Proud. and missing it.

Imported From Detroit.

Now, I wont act like I'm from there.

I wont act like i'm rough and touch and that I know anything about the ghetto,

about Detroit City and I wont act like I grew up near 8 mile. I will tell you my parents did.

And even more so my grand parents and their parents. My family is born and bread Detroit.

My great grand parents came to Detroit from the old country.all of Syria, and Poland, and Belgium.

They came to Detroit looking for better, and they found it. 

As the commercial says what does a city that's been to hell and back know about the finer things?

 Detroit used to be a city for the wealthy, a city made of gold. It was the place the rich went on sundays to shop and dine. My grandmother tells me stories about having to get dressed in her best dress, so her mother could take her to Hudsons department store (which i'm sure none of you know what that is. Hudsons was bought out by Marshall Fields, then by Maceys) so she could pick out a doll, or a dress, or just to have a day where they felt like they had something. My mother's side of the family was weathly. My grand-pa owned a grocery story, and during the depression while alcohol was illegal my great grandfather brewed it in the basement of his grocery store. My other great grand-pa did the same, just in the basement of his shoe store. He hid the money in the walls of their house. Detroit was a place to see. it was home to many famous movie stars. 

My entire life I grew up on the outskirts of Detroit, about 45 minutes north of the City. My parents would tell me stories about their childhood there, and how the place they used to live is now so dangerous that they have not been back in years to look at their home.  I am a product of humble beginnings, that with hard work became a success they had never dreamed. I am thankful. I am blessed. I am enlightened, to have seen the outside world as I grew up. I love going back to Michigan more then anyone can imagine. I love that place more then any place on earth. I is my roots, it is my home. I am missing it, as you can tell.

I want my kids to have little tigers hats, I want them to go there and to see it. I want them to understand how amazing a place Michigan is. I want them to live there their entire lives like I did, but I know this will never happen. 

This commercial gives me the chills every time. Tanner thinks i'm weird. But he doesn't understand. Being from Utah is different. I came from a place that time and time again has broken down and built it's self back up. It's  a place that understand hardship, and learns how to pick your chin up and carry on. Michigan right now has one of the largest, if not THE highest unemployment rates in the entire country. We will carry on. We always do, and if anyone ever asked me where i'm from i'd proudly say.

IMPORTED FROM DETROIT.