Detroit 1967: When a city went up in flames
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2017
- Fifty years have passed since the summer of 1967, which saw urban riots in many of our largest cities, including New York, Newark, N.J., and Detroit. A new movie by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, "Detroit," dramatizes one of the most notorious incidents of those terrible days. Michelle Miller takes us back. (Caution: There is language some may find offensive.)
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History repeats itself if you don’t teach events like this in school
Not true history may repeat it self regards less of other knowing or not. But knowledge person can avoid such problems. If they are though learnt properly
If we eliminate our past, we will not have a future! Getting rid Civil WAr Past?
2020 is literally the 60s all over again
Exactly 👏👏👏
Uhh no teaching garbage like this only makes black people be more racist they already are racist as it is
Whose here after Minneapolis
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my dad told me to search for this to see how much worse it can get.
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its really unbelievable. from less than 100 murders in early 60s to nearly 800 in 1974
@@snow-wlkr7xplorer494 There was no population expansion over that decade. On the contrary, white flight started to take place, and Detroit population shrank from 1,670,144 (1960) to 1,203,339 (1980).
Desegregation was bad for black folks
@@hurtfeelings1447 No. It was bad for everyone.
@@byleexs1991 LOL THE AUDACITY OF THIS COMMENT. PLEASE STFU
@@andreastagni8358 american and now europe is a trillion facts that different races should NOT live together. We all have our own countries living in peace until certain people forced different races into europe etc..
My grandfather almost lost his life in the riots. A man confused him for a white senator while he was walking home from work. He had the gun raised until a relative of mine shouted "No!Don't Shoot!." If that man had fired i wouldn't be writing this.
The city is coming back. it's always nice when I go to a Tiger's game or to a resturant. People around the country are shocked when they hear the city's name, but they have to realize change is coming. Detroit is a city that is rich with culture. Lots of languages, music, art, and pride. I hope this movie does the whole riots justice not just one event.
SarahSmiles912 I seen the movie it's abt one event the hotel !!smh
SarahSmiles912 yeah and whites die out threw diversity but you people.e think that's a good thing ay.
@Spoony G Last time I checked I was.
SarahSmiles912 A BULLETT CAME THROUGH MY WINDSHIELD...I WAS 16 ...A WHITE GIRL ON MY WAY TO WORK AT MY DADS BUSINESS AT COBO HALL!! A POLICEMAN GOT ME OUT OF MY CAR...DROVE ME TO WORK (LAYING DOWN IN HIS BACK SEAT) TO SAFETY!!
@@battlefieldaddict8160 They never learn. They don't show this in history class
Who’s here in 2020 as our world seems to slowly fall apart
yup. Now they are trying to do this to the entire country.
This is worse than ‘67
Its only failing in your head majority of America has been chillin and laughing at u guys
Yea
LuL fax bro
My dad was 10 years old when this happened, he said it was the craziest thing he'd seen before and since then. they closed off streets near where he lived. I can't imagine
I had just turned eleven. My mother was a domestic worker, in the suburbs. She was told if she left, to drive home, she would be fired. I’m not sure where she slept, but she stayed and worked. I was left, alone, four days, until she returned.
And look at today May 2020. Same things happening. 50 years later
Not exactly. There's literally nothing left to loot in Detroit, anything of value left decades ago.
Delynn Turner Despite having a black mayor, black city council, black police chief...all liberal democrats!
WS 95 Give the Japanese resources and they will amaze you, give the African resources and they will give you nothing of value and may even lash out at you.
@@ZackFrisbee And they will demand more and more. It's disgusting.
Same thing happening . . . By design.
FYI rebellions don't destroy and burn down their own cities, It's a RIOT!
they dont when the military isn't involved. There were tanks that were involved. I highly doubt it was all the doing of the citizens. I'm sure most of the destruction came from those tanks involved.
tanks don´t go around starting fires in quiet suburban streets and storefronts...
the military did not get involved until most of the damage had been done and James Patrick is correct, you think American tanks went around destroying buildings in Detroit? haha learn your history Abdul
@@marchxiv8644 The military got involved because the rioters got out of control and burned down their own city.
@@marchxiv8644 Look you are delusional. Just look at Ferguson riot. No tank but they still loot and burn their own neighbourhood.
