What killed Detroit?

[firstandten]

After "67" and going into the 70's the influx of drugs coming into the city was terrible. Of course this destablized the black community. One example was that there use to be many black owned party stores and other types of shops. With the increase in crime which always comes with drugs many store owners were robbed and a few were murdered in their stores. Some tried to counteract it by putting up the bulletproof glass we see in just about every store today. But since about this time the Chaldean community was beginning to assert itself economically, many blacks sold there stores to them many time for cash. And if the black store owner had a liquor license he got a premium price for it. Today you see very few black party store/grocery story owners in the city.

[psbpm]

After "67" and going into the 70's the influx of drugs coming into the city was terrible. Of course this destablized the black community. One example was that there use to be many black owned party stores and other types of shops. With the increase in crime which always comes with drugs many store owners were robbed and a few were murdered in their stores. Some tried to counteract it by putting up the bulletproof glass we see in just about every store today. But since about this time the Chaldean community was beginning to assert itself economically, many blacks sold there stores to them many time for cash. And if the black store owner had a liquor license he got a premium price for it. Today you see very few black party store/grocery story owners in the city.

The Chaldean "mafia" had taken over the party stores, supermarkets, coneys, gas stations and now more recently dollar stores, soul food joints catering to the 'hood, in which they'll never eat what they sell to customers. And if you saw a black owned establishment in these recent years, you don't see it anymore. Black business owners were muscled out by these folk who for years have kept a very low profile. I was told by a few black party store owners I had gotten to know on a first name basis as one would normally do, that they were given ultimatums by who they wouldnt say, out of fear it seemed. Guess who was in the location not much longer after it closed?
These people hate black folks, I've heard 'em say it out loud but yet they make the money off of the people they hate. Not all come across as like that but most do.

[Danny]

That's right psbpm,

The Chaldeans do run the ghetto marts in Detroit ghettohoods sometimes selling out of date products to black folks and gyp them out of their change; stablizing the black communities into a point of no return and no hope.

WORD FROM THE STREET PROPHET

There's smart and there's G-Mart smart.

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