tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54815176593845063812024-03-13T01:37:09.193-04:00The People Of Detroit{because not everyone in Detroit is an abandoned building}Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481517659384506381.post-54471665460345205322020-04-16T15:03:00.003-04:002020-04-16T15:09:30.684-04:00Learning to Swim [for the City of Detroit]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Portraits for the City of Detroit Gratiot/7-Mile Redevelopment Plan</strong><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The City of Detroit has launched a </span><a href="https://detroitmi.gov/departments/planning-and-development-department/east-design-region/gratiot-7-mile-framework-plan" style="color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;" target="_blank">redevelopment plan</a><span style="text-align: left;"> for the Gratiot/7-Mile community. I’ve been hired by the city and the consulting firm </span><a href="https://www.giffelswebster.com/" style="color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;" target="_blank">Giffels-Webster</a><span style="text-align: left;"> as the still-images creative director and photographer. Our task is to create a series of portraits with two primary goals: </span></div>
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The city identified the <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/departments/parks-recreation/community-recreation-centers/heilmann-community-center" style="color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Heilmann Recreation Center</a> as a keystone institution in this community. As such, the rec center seemed like a good place to start our portrait project – specifically the rec center’s swimming services. Swimming pool and swimming instruction access a key to public health. In addition to promoting fitness, swimming lessons also promote not dying. According to the Centers for Disease Control, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html" style="color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">inability to swim</a> is a leading risk factor for fatal and non-fatal drowning. This risk factor is higher in urban communities where people either have limited access to pools or flagging interest in learning to swim. As a person from an urban neighborhood who cannot swim, I felt it important to create images that inspire Gratiot/7-Mile community stakeholders to be nothing like me. </div>
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<em style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">If you live in the Gratiot/7-Mile community and have the following considerations, please get in </em><a href="mailto:noah@thepeopleofdetroit.com?subject=Gratiot%2F7-Mile%20Portrait%20Project" style="color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">touch</em></strong></a><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">: </em><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">▪︎ Are a small business owner. ▪︎ Feel uncomfortable when your child walks to school/plays outside. ▪︎ Use public transit (especially with a small child). ▪︎ Live in a home on a block where most homes have been demolished.</em></div>
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Client: City of Detroit Planning Department/Giffels-Webster <br />
Photography and Creative Direction: Noah Stephens<br />
Subject: Nicole Valentini<br />
Assistant: Sterling Hurd</div>
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I'd like to give a special thanks to Nicole, Sterling, and Heilmann Rec Center supervisor Byron Spivey. Also, Khalil Ligon in the City Planning Department and Michael Darga at Giffels-Webster for bringing me onboard for this project. </div>
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Detroiters consider how the 1967 riots continue to affect the city's people and landscape. The project was commissioned by <em><a data-cke-saved-href="http://tickets.detroit.movie/" href="http://tickets.detroit.movie/" target="_blank"><strong>Detroit</strong></a></em> – a new film from Academy Award winners <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000941/" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000941/" id="yui_3_17_2_4_1501812816316_159498" target="_blank">Kathryn Bigelow</a> and <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1676793/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1676793/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Mark Boal</a>.<br />__________</h4>
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- Shana Hubbard, resident of the riot-affected Dexter/Elmhurst neighborhood. Full interview: <a href="https://youtu.be/UbT6u6mtfLw">https://youtu.be/UbT6u6mtfLw</a>.<br />
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<em>Photographer's note: More than 1,000 homes and businesses were destroyed in the '67 riots. Many more would fall as a consequence of post-riot disinvestment. As far as the story I want to tell with this series is concerned, these structures are as important as the subjects. The buildings were easy to find. Subjects were not. I was on deadline. I decided to stake out this particular building and hope a subject would come along. And come along she did. Not only was Shana photogenic with an innate feel for posing and narrative, her hot pink headphones were a perfect complement to the building's cyan blue. Shana and I talked about hopes, dreams, and how hard it can be to escape the circumstances we are born into. I hope Shana is doing well. </em></div>
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- Baltimore Gallery curator and Smile Brand owner Phil Simpson. Full interview: <a href="https://youtu.be/vaeBCGnaFZU">https://youtu.be/vaeBCGnaFZU</a>.</div>
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<em id="yui_3_17_2_1_1501413946672_54612">Photographer's note: I started doing <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/" href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/" target="_blank">The People of Detroit</a> as a way of self-medicating. I have severe chronic misanthropy. By forcing myself to go out with my camera and meet strangers, it was only a matter of time before I met a stranger who would convince me pandemics are a bad thing afterall. <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/2010/05/phil-is-one-of-owners-of-hip-hop.html" href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/2010/05/phil-is-one-of-owners-of-hip-hop.html" target="_blank">Phil</a> was just that kind of person. Ironically, I photographed the <strong><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.thesmilebrand.com/" href="http://www.thesmilebrand.com/" target="_blank">Smile</a> </strong>merchant on the day after he lost his<strong> </strong>keys. He was still as gracious as ever. To me, artistic entrepreneurs like Phil represents hope for Detroit's future. Not everyone in Detroit is an abandoned building. </em></div>
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- Quan Neloms, teacher at the Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men in Detroit. Quan and his son Mathias were photographed at the site of the now-demolished Algiers Motel. During the riots, three black men were killed in the motel by white police officers. Full interview: <a data-cke-saved-href="https://youtu.be/CrBJVrNZSXk" href="https://youtu.be/CrBJVrNZSXk">https://youtu.be/CrBJVrNZSXk</a>.</div>
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<em id="yui_3_17_2_4_1501812816316_78694">Photographer's note: I just happened to meet Quan while I was doing a lighting test at this location. The person I did the lighting test for was unable to make it. I happened to see Quan again later that week in Whole Foods. He had on the shirt featuring years when riots happened. Perfect. Quan and I disagree vehemently about the ultimate impact and characterization of the riots. When one person steals one TV, it's theft. When 100 people steal 100 TVs it's still theft. The fact lots of thefts occur simultaneously does not transmute theft into rebellion. That said, I'm glad Quan and his son Mathias were nice enough participate in project. Quan has a voice that needs to be heard. </em></div>
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- Writer and Kresge Artist Fellow Marsha Music. She was photographed in the empty lot where her father's record store once stood. The store was destroyed as a consequence of the riot. Full interview: <a data-cke-saved-href="https://goo.gl/Tewnx4" href="https://goo.gl/Tewnx4" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/Tewnx4</a><br />
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<em id="yui_3_17_2_1_1501413993647_28101">Photographer's note: I think language is important. Specific words describe specific things in reality. We should match words with the reality they describe. I am persuaded by the late University of Michigan history professor Sidney Fine's contention that the events of 1967 do not match the word "rebellion." From his book “Violence in the Motor City”:</em></div>
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<em>“Those involved in the disturbance in Detroit can hardly be described as having been engaged in ‘organized armed resistance to an established government,’ as rebellion is commonly defined.”</em></div>