That was my neighborhood in 67 and I was seven. That unlicensed bar they raided was a welcome home party for two soldiers returning from Vietnam.
So it’s okay to break the law bc? It’s my birthday party. The bars should stay open all night. I got a new car. So I should drive the way I want. There’s no excuse of breaking the law. So I guess burning the city was justified in your eyes
@@lighthouse4161 they weren't breaking the law. It was a building a man owned and was empty. They decorated it for a party and the police claimed it was a unlicensed bar even though it used to be a dress shop and nothing was being sold. So as I said the unlicensed bar was a welcome home party. Spare me your outrage. Don't tell me you don't believe in police misconduct
@@lighthouse4161 I can tell you're white, lol.
My grandfather owned a moving company moved a lot of people out of city during the riots
God he must’ve gotten filthy rich
Cha-ching
That’s money right there, but hey he got people out and that’s good
opportunity 😂
CAPITALIST
today they would call this mostly peacefull protesting
Lmao
Lol
And we know why...don’t we?
Yep 😂
Watched Detroit yesterday without knowing anything about it and I was speechless watching it. Was the toughest film iv ever watched
REALLY? GIVE ME A BREAK, TYPICAL DEMOCRAT LOVING BLACKS ON WELLFARE REBELLING
@A Moustached Man from the FBI the last two Republican mayor was responsible for the decline of Detroit
Please...just be quiet
I can't put myself in the people's shoes who were rioting, but how does burning down your city solve anything? I think I would have just hopped on a bus or if I had a car driven as far away as possible. Any other city would have been better. It sounded like things were hopeless for many people, but again, how did burning down the city result in anything positive?
When people have no hope they feel they have nothing left to lose. Unless you have reached that point, you can never fully understand it. Unemployment rate was over 25% for Blacks in Detroit. The Detroit Metro area was (and still is) one of the most racially segregated areas in America. Blacks were limited to where they could live, and were forced to live in high density inner city neighborhoods. A standard practice was for slumlords to take what was a single apartment and subdivide it into three or four smaller apartments. If you don't have a job and have no money, how are you going to buy a bus ticket or pay for a car? There was very little government help of any kind in those days. I grew up in Detroit and was 11 years old when the riots happened. I watched it unfold on TV. I think WXYZ was the only station with reporters who had balls enough to get down in the thick of it as it happened. It's sad that so many white people only want to spew hate, keep their blinders on and refuse to be enlightened about anything. And for the record, I'm white.
How do you come up with that bus money when you are living in abject poverty?
It is wonderful that your mind won't allow you to think about expressing rage and hurt to the extreme these folks did. That is an awesome privilege you hold.
No, it doesn't make sense, but you and I are not living in that same kind of oppression. We are getting close, but not there yet.
dancingwithczars also it didn't help that some thriving black neighborhoods were destroyed for freeways and urban renewal. This forced more blacks into already crowded areas.
Where would you go? Your blackness is with you wherever you go. We can't just drive away and blend in somewhere else. Institutional racism is in the fiber of this nation. Anywhere you went in 1967 and were ALLOWED TO LIVE would have the same problems.
Its privilege that makes one think they could simply drive away.
In 1967 I was a 10 year old boy living in Cocoa Beach Fl....my Dad was an Engineer out at Cape Canaveral...my life was near idyllic...I remember seeing news flashes of this on the TV but paid it no attention.
I can understand that. As a NASA engineer, you father, excuse the assumption, was probably white, paid well, and living in an area of Florida where there were few blacks. I am the same age with a different take. Moving with my family from Los Angeles to a small town in Virginia was a shock to my ten year old conscience. In LA, we, who are a white family, lived in a middle class area. My friends were of African, Asian, and Hispanic descent and we all walked together to the same school, every day. We played together and learned together. On my first day of the 3rd grade in Pulaski, VA I asked my teacher where the rest of the kids were. She asked "what others?". When I replied, the brown, yellow and dark skinned kids, she stared at me for a moment and said, emphatically, THEY don't go to school here. I have never forgotten the confusion in my young mind, the disgust in her voice, and have yet to understand why that "was just the way it was."
