4 Quotes by Jerry Herron about detroit
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Detroit is just like everywhere else, only more so--a lot more so.
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[S]tart at the turn of the last century, in 1901, with the celebration of Detroit’s bicentennial. That was the Detroit that came before--before all the racket that attended the making of the modern world, which happened here first and faster than anywhere else on this planet.
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But what people don't realize is that Detroit is the greatest success story in American history.
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Everyone says look at what 'those people' did to my city. And race is always an element. In 1950, Detroit had a population of 1.8 million; 80 percent were white, 20 percent black. Today the population is 900,000 and those percentages have more than reversed.
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