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- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles employee Sonya Reese. Sonya and her daughter Ivy were interviewed and photographed in Gordon Playground. The playground was built on the site of the blind pig where the 1967 riot began. The park was remodeled in June 2017. The park is located on the precipice of prosperity. To the east are the mansions of the beautiful Boston-Edison historic district. To the west is the Dexter Bar. Full interview: <a data-cke-saved-href="https://youtu.be/E9czKO5piRk" href="https://youtu.be/E9czKO5piRk">https://youtu.be/E9czKO5piRk</a>.<br />
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<em id="yui_3_17_2_1_1501413946672_54876">Photographer's note: When I came up with the question, "What do you think is the long-lasting impact of the riots?" I was sure I'd created a trapdoor into an inescapable rhetorical steel cage. I was surprised to hear some people argue the riot was inconsequential – or even more remarkable – a good thing. I tend to agree with Sonya. Riots destroy businesses and homes in a community that was already marginalized. It's hard to imagine how this could possibly be a net positive. That said, I am happy to have stumbled across dissent. I think we are all best served when our assumptions are challenged. </em></div>
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<em id="yui_3_17_2_1_1501413946672_54911">Final note: I'd like to thank everyone at <a data-cke-saved-href="http://pictures" href="http://annapurna.pictures/" target="_blank">Annapurna Pictures</a> for trusting me with this fantastic project. I can only hope it is a modicum as powerful as the film for which it was created. If you haven't already, go see <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=detroit+movie+playing+near+me&oq=detroit+movie+playing+near+me&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.5943j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=detroit+movie+playing+near+me&oq=detroit+movie+playing+near+me&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.5943j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">Detroit</a>. </em></div>
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Were you a witness to, participant in, or otherwise directly affected by the 1967 <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/detroit?source=feed_text&story_id=10159017786085019" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">Detroit</span></span></a> riots? If not, do you currently live within 1.5 miles of 12th and Clairemont [<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FA2xJu1&h=ATMCVDLVlIImmDLpSbMuknutBZasvtEnizSvM0LCDdnFPg1zFAEcqDRILlJz2dRSQKEOPbRSsRD2DpGE9bMpHUrJpDhkcHXhMscuO21dVvSIeUgUSHPB-Hxxmw9ufxDyBw4sP2YnwF7myM3tGGQfgeJq&enc=AZOWU3qcdC0EZCw5xp6eo5ZqUeOlUPeDdCmDdkjldWueZPfe1R0dX-okijtgSOeTJAHl4wWx0KdTf_gOh2HOC6r49lK9FRBfPjrGUgjhj1maRIfnFVTNbpnqUQP2dnf_57x96rNG6c_Gw3n6FVN4Eef4YgGYv0hFEWgH3ymXfPH2oFelhiwxKDSg7mrdBdWKBgA&s=1" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/A2xJu1</a>]?</div>
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Five years ago – before my photo project, <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/" href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The People Of Detroit</a>, single-handedly fixed the city's image problem and spurred an era of redevelopment known as "New Detroit" – I took a bike ride to <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.easternmarket.com/" href="https://www.easternmarket.com/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Eastern Market</a>. 80 degrees. 2 p.m. The farmers market was thick with cars and pedestrians. I started to walk my bike. </div>
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Smoke suddenly swirled around me. Like some sort of reverse tear gas, the peppery cumin effusion drew me closer to its source: a landmark barbecue spot called <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.bertsentertainmentcomplex.com/" href="http://www.bertsentertainmentcomplex.com/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Bert's Market Place</a>. I arrived just in time to hear the African-American grillmaster tell a customer Detroit's newly installed bike lanes were put there for "white people" (where "white people" is shorthand for educated, relatively affluent people of European descent who describe themselves using terms like "urbanist"). </div>
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I was confused. I was a black person. I just used bike lanes to get to Eastern Market. How did I get here? How would I get home?<br />
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Speaking of home, the one I grew up in was government subsidized. The high school I graduated from had no windows (to mitigate the distracting influence of sunshine and fresh air). The high school bully I beat up in gym class eventually went to prison for robbing a liquor store. The high school bully who beat me up after shop class would some months later rob a mentally disabled man who bagged groceries at <a data-cke-saved-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_Jack" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_Jack" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">A&P</a>. He didn't go to prison. He was eventually taken off the streets – specifically, his driveway after someone shotgunned him to death.<br />
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I imagine the grillmaster had similar experiences. If experiences like this are someone's frame of reference, design can seem something rarefied. Abstract. The exclusive concern of the thick-frame eyeglass gentry. In a place where people struggle to avoid <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.bls.gov/lau/lacilg10.htm" href="http://www.bls.gov/lau/lacilg10.htm" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">unemployment</a>, <a data-cke-saved-href="https://makeloveland.com/blog/a-recent-history-of-tax-foreclosure" href="https://makeloveland.com/blog/a-recent-history-of-tax-foreclosure" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">homelessness</a>, and <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/detroit_second_in_nationwide_v.html" href="http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/detroit_second_in_nationwide_v.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">armed robbers</a>, design seems like a frivolity we can't afford to indulge. </div>
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The exact opposite is true.<br />
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Design is essential to quality of life in a city. Urban gardens <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2012/08/vacant/" href="http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2012/08/vacant/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">reduce crime</a>. Bike lanes <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23334767" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23334767" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">reduce stress and waistlines</a>. Public art <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/#__abstractid233308title" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/#__abstractid233308title" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">reduces sadness</a>. Good design is not a luxury. It is a necessity.<br />
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To illustrate this point, The People of Detroit partnered with the <a data-cke-saved-href="http://detroitc3.com/" href="http://detroitc3.com/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Detroit Creative Corridor Center</a> to photograph and interview a cross section of Detroiters about the role design should play in the city's ongoing revitalization. This question is especially relevant now. Last year, Detroit was the first city to win the United Nations' <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/detroit-unesco-city-of-design" href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/detroit-unesco-city-of-design" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(121, 121, 121); color: #2777ae; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">UNESCO City of Design</a> designation. This designation both celebrates the design history that created Detroit and the contemporary design projects that are creating Detroit anew. </div>
