Requiem for Detroit?

00:49:13 our whole world had sort of collapsed around us.

00:50:19 They only go there to go to a football game, a baseball game, or a concert.

00:51:17 This is one of the worst neighbourhoods in Detroit, crime-wise

00:52:26 They had stayed much later than most of us

00:53:33 They were so used to being the top dog

00:54:34 I didn't want to see that, I didn't want to see it come down.

00:55:39 In my neighbourhood, it was a middle/working-class neighbourhood

00:56:43 And I believe that the real war, it's not some place else, but it's here.

00:58:10 And, you know, in Detroit we used to make things

00:59:57 I heard it.

01:01:01 At sunrise you will hear that in your head, walking around here.

01:02:43 really decimated Detroit's large SUV market completely

01:03:50 and it probably would have cost about three million jobs

01:04:44 at McDonald's or something little like that, but now you can't even...

01:05:43 driving and automobiles, but to think that they are the answer

01:07:16 I was one of the guys up in those abandoned houses selling drugs or

01:08:15 I weren't doing nothing dirty, but I was so broke

01:09:09 And when the lots became vacant, many older African Americans who had been raised in the south and who had

01:10:11 It's the last place you ever want to go to.

01:11:07 that we used to farm and grow on, so it's not really anything new to me.

01:11:55 I don't have to worry about the future too much.

01:12:49 Wondrous is this wall-stead

01:13:42 You can look at Detroit and see nothing but disaster, devastation, depopulation, disinvestment