Entrepreneurship is booming in Black neighborhoods across the country. Owning a business is one of the fastest avenues to creating wealth for U.S. Black households.
America was built on violence and a propensity for violence is evidenced throughout its history. Many feel that this likely stems from a euro-centric propensity for dominance and greed that contaminates others, but none more than Blacks who singularly bore the horrific burden of chattel slavery.
Five days of violence would leave 33 blacks and 10 whites dead, and more than 1,400 buildings burned. More than 7,000 people were arrested.
A decline that had already begun would accelerate; Detroit was the nation’s fourth biggest city in 1960, but would rank 21st by 2016. The middle class fled, and a proud city fell into poverty, crime and hopelessness.