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It is in the utmost public interest that urban design initiatives like <a data-cke-saved-href="http://Five years ago – before The People Of Detroit photo project single-handedly fixed all of Detroit's image problems and spurred an era of reinvestment and redevelopment known today as "New Detroit" – I took a bike ride to the Eastern Market farmers market district. It was a warm summer afternoon. The neighborhood was thick with cars and pedestrians. I decided to walk my bike. Suddenly, a cloud of barbeque smoke from Bert's Market Place Jazz Club engulfed me like a kind of reverse tear gas. With no regard for my previous plans, my feet carried me toward the source of the delicious smoke. I arrived just in time to hear Bert's son and then restaurant manager Jai-Lee Dearing tell a customer the newly installed bike lanes were put there for "white people" (where, "white people" is shorthand for educated, cosmopolitan, upper middle class, mostly liberal people of European descent who describe themselves using terms like "urbanist").I was concerned. I’m a black person. I just used bike lanes to get to Eastern Market. How did I get here? How would I get home? We often think of design as something rarified. Exclusive. The province of the thick-frame glasses gentry. This is understandable. In a place like Detroit where people struggle to avoid unemployment, homelessness, and armed robbers, design sounds like a frivolity we cannot afford to indulge. The exact opposite is true. Design is integral to quality of life in a city. Urban gardens reduce crime. Bike lanes reduce stress and waistlines. Public art reduces sadness. Good design is not a luxury. It is a necessity. To illustrate this point, The People of Detroit partnered with the Detroit Creative Corridor Center to photography and interview a cross section of Detroiters about the role design should play in Detroit's ongoing revitalization. This question is especially relevant now. Last year, Detroit was the first city to win the United Nations' UNESCO City of Design designation. I hope these interviews and the UNESCO designation persuade us to recognize everyone benefits from, deserves, and needs good design. 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- Andrea Riley, chief marketing officer, <a href="https://www.ally.com/about/" target="_blank">Ally Financial </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">“Design can be profound as long as it’s inclusive and respectful of the history that created Detroit.” [<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B13FwdNw3F3bcDEwT1hXaFIwZGM" target="_blank">audio</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">“Beautiful design is a tool that can make everyone’s life better.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">“Design projects are already starting to have a positive impact on life in Detroit.”<br />[<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B13FwdNw3F3bLUxTWjQteEVtdzQ" target="_blank">audio</a>]</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481517659384506381.post-56111375799814408002016-07-26T04:06:00.001-04:002016-07-26T19:01:18.809-04:00Samuel [commissioned by Credit Karma]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The People of Detroit has partnered with <b><a href="https://www.creditkarma.com/tools" target="_blank">Credit Karma</a><span id="goog_1465934770"></span><span id="goog_1465934771"></span><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/"></a></b> and financial empowerment charity <b><a href="https://www.operationhope.org/aboutus" target="_blank">Operation HOPE</a></b> to increase financial literacy in metro Detroit. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">To help accomplish this, Credit Karma sponsored a series of street portraits in Campus Martius Park, July 22, 2016. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Each participant in this series was asked: </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">"</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><b>How did improving your credit score improved your life?</b></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">" Join the conversation using the hashtag #karma4Detroit: </span><b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23karma4detroit" target="_blank">Twitter</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%23karma4detroit" target="_blank">Facebook</a> - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/karma4detroit/" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></div>
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<i>The <b>Food Desert: Food Availability in Detroit</b> is a multi-media examination of healthy food in the storied American city. Photographer Noah Stephens of <b><a href="http://thepeopleofdetroit.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The People of Detroit</span></a> </b>will <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152544606955019&set=pb.517575018.-2207520000.1377183069.&type=3&theater" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">bicycle</span></b></a> to each of the city's </i><i>115 grocery stores, photograph each store's produce section, the staple produce offered therein (apples, oranges, and bananas were chosen as a barometer of the overall quality of produce in each store, and as a standardized way to compare stores to each other), and interview a patron of each store. The photos and interviews will then be added to a customized, searchable map. In doing so, Noah will:</i><br />
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<i>Noah works full-time on The People of Detroit and as a commercial photographer. As such, it will be impossible for him to dedicate the hundreds of hours it will take to complete this project without investment from people who believe this work is worthwhile. Speaking of, </i><i style="text-align: center;">TPOD would like to thank <b><a href="http://www.strategicstaff.com/" target="_blank">Strategic Staffing Solutions</a></b> for their support. Without their contribution, the initial leg of this project would not have been possible. </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">$31,369</span></div>
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<i>Concerning the availability of healthy food in Detroit:</i><br />
"I think some people just look for fast food. Period. [...] Me, myself; I look for fruits and vegetables, even though I'm my size, I still try to eat healthy, and try to do the right thing."<br />
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<i>Does the idea of a "food desert" align with your personal experience?</i><br />
"Never had that problem. It's not a food desert. It's markets everywhere. Some of them, are undesirable; some of them you walk in, and it doesn't smell good. I've experienced a couple [markets like that] and I haven't been back..."<br />
<i>And if enough people do that, eventually, [that market] goes out of business</i><br />
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I agree. And now, for some watermelon:<br />
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...If you really would like to hear/read me pontificate in the manner that is my custom, go <a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/2013/08/the-food-desert-food-express-9911-e.html"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">here</span></b></a>, but quite franky, I feel Michael's perspective was spot-on. Tune in again, kind reader, for more dispatches from the food desert – where po' hapless Detroiters ain't got no choice but to eat rotten fruits and vegetables ... that I have thus far never seen in my life.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"This grocery store is fairly decent for the community."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Food Desert: Eve's Downtown Gourmet</b></span></div>
<b><br /></b><b>Location</b><br />
<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1411+Washington+Blvd,+Detroit,+MI+48226&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x883b2d313e0bafb1:0xa1539d6cf43eec89,1411+Washington+Blvd,+Detroit,+MI+48226&gl=us&ei=EphLUr38IO-kyAHjjICIDg&ved=0CCwQ8gEwAA" target="_blank">Eve's Downtown Gourmet, 1411 Washington Blvd Detroit, MI 48226 </a></div>
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Apples: $1.49/pound | Bananas: $.59/pound | Oranges: $1.99/pound<br />
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<i><b>What does healthy food mean to you?</b></i><br />
Healthy food is food that has all the nutrients that you need to live.<br />
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<i><b>If it hard for you to find healthy food in the city of Detroit?</b></i><br />
... this grocery store is fairly decent for the community.<br />
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When I mention I'm biking to every grocery store in Detroit to demonstrate that healthy food is widely available in the city, people often light up with a certain perverse excitement and ask, "Have you been to Eve's Market?!" <br />
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When you walk into the store, you understand their naysaying niggling.<br />
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The store is located downtown at the corner of Young Professional First Apartment Drive and Old Alcoholic Begging for 35 Cents to Catch the Bus Lane. Inside the store, a lone cashier sits in a bullet-resistant glass perch. Across from the cashier is a wall-of-shame filled with grainy, low-resolution security cam pics of men who were highly resolute about shoplifting. If ever there was a place where you would expect to find rotten fruits and vegetables, Eve's Gourmet Market would be it.<br />
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Now, I'm just a kid who grew up on welfare in Highland Park. "Gourmet" to me is orange juice that comes in a paper cartoon. I cannot attest to Eve's gourmet bonafides. I can say the store was well-stocked with a selection of staple produce. Apples. Oranges. Bananas. Potatoes. Nothing exotic. But as Hightower notes, decent for the community.<br />
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One more thing. Hightower defines healthy food as pesticide-free and not genetically modified. It's worth noting that nearly all produce is contaminated with some level of residual pesticide. That includes <a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/6800/description/Organic_Doesnt_Mean_Free_of_Pesticides"><b>organic food</b></a>. Organic does not mean pesticide-free. Pesticide-free means pesticide free and it is practically impossible to find. Luckily, most conventional and organic foods have trace pesticide amounts well below the limit deemed safe by the FDA. <br />
