Turn Old Tiger Stadium Site in Detroit into Complex Showcasing 'African Culture'? Isn't 84% Black Detroit Already Showcasing Enough "African Culture"?

An 84 percent black city.

An actual "artists rendering" of Urban Cafe Detroit, to be built on the empty Old Tiger Stadium Site... it will showcase "African Culture" in an 84 percent black city already boasting enough "African Culture"...

Joblessness, abandonment (white people, who were 85 percent of the city in the early 1960s), and high crime - courtesy of the black population - is all an example of what a metropolis fueled by black empowerment can create.

2013 Detroit. 

Right, Louis Farrakhan?

2013 Detroit is a city showcasing African culture in a city that was almost 100 percent white only one hundred years ago (in fact, it was the economy white people created that attracted black migrants to the city; conversely, it is the black culture these migrants imported to the city that drove away whites).

Now, an ambitious developer has the bold idea to try and break new ground: be the first developer to develop an African-American development from the ground-up [Developers Want To Turn Old Tiger Stadium Site Into Entertainment Complex Showcasing African Culture, CBS Detroit, 5-17-13]:

An ambitious Detroit businessman thinks he has a bombshell idea for transforming the empty lot where Old Tiger Stadium used to be.

Francois DeMonique told WWJ City Beat Reporter Vickie Thomas he wants to see the site at Michigan Avenue and Trumbull transformed into a unique hotel and entertainment complex.

“I love this city and I believe in this city. I’ve put a lot of effort into it and my company, which is Urban Café Corporation, we are dedicated to being a part of the new face of Detroit. This may be just the first African-American development built from the ground up,” he said.

DeMonique’s vision for Urban Café Detroit is one where visitors can stay in a hotel, attend a live concert, have a first-class dinner and dance the night away all under one roof without having to drive to separate destinations.

“We’re anticipating the Old Tiger Stadium site, but there are other options and sites that we are currently in negotiation with, private enterprises and private owners,” he said.

The look of the building would be aesthetically pleasing, DeMonique said, with a streamlined, avant-garde look that will instantly raise the profile of the area in which it is built. He said the facility will influence the city’s skyline and “lift the spirits of Detroit’s residents and visitors.”

DeMonique, who’s been working on the project since 2009, said the complex would focus on “celebrating the positives of many nations around the world” from the perspectives of art, dance, music, cuisines and the other aspects. He described the venue as being “the place to be for locals and a must-see establishment for tourists.”

The hotel will be the jewel of the complex, DeMonique said, featuring its own 200-seat upscale restaurant, full-service bar, candy store, exercise room, spa, hair salon and a business center.  The third through seventh floors will have 20 suites per floor, each featuring a theme-specific decor designed around the unique cultures of various African countries. DeMonique said the designs and concepts will cover all 100 suites, showcasing different countries of Africa and the Caribbean.

  DeMonique is too late. Modern-day Detroit is already an entire fueled by both black culture and the idea of black empowerment.

A book on baseball (The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2002) helps describe how the culture black people imported to Detroit - which subsequently drove white people, business, and hope from the city - supersedes any hope of turning the old vacant Tiger Stadium lot into a complex showcasing African culture.

Detroit 2013 is the ultimate personification of African culture in America:

Any post-war illusion that sustained economic growth would solve Detroit’s social problems was shattered with the decline of the automobile industry in the late 1960s as well as the 1967 Detroit riot or uprising, depending upon one’s point of view. Frustration over growing unemployment, allegations of police brutality, and de facto segregation exploded in July 1967 when police raided a “blind pig,” or after hours drinking establishment. Before National Guard troops restored order, 43 people (again most of them African Americans) were dead, 7,000 were arrested, and $22 million in property was destroyed. Most observers interpreted the growing racial segregation in the Detroit area as due to white flight into the suburbs following the 1967 violence. By the 1980 census, Detroit was losing population and the city was predominantly African American, while the metropolitan area continued to grow in the overwhelmingly white suburbs.

