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- park, whites start ACE BLOTS \ 19.3 will ge down in hietory as the the iife of any Smerican city, Sot aince dy of American cltizess teen broken by Sgena of Detroit on these three black days, The Detroit race riot mas the bloodiest race riot aver to break out in America. Byen the pagan Naeie, {n all their outbreaks agaeinet the Jews, have never put on a were aiegracefal and uncivi- Lised show than Detroit put om in the outbreak of these sensational ra riots, June 20, 21 and 22, bloodiest three days ia the Tivil War has any bo ploody atrife ae were the cit To describe these riots wuld rejuire a bock. ~To interpret the basic causes would require another book. God only knows what one incident started the conflagration, The (ncldent which .atartes a riot is like the lighted cigarette which starts @ fire in # butid- ing with no fire prevention equipment and with no fireproof facili- ties. Detroit was ripe for the riot. Detroit expected the riot. The Mayor of the City, the Governor of the State, the highest police officials, and all etudents of over-crowded Detroit knew that sone day there would be an outbreak, en explosion, but no one could de- teraine just when thess outbreake would take place. . Somehow, somewhere, of OF near Belle Island, which is acity . ad to fight with blacks. Hobs formed. fhe fight- ing and rioting moved into the city. Woodward Avenue, which is => Detroit's main street, soon becase the scene of unbelievable events, Cars were overturned and set on fire, Wegroes were snatched from - etrestcara and busses, beaten up, ‘lead piped,’ and shot. me In the meantime, in the black belt, whose main street is Haetin, Strect, practically every store waco demolished and wrecked. | The loot dng was done on such @ wholesale pasie that even tracks werd beoket ~ up while hoary-handed blacks, with eyes burning with & fire.of rioti? madness and race consciousness, stole over $2,000,000 Forth of wer- sbhandise. Heck shops were looted. Guns end amnunitiod wera taken. * Wo newspaper hae exaggerated, and poet newspapers have efen under- ~ estimated the demage done on Hastings Street. If 5,000, men had been given crowbars and sledge hanmers with instruc tions to ‘Anook’ out #12 windows and demolish ' all store fronts, and if 10,000 people had then been told to go into these stores and help themselves, .the job could not have been mare complete than was done by these negroes who looted the stores and hock shops, owned mostly by Jews. An (nterpretation o the Hastings Street looting will be made later on in this arficle. - Politicians, so-called educators, screwballe and sentimentelists ware to blame for these riote, The negroes of Detroit during the ise war were brought into the city by the trainloads, mainly fron the 1’ Bouth. They were dropped {into the city, as they are nor being droppe into the city, by the thousands and thousands. In the South the , gross had not teen politically minded. In moet southern communitie most negroes do not sven yote. I do not Justify this -- I merely pot At out. Overnight these negroes, unekilled tp thet ‘recta Peaks, be s became the political football of Detroit, af i 4 Lean cities. Hot only did they becoae York, and other large Amer political football, bat they became the balance of power. | t were so evenly divided between the two old parties that negro politi- clane and white political racketeers, skilled in the acience of corru politics, Boon Learned that the man who controlled the negsro vote was the gan who eontrolied the City of Cetrolt. es | v fae * fof 809.~-167 —_— —_