Built by whites, ruled by blacks

Jared Taylor’s 1991 article, “The Late, Great City of Detroit,” is becoming more and more apropos. Michael S. writes: “Things are getting so bad in Detroit that even the dead are leaving.” (The byline in the AR article is William Robertson Boggs, one of Jared Taylor’s pseudonyms in the early days of AR.)

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Alan Roebuck writes:

In the article about the decline of Detroit linked at VFR, Jared Taylor says:

As the population shrank to one half its 1950 figure and arson leveled entire blocks, large tracts of the city simply reverted to nature. Wildfowl not normally seen in cities have been found nesting in Detroitʼs urban prairies.

Mapquest.com has “aerial image” feature that allows you to see aerial photographs of just about anywhere. Not knowing anything about Detroit, I simply typed “Detroit, MI,” and then zeroed in on the map that came up, which took me to a region near the baseball stadium, presumably downtown. I then panned northeast, zeroed in some more, and found the below image at

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Detroit &state=MI#a/maps/l:::Detroit:MI::US:42.331402:-83.045799:city:Wayne County/m:hyb:15:42.391213:-83.02716:0:0:/io:0:::::f:EN:M:/e

(For some reason, when I paste the URL into the hyperlink, it is not completely copied, and so you cannot open the below image. But I wanted to document the image, and besides, the image is clearer in the browser.)

Observe how the landscape looks rural even though it’s no more than two miles from downtown. The streets are laid out in a typical city grid, indicating that at one time the space was filed with houses. In the vegetation one can see outlines of former houses and boundary lines.

Our civilization is disintegrating before our very eyes. But the war is not lost, and indeed our side has barely begun to fight. Think of how effective we traditionalists could be once we are really mobilized and in the fight!

Soberly yours,
Alan

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 14, 2008 12:24 PM | Send