@Yabba...so you are telling me as a 3rd grader you were already so culturally/ethnically aware so as to challenge your teacher on why your class was all white? Sorry but I'm not buying it...were your neighbors all white near the new house you moved into? Did you challenge your neighbors about where all the Asian, African, Hispanic neighbors were? Again sorry but I'm not buying your story...and my Father didn't work for NASA he worked for G.E. Aerospace.
I'm sorry to hear about it.
OceanBlue lol your an idiot
oh come on I thought the 3 black women did all the math that got America to the moon just like that movie
Some 50 years later the fires are finally out......there is nothing left to burn.
That same "problem" still exists today. Those people just never learn, as we are seeing today with all the looting and riots. Sad.
If by "those people" you mean the cops and those who bankroll them, then yes, absolutely.
@@BifronsCandle Nope. Try to be smarter than that.
We don't loot and this is not a race war the media is saying anti racist behavior but we are fighting for equal rights for all Africans right to justice no race to run just equal rights for all rastafari seeker know the truth
@@elrededwards863 what rights are you deprived now? From looting someone's store?
@@MaruskaStarshayaThe right to be treated like a white George Floyd...
Jesus... reading these comments were a bad idea. However, its kinda funny that people consider an historical event as race baiting and are not willing to learn from it.
Divide an conquer we are all in the same boat but we are to busy fighting amongst ourselves to see who the real enemy is
Divide and conquer? Do you mean United we stand divided we fall?
Skeptical Slim demons
I was just 5yrs old and remember this nightmare like it was yesterday. Gone forever are the beautiful buildings of Detroit. What a shame.
And this is why Detroit has not played any games with these shenanigans going on
Tell me about it you guys...I've LIVED this experience!!!!! it wasn't pretty let me tell...it was very scary!!!! Watching this movie and seeing the documentaries today I had no idea that it was the worst riot in the history of the USA...I was only 17 yrs old then...
Showing this report to never forget how terribly ugly this part of our history will never be forgotten
Some things just never change
And things have improved so much since then.
Yeah from Cthulu to Nyarlathotep (the crawling chaos)
4:38 that zoom on that guy's smile was hilarious for some reason. Like an out of place scene from The Office
Twas the damn bricks fault
Rebellion ≠ Riot
Rebellion means fighting a government, not attacking the property of the citizenry.
So much for the summer of love!
Come on baby light my fire 🔥 😆
At the time of the conflagration Detroit had the largest black middle class and the largest level of black home ownership in America The damage that was done was incalculable In the city there was a growing underclass The city had a million and a half people There was a bad relationship between the police and black citizens The city collapsed after 1967 Many things including a legendary level of corruption Mayor Colman Young governed through retribution Etc etc Here we are now It seems like forever ago sometimes There's something indescribable about Detroit Motown Music changed the American culture and influenced the planet Detroit was everything not so long Detroit also won WW2 The arsenal of Democracy The au to industry The blue collar paradise A very unique city
The 1943 Detroit riots were just as bad as the 1967 riots; if not worse. Rumors were circulating in the black community that two white men shot a black woman and her child dead before throwing their bodies into the Detroit River whereas in the white community rumors were circulating that two black men raped and beat a white woman. The latter angered the white community to the point where they basically said "This means war" and declared open season on the black community as a means of punishment.
Why would you completely destroy your own city, homes and businesses??
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Crazy how they could organize this with no social media and yet today we still cant
How many billion dollars do you think it would cost to rebuild this destroys city to its former glory?
It's sad how this could still happen today; I"m not really sure how much better conditions/police-relations have gotten for minorities in 'blighted' neighborhoods throughout the country..
This is about to be Minneapolis the riots there are getting real bad, they are already setting buildings on fire #BLM #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
@@phat_rat1471 why no asking for a justice for a Floyd's crime victim?
@@MaruskaStarshayafound David Duke's CZcams profile ^
@@alexamerling79overwhelming majority of Americans agree with Duke, then
Wow I remember this ...
My family and I lived in inkster at the time......
Very bad time....
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I was like 6 years old...
Jesus! I didn't know it really happened.
Much respect to the two officers in the video
So now what's their excuse, Ms. Know-it-all?
Let's be honest. Who burned Detroit in 67? Tell the truth. I was there.
n words
What is the root cause of the burning and looting, conservative white males in law enforcement with their hatred.
@@r.pres.4121 you know it's BS because it started with the most racist mayor of all time, Coleman Young, a Demoncrat
5:20 Race baiting fail.
