Detroit Hosts the Super Bowl

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by J. B. Cash
Detroit Hosts the Super Bowl


The 2006 Super Bowl will be held at Ford Field in Detroit. There is probably no city in America that is less suited to holding a sports extravaganza than Detroit. The whole idea of holding this event, in the middle of the winter, in a dying city like Detroit, is a modern example of the failure to acknowledge reality and instead substitute a preferred fantasy that more befits the ideas of multiculturalism and diversity.


The Super Bowl is the holiest of holidays for the national religion that football has become in America. It is hyped beyond any reasonable measure. It is overrated, overblown and overdone. I have no doubt that, within 10 years the Monday after the Super Bowl will be a National holiday and an off day for government workers, unions, and whoever else is left with a job by then.


The basic idea of celebrating football's championship game at a neutral site, replete with a preceding week of parties and hype is understandable. A mid-winter vacation to a warm weather destination at a popular tourist location makes sense in the concept of football as entertainment. Since most of the teams are located in cold weather cities, the opportunity to travel south for a game is an attractive idea. It's the same rationale for college bowl games and has proven very successful.


Why then Detroit? Detroit cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered a tourist destination, unless you are a fan of arson and fires and want to visit on "Devil's Night," the night before Halloween, when Detroiters en masse set fire to a variety of burnable objects in a city full of kindling. Detroit may be one of the least attractive cities in North America, perhaps the world; it's Mogadishu without the nice weather.


In the middle of the summer Detroit is unattractive, in the middle of the winter, when there are sub-zero temperatures, with knife-like winds howling down deserted urban corridors, blowing trash in tsunami-like waves by piles of dirty muddy snow down salt-stained streets, it is one of the ugliest environments inhabited by man. Yet someone decided that it would be a good idea to invite thousands of people eager to have a vacation, and hundreds of reporters looking for a story, to that place.


Detroit is exhibit A in the annals of American dying cities. The loss of manufacturing in this country especially as it relates to the automobile has hit Detroit like a neutron bomb. Detroit once produced more automobiles annually than any other country in the world. It hardly builds any now. And when the manufacturing base left, it just left.


Detroit appears to the outsider like the ancient Mayan ruins must have appeared to the first Westerners that discovered them. It looks as if everyone just picked up and left. It's not just that there is a deserted factory here and there  the deserted factories stretch over dozens of square miles. Remember the Packard automobile? The last one rolled off the assembly line what, 50 years ago? Well the Packard plant is still there. It sits, like it has sat for the last 50 years, deserted, with crumbling walls and broken windows as if the previous inhabitants had fled in haste. It's a lonely relic of a dying civilization, waiting, perhaps like the ancient Mayan temples, for the return of a people that will never come back.


When Packard went out of business, like Hudson and American Motors, and the local Chrysler, Ford, and GM plants, it just didn't close those factories, it closed the thousands of small shops that fed a manufacturing system. The tool and die makers, the electrical suppliers, the plumbing stores, the fabricators, the machine repairers, the specialty designers. And also the places they eat lunch, go for a drink after work, seek entertainment, and do business. And when the base is gone so is the top of the pyramid, the banks, the business complexes, and the manufacturing headquarters.


Not only does Detroit have miles and miles of deserted factories, shops and stores but the "downtown" area is also deserted. There are huge skyscrapers, once proud highrises and formerly busy hotels that sit empty and barren, abandoned relics of a long ago time. A terrorist could crash a plane into one of them and virtually no one would be hurt.


Detroit was once the fifth largest city in America with a metropolitan population of several million. It had about 1.5 million people at its peak. It has about 750,000 now. Nearly half a million people have virtually vanished from the city. When they left they left quickly, like someone leaving a burning house. Huge tracts of the city feature wholly deserted neighborhoods. The apocalypse is not coming to Detroit, it already has.


