Let’s get back to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick because there is more here than meets the eye.
He made a speech to the people of Detroit in an empty church, holding hands with his wife. He apologize profusely but did not say what he was apologizing for and his wife told us that she was angry at his indiscretions but she really loved him and would stick by him like Hillary stuck with Bill.
The media went crazy interviewing Detroiters as to how they felt about that lying sack of shit they called their mayor. Yes, he should resign and pay the city back what he had basically stolen. Baptist pastors said he should be forgiven and business leaders said get over it, he is good for the city and there is no one else, so we are stuck with him.
At the office cooler, the suburbanites said that Detroiters deserve Kwame because they keep electing crooks and assholes. OK?
Kwame appoints his grade school and high school buddies, his family and friends and does not care if they know what the hell they are doing. They are loyal to him and that is all that matters to him. Detroiters are used to a dysfunctional city where nothing works and huge amounts of money keep disappearing – now you know why.
I was struck with the alacrity that Kwame broke moral, ethical and legal rules; he was king and in his kingdom he is permitted to do everything and anything he desires; just like in every child’s imagination. It was as if he was spitting in the face of his community, knowing the community would accept this and move on – and he is correct.
Yes, part of the black community is livid at the mayor’s actions and the other, it appears, thinks his behavior is somehow appropriate and “cool” and something they would also do if given the chance, just like Jesse Jackson and the other so called black leaders I mentioned in my previous blog – is this a cultural thing?
Is this a way of getting back at the community for all the years of racist oppression even if the community is now composed of your own people? Or is this just copying or following what the first black mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young, established as the way to be Mayor of Detroit for life and have a grand time doing it?
He made a speech to the people of Detroit in an empty church, holding hands with his wife. He apologize profusely but did not say what he was apologizing for and his wife told us that she was angry at his indiscretions but she really loved him and would stick by him like Hillary stuck with Bill.
The media went crazy interviewing Detroiters as to how they felt about that lying sack of shit they called their mayor. Yes, he should resign and pay the city back what he had basically stolen. Baptist pastors said he should be forgiven and business leaders said get over it, he is good for the city and there is no one else, so we are stuck with him.
At the office cooler, the suburbanites said that Detroiters deserve Kwame because they keep electing crooks and assholes. OK?
Kwame appoints his grade school and high school buddies, his family and friends and does not care if they know what the hell they are doing. They are loyal to him and that is all that matters to him. Detroiters are used to a dysfunctional city where nothing works and huge amounts of money keep disappearing – now you know why.
I was struck with the alacrity that Kwame broke moral, ethical and legal rules; he was king and in his kingdom he is permitted to do everything and anything he desires; just like in every child’s imagination. It was as if he was spitting in the face of his community, knowing the community would accept this and move on – and he is correct.
Yes, part of the black community is livid at the mayor’s actions and the other, it appears, thinks his behavior is somehow appropriate and “cool” and something they would also do if given the chance, just like Jesse Jackson and the other so called black leaders I mentioned in my previous blog – is this a cultural thing?
Is this a way of getting back at the community for all the years of racist oppression even if the community is now composed of your own people? Or is this just copying or following what the first black mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young, established as the way to be Mayor of Detroit for life and have a grand time doing it?
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