Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should do what's right for the city and RESIGN!

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Detroit is an incredible city.  It is full of wonderful, colorful, creative, intelligent and interesting people.   The architecture is absolutely gorgeous ranging from 300 year old buildings to new ones.  The history is rich and wonderful to tell.  It is a city that deserves to survive. 

Unfortunately, auto maker woes, economic upheaval and racial issues dragged this once great city down int a quagmire that is has yet to escape from.   Every once in a while, we see glimmers of the incredible city that we once were and can be again.  The Super Bowl.  New buildings.  New business.   All-Star games.   Festivals in Hart Plaza.  Then we are inundated with scandal after scandal as a immature race-baiting mayor threatens to drag the city down with him.

We have seen this game before.   For decades, Coleman Young ran the city.   He inflamed racial tensions.  He chased way business.  He let buildings fall into disrepair.  He screamed "racist" at every suburb and told them they weren't welcome in his city.   We thought we got away from that when he left office.  We thought we were safe from that kind of mayor when Young passed away.

We had Dennis Archer, a man that fought tirelessly to bring new business to the city.  He pushed forward a Riverwalk project that is beginning to show promise.  He brought the Super Bowl to a city that has never seen its football team play in it.   He brought the football team in from the suburbs.  Archer realized that this is a metropolitan community that is tied to one another for survival - city and suburbs.   Archer was an incredible mayor and he changed he city for the better.

Then came Kwame.   The young man whose mother was in the House of Representatives.   A family man with a beautiful wife and the cutest little kids.   Fresh ideas and a reborn Detroit were what was promised but instead Detroit was given the shaft.   At 31, he was the youngest man ever elected mayor of Detroit but at 31, he was by no means a child - even though he acted like one. 

He cheated on his wife.  He cheated on he tax payers.  He used his mayoral power and city money to hide his philandering ways.   He fired good police officers when they dared to ask why his guards were being paid thousands in overtime dollars to attend stripper parties and to hide the affair.  He spent more time playing than actually working and when good things happened because of the work that Dennis Archer did - he claimed credit for things that weren't his doing.

Apparently, behind the scenes he was laughing with his girl friend/Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty, about the city full of "idiots".   They were calling city council members childish names.    They were manipulating the police department to fill it with people that they could control and wouldn't ask questions.   They were treating the city legal department as their personal lawyers.   Worse yet - Kwame Kilpatrick betrayed the taxpayers of Detroit and used 9 million dollars of their dollars to hide his misdemeanors and moral philandering.

At this point, Kwame Kilpatrick is nothing more than an embarrassment to the city, the region and the state.   HE hinders progress by laughing at the charges against them.  The old ways of Coleman Young race baiting are now being played with him on a daily basis.   The evil suburbs and the evil white media are all to blame for his woes according to dear Kwame.

How does he continue to sleep at night, much less stay in office, with the things that he is doing to his city and his family?   How can he look his constituents in the face knowing that he consider them "idiots".  How does he look his wife and children in the face after text messages telling Christine Beatty that they would be married and he would be her children's stepdaddy in 2012?  To see these horrendous text messages

The excuses of "oh, he's a young guy" are null and void now.  He is almost 40 years old - he knows better.   The excuses that he was hurt by being called the "n" word are null and void seeing as he uses it liberally in his own conversations - even calling Beatty his "nigette" (please note that it pained me just to write that word).  The excuses are gone Kwame.

in the document that got Kwame to steal 9 millon dollars of the city's money to prevent it from the public seeing it - read here.

Mr Kilpatrick, for the good of this beautiful city, please leave.  Please leave office today.  You once talked about how the New York Times likes to write about you because you were a young black man with power.   Well now they like to talk about you because you are creating enough scandals by yourself to fuel paper sales for the next year.   Your salacious life is better than fiction now. 

Please leave before they really start investigating the murdered stripper from your alleged Manoogian Mansion stripper party with cops that you don't control.  I would really hate to see what happens if it comes back to you...

PS...Can you please let somebody else vote at the democratic convention.  You don't deserve to be a super delegate.