Yet Detroit somehow attracts big-time sports venues, and as is typical these days, casinos. The two Detroit area 'royal' families, the Ford family and the Illitch family (Illitch is owner of the Little Caesar pizza empire) continue to pour the last of their families' wealth into investing in the city. The Ford family deserted the perfectly usable "Silverdome" in Pontiac, a suburb a few miles north of Detroit, to build Ford Field for the Detroit Lions in the heart of the city. Ford Field is located a long punt away from Comerica Park, the baseball home of the Detroit Tigers, owned by Illitch.


Across the street from the stadiums is a renovated theater also owned by Illitch and a couple of long homeruns away from all that is "Joe Louis Arena," the hockey home of the Detroit Red Wings and several newly built casinos on newly declared "Indian reservations." Detroit's most prominent (still inhabited) skyscraper, the Renaissance Center, was built 30 years ago by investment from the Ford family, and like everything else in the area soon began to die. Now GM uses it to house their armies of unneeded bureaucrats.


The desire for the white elites to try and "save" urban areas from decline is not so much due to a misguided sense of philanthropy but to the realization that their personal fortunes are tied to urban areas as it is well known that the strength of a nation is reflected in the strength of its institutions. Which is bad news for America but if you haven't gotten the memo yet that our country and civilization is doing poorly then here's your wakeup call.


Detroit is known as a "black" city. It has long had a reputation that associates it with black culture. Blacks filled the city to get manufacturing jobs in the early and mid-20th century and now remain there mostly in poverty. Motown Records, Joe Louis and other famous black athletes also put this stamp on Detroit, which in reality has been more myth then fact. Detroit has had a large variety of ethnic racial success stories from the French settlers to Polish immigrants, to a new influx of Arabs (oh boy!).


Probably because of its reputation as a black city, any major investment into the area centers around two things: sports and gambling. Although that type of thinking should be insulting to blacks, the idea that the key to their economic success lies in playing games and throwing away money at the craps table, there is no getting away from it because the leaders in the black community insist on going in that direction. One may assume their own conclusions about a culture whose leaders see their people's future in sports and gambling. Bling bling anybody??


What it has meant to Detroit is as follows. This year was to be a "special" year for the city. The Major League Baseball All-Star game and now the Super Bowl were to redefine the city, according to the local media spin. How a couple of weeks of soon forgotten hype would in any way change a city with deeply rooted and serious problems escaped me but the media likes to buy into these types of stories because: A) it gives them something to write about; and B) they get invited to really great parties that are hosted, frequently at taxpayer expense, so as to get reporters to write nice things about the city in the hopes that somewhere, someone may be foolish enough to invest in such a monetary black hole.


So the city goes through the charade of trying to appear as presentable as possible, which is impossible. I traveled through the city around the time of the All-Star game and frankly it was embarrassing. The city tried to dress itself up and attempt to cover up the incalculable amount of disrepair visible everywhere in the city. The effect was like a diseased old lady trying to hide the ravages of sickness and age with copious amounts of makeup and rouge. Any route through the city is full of formerly classy buildings now falling down, with awnings dropping off, windows broken, graffiti-covered boards and bars on doors and windows. There are old movie marquees advertising burlesque shows circa 1974, which was the last time the elegant deserted movie houses had paying customers.


In a pathetic attempt to cover up the more egregious scars, curtains were placed over some particularly bad eyesores. The city, which cannot pay its employees or deliver basic services, ponied up money so that they could cover up the windows of once expensive hotels. There is barely enough room to house visitors in the city, in fact most of them have to be bussed in and out from surrounding suburbs. There are huge 60-floor hotels that housed kings and presidents in the city, but now they are empty and cold.


And there are burned-out buildings. The buildings were not burned by recent arsonists. Nor did they catch fire due to inattention. They were burned in the 1967 "race riots." Nearly 40 years ago a large percentage of the black population decided that it would be a good idea to burn and loot the stores and shops that had provided them their goods and livelihoods. The shopkeepers got the message and left. And there they still sit, mute testimony to the pathological problems of the black community. There are no whites who want to rebuild them and no blacks that can.


