He screwed up and now he's playing the race card. What a creep.
Posted on 03/12/2008 10:00:01 AM PDT by Main Street
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has lashed out at his opponents and the news media in the aftermath of the scandal over his exchange of sexy test messages with a former top aide.
It happened Tuesday night at the end of his State of the City address, which till then had only a brief allusion to the text-message controversy.
The case has led to a criminal probe of whether Kilpatrick lied under oath when he denied the affair.
After an hour-long prepared address focusing on development plans and economic initiatives, Kilpatrick said he and his family have received threats and racial slurs in recent weeks.
He says Detroit broadcasters are putting their own ratings ahead of his family's safety with their intense coverage of the scandal. ====
Kilpatrick went off script when he lashed out. Below is the transcript:
The challenge for all of us in public office is to rise above our differences -- to rise above our human frailties – and maintain our focus on working together to move this city forward. Ralph Waldo Emerson said big jobs usually go to the people who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
President Cockrel, we have much more serious issues affecting the future of this city than whether we’re going to attend a speech.
I love you [Cockrel] and I love what you've done for our city.
At this moment in our history, we must turn to each other, and not on each other.
And finally tonight, and this may be the most talked about part of the speech after laying out all of that. But I feel that I cannot leave this auditorium with my wife and my sons sitting there without addressing this issue.
In the past 30 days, I've been called a n----- more than any time in my entire life. In the past three days I have received more death threats than I have in my entire administration. I've heard these words before, but I've never heard people say them about my wife and children.
I don't believe that a Nielsen rating is worth the life of my children or your children.
This unethical, illegal lynch-mob mentality has to stop.
And it's seriously time. We've never been here before. And I don't care if they cut the TV off. We've never been in a situation like this before where you can say anything, do anything, have no facts, no research, no nothin and you can launch a hate-driven, bigoted assault on a family.
I humbly ask members of council. I humbly ask the business community. I humbly ask the religious community. I humbly ask the brothers and sisters of the city of Detroit. I humbly ask that we say no more together. I humbly ask that we say no more together.
I love this city with every part of my being and I will continue to stay focused on building the next Detroit.
God bless you.
Detroit, I love you.
Test messages? lol
Note to Detroit: At least we in NYS had the brains to get rid of ours...
Well at least he can’t blame it on the GOP. There aren’t any Republicans in Detroit.
Class act. Cost the city MILLIONS when he lied uder oath about this, and now will not quit, but atttacks his enemies. Any white mayor would have been run out of office already and/or indicted. Cut and dried perjury case. They have his text messages for crips sake.
Emerson also said “The reward of a job well done is to have done it.”
I don’t think Kwame is familiar with that quote.
However, I see that he is very fond of the old race card, and texting!
I would be willing to bet that neither he nor his family have received even one death threat. His “Tawana Brawley” rant needs to be challenged and proof offered as to these claims.
OOOOOOps I forgot . You can’t challenge a person of color to prove their statements lest you immediately be branded a racist.
Mea culpa
the spirit of coleman young lives on....
Are you sure you should be using the name “Kwame”
It might be racist, not sure though
How about “Skippy” or “Sparky? Surely, that would be OK? :)
Last night he told his very young children that there are “death threats” against them and their mom. WHAT sane man would tell his children that????????????
FGS, insanity is a way of life for this gangster, I said at the time he was WAY to young to be Major, and is proving it now.
He screwed up and now he's playing the race card. What a creep.
How About Danny Boy?
Or Marmeduke?
LOL!
That’s all I ever get....
He’s toast and he knows it. Racism and pity are his only cards left. He knows no shame. Detroit and Michigan are getting all they deserve these days (in dare I say which suit?).
"Oh baby. This is a test. This is only a warm, wet, juicy test."
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