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...Chicago boasts the Sears Tower and the world’s largest Red Radio Flyer Wagon. Wisconsin holds the illustrious record for biggest grandfather clock, and in Michigan you’ll find not only the world’s biggest tire, an homage to Detroit??s favorite industry but also the largest bronze wildlife sculpture (of bears fighting). A strict Freudian would ask, “Just what is the Midwest compensating...
Facing homosexual pressure campaigns that mischaracterized ex-gay speech as promoting discrimination, Detroit??s three major television networks rejected ads featuring ex-gay men. Prominent ex-gay author Richard Cohen was accused of discriminating against homosexuals when he released his new book Coming Out Straight. And now Larry Houston. The list is endless because every day brings new hostile acts against the ex-gay community. In this climate of intolerance against ex-gays due to their very existence, support for the ex-gay community is interpreted as bigotry and discrimination against homosexuals...
Using patriotism in advertising is nothing new. After all, Detroit??s “Big Three”—Chrysler, GM and Ford—were built on that principle (ironically, Chrysler is now owned by Germans). Furthermore, the commercialization of Christmas has been an issue for decades. It is the merging and amplification of these darker, manipulative parts of capitalism that suggests that the malls may be more stifling than usual this holiday season...
...then there was the Celebrity Homecoming Concert, featuring Detroit??s own Stevie Wonder, along with some other home-grown favorites—The Temptations, Tim Allen, Anita Cochran, Dave Coulier (in case you didn’t satisfy your Full House fervor with “The B.J. Show” this year), and David Alan Grier. Even though the concert was, for the most part, Detroit Diva-free (Madonna and Aretha Franklin are from Detroit, too), my best friend and I decided to drive downtown and check out the scene...
...Detroit??s woes cannot be healed with a unilateral quick-fix initiative. The answer does not lie in building casinos or rebuilding the school board. Our construction efforts will employ less tangible bricks; we must invest our time, our effort and our faith in our city. If the 500,000 people I watched last week, celebrating, sipping lemonade and singing along with The Temptations in Detroit??s Hart Plaza—black and white, young and old, urban and suburban, Jewish and Christian, rich and poor—are any indication, the city...