Detroit mayor rekindles tensions between city and suburbs

WFRV.COM ^ | 09-19-2005 | BREE FOWLER, AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Detroit just doesn't get it - and then they scratch their heads and wonder why the producers fled to the 'burbs, leaving the city exposed like a rusted jalopy on concrete blocks.

I don't think even hosting the Super Bowl is going to help them. Most of the fans are going to stay in Windsor, Canada or in the suburbs. They'll go to the game and leave, won't spend any money in that third-world cesspool.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BUMP

[Jeff Chandler]

Why, oh why doesn't Bush see the poverty in Detroit and ameliorate it? He just doesn't care.

[taxesareforever]

He should know better than to state the truth. He's a politician.:)

[self_evident]

In the August primary, Hendrix out-polled Kilpatrick 44 percent to 34 percent making Kilpatrick the first incumbent mayor to finish second in a primary in at least 60 years.

If Hendrix won the primary, how or why are they still running against each other?

[konaice]

Nuff said.

[ncountylee]

Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills are beautiful, affluent mostly white northern suburbs.

[Socratic]

The Primary had a number of camdidates and was held to narrow the field to two who would go head-to-head.

[OKIEDOC]

Detroit: Government according to Robert Mugabe- President of Zimbabwe Blame all white people for the black mans problems.

Bad government is bad government but black leaders take it to an even lower plain.

[leprechaun9]

Aw, two of the pimps of the election and race industries!

[aardvark1]

``Those comments insulted the residents of Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, insulted the students and impugned the reputation of two of our finest, exemplary school districts,'' said Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson.

Self-righteousness to the core. "I'm not as bad as you."

[zipper]

``In Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills and all these places, they do more meth, they do more Ecstasy and they do more acid than all the schools in the city of Detroit put together,'' Kilpatrick said..."

Well then, by the mayor's own measure, if you believe the statements below, then the inner-city schools need to lace the school lunches with meth, Ecstasy and acid, if they want their scores to improve:

On every measure (MEAP scores, SAT scores, ACT scores, graduation rates…) , looking at every possible subgroup of the student population (white, black, rich, poor…), Detroit public school students are behind the averages for Wayne County and for Michigan as a whole. In most cases, way behind.

Only 28.8% of low-income students in Detroit pass the MEAP, compared to 44.9 percent in the state as a whole. Only 30% of African-Americans in Detroit have passing MEAP scores, compared to 37.8% statewide.

http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=6688

[Joe Boucher]

poor as a church mouse and as high a crime rate as in any third world craphole. Detroit. Why is it I should care?
The residents that have stayed there obviously don't.

[joe fonebone]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............the spirit of Coleman Young lives on........... it is always the fault of the " Hostile white suburbanites " to directly quote him........

[mcg2000]

Since the kids in the 'burbs are strung out to a higher degree AND scoring higher on tests w/o the criminal backgrounds, std rates and teen pregnancy ... what is he saying about the brainpower of the inner-city community?!?

[proxy_user]

So why do they care about what this windbag says? What is the importance of the 'relationship' between the city and the suburbs? Do they have ambassadors and treaties or ssomething?

[dennisw]

I would never cast a ballot for some clown named Kwame.

[republicanbred]

I live in the "burbs" of Detroit, but actually cover inner city Detroit for my job. I was downtown a lot last week, and asked many of the residents I came in contact with (mainly black working class ~ valets, store-clerks, etc.) who they thought would win the election. To my surprise all of them said Freeman Hendrix. I also saw many blacks wearing "Freeman" campaign buttons. I may be a fool but I actually think Freeman may win this, and "Kwame-be-da-mayor" as we refer to him may be just a bad Detroit memory.

If I am wrong and they re-elect him, shame on em!

[Savage Beast]

Maybe so, Kwame, but..me...I'll take my chances in Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills.

[LiberationIT]

I actually think Freeman may win this, and "Kwame-be-da-mayor" as we refer to him may be just a bad Detroit memory.

Wouldn't that be nice? But not enough. Hendrix is better than Kwame, but nowhere near the level of Archer. Archer was not able to save the city from the entrenched bureaucracy and the unions.Hendrix won't succeed either.

BTW - it would be nice to see Kwame's mama, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, get voted out too.