The New York Times travels to
Campus Martius and then visits Lafayette Coney Island, talking with
Detroiters about life and the bailout along the way.
Excerpt:
A
local sports radio station dedicated the entire day to “standing up”
for the auto industry with messages of hope from people like Detroit’s
new mayor, Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr., and other politicians.
Stores,
too, joined the campaign. John Hiller, the chief executive of Hiller’s
Markets, a favorite of the area’s Asian residents, felt the need to
blog about the importance of buying American. “These cars have a long,
illustrious history, its own history,” he wrote, “for we come from a
place of innovation.”
Thoughts of persistence more than
innovation seemed to be the focus of many people like Ronald Williams,
32, a student at Wayne County Community College who was waiting for a
bus to take him home.
“We’re all just going to have to keep on keeping on,” Mr. Williams said. “Around here, that’s all we know how to do.”
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