![]() ![]() When she arrived in her elected office, “her first order of business was to pummel a woman in a barroom brawl after the woman complained about Conyers chatting up her man. ![]() One of Detroit’s gift to the country is a chairman of the Judiciary Committee whose wife is in jail. He moves relatively quickly to Monica Conyers, wife of the John Conyers (ahh, democracy, you are nothing if not entertaining). The book opens with the beginning of the end for Kwame Kilpatrick. Along the way, he finds a lot of things that are incredibly interesting and criminally underreported. He ends up depressed, violent, and just beaten down by the city. Eventually he moves his young family back to Detroit to be closer to his extended family. ![]() He leaves Detroit to write at various major news outlets. The only difference between Detroit and the Third World in terms of corruption is Detroit don’t have no goats in the street.Ĭharlie LeDuff grew up as a white kid in Detroit. Now Detroit has fewer than 700,000 people, is 83 percent black and is the only American city that has surpassed a million people only to contract below that threshold. And, of course, Ford isn’t hiring.ĭetroit reached a peak population of nearly 1.9 million people in the 1950s and was 83 percent white. This, adjusted for inflation, is three cents less than what Henry Fort was paying in 1914 when he announced the $5 day. A newly hired autoworker will earn $14 an hour. ![]()
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