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Article: Detroit's mayor Kilpatrick tries the racism defense
- Article from:
- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- April 9, 2008
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Dear Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick:
So it's a black thing? Not a sleaze thing, not a betrayal of the
public trust thing, not a breaking the law thing? Just a black
thing?
This would seem to be the message of the recent rally thrown for
you at a black church in Detroit. It was, to judge from media
reports, quite the shindig. Standing room only; gospel choirs doing
that gospel choir thing; posters in red, black and green; chants of
"I can make it through the storm!"
The church's Cardinal Ronald Hewitt seems to have caught the
spirit of the event when he declared, "Kwame Kilpatrick just happens
to be the symbol of bold, uncompromising black power in this city.
We're not giving him to you. He ...