Melvin Dismukes is still alive.
WE ARE SEEING HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN DIVIDED MORE IN THE LAST 8 YEARS EVEN WORSE THEN I REMEMBER IT 50 YEARS AGO..
This time when the spark lights the fuse the suburbs will burn along with the cities and it won’t be funny.
i was born in Detroit in 67. Tanks and all
Imagine being 11 years old just moved up from the south where it was slow going and the next day this broke out. that was me living on south lasalle gardens and linwood it was like a war zone in vietnam i still tear up when i think of this uprising you had to be there to really get the smell of smoke and the low overcast of the scenery people running from one place to another looting was off the hook and in the end i walked around looking at a scene out of ww2 the city was never the same and when i grow up the suburds never let us forget as far as finding opportunities out side of detroit.
This reminds me of what I'm going through now. It's been two years. All during COVID-19 and protests. Over a job, marital issues, housing, my race, colorism and politics.
Lol naw it was war. Did you see the military returning to fire from civilians
Detroit is a comeback City. They are coming back in full force
@meder theyre at least trying. Its more than what theyve been doing for 50 years
Only certain small portions of Detroit are coming back. It is going to take at least 50-60 years for Detroit to fully revive itself.
Just a little too much truth for 6 people.
they put someone on tv who called it a rebelling. when in reality they hollowed out the city and now its a wasteland? made poor black people even poorer.
cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder529/500x/67523529.jpg this meme was born from the riots.
Totally agree... a "rebellion", a "revolt"? Horseshit !! It was a free for all, looting, burning, violence. It should have been dealt with in the first few hours. Instead it was allowed to continue, people died, businesses burned and never returned. There is virtually nothing left of Detroit. It's a wasteland except for a very few tiny areas where whites and wealthy blacks are trying to be leaders of some kind of rebirth. Not going to happen until they clean up the crime and the drugs. It's a shame, it was a beautiful city long ago.
go watch the documentary burn. its about Detroit fire fighters aside from it being a good documentary over all it puts into the perspective the scale of how wasteland and slummed out things are in Detroit and the fires associated with such an insurmountable problem with little budget.
WhiteCamry
WhiteCamr
And Detroit still has never fully recovered.
No video. Can be denied.
Imagine for some now realizing the term - White Flight. Now look at Detroit still after all these years. The city is yours forever.
And this was Detroit's downfall and it's never recovered ! Was it worth it ?
Nope. It used to be a community of families and now it's a ghetto filled with drugs and crime.
@@rosierose1917 because cops refuse to fix it, cops are in charge, if crime happens it’s the cops fault, same ways it’s the generals fault if he keeps losing battles
@@Armed-Forevermaybe if they'd stop shooting the cops....
The big four were real. It was a different time. I was about 8 years old and lived in Detroit. I remember it well.
Larry B Chevrolet dodge ford and what’s the 4 th big ?
@@imariorivera pontiac
Heroes - Ike McKinnon for one, are people who should be looked up to. So many activists from that era who fought, the blood, sweat and tears, should be revered. They were out in the streets fighting for what they believed in, what was right. Fast-forward to today and you have kids sitting behind a computer/phone typing, "You're a racist! #BlackLivesMatter" - and this makes you an activist? A hero? No, it certainly does not.
artmajor1 was that taking a shot at #BLM??? The vast majority of trolls out there are Alt Right & IGNORANT Y'know???
You don't see a parallel between activists protesting racism in the 60s and protesting racism today?
Charles Darwin was correct.
The neanderthal were the most intelligent archaic humans thats more of a compliment than a insult. Just look at Europe and the beautiful cities and compare that to Africa 😂there is a reason universities are filled with white and asain kids and it has nothing to do with systematic racism its called culture.
That was one of the reasons why Motown left Detroit.
Why both Ford and Chrysler also moved to the suburbs.
ill show you, ill destroy my neighborhood and not rebuild it 😂
Tee Grizzley brought me here
I moved to Detroit a few years after the riot . The racial tensions continued on for years. Detroit despite it all was a good place to live if you had a job, home and family it was a good life. I miss old Detroit.
