Voices include Dan Gilbert, Carl Taylor, Sandra Svoboda, Aaron Foley, Daymon Hartley and Deadline reader Vaughn Derderian.
“Why, fellow young people of Detroit, do we have to be so brave and courageous in every single thing we do? Is living in Detroit akin to being a Girl Scout? Are we all wearing sashes, collecting our Detroit badges for each milestone?”
-- Aaron Foley, blogging at Detroit Jalopnik
“Was it cultural displacement when some of the drug dealers moved off my relatives’ block in Midtown and they now have some non-black neighbors who are not dealing?”
-- Garland Doyle, in comment on WDET site link to segment of “The Craig Fahle Show”
"You can't buy that kind of PR. We love this."
-- Dan Gilbert, Quicken chairman, quoted by ESPN on the Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge
“The public celebration of shooting home invaders is troubling. Punishment? Or is this more violence and not solving the societal challenge?”
-- Carl S. Taylor of Detroit, MSU sociologist, on his Facebook page
So when mall security holds you down and you plead that you can't breathe, then die - the cause of death is "accidental?"
— Shawn Ley (@ShawnLeyLive) March 12, 2014
“Mr. Orr does not consider the moral implications of asking people who have worked all their lives to live an entire year on what one of his clerks makes in less than two days. . . . He speaks of numbers, not people.”
-- Shea Howell, Michigan Citizen columnist
“History will determine what the state law and Orr’s tenure will ultimately mean to the city, and if the Michigan Citizen was among the first to realize the consequences.”
-- Sandra Svoboda, WDET blogger
“No matter what else he was, William Clay Ford was someone's Dad, grandpa, and friend. . . . Is it really too much to ask that we wait until after his funeral before ripping apart his legacy as owner of the Detroit Lions?”
-- Frank Nemecek, Detroit blogger
“I know we are not supposed to speak ill of the dead. But please tell me what [William Clay Ford] and the Ford family ever did to improve the plight of humanity? They have made billions off the exploitation of the working class and live like royalty.”
-- Daymon Hartley of Clarkston, former Free Press photographer, on his Facebook page
“Screw William Clay Ford. If there's a just God, he'll spend eternity watching the Lions go 0-16. I would have said that to his face.”
-- Vaughn Derderian of Detroit, commenting on our Facebook page
Compiled by Alan Stamm
