KWAME FOR MAYOR

He won't step down, even though he says Beatty-the-bed-buddy did the right thing in stepping down. Curious. A few days ago the Free Press did a piece on his defending staying put. In it he speaks not only of staying put but running for re-election. Can you believe this clown? His quote:
"There's an election in 2009, people have an opportunity to make a decision, but I will make a case at that point, too, why I'm the best person for the job."
Sadder yet that he could win. Too many people in Detroit continue in their role as abused wife so to speak. You have the power to get rid of this guy and you won't do it. His supporters turn a blind eye no matter how horrible his actions. Amazing. I was talking with a friend who saw a local report on this and they did some man-in-the-street Q & A and asked some dude in a barber shop about Kwame. His answer was along the lines of "Hell yeah I'd vote for him again! In fact if the man needs some money I'll give the man my money!"

Look, I hate to bring race into this, but Kwame does it all the time under the code word "Detroiters", and it begs the question. Would a white mayor who did all these things be getting such a free pass? A leader should serve as a living example of the best people can be, not the worst people can be...something to look up to, to aspire to. This "one of us" mentality gets you nowhere but where you already are. No matter the race, I'm talking just actions. But back to it...do look at the race a moment. Did you ever see the movie "A Time To Kill"? Samuel L. Jackson plays a man who's little girl is picked up on a dirt road by a bunch of racist redneck bastards in a pickup truck, and she's savagely beaten and raped and left for dead on the side of the road like so much garbage. Samuel L. Jackson goes after them. What father wouldn't? And HE gets put on trial. Mathew McConaughey plays his lawyer, and throughout the trial he has to battle to get the white jury to see their own deeply buried racism and how it is affecting their judgement and he of course is very limited in doing this...until the closing arguments. He asks the jurors to close their eyes and imagine this little girl, walking along the road, innocent, bothering no one, and then as the jurors oblige and close their eyes he goes on to desrcibe the horrible crimes committed to her. The brutality. The beating. The rape. The unanswered pleading. Discarding her like she is nothing in a ditch, assuming she's dead. Just a horrible, unthinkable atrocity. Then he says, "Now, imagine she's white." Eyes snap open. That instant made them realize that sadly they looked upon the crime differently when the race was changed in their minds.
All I'm saying is you have to look at the crime and not the race. But Detroit, if you're having a hard time doing that...
imagine the mayor is white.