The Detroit city council and the police force are almost entirely AA. So is the mayor and police chief and the board of education. But Detroit has not become a better place to live. Much of the city is now cleared land or abandoned buildings. Most Detroit residents are people who cannot afford to leave. The public schools are among the very weakest in the USA. Detroit has one of the very worst drug problems in the USA. Detroit will continue to decline until its felony rate converges with that of other Midwestern cities. It is impossible to have a thriving economy in a place where life, limb and property can be stolen or destroyed with relative impunity. Jobs will continue to leave Detroit until this is understood.
Mayor is white.
My god a cop telling a fellow cop your gonna die needed his badge withdrawn at very least!
All of this for what ? Nothing was done it only made things worse and now this City is poor, with high crime . Destroy the City & Violence isn’t they way to spread awareness !! Sadly it’s going on again today . We should learn from the past and do things differently!
Just plain sad. No matter what politics you adhere too.
What street was the riot on
12th Street.
Thanks
More fires equal more farmland.
Both in the summer crazy
The 12th street area will NEVER COMEBACK
A grand afro american veteran officer was 40 old in 1967. What date of his interview?
I was scared; I can remember sleeping on the floor. We had the mattresses up against the walls hoping to stop bullets from going through the walls. The smell of homes burning and the sound of gunfire lasted all night. Around 3 am, the smoke was coming into our house, so we had to close all the windows. Adult family members took turns guarding our house to protect it from burning down. Around 8 am, the national guards came down our street with tanks and jeeps; we were on the front porch cheering. They were there to protect the firemen from being shot at when putting out fires
@@figimoheder9896 st aubin
0:53 I was there.That was my neighborhood then- Grand River/Joy Road
Hong Kong today
13%
@doczg88 evil nature will pay u back.
Free Soul if blacks out breed the whites then all of America will turn into modern day Detroit....it will be the downfall of a world superpower.
More accurately 7%
Just another example of highly intelligent people venting their frustrations in a constructive way.
No major loss.
I don't know why they raided the bar. They didn't want them in white clubs. Legal or not they should have left their club alone.
You’ve never been to a city, have you?
The best city to grow up in.ever!!.all the haters and ppl that ain't from here.you ain't done no real research.no other place like it.A Detroit🦁.
This bout to happen again
Yup
It did happen in both Minneapolis and Kenosha, both those cities burned in 2020.
ARTR...any reason to riot. Love what they've done with the place.
That actor kid looks/acts like denzel washington
Detroit where?
And now....the city is a shadow of its former self
Actually the city is going through a renaissance whites are moving back and putting money back into the city
@@lul6269 people who never have been think they can make uninformed opinions about this city. It's sad they really don't care know what has happened in the last decade.
@@lul6269 No, they aren’t. City is still declining in population.
@@philliesphan312they built that city before the africans ruined it
I really wish that the white leader cop in the movie Detroit got justice, but he didn’t because of the corrupt court system back then!! 😡
skip past a lot / might find AA helpful
I thought they were saying the Tangiers, from Casino!!
Keep Peace
Harrison Street Webb family, sad they lost there home, I' dont recognise, that area of Harrison, must be across Myrtle Street..
Media have no credibility anymore. Whatever happened in that hotel, you won't get the for-real version from the media.
Dude you’re in denial.
Can't wait for my boy Tee Grizzley's track Teetroit to be in the soundtrack.
Haaji that's why I'm here
Que pasa en Detroit
I live in Detroit.
6:08 Guy staring at camera looks like Robert Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond!
This happened during the Hong Kong Flu. What a parallel!
Not much has changed
I guess some things never change, lol.
They were running an after hours illegal bar ....come on
2020-2021 is literally the 60s all over again
I get that every city has some level of racial tension, but why did Detroit get the most extreme responses from it?
You obviously don't understand the history of Detroit then which is sad cause of the importance the city has on American history.
It was where blacks from the south moved because of decent jobs. Whites that lived there resented them because of work.
Newark NJ also suffered the exact same severe rioting and rebellion for the exact same reasons as Detroit. A year later Gary IN would suffer from a devastating riot and pitch rapidly downhill alongside Detroit and Newark.
How can a city look better on fire in 1967 than it does in the current year?
I am sure one rock thrown started a riot.
When more and more people realize that joggers gotta Jog, this mindset will sadly return out of necessity.
Murika!
McDonald's