This brick wall has more social and racial connotations then just existing as a divider. The 8 Mile Wall north of Detroit stands as a lasting reminder of the barriers of past prejudices in the metro landscape.  And yet no one seems to be in a rush to take it down...

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      We live in an age when it’s trendy to be a humanitarian do-gooder.  Angelina Jolie receives praise for her volunteer work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency (but isn’t widely recognized or remembered as a home-wrecker).  Tickets for documentaries highlighting poverty and human rights abuses sell for nine dollars a pop, the ticket-buyer not even flinching at the price.  The end result -- humanitarianism has been trivialized and cheapened into a hollow showpiece, and the American public, while participates in perfunctory ersatz gestures, shows an alarming lack of concern for real problems as close as their own backyard... 

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    You have found your way to Detroit Chic, a spot which I hope will become a bit of an oasis for you in the vast expanse of cold internet. I'd like to briefly tell you a bit about what the site stands for, and why it should interest you....