In 2001 I was in high school in Skokie, a very diverse Chicago suburb.
Discrimination against the Muslim kids started right away.
I think it was even the same day, Sept 11, that an Assyrian American classmate started getting told to go back where he came from.
My classmate also had people taunting him about "his uncles" doing the attack.
Lest you think it was only kids, we could palpably feel that our Muslim neighbors around the neighborhood were terrified.
I remember Muslim people in Skokie putting up American flags in a plea to not be attacked. A neighbor across the street taped one from the newspaper into their window. Around the neighborhood I'd see a van with a big flag sticker on each of its 4 sides.
Saying Sept 11 didn't ignite anti-Muslim hate in this country is a bunch of lying ass bullshit. Period.
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The new intermodal facility in Detroit would replace the current Amtrak station aka the Amshack, and combine it with buses like Greyhound, as well as connecting to local transit and being better set up for cabs and rideshare.
I just heard the most unhinged north city story I’ve heard in my life.
Actually mostly a “how cops act in north city” story.
I am physically sweating from my friend calling me and telling me this.
I have to think about how much I say on here / possibly check with my friend but the short version is my friends heard consistent info about a body being buried on a Paul McKee lot right by their houses, but despite having this murder 90% solved SLMPD would not come dig
There’s so much I want to say. I might just have to write if it down privately to process it. The cops made my friends provide the shovel. The cops did not end up being the ones to dig the guy up, a local elected official did
Let me be clear I’m speaking just for me, personally, here.
The majority of politicians in Michigan do not understand or care abt public transit. They do not give one single shit about a Detroit city bus, or understand how badly our godawful transit hurts Detroiters and Detroit
Decisionmakers in Detroit and Michigan really think we can somehow recover, be economically competitive, and get people into jobs with Detroit having F-, embarrassing, nonfunctional public transportation
I remember seeing one of the top people from Hantz Farms speaking at a planning conference.
They thought it was a friendly audience so they were just letting the contempt for Detroit and Detroiters fly. They thought we weren’t in the room.
After the fifth or sixth time the man from Hantz Farms referred to that part of the East Side as “a backwater,” I raised my hand and shouted “I LIVE in that backwater!”