[martin_fierro]

True, Kilpatrick resisted some of the wilder excrescences of Detroit racial politics, vetoing a council-backed “Africa Town” proposal in 2004 that would have spent $40 million on the creation of an African-American business district.

Great word, that. Excrescences.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"vetoing a council-backed “Africa Town” proposal"

What, no "Honkey Town" ?

[blam]

Noun 1.
excrescence - something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"