Mayor Coleman Young is often blamed for exacerbating Detroit’s racial divide. Elected in 1974 as Detroit’s first black mayor, Young was a vocal critic of the white suburbs and champion of black Detroiters. The city’s racial divide, however, was already well established before Young arrived. Nevertheless, national perception of Detroit as a city characterized by urban desolation and black lawlessness was fostered by an influential magazine piece and book by Z’ev Chafets focusing upon the city’s Halloween-eve Devil’s Night fires as representative of decadence in Detroit. Little wonder that when the makers of the futuristic Robocop (1987) wanted to create an urban wasteland with rampant crime, Detroit was selected. (p. 137-138)

 Detroit is a city where black lawlessness has created urban desolation, only exacerbated by having a city government almost entirely composed of (elected or appointed) black people and a tax-base supported almost entirely by black residents -- who elected the black officials in charge of the custody of the city they inherited through a low-level racial war against whites.

Q: Why is Iceland Free of Violent Crime? A: Why is New Orleans Replete with Violent Crime?

Why does Iceland have so little violent crime? [Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland?, BBC, 5-16-13]

Why does New Orleans, Louisiana have so much violent crime? [The Murder Capital of America, Crime Library]

Iceland -- in all of 2009, the nation registered only one murder homicide. We call that a peaceful weekend in New Orleans. Why?

The simple answer has nothing to do with socialism, universal healthcare, poverty, capitalism, or discrimination (oddly, socialism works in a nation/state with high social capital). 

It is simply race. 

Four letters that, when combined, reduce most mortals into a state of silence. 

But for the simple reason Iceland is so peaceful (no blacks), the converse is true of New Orleans (overwhelmingly a black city).

Dr. Kevin Unter's 2009 book Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans: A Study of the New Orleans Police Department offers two simple quotes on crime in the city that cut to the heart of the reality described above:

... higher concentrations of blacks, i.e., a larger "at-risk" population would necessarily lead to higher incidences of crime. (p.113) 

Because blacks comprise both the highest number of perpetrators and victims, it necessarily follows that the larger the... these results suggest that crime has increased as the percentage of the black population in New Orleans has increased. (p. 137) 

The only variable that shows some explanatory power is the percentage of the black population in New Orleans - the models suggest that crime will increase as the percentage of the black population in New Orleans increases. (p. 166)

So, without black people (take the nation of Iceland), there isn't much crime.

Right?

Crime in New Orleans has always been a "black problem", though the images broadcast to the world in early September 2005 of black helplessness in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are the reality, the microcosm of the 'black problem':

In 1994, the year of the Groves murder, New Orleans attained the unwanted distinction of being "The Murder Capital of America." Between January 1 and December 31, four hundred and twenty-one homicide victims gave the Crescent City the highest per capita murder rate in the nation. Even though the largest percentage of these killings were "black-on-black" murders in the city's housing projects and other "bad neighborhoods," the numbers were scaring off tourists and conventions. 

Though the Mother's Day 2013 shooting in New Orleans has largely been dropped down the memory - it's a reminder of why people chose to avoid living in largely black cities or having black neighbors -  the incident is something extremely rare in the city. 

It's a byproduct of black gang violence, whereas a recent study of murder victims in the city showed that out of 200 victims, only 1 percent had gang affiliations. [CRIME IN NEW ORLEANS: ANALYZING CRIME TRENDS AND NEW ORLEANS’ RESPONSES TO CRIME, p. 12]

Translation: black violence in the city of New Orleans is just an example of black people without much impulse control or future-time orientation cognitive abilities; the inverse is, of course, true of the people of Iceland. 

The white people of Iceland.

The reason New Orleans has so much violent crime is simple -- black people; the same reason Iceland had only one homicide in all of 2009 -- no black people. 

There was one homicide in Iceland in 2009; conversely, in New Orleans on Mother's Day 2013, 20 people were shot by Akein and Shawn Scott at an event held largely for black people[Mother's Day shooting suspects have ties to 7th Ward gang, police say, NOLA.com, 5-17-13]:

The Mother's Day second-line shooting that left 20 people injured and has drawn international attention to New Orleans' violent crime problem was committed by two brothers with ties to a 7th Ward gang, police said Thursday. 

