I have been writing about the corrupt, incompetent black political culture in Detroit for a few years now. Things have gotten better with some honest, smart people replacing the twits of the past but the saga does continue…
Detroit’s former Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick is still in court defending why he is living the high life in Texas but cannot afford to pay the city what he agreed to pay as a condition of his court sentencing for screwing the city and its citizens.
The federal prosecutor is not finished with him or his family, as new facts are coming to light involving bribes taken by the mayor himself, his father and now his mother, Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury (a family of crooks?). To think that these people would still be running the city and enriching themselves if it was not for some ill-advised text messages between Kwame and his chief of staff (lover) that implicated him in lying under oath.
Another player in this saga is Monica Conyers, the wife of Representative John Conyers, who pleaded guilty to asking for and receiving bribes for her vote; she was caught on tape. This was 8 months ago and yesterday, she went for her sentencing (plea deal was for under five (5) years) and she received three (3) years. BUT she decided to retract her guilty plea in the face of overwhelming evidence at the last minute, made a scene in court and stormed out blaming the media for her demise.
The corruption and incompetent political culture runs deep in the city. The elected Detroit Public School Board which has demonstrated their corruption and incompetence for many years is now fighting for their political life against an appointed school manager that is cleaning house. In November, Detroit residents will vote whether to scrap the elected school board and let the mayor (Dave Bing) run the school system. This will obviously prevent board members from using the money allocated for students in the school system for their own use and also prevent them from hiring family members that get paid but never show up for work.
Here is a bit of irony, the president of the school board who is fighting the emergency school manager for “academic” control of the Detroit school system, has been shown to have a scholastic deficiency; he cannot write a coherent sentence. This was front page news but what the hell do you do with that; he claims some medical problem that prevents him from writing properly but he was probably just promoted from grade to grade (like the norm here called social promotion) without learning anything (which is also the norm in Detroit).
I have a lot of faith in our new Mayor and in the emergency school manager appointed by the governor of Michigan BUT the entrenched black political culture of the past is still holding on and can thwart any real progress if they convince Detroit voters that they are loosing control to the white man even though all the players in this saga are black; its all about the perception after the spin is applied.
Detroit’s former Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick is still in court defending why he is living the high life in Texas but cannot afford to pay the city what he agreed to pay as a condition of his court sentencing for screwing the city and its citizens.
The federal prosecutor is not finished with him or his family, as new facts are coming to light involving bribes taken by the mayor himself, his father and now his mother, Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury (a family of crooks?). To think that these people would still be running the city and enriching themselves if it was not for some ill-advised text messages between Kwame and his chief of staff (lover) that implicated him in lying under oath.
Another player in this saga is Monica Conyers, the wife of Representative John Conyers, who pleaded guilty to asking for and receiving bribes for her vote; she was caught on tape. This was 8 months ago and yesterday, she went for her sentencing (plea deal was for under five (5) years) and she received three (3) years. BUT she decided to retract her guilty plea in the face of overwhelming evidence at the last minute, made a scene in court and stormed out blaming the media for her demise.
The corruption and incompetent political culture runs deep in the city. The elected Detroit Public School Board which has demonstrated their corruption and incompetence for many years is now fighting for their political life against an appointed school manager that is cleaning house. In November, Detroit residents will vote whether to scrap the elected school board and let the mayor (Dave Bing) run the school system. This will obviously prevent board members from using the money allocated for students in the school system for their own use and also prevent them from hiring family members that get paid but never show up for work.
Here is a bit of irony, the president of the school board who is fighting the emergency school manager for “academic” control of the Detroit school system, has been shown to have a scholastic deficiency; he cannot write a coherent sentence. This was front page news but what the hell do you do with that; he claims some medical problem that prevents him from writing properly but he was probably just promoted from grade to grade (like the norm here called social promotion) without learning anything (which is also the norm in Detroit).
I have a lot of faith in our new Mayor and in the emergency school manager appointed by the governor of Michigan BUT the entrenched black political culture of the past is still holding on and can thwart any real progress if they convince Detroit voters that they are loosing control to the white man even though all the players in this saga are black; its all about the perception after the spin is applied.
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