Greed, corruption, lack of education, a refusal to work hard, entitlement, stupidity, not learning from mistakes, vanity, murder, lies, theft – all the sins in Christianity and every other religion are listed as causes. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents.” (p.
The whole country knew the city and the region was on the skids, and the whole country laughed at us.
But the fact is Detroit was dying forty years ago when the Japanese began to figure out how to make a better car. People of older generations like to tell me about the swell old days of soda fountains and shopping stores and lazy Sarturday night drives. “It is important to note that, growing up in Detroit and its suburbs, I can honestly say it was never that good in the first place. What then, are the causes of death set out by this son of Detroit? Firstly, Detroit was never that great in the first place. Still, for every Charlie LeDuff who says the city is dead, another writer or analyst will say the opposite and deny the elephant in the room. LeDuff, a working journalist but a controversial one, grew up in Detroit, Michigan, US, and tells the story of the decline and fall of the city alongside the story of the fall into poverty and death by misdemeanour and suicide of his own family members. Even the harsh black and white photos by Danny Wilcox Frazier underscores the message that the city is beyond saving. Every example LeDuff gives, every person’s life story, reads like an obituary, and the city is presented as if it were dead, over and done for, not to be resuscitated, been there, screwed that up and got the T-shirt to prove it. From the title, you can assume the subject, Detroit, is dead. An autopsy is an examination to find the cause of death.
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