Akein Scott, 19, and Shawn Scott, 24, are accused of raining a hail of bullets on an unsuspecting crowd as a second-line celebration passed Frenchmen and North Villere streets Sunday afternoon. Police said the Scotts are members of the Frenchmen and Derbigny Boys, or the F and D Boys. The area surrounding that intersection is where the gang is known to sell drugs, according to sources familiar with the group.

 "Race."

Four letters that, when combined, reduce most mortals into a state of silence.

Quality of life can simply be judged by how violent your black population is (which drives away law-abiding, tax-paying citizens) -- or if your city even has a black population [CRIME IN NEW ORLEANS: ANALYZING CRIME TRENDS AND NEW ORLEANS’ RESPONSES TO CRIME, p. 12]

Yet the concept of "race" - be it the biological or social construct version - does more to tell us about the reality of the world in 2013 (especially the differences between Iceland and New Orleans) than any other explanation touted by... anyone. 

"All is race, there is no other truth."

"It's Only Going to Make a lot of Black Kids Angry" -- Kansas City moves to save 'The Plaza' from... Organized Blackness

The Plaza in Kansas City is an entertainment district under siege. Not by a foreign enemy, but by a domestic enemy. Back in 2010 it was the scene of one of the first Obama Mobs (Flash/Mahogany); then, in 2011 it was Country Club Plaza that under attack by black individuals who collectively brought chaos and anarchy to one of the last remaining hopes for commercial activity (and the collection of tax revenue) for the city. 

To see what happens when black people drive away white people, look no further than 2013 Detroit.  

Kansas City is well on its way to being Detroited. 

"For Colored Only" is the future for most of America's major cities as businesses and law-abiding citizens abandon them... Kansas City is on its way there, with black people remaking 'The Plaza' in their image

There exist almost no legal maneuvers left to maintain the integrity (property values) of either commercial or private property ventures, save the installation of "curfews" normally reserved for a nation during wartime. 

Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, Memphis, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, and Milwaukee are cities that are in a state of war (which is why workers who commute from the suburbs hurry to get out of the urban areas of these dying cities before the sun goes down), which has already claimed as casualties Baltimore and Detroit. 

Voting in late March, the Kanas City City Council voted to allocate $400,000 to Club KC in a foolish bid to entertain those participating in Obama Mobs. 

Midnight basketball, anyone?

It didn't work. On April 7, 250 blacks - though the Kansas City Star labeled them "youths" - caused yet another disturbance at The Plaza. In turn, the city leaders of Kansas City decided it might be time to implement a year-long curfew -- no more stop-gap measure during the warm summer months when Obama Mobs spring to action. 

Last night, the city council put the motion on hold -- for now. [Year-round curfew in KC stalls: John Sharp says more time needed to develop plan, KMBC.com, 5-15-13]:

A bid to establish a new curfew for young people in the city's entertainment districts is on hold. Talks between the city and some Kansas City young people have been going on for some time over the issue.  

 City Councilman John Sharp said that there needs to be more time to develop a working plan. "We have a year-round curfew now," Sharp noted. Sharp told KMBC's Micheal Mahoney that the problem is the city has at least four sets of curfews, depending on what time of the year it is, and how old the young person is.  

 The latest plan calls for a 9 p.m. curfew for people 17 and younger in the entertainment districts. Sharp believes that is too early. Another councilman, Jermaine Reed, called the latest plan, "the Save the Plaza" curfew.  

 "But what we need to do is save all of our young people," Reed said.  

 One option under consideration is for the city to spend more money on providing Kansas City young people with more entertainment alternatives, rather than just hanging out.

"Save the Plaza."

More like "Save Kansas City from becoming another Detroit" plan. 

