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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