The things about Detroit in particular were moronic, but the broader point about gentrification bothers me a lot more. Am I supposed to feel like a racist, because I am white and make a decent salary, while many of my neighbors are poor and black? What's the alternative (and what anti-gentrification types clearly have implicit in their arguments)? That we stay in the suburbs, because the cities belong to the blacks now? That's the racist way of looking at things. So many of the whole metro areas problems boil down to the de facto segregation that exists here. So why is desegregating after all these decades a bad thing? The only thing that can save Detroit (or any other severe ghettoized area) are jobs and schools. The only way to improve the prospects of either of those is to (dramatically) increase tax receipts. I wish these people would consider what they're saying before they speak so as to spare us their half baked thoughts. I feel dumber for having read it. Sorry, rant actually over now, I swear (unless I think of something else to say).