Back in April, when the news of extending the curfew first came up, the usual suspects cried... racism [Teen curfew sparks talk of race, The Plaza: Proposal to be held for 3 weeks, KMBC.com, April 24, 2013]:

The talk of expanding Kansas City's curfew for teenagers took a blunt turn at City Hall Wednesday. 

KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported that a City Council committee talked openly about racial tensions on the famed Country Club Plaza. 

The city is considering expanding its late May-to-late September curfew for teens to a year-round policy. The measure is being sponsored by City Councilwoman Jan Marcason. 

Mahoney reported that the race discussion started when City Councilman Jermaine Reed noted that all 34 curfew tickets issued by police on the Plaza from June 2012 until December 2012 were issued to black teenagers. 

"The data is the data. That's what I'm looking at," Reed said. "We've got to be honest and have an honest conversation. Say, 'Here's what it says and have an honest conversation, as well." 

Mayor Sly James heard Reed’s claims. He was watching the meeting in his office, and came down to the meeting, warning members to keep the discussion in context and not just about race. 

James cautioned there was a difference between just issuing citations only to black teens versus ticketing people in violation of the curfew. 

“Race does play a factor,” James said. But he said that the curfew discussion needs to be above that factor. 

"The Plaza hasn’t changed that much since I was a kid," City Councilman Michael Brooks said. 

Brooks said some blacks do not feel welcome in the shopping district.

American cities are littered with the abandoned remains of once thriving shopping districts/malls, hulking relics of an early time when commerce thrived (all due to the social capital that once flourished there). 

Malls sit empty, gathering dust. 

Après Nous, Le Déluge -- "The Chocolaté City" Abides

"The Chocolate City" continues to melt away, weltering under the intense heat generated by Hurricane Katrina and the post-Katrina world. The black population of the city, once 70+ percent of the residents, is dwindling away. 

A common scene in any majority black community -- especially those in New Orleans

Interestingly, they won't go away without a fight -- though the fight seems almost universally internecine violence within their own community [Life expectancy is low in some parts of New Orleans, NOLA.com, 6-20-12]:   

People living in the ZIP code 70112, which includes sections of Mid-City and Treme, are expected to die at 54 years, according to the report. They are also five times more likely to die from heart disease than are those living in ZIP code 70113, which includes Central City and the Central Business District, an area that has the second-highest heart disease mortality rates in the city.

People living in poor neighborhoods repopulated after Katrina, such as Mid-City and Treme, are also more likely to have dropped out of high school and engage in violent crime.

“It’s a privilege to live in certain areas,” said Dr. Andre Perry, leader of the research team and associate director for educational initiatives at Loyola University. “But it is also true that there are frenetic neighborhoods where people are dying before their time.”

Perry says that the history of segregation in Louisiana has allowed neighborhood-level inequities in health and education to persist. New Orleans currently has a 65.5 percent overall level of segregation, based on U.S. 2010 census data. It also ranked 34th out of the top 100 most segregated cities in the United States in the 2005-2009 American Community survey.

 ZIP code 70112 is 75 percent black -- the horrendous conditions (when compared to those standards of civilization set by white communities) of the area are a direct reflection of the type of communities individual black people collective create. All the negatives aspects of life in ZIP 70112 directly correlate to it having a majority black population.

Living in a civilized neighborhood is not a privilege. One must work hard (sacrificing much) to shelter and protect their family from the reality of racial differences found in cities like New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Memphis.
The New Orleans Times Picayune Jarvis DeBerry can whine all he wants about how the residents of the city have become desensitized to black shootings, but the reality is all of these shootings only confirm the need to steer clear of having black neighbors or living in a community numerically dominated by black people. [Dumaine Street block has become one of New Orleans' most dangerous since Hurricane Katrina, NOLA.com, 1-1-2011]
Or politically dominated by blacks. 

Embattled former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin appointed Edward J. Blakely to be Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration after Hurricane Katrina. 