Forty years later, with the scars still visible, the disease still progressing to a long terminal fate, America, actually the whole world, will be invited in to take a look. The impression they get will help fuel the descent of American culture. The guests may speak well, or cover up the truth in their best PC fashion. But reality has a way of forcing out fantasy. Detroit is the future of America. Enjoy the game.
 

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Nearly 40 years ago a large percentage of the black population decided that it would be a good idea to burn and loot the stores and shops that had provided them their goods and livelihoods. The shopkeepers got the message and left. And there they still sit, mute testimony to the pathological problems of the black community. There are no whites who want to rebuild them and no blacks that can.


This article is very depressing and entirely true.
 

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Great article JB, and sadly, the truth does hurt sometimes. There is a reason why Detroit is now called "New Fallujah."
 

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Detroit is there for all the world to see what happens when whites leave and blacks move in. The inner cities of America should be a warning to any nation about non-white immigration. Detroit is not alone in it's misery. There is Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, Gary,Indiana and Newark,New Jersey.
I was in Russia a few years ago and felt much safer in Moscow then in Newark. The big ciites of America have now become 3rd world in everyway.
 

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Bart said:
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&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3&gt;Nearly 40 years ago a large percentage of the black population decided that it would be a good idea to burn and loot the stores and shops that had provided them their goods and livelihoods. The shopkeepers got the message and left. And there they still sit, mute testimony to the pathological problems of the black community. There are no whites who want to rebuild them and no blacks that can.</font>


This article is very depressing and entirely true.

yes it is, Bart... very interesting read
 

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I just wanted to drop a few lines of 'thanks' for J. B. Cash's Column, "Detroit Hosts the Super Bowl". The article was one rare jewel of truth surrounded by the pig's snout we call mainstream journalism. A common-sense truth telling story which is all but forbidden in todays controlled media atmosphere consisting of hypocrites and liars.

I'm nowhere near Detoit myself but the same applies to any city that gets diversity. Remember that Orweillian adage, "diversity is our strength". Sort of like "war is peace" or "freedom is slavery". Like the former European-American of Detroit, just as millions of other yearly white-flight refugees I'm selling my home to relocate. Maybe the midwest? The northwest perhaps?

These days the scenario of "Detroit" has expanded to on a state-wide, regional basis. I"m old enough to remember "our" holidays before they got changed. Things like Cinco de Mayo being the rage. The days before Mexican bicycle ice-cream vendors and cheap taco stands with a calculator for register to avoid taxation. The days when I could leave my home without having the sterio blarring and car constantly in the garage so the immigrants don't know when I'm home, or not. I'm old enough to remember when Texas was part of America, the USA. It was 75% European-American when I graduated high school, 48% today and projected to be 19% by the time I retire. I've seen alot of changes for the worse, I'm 36 years old. Like the former citizens of a once great city Detroit...I'm a refugee.
 

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We will all be refugee's in the near future. Imagine White men "refugees" in the USA. I wonder why any White male would go to Iraq to make sure there borders are safe when our own are being over run here. Why fight in the middle east when our own nation is being over run.
When I was growing up, Cleveland was not a bad city. Today Cleveland is a joke,in some ways worse then Detroit. Back in the 1950's Americans disliked the "hunkies" from Poland, Hungary, Italy,Etc. Now we'd love to have immigrants from those nations instead of Mexico, Vietnam, West Indies,Etc. Diversity will bring death to the America we once knew.
Our race is our nation-all White men are Brothers-we killed each other by the millions in two world wars and then flooded our homelands with non-white people to take the place of all the healthy young white soldiers who died. We must encourage and build up each other and realize the land we leave for our grandchildren will be very different from what we once knew.
 

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I've never been anywhere Detroit. I see no need to. There's a scale model Detroit much closer to me: Chester, PA. I was born in Chester in 1961, the year Chester lost its Ford plant. My paternal grandparents lived on Chester's west end (the Ukrainian section in those days) until I was 13. Their house is now demolished.

