I could not even say. My grandparents survived the Holocaust (not everyone in my family did) and so the knowledge was just always kind of there, a reality of our story and of how you interacted with Grandma and Grandpa.
Even when we were too young to understand, we know you shouldn't say you "hate" something trivial (like broccoli) around them because they would become emotional and tell you you didn't understand what hate is.
Also couldn't be out of the line of sight sometimes. Had to play where you were around and visibly not being snatched.
My clearest memory of the Holocaust in school is from 8th grade, because Mr. Patterson cried in front of us after telling us about how some people who survived the camps passed away after finally being given food, their damaged bodies could not handle it.
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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!”