I have to comment, I'm from Detroit!
March 26th 2008 10:34
So yesterday Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former Chief of Staff were charged with a cumulative 12 counts of an assortment of crimes. Ranging from perjury to obstruction of justice and the conspiracy to commit a crime the entire city as it seemed like the little pieces of our reputation were washed down the river.
But let's go into something a little more pressing. Why does our leadership feel as if they are untouchable? Like anything that is hidden in plain sight, eventually someone tells you that its there. No man is above the law...thanks Ben. I feel that it all comes to comfort. Mayor Kilpatrick was too comfortable from the beginning of his first term. He felt that he ruled the world. Obviously forgetting that it's only Detroit. The Mayor never had a sense of gratitude when the results awarding his second term where aired. He presented a speech of "Detroiters have finally done something right". He's audacious and bold and when you mix those with power and stupidity the outcome will never be good.
But remember Detroiters, city officials, and legislatures, remember that when the rain falls it doesn't fall on one mans house. As sure as Kwame is convicted he will take every single person in his circle along with him. And why wouldn't he? He doesn't know who to trust, who blew the whistle on the text messages? I know you aren't naive enough to believe that the Free Press found them on their own. Au contra ire. Say it with me, "who snitched?". And I am not against snitching, I'm against half-snitching or hinting at a piece of the truth. There is way more to this that meets the eye. There are more people involved than we've imagined.
So I ask the last question of not only you but the Mayor why are you dragging us through the mud. You've got your family and your preacher, but why the entire city? Let us go Kwame, the media is not going to be kind and the national eye is going to apply your idiotic mistakes to every black man and child that call this town home. Resign already, take a leave of absence, but please, leave us out of it!
But let's go into something a little more pressing. Why does our leadership feel as if they are untouchable? Like anything that is hidden in plain sight, eventually someone tells you that its there. No man is above the law...thanks Ben. I feel that it all comes to comfort. Mayor Kilpatrick was too comfortable from the beginning of his first term. He felt that he ruled the world. Obviously forgetting that it's only Detroit. The Mayor never had a sense of gratitude when the results awarding his second term where aired. He presented a speech of "Detroiters have finally done something right". He's audacious and bold and when you mix those with power and stupidity the outcome will never be good.
So I ask the last question of not only you but the Mayor why are you dragging us through the mud. You've got your family and your preacher, but why the entire city? Let us go Kwame, the media is not going to be kind and the national eye is going to apply your idiotic mistakes to every black man and child that call this town home. Resign already, take a leave of absence, but please, leave us out of it!
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