Why does every mayor of Detroit have to be guilty of something? (Warren: crime, house)

[karmagirl1061]

Originally Posted by BurtsBees

Because the people of Detroit like electing criminals?

Not all the people of Detroit keep electing him. I didn't, i'm African American and I live in the city. Kwame plays on the emotions of his illiterate voting base. I'm both sickened and saddened by this fact.

[Huckleberry3911948]

if the laundry is clean, we dont need to wash it or talk bout it?

[Bluefly]

Much like the U.S. South, Detroit is dominated by a single socio-economic voting block. As politically incorrect as it is to say, both segments vote primarily on the emotion of seeing someone that reflects what they have been conditioned to believe rather than a more rational appraisal of their merits.

Kwame was 30 years old when he ran for office. I understand that in the urban black community a 30 year old carries the perception of more "age" than in the middle class white community (which views 30 year olds mostly as just emerging into adulthood), but there is still no way a 31 year old could possibly have the know-how to effectively run a city. Especially considering Kilpatrick spent most of his previous years in school.

I don't put total blame on the people of Detroit. It is not like most cities that bear a mixture of races and classes. Look at the Super Bowl two years ago - the wealth and power of the suburbs came into the city and worked with the city leaders to fix the city up. I blame those who continue to turn their back on the city and to resist expanding the city's boundaries to bring a larger mix together.

[Frankawitz]

The Appeals Courts are going to send Mr. Kilpatrick a wake up call, when they open those files, all hell is gonna come out, and then Maybe the People will see, But I would not count on it. Cause it's gonna be all about RACE like always. watch and see.

[Sunvixen]

Originally Posted by and the

I can't wait until Joel Loving..er...Coleman Young Jr. becomes mayor.....Detroit needs Coleman's DNA back in office. At least he had a sort of class, or at least panache....Kwame is just a caricature.

I bet Benny Napoleon is the next mayor......Or maybe Kym Worthy....YGG!!

You're kidding, right?

The kid who said on tv a couple weeks ago that "OF COURSE DETROIT SHOULD HAVE A BLACK MAYOR" ??

Wow, well if Detroit is 80% black and 12% white, but it should have a black mayor, then staying with the numbers, why should we elect a black president? 12% of the US is black, same as 12% of Detroit is black. But white Detroiters get NO voice, none at all.

[Sunvixen]

Originally Posted by Bluefly

I don't put total blame on the people of Detroit. It is not like most cities that bear a mixture of races and classes. Look at the Super Bowl two years ago - the wealth and power of the suburbs came into the city and worked with the city leaders to fix the city up. I blame those who continue to turn their back on the city and to resist expanding the city's boundaries to bring a larger mix together.

Who turns their backs? Watch the news, go to YOUTUBE and serch the Pro-Kilpatrick rallies from the past couple weeks...all the black Pastors shouting into bullhorns and talking about the whites "keeping their noses out of Detroit's bid'niss!"

Why the heck would you want to expand the borders??? Half of Detroit is nothing but empty lots to begin with!! There is plenty of room to build more houses than are standing right now! Why would you say expand the borders???

[Sunvixen]

Originally Posted by karmagirl1061

Not all the people of Detroit keep electing him. I didn't, i'm African American and I live in the city. Kwame plays on the emotions of his illiterate voting base. I'm both sickened and saddened by this fact.

Exactly.

[Sunvixen]

Originally Posted by Rapunzll

I thought Dennis Archer was the only Detroit mayor in years who wasn't a crook! Too bad he didn't stay on.

Archer was the best Mayor in my lifetime.

I don't think he was a crook, but Archer was having an affair and somebody was going to blackmail him with it. Instead of allowing himself to become somebody's puppet, he just didn't run again. Gee, I wonder who was blackmailing him?

Well, if Archer runs agains Mike Cox (Idiot, liar) for Governor, Cox already admitted to one affair (although he really had several) back when Attorney Jeffrey Fieger (Dr. Kervorkian's lawyer for anybody non-MI) was supposedly blackmailing him with it. Kwame was also blackmailing Cox, you should go to youtube and watch a video called Manoogian Mansion party investigation (or something like that) it explains a lot. Cox was getting blackmailed from so many different directions that he finally had to get on tv and pull his poor wife up there and cry like a baby.

The thing about Detroit is it is so completely corrupt that it would take years to clean it up.

[Fryguy302]

Archer should have stayed. He was the only mayor of Detroit so far that wasn't a crook.

[captaincatfish]

First off, let me say that although I don't always agree with everything you say, I give you major props because you are not afraid to speak your mind, whether right or wrong (kinda like me LOL)

Secondly, I'd love to see Mayor Hip-Hop tossed under the wheels of a bus somewhere, and take his corrupt, brain-dead administration with him (for the record, yeah, I'm black, and I ain't afraid to call us out when we've said or done something stupid---period!), so that someone, anyone with some brains, class and organizational skills can take the helm and lead Detroit back into the daylight...

But I titled this post 'with love', 'cause I had just one small bone to pick with you---the stats that you quoted in your last post (i.e.--the racial makeup of the US and Detroit, as it would pertain to the Presidential election) are just slightly off...If Sen. Obama does go on to A) win the Dem nomination, and then from there B) the Presidency in November, it won't just be blacks that get him there in either case...true we make up about 12% of the US population, but we alone couldn't possibly elect him---his primary victories as of late have been due to the votes of not just blacks, but also those in Sen. Clinton's 'power base'---women of all races, and also blue collar and affluent individuals of the same stripe as well...

And also, I doubt very seriously whether white Detroiters have no voice...all kidding aside, and with respect, YOU seem to have a very strong opinion as to what's right and wrong with Detroit, and I just know there are others like you, but they're just not as outspoken as you...