Appendix 1: THE MULTI-RACIAL DECLINE OF CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY

THE RUINS OF DETROIT

Please note: This photographic essay is not meant to imply that all areas of the cities in question resemble the photographs. These pictures merely reflect regions, or suburbs, where White Flight has been the most extreme.

According to the 2000 US census, 88% of Detroit's population is non-White. This percentage is even higher in the city center. Detroit qualifies as the most ruined city in the USA. In addition to massive White Flight, the non-White residents started the tradition - which has spread to other cities - of "Devil's Night". This is the habit or burning down parts of the city on the night before Halloween.

A huge non-White population, combined with annual arson attacks, bankruptcy, crime and decay, have combined to make Detroit - once the USA's leading automotive industrial center - into a ruin comparable with those of the ancient civilizations - with the cause being identical: the replacement of the White population who built the city, with a new non-White population.

THE RUINS OF SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS SLOVAK CATHOLIC CHURCH ON DETROIT'S EAST SIDE

St. Cyril and St. Methodosius are called the "Apostles of the Slavic people." They converted the Slovaks to Christianity in the 9^th Century.  The near eastside neighborhood of Detroit where the church stands was an ethnic enclave to immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe but is now a blighted and crime-ridden black ghetto. 

There were schools attached to the church.  The church once had more than 1,800 parishioners, 18 nuns in its convent and 800 students in its grade school and high school.  In the 1950s, the thriving community surrounding the church was affectionately referred to as "St. Cyril's Village" by its citizens. 

Similar to dozens of other Detroit Catholic Parishes, decades of rising black crime and the attendant white flight eroded the parishioner base.  The church schools closed in 1982 followed by the church itself in 1988.  Subsequent years of neglect and vandalism have reduced the 80-year-old church into an unrecoverable shambles.

Within walking distance of the Church at the south end of the former St. Cyril Village are the ruins of the 81-year-old "Slovak Home."  Judging from appearances, the Slovak Home was a meeting place and/or place for new Slovak immigrants to stay prior to finding firmer accomodations in the Detroit area. 

Both the church and Slovak Home are slated for destruction by the city of Detroit in 2003. In this case, what the former Eastern-European ethnic residents built from nothing is simply erased from sight by the Black population occupying Detroit and the government which subsidizes it. 

The loss of memory and the destruction of the history of white people in the older cities of America marches on without comment from politicians or the news media.

The front of the church looking from across St. Cyril Street.  The vandalism and dilapidation is visible.  The yellow doors on both flanks of the church which were the school entrances.	A closer view of the front of St. Cyril.

A picture taken from the north in what used to be the church parking lot.  Piles of discarded automobile tires are seen in front of the damaged church.

A view from the East Side.

A view of the razed convent building.	The rectory which stands north on St. Cyril street just beyond the church parking lot.  Visibly evident is that the building has been the target of an arson attack.

A picture taken from 4 blocks away - St. Cyrils can be seen to the left of center in the distance.  This multi-block field was once covered with homes that comprised a substantial portion of the church's parishioner base.  Like so many other areas of Detroit, the white residents were forced to flee in the face of unrelenting predatory black crime.  Subsequent black takeover of the neighborhood  resulted the entire area being razed over time.  Marcus Street is visible running back toward St Cyril street.

The 'Slovak Home' , the first-landing place for Slovak immigrants to early White Detroit, is now abandoned.	A close-up of the carving into the front of the stone edifice of the building.

Deepest thanks to Grover Lloyd for the text and pictures on this page

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