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Also worth noting: the <b><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/are_gmo_foods_safe_opponents_are_skewing_the_science_to_scare_people_.html">scientific consensus</a></b> is that genetically modified foods are as safe as their non-GM counterparts. Don't let any chain-smoking, neo-hippies tell you otherwise. For an in-depth discussion of pesticides and GMO, see this <a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/2013/08/the-food-desert-food-express-9911-e.html">post</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Food Desert: Honeybee Market</b></span></div>
<b><br /></b><b>Location</b><br />
<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2443+Bagley+Ave,+Detroit,+MI+48216&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x883b2d5f1d3eec87:0xee9a40ab5af8cce2,2443+Bagley+Ave,+Detroit,+MI+48216&gl=us&ei=LyowUtvcB8OWrAGxmYDwDw&ved=0CC4Q8gEwAA" target="_blank">Honeybee Market, 2443 Bagley Ave, Detroit, MI 48216</a></div>
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Apples: $1.69/pound | Bananas: $.69/pound | Oranges: $1.99/pound<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5,645</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">75.7%
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">43.2%<br />[<span style="color: red;">188 percent higher than </span>the national rate of 15.0%]</span></div>
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<i>What does healthy food mean to you?</i><br />
"Fresh and local. Anything fresh from the farm is going to taste better, and I think that's what healthy food is; healthy food that tastes good.<br />
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<i>Do you ever have a problem finding healthy food in the city of Detroit?</i><br />
When I first moved down here, I did have trouble but with places like Honeybee or Eastern Market and especially with Whole Foods opening up it is just makes its more accessible. So, its not that it's hard, it just might take a little more time. You can't walk out your door, and have [a grocery store] siting right there, but hop in your car and in five minutes you're fine. <br />
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Rachel raises the issue of transportation. One of the reasons I decided to bicycle to every store in the city, was to model cycling as a alternative way to get to and from the grocery store. I cycle year-round, even in Michigan's sub-freezing winters. Here's a picture of my haul after a 12-mile round trip run I made to Trader Joe's this past February: <a href="http://on.fb.me/17pwlUo">http://on.fb.me/17pwlUo</a><br />
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Luckily, few people in Detroit need to go 6 miles to the grocery store (I don't <i>need</i> to go that far either. I just really like Trader Joe's... and being alone with my thoughts). In his post <a href="http://mapdetroit.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post.html" target="_blank">The Food Grasslands of Detroit</a>, urban planner Robbie Linn notes that 90 percent of Detroiters live within 1 mile of a grocery store (this percentage has probably increased; four grocery stores have opened since the post was published in 2011). <br />
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For the relative few who live more than a mile away or for anyone else who really loves Trader Joe's, cycling offers a relatively inexpensive, sustainable alternative to using a car to get food. If you don't have a car and cycling isn't your thing, that's cool. When I was a kid and my family – for some inexplicable reason – skipped over the A&P that was 2 blocks away, and went to a store called Ivanhoe market that was 1.5 miles down the road, we'd haul groceries in a wagon.<br />
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=Family+Fair+Food+Center&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Family+Fair+Food+Center&hnear=0x8824d4836505a533:0xd46e14ec5773b96,Detroit,+MI+48214&cid=0,0,17620255598652910246&ei=aQIuUtDmJKXCyAH9_YDQDw&ved=0CKsBEPwSMAs" target="_blank">Family Fair Food Cent, 700 Chene St, Detroit, MI 48207</a></div>
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Apples: $1.79/pound | Bananas: $.59/pound | Oranges: $.50 each<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">$23,070</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">41.1%<br />[<span style="color: red;">174 percent higher than</span> the national rate of 15.0%]</span></div>
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<i>What does healthy food mean to you?</i><br />
"When I eat less fried foods and more steamed vegetables, I find that my body works better [...] the 'elimination' process is a lot better."<br />
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<i>Do you ever have a problem finding healthy food in the city of Detroit?</i><br />
No. Not in the least. <br />
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I used to live about 1.5 miles from Family Fair Food Center. Family Fair Food Center is by any reasonable definition: a grocery store in the hood. How do you know a grocery store is in the hood? If the grocery store has metal barricades around its entrance to stop people from stealing shopping carts, that grocery store is in the hood.<br />
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Even still, this grocery store in the hood has a more than adequate selection of staple healthy produce at reasonable prices. My personal experience is that this is typical of most grocery stores in even Detroit's most economically-depressed neighborhoods. </div>
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In addition to a more than adequate selection of affordable produce, the store also had a super-nice lady<br />
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Apples: $1.99/pound | Bananas: $.44/pound | Oranges: $1.00 each<br />
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"Farmers' Market. Organic. Grains. Vegetables. Fruit."<br />
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I'm Austrian. I've been in Michigan for about three years.<br />
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No. I religiously go to [Eastern Market] every Saturday. Sometimes Trader Joe's. And [Harbortown Market] is my emergency supermarket when I have no time whatsoever.<br />
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Its nice to get a perspective on Detroit's so-called food desert from a new arrival to Detroit. Someone from outside the city or, better yet, from outside this country is able to compare food availability in Detroit to food availability everywhere else they have resided. I think that kind of cosmopolitan view tells us a lot about the status of food in Detroit.<br />
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=Lafayette+Foods+Detroit,+MI&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Lafayette+Foods+Detroit,+MI&cid=0,0,13789882101955156590&ei=49UeUrzSCqfeyAGslYDABQ&ved=0CJoBEPwSMAo" target="_blank">Parkway Foods, 11565 E Lafayette St, Detroit, MI 48207</a></div>
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">The Food Desert: Food Express</b></div>
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<b>Location</b><br />
<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=9911+E.+Jefferson,+Detroit,+MI&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8824d49a0195d191:0xd3ddd378f459b3ff,9911+E+Jefferson+Ave,+Detroit,+MI+48214&gl=us&ei=I0gVUtbFHKn3igKwloCgBg&ved=0CC8Q8gEwAA" target="_blank">Food Express, 9911 E. Jefferson, Detroit, MI 48214</a></div>
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Apples: $1.99/pound | Bananas: $.59/pound | Oranges: $1.00 for 2<br />
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<b>Community Profile for Zip Code 48214</b><br />
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<tr valign="TOP"><td width="20%"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">22,759</span></td><td width="20%"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">74.0%</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">[<span style="color: red;">20 percent lower</span> than national rate of 93.0%]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">$25,549</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">[<span style="color: red;">48 percent lower</span> than national Median Household Income of $52,762]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">13.2%</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">[<span style="color: red;">38 percent</span> <span style="color: red;">higher</span> than the national rate of 9.6%]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify;">34.9%</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: justify;">[<span style="color: red;">133 percent higher</span> than the national rate of 15.0%]</span></span></div>
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<i>What does healthy food mean to you?</i><br />
"Healthy food means, in general, food that's got seeds in it. Healthy food is food that god prepared, not man."<br />
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<i>Is it hard for you to find fruits and vegetables in the city of Detroit?</i><br />
