{"id":12708,"date":"2013-10-31T02:16:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/tiandranicolehodge\/?p=14"},"modified":"2013-10-31T02:16:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:16:35","slug":"3-myths-about-the-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/3-myths-about-the-d\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Myths about “The D”"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 Myths about \u201cThe D\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Detroit\"<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

It seems like every time that I leave Detroit, I meet people who want to know about where I\u2019m from. Much of their curiosity is sparked by all of the negative press that our city gets in the media, and just the fact that they\u2019ve never actually been to “The D”. So I thought that I\u2019d take a moment to list some of the craziest myths that I\u2019ve heard about my hometown.<\/p>\n

1. All Girls from Detroit look like Aaliyah<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Aaliyah\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I first heard this during undergrad at Howard, and thought that it was hilarious. I was like, \u201cUh, I\u2019m from Detroit and I don\u2019t look like Aaliyah\u201d! , and the guy said that I did and named one other girl from our school that was from Detroit with a similar look so I couldn\u2019t tease him too much. Several years later I heard the same thing from a guy in Miami, so I guess people really thought that there was something to that lol\u2026. which is certainly not an insult. For those who don\u2019t know, Aaliyah was a big R&B star in the mid-90\u2019s until her untimely death in 2001. She was originally from Brooklyn, NY but was raised in Detroit and attended the Detroit School of Arts (DSA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Everyone from Detroit is \u201cghetto\u201d<\/p>\n

\"VH1<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a common and annoying misconception. I\u2019ve had so many people ask if I was really from Detroit and not a suburb of the city simply because I speak and behave like a normal person instead of one of the Basketball Wives<\/a>. Although you do have to develop a tough skin, street smarts and an edge to you to succeed in a city like Detroit, that doesn\u2019t mean that everyone here is loud, inarticulate, rowdy, violent, or any of the other negative adjectives that some use to describe Detroiters. In fact my city is home to many black lawyers, doctors, judges and other professionals, in addition to the ghetto-fabulous divas and street dudes that we hear so much about.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0All the houses in Detroit cost $1<\/p>\n

\"Indian<\/a><\/p>\n

I know, I know, we have a lot of blight around the city made up of abandoned houses, unruly yards and junk dumped in unattended lots from Detroiters and suburbanites alike, BUT we also have some really beautiful homes in Detroit, from those in the various historic neighborhoods<\/a> to ones located in the many different pockets of the city that don\u2019t receive as much fanfare \u2013 and although many of them are very affordable compared to similar homes in other major cities, they do cost MORE than $1!!!!<\/p>\n

I could go on and on about all of the off-the-wall comments that people make and the misconceptions that people have about Detroit, but I’ll save them for another time and just encourage those who don’t know to find out for themselves – Visit “The D”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3 Myths about \u201cThe D\u201d It seems like every time that I leave Detroit, I meet people who want to know about where I\u2019m from. Much of their curiosity is sparked by all of the negative press that our city gets in the media, and just the fact that they\u2019ve never actually been to “The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}