Détroit: une place pour les citoyens noirs dans la relance de la ville?

L'auteur est un journaliste qui habitait Détroit avant de se déplacer en Ohio. Il conserve un lien étroit avec la ville et l'observe maintenant de l'extérieur.

 "Detroit is now a place where, in its most bustling parts, the faces are often young and white. Eighty-three percent of Detroit’s 688,701 residents are African American, according to the latest Census figures—the city has been majority black for more than three decades—but you’d be hard pressed to believe those numbers because, well, the black population seems less visible now. National media outlets have been criticized for parachuting into the city, and only showing white Detroit. But if we are painfully honest with ourselves, the growing majority of startups, businesses and restaurants attracting such broad attention, are mostly white owned. Dispatches from Detroit as the latest urban comeback story don’t often include scenes from deep inside the city’s distressed neighborhoods. Such ruin porn, as it’s called, would defeat the purpose."

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/is-there-room-for-black-people-in-the-new-detroit-111396_Page2.html#.VCmT5_l5M1I