"Very hard. Even at Eastern Market. I got a homeboy that works out there, he say they take all the good food and send it across 8 mile [the street that separates Detroit from its northern suburbs]; leave all the bad food down here for us."<br />
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<i>So the food we're surrounded by now; you wouldn't consider this "good food"? What about it is unhealthy to you?</i><br />
"Pesticides. We get the worse end of the crop. Seems like Detroit always gets the bottom of the barrel. The worse, picked-over food ever."<br />
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I think Ray raises concerns at the heart of the very concept of a food desert. After the on-camera interview, I discussed some of those issues with Ray. Here's a point-by-point account of our conversation and a discussion of some points raised by Ray that I feel deserve thorough discussion:<br />
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<b>What we consider healthy</b><br />
Ray describes healthy food as food unaltered by humans. Using this criterion, it would be nearly impossible to find healthy food without a time machine or a space ship. Nearly all modern fruits and vegetables – including favorites like <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002703" target="_blank">apples</a>, <a href="http://cwh.ucsc.edu/bananas/Site/Early%20History%20of%20the%20Banana.html" target="_blank">bananas</a>, and <a href="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2003/11/61210" target="_blank">corn</a> – are the result of thousands of years of agricultural tinkering by humans. There is nothing inherently unhealthy about foods that have been modified by humans. Conversely, just because something exists in nature, does not mean it is inherently safe. Cyanide, grizzly bears, and ebola all exist in nature. Ultimately, the safety of a thing must be determined by looking at the inherent traits of that thing. Whether or not it was modified by nature or by people is irrelevant.<br />
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Speaking of things modified by humans, Ray also raises concerns about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). Genetic modification of food is a relatively new technology; in widespread use for about 16 years. I think its important to cautiously apply any new technology. I also think when it comes to questions of fact, its important to accept the scientific consensus on that question. The scientific consensus is that GMO are as safe as conventionally-derived foods. For more reading on this topic, I highly recommend this article in <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/08/11/genetically-engineered-crops/" target="_blank">Scientific American</a>. <br />
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<b>All pesticides are bad</b><br />
Ray asserts that the conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables that surround him in Food Express are unhealthy because pesticides were used in their manufacture. I think its important to note that both organic and conventionally-grown crops contain trace amounts of pesticide (though a recent <a href="http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2012/september/organic.html" target="_blank">meta-analysis</a> at Stanford University concluded non-organic fruits and vegetables on average have higher trace amounts). The primary difference: the pesticides on conventionally-grown foods are synthetic; pesticides on organically-grown produce are naturally-derived. This, however, is a distinction without a difference. It comes back to assessing a thing based on its inherent characteristics. Whether a pesticide is produced in a chemistry lab or produced in the 4.5-billion-year-old chemistry lab we call Earth, its harm is determined by its chemical composition. If a naturally-occurring pesticide has the exact same chemical composition as a lab-created pesticide, it has the exact same ability to harm body and environment.<br />
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If you want to avoid pesticides altogether, you might need to dig a little deeper than the product's labeling. As science writer and University of Hawaii PhD student in cell and molecular biology Christie Wilcox notes in an article for <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2011/07/18/mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/" target="_blank">Scientific American</a>, some farmers – of both the conventional and organic stripe – use pesticide-free farming methods:<br />
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<b>"To really know what you’re in for, it’s best if you know your source, and a great way to do that is to buy locally. Talk to the person behind the crop stand, and actually ask them what their methods are if you want to be sure of what you’re eating."</b></blockquote>
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Concerns about pesticides aside, its also worth discussing the relative nutritional value of organic and conventional crops. The aforementioned Stanford meta-analysis found non-organic produce to be more-or-less just as nutritious as their pricier organic counterparts.<br />
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<b>Ugly bell peppers need love too</b><br />
After I cut the camera off, I talked to Ray about the "marked up" peppers he pointed out. I noted that people in the Western world have come to regard superficially-blemished produce as practically un-edible. This is mostly because the Western world is so rich, that our grocers and food producers take produce that is completely edible, albeit ill-shaped or slightly blemished, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/27/ugly-fruit-vegetables-supermarkets-harvest" target="_blank">systematically throw it in the garbage</a>. Or do they...<br />
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<b>Send the ugly food to Detroit</b><br />
Many moons ago, when I was an angry Black Nationalist on Michigan State University's green and White campus, I would have been more or less open to Ray's assertion that sub-standard food is sent to Detroit because farmers hate black people. In my old age, I've become less persuaded by the spectre of shadowy, malignant, unsubstantiated, racially-motivated conspiracies. Given the <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/100745989" target="_blank">financially perilous </a>state of American farming, it seems more likely that farmers happily sell their produce to anyone willing and able to buy.<br />
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If markets in economically-depressed communities have more superficially unattractive produce, this is probably because consumers in those communities have less ability to pay for perfectly symmetrical, blemish-free produce. Notice that I single-out looks as what differentiates low- and high-end produce. A Ferrari looks better than a Toyota Camry, but all cars should be safe to drive. I think its fair to charge more for better looking fruits and vegetables, but all fruits and vegetables should be equally safe to eat.<br />
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Poor people deserve to have safe food. However, just like there aren't many Ferrari dealerships in Detroit, there probably aren't going to be many perfectly symmetrical, perfectly unblemished bell peppers. <br />
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<b>Saran-wrapping it up</b><br />
I am endlessly fascinated by the way our perception frames our view of reality. Perception can lead us to imagine ourselves marooned in a food desert even as we are surrounded by healthy food. After I finished the on-camera interview with Ray, I went on to tell him what motivated me to start The Food Desert project.<br />
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I told him that I grew up in Highland Park (a municipality within Detroit's city limits) in a family without many resources. I told him that despite these limitations, we managed to eek out a relatively healthy diet composed mostly of staple grains, fruits, and vegetables procured mostly from neighborhood grocery stores.<br />
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I told him that I'm the kind of person who is almost pathologically inclined to correct misrepresentations of fact. When the notion of the Detroit food desert gained traction in the popular consciousness, I felt inclined to speak up. This representation did not jive with my experience. I felt compelled to see if it squared with the experiences of other Detroiters. I told Ray that I think many people in low-income communities pass over fruits and vegetables in neighborhood markets not because they are holding out for perfectly unblemished, pesticide-free, non-GMO alternatives; but because they'd rather just have a bag of Cheetos. The most effective thing we can do to improve health and fitness in urban communities, is encourage people to make better choices concerning food and physical activity. </div>
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I truly enjoyed my conversation with Ray. I am truly enjoying the all of the conversations around diet and health I am having with Detroiters. I look forward to bringing you, kind reader, along for the journey. When the project is completed, I hope it spurs people in urban communities across America to embrace healthy choices that they previously may have been oblivious to. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Food Desert: Atlas Market</b></span></div>