 My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina, an account of Blakely’s time as managing the recovery effort post-Katrina, offers a fascinating lesson into how the black population of the city – admittedly largely reliant on low-income housing – had both taken political control of the city and how they were on the cusp of losing that control: 

 The infamous green dots were used by the BNOB [Bring New Orleans Back] committee to designate areas, largely black lower-and middle-class neighborhoods, that were to be transformed into wetlands. Post-recovery plans put forward by several groups put strong emphasis on local economic recovery and especially small business and the arts. But the real contest was housing for whom?  

Edward Blakely presided over the inadvertent resurrection of the city 

To reassure blacks who worried that post-storm New Orleans would become majority white after three decades of black demographic and political domination, Mayor Nagin used the term “chocolate city.”   

His language, in turn, kindled fears in whites about a return to the city of low-income, public housing residents. In 2002, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had taken over management of New Orleans public housing because, as HUD state, “even before Hurricane Katrina struck, many New Orleanians were ill-served by aging, poorly maintained public units.”  

Damage from the 2005 storms, including mold, further weakened the structures, which led to the final decision not to reoccupy most of the city’s public housing, and to tear down most of the units. That threatened not only a substantial part of the housing for blacks, but also black political power. The political equation was easy to understand. Many of New Orleans’ black people lived in public or subsidized low-income accommodations.  

These accommodations numbered more than 17,000, and they were extraordinarily segregated, with 95 percent occupancy by African Americans, the largest such concentration in the nation. Most black residents were renters. Furthermore, New Orleans had one of the lowest rates of homeownership in the nation, 45 percent, two-thirds of the U.S. average. HUD’s post-storm shuttering of all the largest public housing facilities in the city seriously impaired black political organization.  

So Nagin’s remark about “chocolate city” had a major impact: it energized many New Orleans whites, who realized that, with no “public housing vote” for the first time in decades, they might actually have the numbers to install white political leadership.  

 The mayor got off to a shaky start after his reelection. It wasn’t clear whose side he was on. The BNOB green dots threatened to turn many traditionally African American communities into park land, and the closure of public housing and the loss of small pockets of low-income homeowners in the 9th Ward and similar low-lying areas suggested that black homeowners and renters would have few places to live in New Orleans.  

The black community started talking of a white conspiracy to retake political control. People love to imagine conspiracies, and that theory swept through the city beyond: it was repeated in the national media. (p. 77)

What is life like for the remaining black underclass left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina [Mother's Day shooting victim, 10, lost cousin Briana Allen and father to violence, NOLA.com, 5-15-13]: 

Ka'Nard Allen, 10, does not want to talk about what must be the longest and hardest year of his life. He doesn't want to talk about Mother's Day, when he was grazed by a bullet at a second line parade in New Orleans' 7th Ward, one of 19 people injured in a mass shooting. 

He doesn't want to talk about October, when his father, 38-year-old Bernard Washington, was fatally stabbed in eastern New Orleans by his stepmother after Washington allegedly choked and beat her. She has been charged with manslaughter. 

And he really doesn't want to talk about his 10th birthday party last May 29, when his 5-year-old cousin, Briana Allen, was fatally shot and a bullet hit Ka'Nard in the neck. The man accused of shooting Briana was arrested last month and, last week, was among 15 people indicted on gang racketeering charges in that incident and many others. 

Just like in Savannah, one of the quintessential southern cities (that is being lost to Organized Blackness), crime/murder/non-fatal shootings in New Orleans are almost entirely caused by individual blacks -- who collectively help make the city one of the world's most dangerous places. 

The flood waters created by the natural disaster known as Hurricane Katrina may have receded, but the unnatural disaster left behind in its wake continues to prove far costly - and deadlier - even though the Bring New Orleans Back [BNOB] committee did the right thing and pushed to destroy public housing.

A few solutions remain to make the city of New Orleans a livable place again -- take away all government assistance for the black residents of the city reliant on such a lavish tax-payer funded existence (having children isn't a reward bringing undeserved lucre) and remove the police from patrolling these areas -- after all, the police in NOLA are racist anyways.

