I interviewed John Doe, he was born in 1957 and he is a
diverse minority. His experience is different from mine because he has spent
more time in Detroit than I have and been in the middle of history being made,
while I have only seen small changes at a time and maybe in the end it will
have a monumental result. He has also been brought up in a raciest time period
that focused on the whites and blacks being separated and I guess in a way so
have I with all the gay rights movement happening, but to be quite honest I
don't care how it turns out and John made it clear in his interview that he
thinks the riots should have ended with segregation still being set in place.
When I interviewed him we talked about many things he had
witnessed during the riots and I was somewhat in shock with some of the things
that happened. I understood that there were riots in Detroit but I guess I
wasn’t aware of how bad it was. He saw two groups of about 30 people fighting
each other and no one was stopping it, he had to drive on the sidewalk to get
away from it. After we talked about the riots he started telling me things that
are happening in Detroit now. He couldn’t help but bring up Kwame Kilpatrick
and how that level of corruption takes time to go away. When we talked about
this I was more aware and educated about it because I am living through it. I
feel like I do not know the legal side of any of these events just because
mostly what I have learned is from other people or the news that will go back
on what they say. The news confuses me sometimes and will correct themselves,
in the end what if I miss the moment they corrected themselves and my idea on
that situation is wrong. I hope with the interview with John and looking up
true facts hopefully I will get a better idea on what’s going on in Detroit.
After this interview I found myself wondering what was said
in the news and books on the 67 riots, I also was wondering what is going on in
Detroit now that I don’t know about that John told me about in the interview.
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