How To Live In Detroit Without Being A Jackass | Aaron Foley | TEDxDetroit
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- With advice on everything from buying and rehabbing a house to not sounding like a completely uninformed racist when you talk to a black person, Aaron helps us avoid falling into the “jackass” trap and become the productive, healthy Detroiter we’ve always wanted to be.
Aaron Foley is a copywriter at global advertising agency based in Metro Detroit by day. Prior to joining the advertising world, he was a full-time journalist and still occasionally freelances. Although, most of his time is spent working on his first book, “How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass,” which is due on shelves in September 2015. Foley started his career as a copy editor at the Lansing State Journal, and later came back to Detroit to help launch MLive Detroit, an experiment in online-only journalism in a city dominated by legacy media. After three years at MLive working as a web producer and covering education and entertainment, Foley embraced his lifelong love of cars working as an associate editor at WardsAuto, an industry trade. While working at Ward’s, he was approached by Jalopnik to contribute dispatches about the Motor City. That morphed into Jalopnik Detroit, a Gawker Media subblog with original takes on the constantly changing narrative of the city.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Takes courage to stand up there! Ignore the rude comments, from a fellow Detroiter 😊
Yeeaapp. Now someone get him some water
hello, great talk, let me ask you, what you said at TED looks very similar of what happened in my country, in Colombia, I know we have different problems and backgrounds but, I think we share a bit about bad perceptions... God bless your work!
No one person is more Detroit than another person … lmao. Love it bro.
Thanks for mentioning the Redford. That's the ONE thing that will draw me back in the city. I grew up walking there when it was safe to walk at night. I won't spend my tax dollars in Detroit except for the Redford because of how the tax money is squandered.
Detroit sucks. Sorry, it just does. I grew up there and got out when I was close to your age. My experience was very different than yours, possibly because of our different races. The streetlights being cut off for YEARS helped crime spike. Abandoned houses, heck, abandoned BLOCKS not being torn down helped crack-heads find a place to get high. It also gives folks places to take victims of crime, often women and girls are victimized in those houses. Watching what the hip-hop mayor was doing.....then getting RE-ELECTED while doing it was what blew my mind. Now there are some hipsters moving into a few mid-town and down-town areas makes the suburbanites think everything is great. But when those hipsters have kids and move out to find schools that actually work, what'll happen? For Detroit to actually improve, there needs to be MAJOR changes done, from the ground up. Some superficial 'improvements' won't fix what's broken.
he look suspect