Stranger(s) in a Strange Land: White People in Baton Rouge

Eric Holder? 

"His people" were the attackers in this case, so he'll remain silent -- as will the Department of Justice. 

Barack Obama? 

One of Obama's Sons... or the type of person Eric "My People" Holder seeks to shield... beat up a white family in Baton Rouge for being in the "wrong neighborhood"

If he had a son, he'd look more like 41-year-old Donald Dickerson, the individual behind bars for knocking a hate white male unconscious -- so no press conference will be called where he can say Mr. Dickerson was merely "acting stupidly." 

For a white family trying to get gas in a zip code (70802) of Baton Rouge known for being one of the worst and most violent - probably due to it being 80 percent black - in the city, it was a case of being introduced to the concept of Black-Run America (BRA) [Police: Family attacked for being in "wrong neighborhood", WAFB NBC, 5-13-13]:

He was in the "wrong neighborhood" is just one reason a man gave as to why he was punched in the face. His wife and daughter were also hit. Police arrested one man and ticketed two others. They are all accused of punching the family. 

 At the corner of Plank Road and Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge sits a Chevron gas station. It's off I-110 near Memorial Stadium. A family stopped there to get gas Sunday around 10 p.m. "Upon our arrival, we located three victims who were attacked in the parking lot," said Cpl. Tommy Stubbs, spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Police Department.  

 The owners of the gas station did not want to comment on camera, but said there's a wide variety of customers in and out of the store in the daytime. At night, though, it's not the safest of places, especially with the area having some of the highest crime in the city. "It was a small scene but it got to be a big scene after the fight broke out and it was a big scene when the police came," said Keisha Henderson, a witness. Stubbs said a man wearing a pink shirt was in line trying to pay for gas when Donald Dickerson, 41, started making fun of him, leading to an argument.  

 "The defendant (Dickerson) approached the white male victim," the police report stated. It went on to read, "the defendant told him he was in the wrong neighborhood and he was not going to make it out." The victim said that's when he "was punched and knocked to the ground."  

 At this time, his wife got out of the car and ran to help her husband. The victim said, "he continued to struggle with the defendant and was eventually knocked unconscious, which later he awoke in the hospital." His wife told police, "after running to help her husband, she remembers falling to the ground and (being) knocked unconscious."  

 According to a close family friend, that's when the couple's teenage daughter got out of the car to check on her parents and, "observed a female punch her mother in the face, when her mother then fell to the concrete, hitting her head on the surface." The daughter was also punched in the face.  

 "There were only three suspects but there were multiple people in the parking lot," said Stubbs. Of those three, Dickerson was arrested and charged with second-degree battery.  

The other two suspects, Devin Bessye, 24, and Ashley Simmons, 22, were released on site after police wrote them each a summons for simple battery. When police were questioned about why all three defendants were not charged with felony second degree battery, Stubbs responded, "Because you have to have disfigurement for a second-degree battery charge, and only one victim had disfigurement and he was attacked by the one suspect that we booked." 

 However, Louisiana law defines second-degree battery as "bodily injury which involves unconsciousness, extreme physical pain or protracted and obvious disfigurement."  

 The victim suffered "a broken eye socket, broken nose, and several lacerations to the face," and his wife was knocked unconscious. "I feel that's racist," said Henderson. As to why officers only charged one suspect with second-degree battery, police said under former Police Chief Dewayne White, officers were told to take all offenders to prison. Towards the end of his term, the policy changed and officers were told to use discretion. That's the policy in place now. 

 As to whether this falls under a hate crime, police said early reports show it does not meet the statute but remains under investigation.All three defendants, Dickerson, Bessye and Simmons, have had run-ins with the law prior to Sunday's incident.

In 2012, 23 of the city of Baton Rouge's 83 homicides happened in zip code 70802 (27 percent). Zip code 70805 borders this one, with 14 more homicides occurring there in 2012 -- meaning 44 percent of all 2012 homicides in Baton Rouge happened in two zip codes. 

Zip code 70805 is 86 percent black.