The Revitalization of Detroit: Disempowerment and Displacement Serve as Major Impediments
NOVANEWS
Prestige projects financed through tax captures and forced removals of African Americans breeds rejection of existing development models
By Abayomi Azikiwe
On May 12 the much-heralded QLINE will be launched along Woodward Avenue in the city of Detroit.
This transportation vehicle looks like a hybrid of both a street car and an extended bus which operates on rails.
The project has been touted by the corporate media as the latest edition in a number of other business ventures which ostensibly represent the renaissance of the city.
However, if this effort had undergone any serious analysis, evaluation and debate among the people of Detroit it would have never been funded at the level of the official cost of $140 million. Any debate and electoral referendum in favor of t...