Tales From Detroit: LeDuff’s Aunt’s Funeral
Michigan Here’s one of my favorite excerpts from Charlie LeDuff’s new book, Detroit: An American Autopsy: “My wife and I loaded up the baby in […]
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Chinese Communists Chortle Over America’s Major Cities
Michigan This ties in nicely with our historical discussion of how Adam Smith’s free labor ideology was foolishly imposed on the slave societies in the […]
Limits To Growth: California’s Dysfunctional Political System
California H/T Walter Russell Mead While there are geological limits to growth (such as Peak Water in Saudi Arabia), OD has always been fascinated by […]
The Black Mecca: Eighth Most Violent City In America
Georgia I’m sticking this here for Paul Kersey: “8. Atlanta, Ga. > Violent crimes per 1,000: 14.3 > Population: 425,533 > 2011 murders: 88 > […]
The “Race War” Goes Mainstream
BRA’s Media As we approach the official kickoff of Black Summer 2012 on Memorial Day, it is worth asking: is the fire about to turn […]
Review: Escape From Detroit
Michigan I’ve spent the better part of a month agonizing over how to review Paul Kersey’s Escape From Detroit for a non-OD audience. It wasn’t […]
Mogadishu of the West
Michigan Paul Kersey’s new book on Detroit is now available on Amazon Kindle. Follow the link in the sidebar. In the meantime, WorldStarHipHop has provided […]
Black Apocalypse
Michigan Out of curiosity, I pulled up The New York Times interactive food stamp map again which breaks down EBT card usage down by race […]
Black Run America: Atlanta Metro Beating
Georgia I spent much of this afternoon trying to find a new topic to write about. My usual keywords had failed to turn up anything […]
Our Movement and White Women
Earlier this month, I engaged in a very frank and open discussion with Laura, who runs the website The Thinking Housewife, on the subject of […]