Tag: Detroit

Jillian Wuestenberg, who was pregnant at the time, defending herself against Takelia Hill’s aggression.

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During the Summer of Floyd, on July 1, 2020, a white couple accidentally bumped into a black family at the entrance of a Chipotle restaurant in Orion Township, Michigan, which is in Oakland County near Detroit — and their lives were changed forever. The blacks became hostile, threatened them, hurled racist abuse, and struck their car as they tried to pull out of the parking lot. At first the couple, Eric and Jillian Wuestenberg, tried to reason with the blacks, as a phone video clearly shows, but after Takelia Hill and her daughter charged at Jillian, who was pregnant at the time, Jillian pulled out a pistol in self-defense. (more…)

Vladimir Putin enjoying a topless Ukrainian Femen activist’s attempt to disrupt his visit to Germany in April 2014.

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Russia Proposes Law Declaring All Feminists to Be Extremists

Everyone in their right mind knows that most women are extremely annoying, extremely entitled, and extremely irrational, which automatically qualifies them as extremists. (more…)

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When I was a little girl, my parents wouldn’t allow me to go south of eight-mile . . . and I didn’t even know what that meant until I got a little older. And I started realizing that’s where the city started, and the suburbs ended. — Yara, It Follows

David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is one of the best horror films of the twenty-first century. (more…)

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Frequent Counter-Currents writer Stephen Paul Foster was host Nick Jeelvy‘s honored guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed The Best Month Ever — a selection of particularly interesting Counter-Currents articles published in May 2022. (more…)

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Colleen Doody
Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2013

In 1945, with the exception of the United States, Canada, and a few other places, the civilized world was in ruins. While the industrial centers of the United States were not burned-out husks pocked with bomb craters, the economy was not well-functioning. There was inflation and a shortage of consumer goods. (more…)

A typical structure in Tullahassee, Oklahoma, a historically all-black town that is now seeking reparations for slavery despite the fact that it was founded by an Indian tribe that had brought their slaves with them.

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Emmett Till’s Revenge: Federal Lynching Law Makes It Official that Black Lives Matter More than White Lives

Although it’s a statistical fact that when it comes to things such as rape, murder, and all other forms of violent crime, blacks are far more dangerous to both blacks and whites than whites are to blacks, on Tuesday our sclerotic, cadaverous, drooling, diaper-soiling President signed into law a bill that pretends the complete opposite is true. (more…)

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There is no city quite like Detroit, Michigan that exemplifies American deindustrialization. If one flies into the city’s airport at night, one looks down on a dark void, occasionally lit by streetlamps shining their light upon a ruin. By day, things look no better. Vast stretches of the city have become urban prairie. The story of Detroit (more…)

Detroit today

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Much ink has been spilled on the decline of Detroit, once nicknamed the “Paris of the West.” Conservatives credit its failures to Democratic leadership while Leftists of all flavors conclude it’s Big Racism: America’s largest industry. (more…)

Detroit

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The following is the text of a talk that was delivered at The New York Forum on January 28, 2017.

I might as well blab about outlaw fraternity. I know a thing or two about outlaw fraternity from running with the white boys in Detroit, pre-crack epidemic through post-crack epidemic. I ran in stride with Ferretti, (more…)

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Green Lantern
(2011); 114 min.
Director: Martin Campbell
Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern; Mark Strong as Sinestro; Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond  (more…)

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The most depressing thing about Detroit’s bankruptcy isn’t the hours victims wait for police responses, sprawling neighborhoods reverting back to nature, historic buildings crumbling to ruin, or the once-vanquished problems of illiteracy and sex slavery climbing out of their graves. It’s certainly not the financial quandary the city’s in, or the uncertain fate of its pensioners and employees. The most hopeless thing about Detroit is the false hope which hangs on despite reason and sanity. (more…)

The Patriots lost

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I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, but I did end up finding out about Chrysler’s dramatic attempt to frame the massive federal bailout of their floundering corporation as something to get patriotic about. During the half-time commercial break, Clint Eastwood snarls that “It’s half-time in America” . . . (more…)