<b><br /></b><b>Location</b><br />
<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?expflags=enable_star_based_justifications:true&ie=UTF8&cid=16853173192361093559&q=Atlas+Market&iwloc=A&gl=US&hl=en" target="_blank">Atlas Market, 2645 W. Davison Detroit, MI 48238</a></div>
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Apples: $1.69/pound | Bananas: $.39/pound | Oranges: $1.99/pound<br />
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<td width="20%"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">31,743</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">$29,264 </span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481517659384506381.post-54681877936247055462012-07-11T03:51:00.000-04:002012-07-11T19:09:06.838-04:00Iyende<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What I love most about my self-created job with <a href="http://thepeopleofdetroit.com/" target="_blank">The People of Detroit</a>, is I get to introduce the rest of the world to Detroiters who are like me... but <i>better</i>. Jack VanDyke is a bicyclist. That's the "like me." Jack VanDyke also donates a significant amount of time and resources to nurturing the development of children to which he is genetically unrelated. That's the "but better."<br />
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Jack is a member of <a href="http://thehubofdetroit.org/?page_id=5" target="_blank">The Hub of Detroit</a>, a bike shop and cycling outreach collective dedicated to increasing community access to bicycling, promoting bicycle-related sustainability practices, and youth development programs. Their <a href="http://thehubofdetroit.org/?page_id=745" target="_blank">Mechanics in Training</a> program is a paid internship program that gives 14- to 18-year-olds the opportunity to learn about bike repair and then gain real-world job experience in the Hub's retail shop. <br />
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In a city where public transportation is less than comprehensive and in a world where petroleum is fated to become exponentially more scarce and less affordable, it is utterly necessary to show young people that bicycles are a sustainable, cost-effective, healthy, and – most importantly – fun way to get around.<br />
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I am so impressed by The Hub's vision, that it inspires me to imagine my own future. I imagine a future self that is infinitely more patient with children. Despite there being absolutely no evolutionary advantage to doing so, Future Noah volunteers significant time mentoring hundreds of children that he did not father.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is the independent, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">self-directed </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mentality that propels cyclists. Its also the mentality that propels entrepreneurs. Unsurprisingly, it is the mentality that drives a cyclist to be an </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">entrepreneur</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Joey Landis is co-owner the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> downtown Detroit-based bike messenger service</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://rockdovecouriers.com/collective.php" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Rock Dove Couriers</a><span style="background-color: white;">. Joey founded Rock Dove with </span><span style="background-color: white;">Tim and Melissa Sargent. The trio noticed downtown legal and accounting firms needed someone to delivery signed contracts. They collaborated to meet that need. Doing so also met a need for Joey.</span></span></span></div>
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The People of Detroit has allowed me to cross paths with folks I would not have met otherwise - given my basal metabolic rate curmudgeonly reclusiveness. Over the past year I've been obliged to attend a few events on behalf of TPOD. At several of these events, I've noticed a young man who was conspicuously tall while at the same time having a general affect that was inconspicuously unassuming. As fortuity would have it, I even accidentally collected evidence of this young man's unique disposition. </div>
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At the end of March, I made <a href="http://noahstephens.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=22199322&AlbumKey=tt7VLw" target="_blank">portraits</a> of people who attended the launch of the <a href="http://www.uixdetroit.com/" target="_blank">Urban Innovation Exchange</a> (UIX is a media initiative led by <a href="http://www.issuemediagroup.com/" target="_blank">Issues Media Group</a> with support from <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/about/" target="_blank">The Knight Foundation</a>. The project is dedicated to profiling individuals who head and participate in community activities with a broad social impact. I will periodically contribute content from TPOD to the UIX project). One of the people I photographed was the dualistic mystery man.<br />
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Though I didn't get his information at the event, I was able to finally name the mystery man when the good people over at UIX suggested I photograph Kyle Bartell for our first joint UIX/TPOD collaboration. I arranged to meet Kyle near his place in Midtown Detroit, discussed his ideas about community spaces, and photographed him as the late afternoon sun made its final reach through the historic neighborhood's sylvan* canopy (*Bucket List item #243: Use "sylvan" in a sentence. Check).</div>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">To realize this vision, Kyle reached out to Sue Mosey. Sue is the president of </span><a href="http://www.detroitmidtown.com/05/index.php" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Midtown Detroit Inc.</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> - an organization that has played a fundamental role its namesake neighborhood's redevelopment. The organization was key in </span><a href="http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/midtown/" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Whole Foods breaking ground in the neighborhood</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> (the store is expected to open in Spring 2013). Midtown Detroit Inc. has also been instrumental in securing millions of dollars of development funding for the area, including $22 million in 2011 from NYC-based Living Cities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Far too often, people in Detroit - and in urban communities in general - are imagined as hapless victims of circumstance. Many people in these communities internalize this characterization and, instead of taking whatever steps they can to affirm positive change, instead wallow in their imagined inevitable destitution. <br /><br />That's why I think Kyle's initiative is particularly noteworthy. He identified a problem, considered a solution, and sought out a way to implement that solution. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Even still, Kyle balks at the suggestion that he is a trailblazer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/p/about-me.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Noah Stephens</span></a> founded <a href="http://thepeopleofdetroit.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The People of Detroit Photodocumentary</span></a> in April 2010 as a counterpoint to media fixated on despair and disrepair in the storied birthplace of American auto manufacturing. Since, TPOD has received national and international attention. Portraits from the project have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and other national publications. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I started this <a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">project</a> way back when because I wanted to share with the rest of the world what I loved about my hometown and its people. That said, I never intended it to be a platform for blind boosterism. If I encounter something that displeases me in my everyday life as a Detroiter – in my everyday life as an sentient being – that displeasure will more likely than not seep into a TPOD post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That said, the past couple of posts have been admittedly heavy. In "<a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/2012/02/why-midtown-is-better-than-royal-oak.html" target="_blank">Why Midtown is Better than Royal Oak</a>" an incident at a suburban Starbucks led to a discussion of how social equity is affected for better or worse by the demographics of a place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In "<a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/2012/04/dezey-and-world-of-tomorrow.html" target="_blank">Dezey and the World of Tomorrow</a>" we discussed how disproportionate religiosity in the black community leads to disproportionately high homophobia in the black community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, in the interest of balance, I figured it was time to revisit the purpose that truly drives The People of Detroit: an excuse to take pictures of pretty girls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An opportunity