I had a friend who lived in Hamtramck (over 5 years ago) and he wouldn't let me stay in his driveway long and he didn't want me picking him up at night. He lived by a boarded up police station.
There were days, back when, when Detroit was segregated with all of the nationalities. Ham-town was predominately Polish (from what I know) there's Mexican-town, and even surrounding areas like Dearborn, as a lot of people know by the tv show that city is a big concentration of Muslims. I wonder if keeping everyone separate was the problem. I know people want to live with who looks like them, but maybe this city wouldn't have been as bad (murder capital of the world and all) as it has become.
My mom told me of the days when the European women would get on their hands and knees and wash their porches. At one time people had such pride for this city. They kept up with everything and made it look nice....but now...back a little bit, few years, I knew a friend who lived around 6 mile and Gratiot. The neighbor was old and would masturbate on the porch in middle of the day.
How could such a beautiful city fall so hard? Why didn't we branch out from cars? I mean a lot of people think of the Motor City or even Hockey Town and a lot of people think of Murder Capital of the World. There is one of the spoof movies, a Scary Movie sequel that did War of the Worlds. When they were showing cities that were attacked they showed buildings on fire and such and they said something like this is Detroit and then they showed the aliens and they said this is what it looked like after the attack. We are a big joke. Granted I do not live in the borders of Detroit, but how many people know what I mean when I say I live in Eastpointe? (I still miss my town being called East Detroit, then I could say where I was from and people usually got it) I say it as a matter of reference, but I enjoy being from this part of the state and my mom being the walking fact encyclopedia I know random awesome facts about this state/city.
Dd you know that Detroit has the biggest single family dwellings in the country? If you have ever been here you will notice we don't have a bunch of apartment complexes everywhere, but we do have a bunch of houses.
There are so many beautiful places there but there are also places I won't go or I am very careful to go.
Did you know they might close the Detroit Institute of Arts? If you keep closing all of the amazing things there, who is going to move back? We have less than a million people living in the city and for years I hoped it would get better...I'm losing hope. We are full of drugs, crime, pros, violence, death, and I am having a hard time finding the beauty anymore.
But then I have to remember that in the bottom of Pandora's box, there was hope.
"...All my life I've been waiting for, been praying for, for the people to say, that they don't want to fight no more, there'll be no more wars, and our children will play, One Day..." #TeamMatis
Please get better Detroit. Let more people come to know and love the area where I grew up. I want before I die for Detroit not to be a joke to everyone. I just hope that my hope is not in vain..
Peace out Blog.
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