Kwame
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As many have probably heard (I'm not sure how you couldn't have), the [ex]mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick has finally left. He's resigned and out of office. Hooray for everyone involved in getting him out of office.
A few things I never understood about this whole mess:
1) How could people in good conscience continue to support someone who says publically that his family is important to him and he loves his kids, but privately cultivated at least one extra-marital affair with one of his employees? He ran his own version of a mob family by hiring dozens of family members to various city jobs with very high salaries.
2) How was this ever a race issue? Kwame is black. Kim Worthy (DA) is black. Most of the city council is black. Most of the city of Detroit is black. The only white people that I can think of that had a prominent role in all of this was Jennifer Granholm (governor) and Mike Cox (attorney general). Kwame wanted to turn this fiasco into an us versus them issue. Black versus white. City versus Suburbs. But what it boiled down to, something Kwame never seemed to get his head around, is that this legal episode was about him lying under oath to cover up the affair he had and costing the city over $8 million because of it.
Now I am white so some of you reading this might think that I have a race issue with Kwame. It doesn't matter what color, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc that Kwame is. He was a public, elected official who abused his power as mayor to get what he wanted and to get out of trouble that he created for himself. Look at the now former governor of New York just this last year. He got caught buying prostitutes using public money and was kicked out of office. He is white and it only took days to give him the boot.
3) Along those same lines. I don't know this for sure, but I do believe that the former governor of New York confessed to what he did and asked for forgiveness. Some have said that we just need to forgive Kwame and move on. Well, I can't agree with that. Forgiveness of this kind requires that Kwame actually ask for it. But that will never happen because (even though he plead guilty to a couple of reduced charges) Kwame will never admit that he did anything wrong. So, with no admission of guilt there should be no forgiveness. But by all means, Detroit just needs to forget about him and move on.
4) Why did religious leaders continue to support such a man as Kwame? Detroit's "religious elite" supported Kwame almost to the bitter end. Kwame was running around cheating on his wife and kids, having all out keg parties at his house, mis-using public funds, etc all while going to church and proclaiming to be this righteous, moral man. The man, by his actions alone, was disgracing his church, his family, and his Savior. Yet the "religious elite" of Detroit stood at his side. That is something I will never understand.
My views may not be yours. But that's ok.
A few things I never understood about this whole mess:
1) How could people in good conscience continue to support someone who says publically that his family is important to him and he loves his kids, but privately cultivated at least one extra-marital affair with one of his employees? He ran his own version of a mob family by hiring dozens of family members to various city jobs with very high salaries.
2) How was this ever a race issue? Kwame is black. Kim Worthy (DA) is black. Most of the city council is black. Most of the city of Detroit is black. The only white people that I can think of that had a prominent role in all of this was Jennifer Granholm (governor) and Mike Cox (attorney general). Kwame wanted to turn this fiasco into an us versus them issue. Black versus white. City versus Suburbs. But what it boiled down to, something Kwame never seemed to get his head around, is that this legal episode was about him lying under oath to cover up the affair he had and costing the city over $8 million because of it.
Now I am white so some of you reading this might think that I have a race issue with Kwame. It doesn't matter what color, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc that Kwame is. He was a public, elected official who abused his power as mayor to get what he wanted and to get out of trouble that he created for himself. Look at the now former governor of New York just this last year. He got caught buying prostitutes using public money and was kicked out of office. He is white and it only took days to give him the boot.
3) Along those same lines. I don't know this for sure, but I do believe that the former governor of New York confessed to what he did and asked for forgiveness. Some have said that we just need to forgive Kwame and move on. Well, I can't agree with that. Forgiveness of this kind requires that Kwame actually ask for it. But that will never happen because (even though he plead guilty to a couple of reduced charges) Kwame will never admit that he did anything wrong. So, with no admission of guilt there should be no forgiveness. But by all means, Detroit just needs to forget about him and move on.
4) Why did religious leaders continue to support such a man as Kwame? Detroit's "religious elite" supported Kwame almost to the bitter end. Kwame was running around cheating on his wife and kids, having all out keg parties at his house, mis-using public funds, etc all while going to church and proclaiming to be this righteous, moral man. The man, by his actions alone, was disgracing his church, his family, and his Savior. Yet the "religious elite" of Detroit stood at his side. That is something I will never understand.
My views may not be yours. But that's ok.
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