Trying to hang on, Detroit's mayor says the issue is not his sex scandal, but racism.

Newsweek Web Exclusive ^ | Mar 13, 2008 | Keith Naughton

[Popman]

Kilpatrick also embraced the Almighty, whom he said was "whipping" him for his transgression but had "ordained" him to be the mayor of Detroit. "I believe I'm on an assignment from God," he told local radio station WMXD.

Imagine the MSM reaction if a white person said this about him

[stayathomemom]

How does an East-sider transition to the West side? I'd be lost on the East side. I grew up just off of Grand River & Evergreen, and now live in Plymouth.

[Hot Tabasco]

My folks lived on 3 Mile Dr. between outer drive and Warren. I worked at The Budd Company on Conner & Charlevoix and lived briefly on Maryland in about 1974

[mort56]

My thoughts exactly!!

[ronnie raygun]

When backed into a corner use the dreaded “R” word. This sends your enemies cowering and running for thier mouth wash. Grow the f#$#@ up and take your medicine like a man!The only rasist here is you!

[Disambiguator]

I forget who said that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” but this obviously needs to be updated.

I used to have a tagline along those lines. Something like "making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

[Sig Sauer P220]

The old fallback alibi.

[denydenydeny]

At times like this I miss Registered and his great “Race Card” graphic.

[denydenydeny]

Here we go:

[PGalt]

King Kwame has beotch-slapped Metro-Detroit and Michigan power brokers. They obediently kneel before him. Governor Grantheft (Granholm) is “crickets-chirping” quiet. Attorney General Mike “Urban Legend” Cox (R) is making a feeble attempt at a flip-flop (I give him negative 1 on a scale of 1-10).

Wayne County prosecutor, Kim Worthless(Worthy) has been dragging her feet so long they must be bloody stumps by now.

They all came out of the Wayne County cesspool.

Are there any men (or women) left in Michigan?

[astrowake]

Hey westlander, or should I say neighbor? I grew up three blocks west of there. Outer Drive and Yonka. Across from St. Barts. Not a bad place to be from in it’s day. Moved out to the northern suburbs in the early eighties.

Regards,

Dave

[river rat]

So long as blacks elect contemptible racists like “Da Mayor”.....all Americans should hold them in contempt for that act alone...

America is being reduced to its lowest common denomination - and some of these %$#%^&^%$ are REALLY low..... and common.

[Dionysius]

Especially disheartening when it is done in the name of “progress”. Like most of the problems besetting our society, urban decay was an inevitable result of the Great Society. 60’s be damned.

[ought-six]

How can it be racism? Detroit is 80% black, and the rest is moslem!

[equaviator]

“Politicians on both sides of Detroit’s cultural fault line—the 8 Mile Road >made famous by Eminem<— have stoked racial fears for decades in order to get elected and stay in power.”

Credit where none is due?

[equaviator]

posted on the NEWSWEEK web article’s “comments” section:

Posted By: Circa53 @ 03/14/2008 12:17:07 AM

Comment:

$300,000,000 deficit.....$9,000,000 lost on his cover up....$150,000,000 pending wrongful death/cover-up suit.....37 schools closed........$45,000,000 in construction contracts awarded to his buddy.......City parks for sale for $8,000,000......AND he’s an Obama Super-Delegate...............Stay Tuned!!!!.....

Detroit is hitting bottom. Let us hasten the process in order to find the way to a speedy recovery because to quote former Channel 7 Action News and current New 4 anchor Guy Gordon, “...After all, We’re ALL Detroiters”.

[Westlander]

It just gets better by the minute.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/METRO/803140437

[equaviator]

The details of this thing are gonna get so ‘retro’ that eventually, we’ll realize that we really hadn’t heard the last of Coleman Young (D), former Detroit Mayor and resident of The Boogeyin’ Mansion, after all.