When they closed, they could have at least donated the books to other libraries, schools, or gave them away...

Bueaty and destruction all in one.

In a city of just under two million.

I grew up in Detroit (unlike Emenem). I graduated from Cooley High in 66. Long after the majority of the Caucasians in my neighborhood had fled the city because of blacks moving in, my parents were among those who stayed, something they never regretted.

The auto companies who had built Detroit into the Arsenal of Democracy during WWII, fell on hard times and left Detroit to their own devices. Thus over a million people fled, no longer because of race, but because jobs disappeared.

Does anybody but a Detroiter know what hundreds of thousands of abandoned houses looks like?

My home town is crying.

it's decline is symbolic of the US's decline

We are your future.