presented itself at the grand opening of a phenomenal new art space in Detroit: <a href="http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Article/Red-Bull-House-of-Art-2012-Opens-in-Detroit-021243214069814" target="_blank">The Redbull House of Art</a>. I saw the young woman above accompanied by an attractive, remarkably similar looking, slightly older woman. I asked the young woman to take her photograph. The attractive, remarkably similar looking, slightly older awoman immediately interceded:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Before I share my answer, I should probably share an update on the Dezey essay. In the essay, I referenced a 2010 Pew Research Center <a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1755/poll-gay-marriage-gains-acceptance-gays-in-the-military" target="_blank">poll</a> that showed only 30 percent of black Americans approved of gay marriage. Three days after I published the Dezey essay, Pew released a mid-April 2012 <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2012/04/25/more-support-for-gun-rights-gay-marriage-than-in-2008-or-2004/" target="_blank">poll</a> that showed black American support for gay marriage had increased to 39 percent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, "where is it going" – attractive, remarkably similar looking, slightly older woman? It's going on the website that singlehandedly stopped homophobia in the black community, that's where.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/p/about-me.html" target="_blank">Noah Stephens</a> </span> founded <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thepeopleofdetroit.com/" target="_blank">The People of Detroit Photodocumentary</a> </span>in April 2010 as a counterpoint to media fixated on despair and disrepair in the storied birthplace of American auto manufacturing. Since, TPOD has received national and international attention. Portraits from the project have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and other national publications. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">As I wandered the <a href="http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Article/Red-Bull-House-of-Art-2012-Opens-in-Detroit-021243214069814" target="_blank">Redbull House of Art</a> grand opening searching for pretty girls to take pictures of, the words of the attractive, remarkably similar looking, slightly older woman mentioned in the first part of this <a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/2012/06/where-is-this-going-1-of-2-in-redbull.html" target="_blank">series</a> echoed in my soul:<br /><br />"Where <i>IS</i> this going, Noah?"<br /><br />If I was to theoretically fill The People of Detroit solely with pictures of attractive women sure it would be awesome, but what would that mean the project <i>was</i>? Would I have to re-write the Mission Statement? Change the name to "The Pretty Girls of Detroit"? How pervy would that be?<br /><br />I snapped to consciousness and realized I was standing in the middle of the crowded exhibition hall, Camera in hand. Shivering. Lightly-misted in a clammy, cold-sweat of shame. </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />I looked across the room and spotted someone who was not a pretty girl. I approached.<br /><br />"I'm doing a photo project. Thus far tonight, I've only taken pictures of pretty girls. I need to take a picture of a dude, because I don't want to seem pervy..."<br /><br />The young man seemed sympathetic to my plight. Turns out, not only was he not a pretty girl, he also was one of the fantastic artists on exhibit in the gallery. His name is Jeff Risk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">He's pictured here in front of a collection of modular panels he created – each adorned with vibrant, iconographic art that I thought was really awesome. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Check his work out at the <a href="http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Article/Red-Bull-House-of-Art-2012-Opens-in-Detroit-021243214069814" target="_blank">gallery</a>, buy a few pieces, and tell him the guy who's not a perv sent you.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><i>Noah Stephens founded <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thepeopleofdetroit.com/" target="_blank">The People of Detroit Photodocumentary</a> </span>in April 2010 as a counterpoint to media fixated on despair and disrepair in the storied birthplace of American auto manufacturing. Since, TPOD has received national and international attention. Portraits from the project have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and other national publications. </i></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><i>The People of Detroit Photodocumentary is funded in part by a grant from </i></span><i style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">CEOS for Cities</span></b> and the <b><a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/detroit-initiatives-advance-contemporary-public-li/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">John S. And James L. Knight Foundation.</span></a></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">This is "Dezey." He's not fond of giving people with cameras and notepads his first and last name. I think I understand why. More on that later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had the pleasure of meeting Dezey at the </span><a href="http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">The Ruth Ellis Center</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in Highland Park</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. The Center sits inside a nondescript concrete box on a nondescript concrete block within throwing distance of a nondescript </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park_Ford_Plant" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">former <span id="goog_1090638523"></span>factory<span id="goog_1090638524"></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> where Henry Ford built a machine that changed the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In symmetry with that factory, the Ruth Ellis Center is also engaged in a monumental bit of manufacturing. As the only organization in the Midwest dedicated to residential and drop-in services for runaway, homeless, and otherwise at-risk LGBTQ<span style="font-size: x-small;">(2)</span> youth, the Ruth Ellis Center manufactures emotional and physical sanctuary for kids hard-pressed to find it anywhere else (<a href="http://uixdetroit.com/people/laura-hughes.aspx" target="_blank">Laura Hughes</a> is the center's executive director. She was nice enough to arrange a meeting between me, Dezey, and a couple of other participants at the center).</span><br />
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The ostracization faced by gay teens has staked a visible perch in both pop culture and academic research. In 2010, sex advice columnist Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller recorded a video message to gay teens. In the video, Dan and Terry promised LGBTQ teens that if they could outlast the alienation, ridicule, and bullying they faced today, there were better days on the other side of 18. That message became the catalyst for the <a href="http://www.itgetsbetter.org/page/s/pledge?gclid=CLyTvKyuvK8CFQVoKgodQn_8lg" target="_blank">It Gets Better</a> video series. According to the project's website, the series has since been viewed by 40 million people and features videos from 40,000 contributors including <a href="http://www.itgetsbetter.org/video/entry/geyafbsdpvk/" target="_blank">President Barack Obama</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In parallel with pop phenomena like the It Gets Better campaign, the plight of LGBTQ teens figures prominently in academic research. A 2011 report from the <a href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/mission/" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a> at UCLA estimates that 4 percent of the U.S. population identifies as gay, bisexual, or transgender. Based on their representation in the population, we would expect LGBTQ teens to be about 20 times less likely to be homeless. Instead, compared to their heterosexual counterparts, gay teens are 2 times <i>more</i> likely to be homeless<span style="font-size: x-small;">(3)</span>. When teens come out of the closet they quite frequently are put out of the house.<br />
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It should come as no surprise to anyone with a computer, smartphone, tablet, or pair of reading glasses that gay teens are alienated in mainstream American society. What is surprising, is the way gay teens are marginalized in a historically marginalized community. One would expect that members of one marginalized group, would empathize with and embrace members of another marginalized group. One would be disappointed. While LGBTQ people are ostracized in larger American society, they are especially alienated in the black community.<br />
