Opinion: GM will never love us back

When I was a kid in Detroit, the neighborhood of Poletown was a thriving ethnic enclave of Polish restaurants, churches and recent immigrants. Then, something terribly wrong happened: Most of the neighborhood was destroyed in 1981 to build a new General Motors plant. The city helped the corporation by using eminent domain to seize and bulldoze 1,500 homes and hundreds of businesses. There were other places to build, of course, but GM wanted that location, and the City of Detroit was happy to oblige.

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