[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.

[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.

[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?!?

[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.

[grellis]

``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 Thursday during the first of three planned debates with challenger Freman Hendrix.

I'd love to see the hard evidence backing up this assertion.

[sergeantdave]

Gee, you mean Gov. Granola's "cool city" plan for Detroit isn't working.

I was hoping that Granola's effort to build taxpayer subsidized couscous stands would make Detroit the couscous capital of the Midwest. After all, nearly every successful city builds wealth via couscous stands paid for by taxpayers. Guess that $100 million transfer of wealth from the suburbs to Detroit just ain't working.

I'm sure that Granola, Kwame and their Marxist criminal class are making millions, though.

[absolootezer0]

well of course other cities have higher meth, x, and acid rates, cuz detroit is so addicted to coke, crack, heroine and weed, that they haven't bothered to try any of those other drugs.

[MinuteGal]

Is Kwame Kilpatrick related to Kweisi Mfume?

Kartoon karacter kognomens.

Leni

[Wurlitzer]

The only time I will dare venture into Detroit is to go to the Detroit Fox for their "Rocket's Christmas Spectacular" as a friend plays the Mighty Wurlitzer before the show. Other than that the only semi-safe way to pass through Detroit is at 80 MPH with the windows closed, doors locked.

To the post at hand, I read it twice but did not see where the Mayor's comments were factually wrong. Insensitive yes but grow up! If there are schools with high drug use the administrators need to focus on the problem and not on someone shining a light on the problem regardless of the Mayor's motives. Yes the Mayor is a butt head and Detroit continues to deteriorate under the current administration. Like the school administrators he needs to focus on his problems and stop the finger pointing.

[SunkenCiv]

Top Operative: Mayor Should Consider Resigning
WXYZ | 1-24-2008 | WXYZ
Posted on 01/24/2008 1:29:42 PM EST by Westlander
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958932/posts