Yes! Someone responded to my letter to the editor regarding the article Motor City Breakdown which was printed in Rolling Stone magazine recently. I was a little frustrated by the author’s lack of connection to Detroit and decided to let the world know. Check out the original letter to the editor here on Rolling Stone’s website in the comments section or I posted about it in my post, A Girl From South Detroit. The most recent responses are below. I think it’s great that I got someone interested enough to respond.
From dwswear on 3/25/09
Re: roxstar’s comment: Since when does a lack of connection or apathy about your hometown make you a ‘spoiled little brat’? If you don’t feel it, you don’t feel it, you can’t force it. What’s more odd is why you (and all these elders who talk about the Golden Age of Detroit) aren’t actively doing something to ‘revive’ the city centre then? If you’re so concerned about apathy, why don’t you all move back within the boundaries of 8-mile road and be pioneers in a Detroit Renaissance?
From roxtar on 4/3/09
Re: dwswear’s comment: I agree that if the author didn’t feel it for Detroit that it can’t be forced. I just get a little frustrated at how many people I know who just don’t feel it for Detroit, or for anything real for that matter. I know a lot of young people in the area who grew up there, who are loyal and doing what they can, living on nothing. I don’t fault the author for stating his feelings, at least we are here conversing about it. I just want to have more passionate, action based, conversations and I would like to see them happening in a magazine like Rolling Stone.
