The old Continental Engine Plant...

This partially razed ruin was once part of the world's largest motor factory.  Built in 1912, the floorspace of the Continental Motors plant on Detroit's east side covered 12 acres.  The facility provided engines to Detroit car and truck manufacturers the for the first several decades of the 20th Century.  During the 1940's and 1950's this plant built tank engines for the US Army and aircraft engines for the US Navy.  Production of industrial engines and electric governing devices continued at the facility into the 1960's.  Continental closed the plant in 1965, due in part to the increased militancy of the labor force.  But militant labor unionism was but one aspect of the destructive leftward shift in the political landscape of the USA in the 1960's.  The most famous political movement of the time, the "civil rights" revolution, allowed the black population to liberate itself, with the substantial connivance of the mass media of news and entertainment, from abiding by the rule of law that it had previously been held much more accountable to.  By the 1960's, a dramatic demographic shift was well underway in Detroit's lower east side where this plant was located.  During that period, black criminals began in earnest, the long and bloody path in destroying white Detroit.  There can be no doubt that the owners of this factory saw the way the wind was blowing and like so many other manufacturers in Detroit and the white population in general, evacuated the city.  While white liberals were dreamily marching hand-in-hand with Martin Luther King in cities all over the USA, predatory black criminal violence was transforming Detroit into the most dangerous major city in America.  White American society simply lacked the determination to face down the black power revolution and the unfortunate white citizens who bore the brunt of the onslaught were left defenseless by a political establishment that hadn't the will to protect them.  While conservative white politicians thundered against communism in Vietnam and other far-flung corners of the world, they failed to perceive or address the infiltration by third world communist ideology of "revolutionary justice" and "spontaneous redistribution of wealth" on the streets of their own cities.

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Credit to Grover Lloyd for the text on this page