Why is the skyline dark?

What sounded like a simple question on a beautiful night for baseball got me thinking long and hard about the answer.

Why is the skyline dark? And hasn't it been dark for too long?

The solution to save Detroit isn't complex to understand. It speaks to the goodness that is America. It's not even as idealistic as that last statement sounds. It's going to take its citizens and hope. It's going to take belief and funding. It's going to take risk and labor. And it's going to take a long time.

What we've seen over the past 30+ years is that Detroit is not going to save itself. It's going to take more than talk, it's going to take more than local government. It's going to take a movement.

Saving the lost city is going to be done on a scale so large that it's going to change the way America looks at the crises that she is forced to overcome. And it's going to solidify that which we already know. America is because we do. And America we are going to save the lost city.