Tourist comes to Detroit, leaves with love
NCAA’s Final Four brought in a lot of out of towners and here’s one that decided to write about it.Excerpt:I was seeing your city as a guest and not a resident; I can’t speak
to the stupid political decisions or the inadequacies of automotive
executives as compared to bank executives.But I do know this: The nation needs cities such as yours. It needs them to show us what we’ve been and what we can still be. I’ll
be back, with my family in tow this time, and hopefully others who
visited this past weekend will return to visit your stadiums and
museums and casinos and restaurants. Maybe the picture will be clearer then, the contradictions erased through hard work and by implementing a shared vision. Until then, hang in there, Detroit. You have to, for all our sakes.Read the entire article here.
NCAA’s Final Four brought in a lot of out of towners and here’s one that decided to write about it.
Excerpt:
I was seeing your city as a guest and not a resident; I can’t speak
to the stupid political decisions or the inadequacies of automotive
executives as compared to bank executives.
But I do know this: The nation needs cities such as yours. It needs them to show us what we’ve been and what we can still be.
I’ll
be back, with my family in tow this time, and hopefully others who
visited this past weekend will return to visit your stadiums and
museums and casinos and restaurants.
Maybe the picture will be clearer then, the contradictions erased through hard work and by implementing a shared vision.
Until then, hang in there, Detroit. You have to, for all our sakes.
Read the entire article here.
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