Michigan Citizen: Another World

On the eve of the second United States Social Forum being held June 22-26 in Detroit, the New York Times, the nation’s newspaper of record, ran another story about the shrinking of Detroit. The article captured the abandonment of the city and chronicled our ills so effectively that it prompted Bob Herbert, its most sensitive columnist, to use Detroit as a prime example of “When greatness slips away.” On the day the USSF opened, Herbert writes: “As a nation, we are becoming more and more accustomed to a sense of helplessness. We no longer rise to the great challenges before us. It’s not just that we can’t plug the oil leak, which is the perfect metaphor for what we’ve become. We can’t seem to do much of anything.

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