former_detroiter's Blog

Excerpts from Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's speech Thursday night:

"I still believe and will always believe the highest calling of service is public service. It's the greatest endeavor that a person can commit their life to. Moreover, true public service is bigger than one individual. Public servants should be accountable to the people that they serve.

"Therefore, after much deliberation with my family, after numerous prayers, fasting, I have made a difficult decision -- I believe the most difficult decision of my life -- to step down as the mayor of the city of Detroit. However, my resignation should not stop the continued progress of the place that we all love, Detroit.

He had to fast and pray to realize he had to tell the truth and step down......this man supposedly has a college degree......

"I want to emphasize tonight that I take full responsibility for my own actions, for the poor judgment that they reflected. I wish with all my heart that we could turn back the hands of time and tell that young man to make better choices, but I can't. My challenge now is to put the anguish and turmoil of the recent months behind us and join in a common cause to love our city, to love one another and to move forward together.

No, your challenge is to serve your rather light sentence in County and remove yourself and your family from Detroit afterwards.

"I've often said that you have to stand strong for the city of Detroit. I always said I would stand strong for the city of Detroit. But sometimes standing strong means stepping down.

Standing strong for the city........using it`s funds for romantic get aways with your mistress`s and fancy cars for your wife and paying off a lawsuit to cover your affairs......don`t think we could have stood much more of your "strength".

I'm stepping down because the new spirit of this city, the new expectations and standards that we've set for excellence in the past 6 1/2 years has been tangled up in what I believe is the pursuit of many people's own political ambitions,

He`s not stepping down because he is a criminal, he `s repentant or he`s ashamed.......it`s because others tore him down. Sorry I just spit my coffee at the monitor here.......lol Love his definition of excellence........anyone for strawberries and a massage?

even our governor, Jennifer Granholm, who I wish well. Rather than focusing on finding solutions to the huge issues that are facing our state, the record home foreclosures, the lack of affordable health care, and record unemployment in our state, Kwame Kilpatrick was at the top of her list.

Ummmmm if I recall City Council brought her into this. She was doing her job. And you put yourself on the top of everyones list by refusing to step down all of these months.

"Unfortunately, after the headlines of today have passed away, and they will pass away, those same issues -- of Detroiters paying higher insurance rates than anyone else, health care, homelessness, foreclosures -- will still be issues that we must engage together here in the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit and I wish her well. ...

They pay higher insurance rates because your former city is unsafe Kwame. Nice spin attempt though. A few things you didn`t mention.... when was the Governor ever convicted of felonies, when did she cheat multiple times on her spouse on the state dime, when did she pay 9 million dollars in state money to cover her multiple affairs and have her mama stand up screamin` we don`t care how much it costs the city we will appeal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is her whole family being investigated by the Feds too?..........well Kwame?????? You may think these headlines will pass, but you are entitled to dream.......

"And with that, the same harkening commitment, the same type of focus, I want to ask all of Detroit, as many people around this region that will listen, to support Ken Cockrel Jr., who will assume the office of mayor on an interim basis Sept. 19, 2008. It's a big difference between City Council and the mayor's office. He's going to need our prayers."Thankfully, I think that he inherits a city that's in much better shape than the city that I inherited seven years ago.

Before you inherited......geez inherited.......lol........yes, before you inherited we had 9 million dollars, Tiger Stadium, The Tunnel not under threat, The Mounted Patrol, no racist Farrakhan receiving LOVE awards and interferring in elections errrrr helping in elections and we had our pride.........

"Many of us can turn our attention to healing in the city. I've been hearing that so much that we need healing. I'll turn my attention to the healing that I need to do in my family. We can turn our attention as a city to the healing that we must do in our city. Detroit, you need to know that through your prayers and through you getting on your knees and praying for my family, my wife and I are closer now than we've ever been. My children wake up every single day and they're proud of their dad and their mom, they're proud to be who they are. I've never seen God work like he's been working with us, throughout this whole storm.

You`re only turning your attention because the Governor was gonna "get you" twit.

"My grandfather is here. My grandfather has lived in this city since before he was 10 years old and he's 89 years old today, and he has watched the city go up and down. He's watched mayors come in and come out, and sitting on the porch with him the other day was an incredible experience for me, because I truly know who I am, I truly know where I come from. And, Detroit, I know whose I am, and I know because of that there's another day for me.

Not if we have anything to do with it baby. No day for you......! And with all of your grandfathers aged wisdom..how come he didn`t tell your silly butt to step down and act like a man and quit raping Detroit for your own gain?

"And people have asked me throughout this, 'How can you be strong through this? How can you stand?' Because these people rooted me in something that is more, more special than a thing. They rooted me in a fabric, in a soil that I knew that whatever happened to me in my life, if I get some water, some good words, some seeds, I can grow again.

How can you be strong in this? Get a clue. You`re not supposed to be strong. You`re supposed to be honest, repentant, contrite and humble......You`re not supposed to get water and seeds for a come back.........you`re supposed to learn a lesson. The only thing you have in common with your agricultural analogy is the stench of cow pies and manure wafting in the air.

"And last but certainly not least as I close, the strongest woman that I've ever met in my entire life, the person with the most beautiful spirit, she could be a soldier one second and absolutely endearing the next. Someone who took a wretch like me and said that I am standing by you through thick and through thin, and so all those that tried to tear this up, I just want to tell you, you only made us stronger.

You`re the only one who was tearing your relationship up honey. Strawberries and champagne, massages, posh resorts making love........to others.......diddling in Christine`s office.........yep, that would tear up a relationship big time. lol You may have Carlita bamboozled.......but we`re not all dependent on you and your family`s ill gotten gains for our livlihoods either......Carlita will believe what she has to for her own survival.

"The quintessential American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. The great writer that he was, F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a Detroiter. Because we fall, but this city always gets up.

Quit acting like your so sophisticated name dropping.......F. Scott Fitzgerald won`t be in County with you. Funny you should quote a writer who wrote The Great Gatsby.......a novel about illicit affairs, extravagant parties and wealth........is this all you know? And Gatsby ended up dead at the end.......

"Nick reflects that just as Gatsby's dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby's power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him “great,” Nick reflects that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby's dream and the American dream—is over."

Here`s some literal name dropping for you though......

" In the wake of his resignation, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's name will be taken off the water tower at the Detroit Zoo. 

Zoo spokeswomen Patricia Janeway says Kilpatrick's name will be taken down over the next few days."

"I want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback. God bless you."

Yep, ghetto speak always convinces and makes an elegant closing.........."you done"...........Yaws boi!!!!!!!!! Detroit hasn`t set you up for anything. Detroit and the whole region is sick and ashamed of you and your MTV Hip Hop posse. All you could think of before you resigned was passing out outrageous raises to pad the pockets of your cronies and writing your deluded farewell/campaign speech.

Your sick priorities truly amaze us. Your posse`s enormous ignorance amazes us even more........wildly cheering and applauding on tv for what? Lies, adultery, race baiting, a sick man with a messiah complex, a man who takes a mistress to a prayer breakfast weekend? Or their huge raises?  

To quote the Governor in PROPER English.........Godspeed Kwame.......buh bye.