did you know that #Detroit once had a #Chinatown? it was raized twice due to urban renewal. these same racist policies also displaced Black Bottom/Paradise Valley and Latinx community along Bagley/96 intersection. MGM Casino is where the first Chinatown was located.
while metro #Detroit likes to present itself as racially, culturally and ethnically diverse, it is not racially, culturally or ethnically integrated. we're all concentrated into separate communities bc urban planning is inherently racist, anti Black and anti Indigenous.
until we address racial covenants like urban renewal, block busting, redlining, predatory lending and housing practices, neo-colonial practices like mass foreclosures, school closures, water shutoffs, land grabbing and gentrification will perpetuate displacement of BIPOC folx.
oh yeah. one more thing...it also doesn't help that #Detroit is one of these most surveilled cities in the whole country. just ask Thug'n Duggan @MayorMikeDuggan about project "green light". surveillance is not safety. @Combsthepoet
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