People like to come into Detroit and take pictures of abandoned buildings. They then get really excited when some young white kid paints something on the side of said building. That is all well and good, but if you open your fucking eyes you can see many more beautiful things happening.
Detroit wasn't invented a few years ago when "20 somethings" moved into Woodbridge and started bands (ourselves included). There are people that have been here for years and have a history of sustaining neighborhoods and rebuilding them. Your art project is cool but it isn't "saving" the city. Denying someone's history is the worst form of cultural colonization. Stop doing it.
It isn't "Midtown," it is the "Cass Corridor."
lyrics
Keep all hands and extremities
In the vehicle at all times
No flash photography please
But if you set the shutter speed long enough
You can catch the vines growing and the paint peel
You can almost see the families that once kept these homes
before they abandoned ship
But abandoned shit photographs so well
And the caption includes a survival story
Feigning how you were so scared
But the people still here can only infer from your pointed lens
Another pointing finger implying how can you live this way
How did you let this happen here
But we never hear the story of the last person on the block
How they stayed, they tried
When the neighbors got scared and left
They took care of a few houses for a while
Through the arson and foreclosure and insurance fraud
They stayed, they tried
Don't try to blame them
They stayed, they tried
So don't fucking blame them
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