Chester is joining Detroit on the casino bandwagon. A horse track/casino is being built where a shipyard once was located on the east end. Yes, that poverty bandaid, the casino, is coming to Chester.

John
 

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Excellent Article Once Again, J. B. Cash !!


In 1948 every major city in USofA was gloriously white, clean, and prosperous, with minority citizens living pretty doggone well. By 1965 the floodgates of disaster were opened. By 1975 every inner city was dangerous and crumbling. I can leave out 85 and 95 and go straight to 2005, where Detroit is just a carbon copy of every otherburned-out Schidt-hole American downtown. There are no good inner cities, and Europe's major burgs are following.


Curiously, totalitarian Canada still sports livable urban areas in a few places. Count on all of them becoming decrepit reeeel sooon.
 

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Very interesting article.


I live in Omaha Nebraska. When I first moved to Omaha about 15 years ago, it was a small city. Population around 275,000 or so. Small city. Now we have seen a population boom of over 400,000. Not even including all the small cities(suberbs/towns) that have not been annexed. Downtown went from being rundown to a very very nice scene. Cornfields being rundown and houses being put in out in west omaha. Very nice growingcity and a funplace to live in.


College World Series come to town and the whole city is rockin for two weeks straight. Nebraska football is like a religion in Omaha even though games are played in Lincoln.


We have addedCalagary FlamesFarmteam to our city.


So many changes in so little time.The problem I have is that I have never been to thesecities likeDetroit, St. Louis, etc the ones that were very nice and populated but noware very bad and a growth decline....But Ihave a feeling that down the road major problems like crime poverty, etc.... will follow here to omaha. Sure we have our bad parts of town like everyone does. But for the most part Omaha is a great city.... It will be a shame if this happens here.
 
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You may not be aware but Detroit has one of the lrgest consentration of Moslems in the US. I am expecting a terrorist attack. I hope they are prepared for this.
 

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There are a lot of reasons for the decline in our cities, including racial dynamics, massive 3rd World immigration, government incompetence, outsourcing our manufacturing base, etc. But there also seems to be a general trend away from high density, centralized urban areas and towards lower density, decentralized suburban areas. This has been going on for several decades, well before our country started going to hell in the 60's and 70's. Cities are still important, but not as central to American life as they used to be. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. A lot of people seem to prefer small towns, suburbs, and the countryside to cities, including me. A city would have to be nearly perfect in terms of traffic, noise, crime, "color" (if you catch my drift,) population density (I don't want to feel too crowded,) pollution, etc., for me to want to live there. Probably not too many cities like that.

Read "American Dreamscape" by Tom Martinson for some interesting info on all this.

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I've had some positive feed back from friends and relatives regarding the Super Bowl article.All ofJ.B.'s commentaries are first rate.Are thereany sports writers in America with his skill, wisdom and courage? Noteven one!! Our gutless media sellouts will never applaud his efforts, but he deserves our thanks and appreciation.Take a bow J.B. Cash!


 

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On TV the city of Detroit looked pretty bright and active. Heck they even had comerica parks lights on!
 

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Bart said:
I've had some positive feed back from friends and relatives regarding the Super Bowl article. All of  J.B.'s commentaries are first rate.  Are there any sports writers in America with his skill, wisdom and courage? Not even one!! Our gutless media sellouts will never applaud his efforts, but he deserves our thanks and appreciation. Take a bow J.B. Cash!  

Belated thanks Bart! I do not feel that I am worthy of such high praise but let any credit be shared by the members and supporters of this website whose insight and comments on these matters inspire me to write on the subject.

I only wish to express our collective feelings on the matter to a larger audience and hope by so doing that we are able to help further positive change. At the very least we will know that when it was time to speak out against the wrongs directed at our people we did as our conscious dictated which is all that can be expected of any man.

Please know that each poster contributes important commentary on the issue and in my opinion you have all been up to the task.

JB Cash
 
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