - Dan Berger

Celebrate The 40th Anniversary of Transformers!
with Bob Budiansky, editor, Marvel Comics

Who knew, this synchronized quadrāgintennial tsunami of pop culture?

50 year Anniversary of Sid and Marty Krofft’s Land of the Lost!
Meet Wesley Eure (Will Marshall)
Kathy Coleman (Holly Marshall)
Phillip Paley (~~Fuzzyboy~~ Cha-Ka the Pakuni)

Okay, I’m out. Vendors, special guests by the Sandcrawler-load, events, tickets, everything you need to grok is at the website.

…or Make-believe Barbarians at The Gates of, uh, where the hell are we?

Michigan Nordic Fire Festival
Friday, February 23 -- Sunday, February 25
Eaton County Fairgrounds
1025 Cochran Ave, Charlotte, MI

Hands-on activities (Free except when noted):

• Spear Throwing
• Archery
• Axe Throwing (additional fee)
• Kids' Quest
• Kid's Axe Throwing

All this and other, erm, Vikingy events and activities, merchants, food and entertainment plus where to point your Viking ship all at the website. Please, no raping, looting or pillaging allowed but otherwise, y'know, have at it.

I'll just leave this here. I KID! I KID!

Apologies about the late posting especially for missing these two important events…

• (non-Detroit-Michigan-related) Nina Simone (RIP) was born on February 21, 1933
• (Detroit-born) Malcolm X (RIP) was designated persona non grata by The Nation of Islam and then later assassinated February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in NYC

February 23, 1868—Dr. W.E.B. DuBois is born William Edward Burghardt DuBois in Great Barrington, Mass. DuBois can easily qualify as Black America’s lead­ing scholar and intellectual of the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was also an educator and social activist fight­ing tirelessly against racial injustice and U.S. imperialism.

February 24, 1868—The U.S. House of Represen­tatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson.

Thanks to Johnson, who was acquitted by one vote in the Senate, the promise of Forty Acres and A Mule was never kept. If he had been expelled, who knows in what kind of America we would all be living in today? I'm sure that Rosa Parks would have sat on the bus wherever she damn pleased her entire life, Rev King would mostly likely have been "just another" Baptist minister, we wouldn't have had to wait until 2009 for our country's first Black president and our next quoted item would have never been realized…

February 26, 1920—Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) founds the first nation­ally organized celebration of Black American history (then called Negro History Week), which was first cele­brated on this day in 1926. Woodson scheduled the week to coincide with the birthdays of Civil War President Abraham Lincoln and Black aboli­tionist Frederick Douglass. However, in 1976, Negro History Week was expanded into the current day Black History Month.

Yeah, yeah, I get it. Honest I do. Enough's enough. An unnecessarily exaggerated response. An incredibly complicated situation that just keeps getting knottier. But just like in comedy, timing is everything.

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib's call for people to vote against President Joe Biden in Michigan's Feb. 27 Democratic primary reverberated across political circles and social media over the weekend, with nervous supporters of the president's saying she was helping former President Donald Trump's reelection efforts.

On Saturday, even as Trump was making his way to Michigan for a raucous rally in Waterford Township, Tlaib, D-Detroit, who represents southeast Michigan's large Arab-American and Muslim community in Dearborn, released a video of her telling people to vote uncommitted as a signal to Biden of their continued demand that he call for Israel to stop a bombing and invasion of the Gaza Strip that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths.

Several Democrats and others denounced Tlaib's stance almost immediately. Norm Ornstein, a congressional expert and emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, proclaimed it "shameful" on X on Sunday.

And after a group, Republicans Against Trump, posted the remarks, asking, "Who's going to primary her?" the civil rights lawyer Andrew Laufer said of her comments on X: "That’s an amazing stance @RashidaTlaib. Have your supporters not vote or vote for the guy who will deport them. Just an amazing position."

And as for the Listen to Michigan campaign, Tlaib has literally close relations with its membership: Her sister, Layla Elabed, is its campaign manager. Several other local leaders with whom she is close, including Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and former U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, D-Bloomfield Township, also have signed onto the uncommitted campaign.

…also "signed on", that bastion of hard-hitting journalism, The Metro Times.

Even a dog knows not to defecate where he sleeps.

Alt. link: https://archive.is/apavN

Further reading:

• Michigan Advance: Biden campaign focusing on Trump, despite ‘uncommitted’ campaign in Michigan Dem primary
• The Freep via archive.is: Trump rails against EVs, China, job security in Michigan visit: Here's a fact check

1967 wasn't that long ago, people.

Detroit 67: Perspectives is a Signature Exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum since 2015, documenting a literally explosive time in Detroit history and the state of affairs between the black community and law enforcement. The more things change…

Detroit 67: Perspectives begins by looking at the complex, compounding factors that took place across metropolitan Detroit during the 50 years prior to 1967, followed by a review of the unrest that occurred between July 23 and August 1, 1967. Next, the exhibition explores the past 50 years up to the present day, detailing the progress we have made as well the setbacks we have encountered. The exhibition narrative concludes by offering a perspective on what lies ahead and will challenge the community to use what we have learned in the past 100+ years to help create a future for Detroit filled with unparalleled promise and opportunity.

"Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital." -- Steven Stalinsky, WSJ

"Americans know that blaming a group of people based on the words of a small few is wrong. That’s exactly what can lead to Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate, and it shouldn’t happen to the residents of Dearborn – or any American town," Biden posted on X. "We must continue to condemn hate in all forms."

"This is a direct result of the inflammatory @WSJ opinion piece that has led to an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric online targeting the city of Dearborn," Hammoud posted on X.

"Dearborn is a vibrant community full of Michiganders who contribute day in and day out to our state.," said Whitmer [on X, of course -- rr]. "Islamophobia and all forms of hate have no place in Michigan, or anywhere. Period."

Other news sources:

• The News: Biden condemns 'anti-Arab hate' after WSJ piece calls Dearborn 'America's Jihad Capital'

• Reuters: WSJ opinion piece calls Dearborn 'jihad capital,' Biden condemns anti-Arab hate

• Washington Post: Michigan city ramps up security after op-ed calls it 'America's jihad capital'

Okay, okay, so that title's not an exact quote from Donald J Trump, millionaire ("I own a mansion and a yacht"), but how else can you describe his intelligent and measured retort regarding Shawn Fain's explanation on why the UAW endorses President Biden for the upcoming presidential election? "I've seen Shawn eat his boogers!…and he'll eat yours, too!" I've heard more reasoned debate on my elementary school playground.

And to think, there are people reading this that voted for this crybaby, others who will vote for this clown in November, and even those that voted for this clown AND will still vote for this dangerous little man in November. It boggles the mind.

Alternate links for your convenience…

• "To The Wayback Machine, Sherman."
• 1ft.io
• archive.is

The park was considered by state officials to be second to Niagara Falls, which saw 4.4 million visitors last year but had COVID-19 restrictions in place […] It’s the largest city-owned park in the U.S., even out-sizing New York's Central Park.