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Young American says:

The system is catching up with the Super Pimp Daddy Mac Mayor
but he has not been convicted yet. Watch him beat the rap with a diamond daddy lawyer who will portray Kwame as a victim of racism and the system doing him wrong.
He will win re-election and then run for Governor . Why not ?
All this news lately has me thinking Charlie Manson may just get his Helter- Skelter after all.

infidel says:

I moved from the most famous of corrupt lefty states; New Jersey. Toledo, Ohio, just 1 hour south of Detroit, has been my home thanks to the most wonderful woman I have ever known. Unfortunately I can’t say anything remotely positive about all I know about Detroit and this thug mayor. I’ve read about him and worked extensively in his depressed city.
He is to blame, as are the socialist & racially depraved hacks who pander to the voting bloc. But the voters who are either stupid or prejudiced against anything but the status quo are mostly responsible for the condition of affairs there. This thug, Kwame, should never have been elected a second time. But you’d have to travel around this cesspool of a city (that can only compare to Camden NJ in it’s blight and hopelessness) to comprehend how a dirtbag thug like the mayor lasted long enough to get caught.
Shame on you people from Detroit. You got what you deserved.

Talkin Horse says:

The Mayor is obviously a dirtbag. But it should be noted, in pursuit of verifiable accuracy, that only Schlussel’s article mentions murdered strippers. It’s odd that the other articles don’t. Schlussel can be overeager, so we should check up on this. Some quick web research turns up this report and this report. The key point is that the dead strippers are not a hard story, and the details need to be nailed down before it can be regarded as fact and not just rumors.

The most prominent and pivotal accusation is the rumored wild party at the Manoogian mansion. Back in 2002 Kwame Kilpatrick didn’t move into the mayor’s residence immediately after taking office. He waited about five months which led to many speculations. His own stated reasons were that he did not want to disrupt his family’s life and his children’s school year. Kwame Kilpatrick is a mayor with young children, something Detroit hasn’t had in a long time. Gossip and then rumors about parties at the mansion began. At first no one wanted to report on the rumors, even though they reached the media and politically astute citizens. It was just rumors.

Supposedly, as the rumor goes, Kwame Kilpatrick and friends, which in some stories includes Col. Tadarial Sturdivant the Director of the state police, attended a party at the mayor’s mansion. Two or more strippers were supposed to be performing at the party for the guests. Kwame’s wife, Carlotta who still lived at the family home on Leslie Street, supposedly came to the mansion to check or see her husband. She walked in on the party and an unknown police officer, who was supposed to be watching the door, was unable to keep her out of the house and could not warn the mayor or guests. The mayor was allegedly in the process of of a lap dance by one of the stripper’s, whose nick name is Strawberry. Thus the wife was supposed to have caught the act and attacked the girl. Carlotta is then said to have a baseball bat which she either brings with her or finds in the house, in some versions she has The Club, which she uses to attack the girl so severely that the stripper ends up needing serious medical attention which includes a hospital stay. Upon this occurrence the party halts and the DPD officers escort all out and take the mayor and his wife home.

As the continuing saga goes, the stripper and other non-police persons end up dead. According to the some police officers a girl who has a nickname of strawberry was murdered. But there is no evidence or proof that the real individual is the same as the one from the rumor. The real individual is supposedly and allegedly, according to the same police officers, linked to the drug trade and prostitution. (As this is just a rumor and no proof exists the girls name will not be used.) Political foes of the mayor added to this rumor by claiming that Kwame Kilpatrick and or members of his staff who may have been at the party had this woman and others killed. The public release of this murder and the rumor from being a gossip piece to a public issue coincided with the news event of a Detroit police officer from the internal affairs division, Lt. Gary Brown, being fired for alleged insubordination. Thus the rumor has few supposed witnesses and those with no links to the mayor allegedly end up dead. This is a convenient way to control a story and a way to make it hard to disprove this rumor.

infidel says:

During Kwame’s first term I believe he had double the amount of security detail that mayors in larger cities had. And there was the revelation that he was cruising the hood in a Lincoln Navigator that was paid for by the taxpayers. And yet as the voters traveled passed the ruins caused by riots and poverty on their way to the polls, they re-elected this thug.
Urban blight is a term frequently used to describe the abandoned wasteland of decay in Detroit. Who can blame him for his hubris?
PS….more hubris to come I predict.

helpunderdog says:

An uncritically thinking subpopulation is easily indoctrinated into a philosophy of apathy, criminality, and hate when under the tutelage of the likes of Rev. Wright, Jesse Jackson, and the liberal left. It’s empowering to believe that you are not responsible for your actions, everything bad is the white man’s fault (including criminal behavior), that you can’t make it in a racist society, America owes you, and that nobody has the right to judge black culture – even if it’s uncivilized. This, and a coddling social welfare system that reinforces the indoctrination, creates a subclass that embraces criminal black leaders. Hooray for the brother who spends the white man’s taxes illegally – as long as he maintains or expands social programs. The inner city doesn’t pay much in taxes, so those who elected him don’t suffer the consequences of their actions, they in fact love it. The tax paying suburbanites or the Federal govt. will step in and save the city.

Talkin Horse says:

Michael Moore’s first film, before he got big (ha ha!), was Roger & Me, about the decline of Detroit. Of course, he blames everything on GM CEO Roger Smith, and he portrays the citizens as innocent victims of heartless big business. (I’m not suggesting the auto companies are above criticism, but the local environment is pretty decrepit in a self-inflicted way. Other cities adapt to the changing world and survive and thrive, like Minneapolis has done. But Detroit sits on its ass waiting for the car companies to come back.)