The scandal has finally ended. Detroit’s national nightmare is finally over. Detroit’s mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has finally resigned his office. This scandal which started as a rumor in 2002, developed into a nightmare for the state of Michigan and for the city of Detroit. The city of Detroit has had to suffer from this nightmare for the last seven years. It seemed that Kwame Kilpatrick thought that he actually lived above the law. However, a sobering reality settled in today, and that reality is that no one in the city of Detroit is above the law, not even the Mayor.
It seemed that Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick seemed to think that he was under some sort of messianic premonition to be the mayor of the city of Detroit. It was with this premonition that Kwame Kilpatrick seemed to believe that he was above the law. Confidentially, some believe that this premonition was nothing more than a delusion, but I digress.
I have to wonder though, if my readers will allow me to play the race card, if Kwame Kilpatrick had been a white man how long would he have been in office or how long would it be until he would been prosecuted? However, I am not one to dwell on such matters. This entire administration as well as the history of the city of Detroit, is a perfect example of the abject failure of socialism in America. The Democratic Party says that socialism is the cure to all of America’s ills. Obviously, Detroit is a perfect example that that is nothing more than an ill-conceived lie. In fact, at one time Detroit was an oasis of industrialism. However, in the 1950’s, the city of Detroit made a very foolish mistake, Detroit decided to cast aside all other forms of industrialism except for the automotive industry. That proved to be a fatal mistake. Because as we all know, the automotive industry is on the skids. Some would blame the unions for this; however, I feel that that is nothing more than scapegoating, because if one looks at the history of the automotive industry in Detroit, one will know that it was due to arrogance on the part of the manufacturers.
Corruption is nothing new in the city of Detroit; corruption goes back as far as the Mayor Coleman A. Young Administration. Possibly further than that, but that’s further than the scope of this editorial. The difference is, Mayor Coleman young was a lot slicker about it, and he just never was caught. Not to mention, he did not have a blackberry, things like that did not exist in his day.
It is my hope and yes, possibly a prayer of mine, that the city of Detroit can get back on track and go back to just being normal, without all the scandal and all the headlines and just go back to being a city again. Because God knows, we really do not need any more negative publicity here. We have suffered enough I believe and I believe we have learned our lesson. That lesson is that you do not elect a mayor based upon popularity, but rather based upon his ability to lead the city. It is a lesson that the Democratic Party is about to learn the hard way with Barack Obama. While Barack Obama does offer a great message of hope, the reality is the man lacks the experience to lead the country, not to mention he has some questionable ties in the city of Chicago.
I, for one, am glad that this scandal is finally been put to rest, and I surely hope that that city of Detroit can move beyond this.
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