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A 2010 <a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1755/poll-gay-marriage-gains-acceptance-gays-in-the-military" target="_blank">Pew Research Center poll</a> shows that only 30 percent of black Americans support gay marriage (compared to 44 percent of white Americans). It would be reasonable to say an unfavorable opinion of a gay marriage does not necessarily indicate an unfavorable opinion of homosexuality in general - except when it does. In a 2008 <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/112807/blacks-conservative-republicans-some-moral-issues.aspx" target="_blank">Gallup poll</a>, only 31 percent of black Democrats indicated that they believed homosexuality was morally acceptable (compared with 61 percent of non-black Democrats). <br />
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Homophobia is undeniably a problem in America. It's even more of a problem in black America. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Highland Park is by any definition of the term, a low-income inner city community. Low-income inner city communities tend to have higher rates of violence than non low-income inner-city communities. To avoid victimization, many young men in these kinds of neighborhoods quickly embrace a posture where anger and disregard are the only emotions fit for public display. <br />
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This posturing leads to a hyper-aversion to anything that is not explicitly confrontational and violent. Not only is having sex with another man "gay," so is reading books and smiling when you are happy. Any person who dares to be in any way effusive or express himself in a way that is out of line with their apparent gender, risks alienation, ridicule or worse. </span><br />
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Black Americans - more so than any other major American ethnic group - are indisputably very religious and very Christian. According to a <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/A-Religious-Portrait-of-African-Americans.aspx" target="_blank">report</a> from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 79 percent of black Americans list religion as playing a "very important" role in their lives (compared to 56 percent of all American adults). That same report shows more than 85 percent of black Americans identify as belonging to one sect of Christianity or another. That number is even larger if you include other Bible-based faith traditions like Islam and Judaism.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the interest of brevity, I'll just post one example of how much God really, really wants to kill gay people</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> If you'd like, you can see more examples</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <a href="http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/gay/long.htm" target="_blank">here</a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">curated </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by a person who is critical of the Bible's homophobia or <a href="http://bible.org/article/homosexuality-christian-perspective" target="_blank">here</a> by a person who isn't critical of the Bible's homophobia at all. In total, there are a dozen or so places in the Bible were God calls for violence against gays. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sort of makes you wonder if God lives in the inner city part of Heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, if you feel compelled to leave a comment about how these verses are taken out of context or misinterpreted, let me offer some advice: First, slap yourself in the face. Next, don't. It's not taken out of context. Its not a matter of interpretation. This is what the book says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whether or not the Bible is homophobic is not up for debate. It is. What does bear exploration is the interplay between black religiosity and black homophobia. <br />
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Black people love the Bible, the Bible hates gay people - which leads black people to... exactly. A disproportionate commitment to a religion that hates gay people, largely accounts for black folk's disproportionate hatred of gays. Can you blame them? They are simply taking cues from the Divine Creator of the Universe.<br />
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With this cultural climate in mind, I can imagine a dozens reasons why Dezey was hesitant to give me his full name. In an environment so wrought with homophobia, it would seem smart to be suspicious of all straights - even disarmingly witty, shockingly handsome, scuba-certified, hot air balloon pilot, ex-CIA, photographer/essayists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Historically, hatred in America has been unidirectional. For the most part<span style="font-size: x-small;">(4)</span>, Americans of European descent have done the hating and everyone else has done the being hated. All along, civil rights leaders, moral philosophers, and (most recently) <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/02/23/MN94378.DTL&ao=all" target="_blank">scientists</a> have argued that black Americans were the equal of their white brethren. And they were right. Equally malicious.<br />
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You see, as it turns out, black people are made of the same DNA stuff as all other kinds of people. Not only are so-called black people as capable of all the lofty imagination, creativity, and intellectual endeavor as any other kind of human; they are also as prone to the vicious hierarchical tribalism that defines us as a species. Given the opportunity, black Americans are as given to oppress as anyone else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This dynamic can be hard to appreciate viewed through the porthole of race relations in North American. Given that paradigm, it's easy to imagine black Americans solely as the noble, long-suffering victims of European oppressors. However, if you zoom out and press rewind, its easier to see that people of European descent have no special monopoly on oppressiveness. When my Afrocentric friends pridefully regal me with tales of the great African empires of Dahomey or Mandingo, I always ask: "How do you think those African empires acquired land and resources?" <br />
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Instead, when historically oppressed groups enact inequities, we treat them with kid gloves. Perhaps it's because we feel guilty about the historical oppression faced by these groups. Perhaps it's because would-be critics fear being mislabeled a racist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, failing to call a wrong a wrong, ultimately only allows a wrong to persist. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If an ideology emerges that calls for the death of a people, it should be properly identified as a morally reprehensible threat to civil society. It should be ridiculed, reviled, and shunned by people of good conscience - no matter if its Mein Kampf or the Old Testament. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If we criticize white <a href="http://www.thepeopleofdetroit.com/2012/02/why-midtown-is-better-than-royal-oak.html" target="_blank">racism</a>, we should just as enthusiastically criticize black homophobia.<br />
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If we hope to continue humankind's ascent toward increasingly equitable societies, we have to vehemently and vocally oppose all backward ideologies. By doing so, we take a step closer to a society where we know Dezey's first and last name. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><i>Noah Stephens founded The People of Detroit in April 2010 as a counterpoint to media fixated on despair and disrepair in the storied birthplace of American auto manufacturing. Since, TPOD has received national and international attention. Portraits from the project have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and other national publications. </i></span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><i>In early 2011, a creative director saw the project online and hired Noah to shoot an ad campaign for <b><a href="http://www.noahstephensphotography.com/2011/07/my-other-other-half-for-mcdonalds-china.html" target="_blank">McDonald's Corporation</a></b> in Shanghai, China. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><i>The People of Detroit Photodocumentary is funded in part by a grant from </i></span><i style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><b>CEOS for Cities</b> and the <b><a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/detroit-initiatives-advance-contemporary-public-li/" target="_blank">John S. And James L. Knight Foundation.</a></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">1. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">A 91 percent black, working-class municipality peculiarly located within the boundaries of Detroit. Highland Park is also the city where I was raised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">2. Defined by the Center as "Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Attractional, Transgender and Questioning"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/LGBTQhomelessFactSheetbyNAEH.pdf</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4. While Anglo-Americans discriminated against non-Anglo white ethnic groups (Irish- and Italian-Americans, for example) for much of American history; that schism has been largely ameliorated as white ethnic minorities have been subsumed into a larger, "white American" identity. </span></span></div>
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