Deeetroit '67

Deeetroit '67

The Freep says:

"50 years later, we can now recognize that Detroit in 1967 was a city of deep divisions that permeated every level of public life."

"The city's segregation and prejudices led to omissions in coverage and perspectives. The city's African American community was under-represented in news stories and often delegitimized. The absence of blogs and social media accounts meant many voices and frustrations, from the city and suburbs alike, went unheard."

MC5-The Motor City Is Burning:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWTgAV4zDk

"Your momma and poppa don't know what the trouble is...
They can't see what it's all about...
I say that momma and poppa don't know what the trouble is...
They can't see what it's all about...

They get their news from reading the newspapers...
You best get out there in the street and check it out..."

More about the song, written by Albert B. Smith, and first recorded by John Lee Hooker, with Buddy Guy's first appearance on vinyl: http://teamrock.com/feature/2014-05-20/cuttin-heads-motor-city-is-burning
http://www.freep.com/pages/interactives/1967-detroit-riot/

Comments

  1. Pat KightJuly 27, 2017 at 9:05 AM

    I remember this well; my family was living in northern Michigan and it's all that was on the nightly news that week. By the time I moved to Detroit after college, nine years later, the city was just starting to struggle up from its reputation as Murder City and a slow (and alas, temporary) transition into the "Renaissance City" of the Coleman Young era...

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  2. Cee ThornJuly 27, 2017 at 11:48 AM

    I remember this well because about 2 weeks after this there were riots and fires in Saginaw, where I lived. So much hate and destruction.

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  3. Drew McCarthyJuly 27, 2017 at 6:41 PM

    It's interesting how reporting on riots and looting almost always focuses on "bad people, behaving badly" and not on any of the reasons why people would act out so angrily, with so little to lose.

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