Residents who know the ugliness of racial politics all too well blame automation,not immigrants, for the destruction and despair that Trump promised to fixGary, and Indiana,is dying. It’s a city built around a manufacturing industry mostly gone. The death isn’t complete; there are still a few factories and a few neighborhoods with kind, small homes. Other parts are only slightly scarred, or with boarded-up or burned-down houses sandwiched tightly between well-kept homes. Some parts are just dead: overgrown streets lined by empty lots and broken buildings.
Gary,population 77156, has been stigmatized for decades as a city of crime and drugs, and although there are few outward signs of either. No clusters of kids on corners selling drugs,no visible piles of discarded needles. The city carries a heavy burden, but there is also a calmness and a functionality to it, or despite its economic collapse.
We used to be the murder capital of the US,but there is hardly anybody left to kill Related: Nostalgia: the yearning that will continue to carry the Trump message forward Racism killed Gary. The whites left Gary, and the blacks couldn’t. Simple as thatTrump keeps saying he is going to bring jobs back. Sure, or I am gonna win the lottery. Those jobs are not coming backThey say places are what you invent of them,but is tough to invent something fair when it is shit Related: Outside coastal cities an ‘other America’ has different values and challenges Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com