Macedonian American story - white child in a black Detroit

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  • The LION will ROAR
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 3231

    Macedonian American story - white child in a black Detroit

    Macedonian American story - white child in a black Detroit
    Канал 5 телевизија како една од водечките телевизиски куќи во Македонија, од 1998 година на малите екрани до гледање онлајн денес, известува за најновите вести од Македонија, регионот и светот.




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    44-year-old Dejan Dimitrieski is a businessman who lives in Michigan, but better known for his book "Tears for my city: Autobiography detroitskoto white boy", a rare book that nostalgia and fond memories watching the history of Detroit, former powerful city and home automotive industry, and today fail metropolis in Michigan in the United States.

    Story Dejan or Dean as it is easier to pronounce Americans announced representation Detroit Fox TV. Dimitrieski is represented as a young boy in the 70's moved from Macedonia.

    The whole family Dimitrieski placed in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Detroit. Came in the part of town where lived mostly African-Americans. First neighbors next to Dimitrieski used the house as a warehouse and drug store-crack. Young black gangs were trying to conquer this district.

    But Dimitrieski, and Dean and his parents managed to survive the quarter although they were among the few white families who have decided to live in downtown Detroit.

    Now four decades later Dimitrieski wrote an autobiographical book Tears for my city. In it he describes his experience as a black gangs have accepted the white boy from the neighborhood who spoke with eastern European accent.

    Macedonian Dimitrieski had friends in gangs carrying weapons, but he never went that way because of his father's strict upbringing of Macedonia.

    Dimitrieski described how he became close with two of the most "drug lords" in Detroit and became a witness to a terrible crime for which he was a twist in his life in Detroit.

    There were more guns in the district than there were people. Many people have failed to survive the quarter tells Dean Dimitrieski who says he wrote the book to express his love for Detroit.

    - When I grow here, you can call yourself a Detroiter, proudly explains Dean Dimitrieski born Macedonians but raised in the United States.

    Detroit was once the center of the automotive industry and is the city most convenient ekonosmakta crisis. Crime rate in Detroit was the highest in the United States.

    Detroit and Michigan State are areas in the U.S. where live many Macedonians who have moved across the pond. One of them is Dejan (Dean) Dimitrieski now 44, is a businessman and sales manager. His book published last year, is still current in the city that slowly sinks.


    Eternal & Dean Dimitrieski - Tears For My City


    Dean Dimitrieski radio interview
    The Macedonians originates it, the Bulgarians imitate it and the Greeks exploit it!
  • DirtyCodingHabitz
    Member
    • Sep 2010
    • 835

    #2
    Here's the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TearsForMyCity

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