The Associated Press account of the confrontation that ensued between the mayor and these officials went as follows:
White testified that the mayor shoved him into Kinney when he was trying to deliver the subpoena. He and Kinney also testified that Kilpatrick used profanity and made a racial remark during the confrontation.So to the mayor, any kind of official action against a black friend of his involving a white man is illegitimate and justifies his interfering with the officials. It’s bad enough that the detective was white but it was even worse in the mayor’s eyes that his last name was White. A black official participating in the service of the subpoena was, furthermore, acting against her own kind in the mayor’s view. Blacks, in his view, should not dispassionately perform their sworn duties and conduct the business of the courts in one of the finest legal systems in the world, but should shirk their duties when the time comes to enforce judicial process against black people.
"You're a black woman," Kinney said the mayor told her. "You should be ashamed of yourself being with a man with the last name White. You should not be a part of this."
What did the black people of Detroit think they were going to get when they elected this putz? Did they think that this kind of man would do anything to make life more pleasant for them in that appalling urban wasteland?
"Detroit Mayor to Stand Trial on Assault Charges." By Ed White, Associated Press, 8/15/08 (emphasis added).
2 comments:
Undoubtedly, the good mayor KilPatrick and defense attorneys will portray him during trial as just another victim of insideous, white racism within Detroit.
Which implies a great big city-wide conspiracy.
Still, in that city, easier to believe than accepting that Kwame did anything outside the law.
Any jury can imagine that....
Kilpatrick has already gotten a huge pass on this, at least, if you define "huge pass" as something I didn't read about at the time.
Certainly these kinds of appalling remarks are not repeated.
Kilpatrick says something absurd and patently racist and no play in the press. But any substantive criticism of Obama is labeled racist. "Criticism of Obama's position on mudwrestling termed 'racist.'"
Your point was about something else, of course. We shall see what evidence gets to the jury and how it will decide his case.
I wish I knew more about Detroit politics. What I can infer from the presence of this man in the mayor's office isn't good.
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