So I know all of Detroit was tuned in last night as the Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick staged apology was televised from Greater Emmanuel Church of God. This sour news of the "Text Message Scandal" broke to Detroit and the nation last week by the Detroit Free Press. I believe Carlita not Kwame speech was sincere. As a citizen of my wonderful city of Detroit I was not impressed. The thing of it is....Kwame can sleep with the entire state of Michigan if he wants....Carlita and God will have to be his judge for that, but when we are talking about 9 million dollars that could have went to save closing schools or bringing jobs to Detroit that is where I get pissed. So many people voiced an outcry in support of the mayor as if this was a personal attack against him. Well it is not!!! The citizens of Detroit are tired. Its time to clean house. Everyone in City Hall is family!!!! That is not okay and until we start demanding more from are elected officials we will continue to remain a city that the world laughs at. Everyone always ask me why I returned home to Detroit and moved back from Atlanta. When I say I was homesick....they laugh?! But the truth is I was honestly homesick. I felt like why would I lend my talent as an aspiring radio personality to a city that is not of ME...DinaDREAM. Don't get me wrong, I ABSOLUTELY love Atlanta. I will be returning there to raise my family, but I want to help the movement HERE. I network and go to different parties and events in the city and I am learning Detroit really has some great mover and shakers on their grind here. See the thing is Atlanta does have a MOVEMENT...they truly stick together! You go down there and it looks like everyone is the Huxtables. Here in Detroit we are often referred to as a "Crab in the Barrel" city. And that is exactly what this current Mayor has exemplified. Me, Myself and I....this philosophy will get us no where as a community. For Mr. Kilpatrick his 1st and 2nd terms has been about satisfying the needs of himself and his own interest not Detroiter's needs...POINT BLANK! Call a spade a SPADE people.
I think he gave it his best shot, but to be serious its time for Detroit to clean house and move on. Detroit should be focused on getting more jobs here, putting a mall in the city, retaining college educated professionals, saving our kids schools, and getting a basketball stadium so we can have a damn ALL-STAR game here. The suburban folks laugh at us everytime they leave Detroit at 5pm and return to their communities. We have a beautiful city....Detroiters. That is one of the reasons I chose to move home to downtown Detroit and not out to the suburbs. Every morning when the sun wakes me up I look out my 18th floor window and look over into Canada. I love the water and its absolutely beautiful. Not many cities can say that. We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. We don't have to be thugs and corrupt to get PAID Detroit. I felt that so many people in Detroit support him because a lot of people live their life here, as trying to just get by without hardwork, using women, manipulating people, sleeping with several women as if its okay, etc. Not all citizens of Detroit, but the point is the MENTALITY of people here has to change if we want to become a city like Chicago or Atlanta like we once were. You get so many slaps on the hand. WAKE UP Detroit or next election if we don't choose wisely we will get exactly what we deserve! And please don't forget the women who are no longer here. Strippers, call girls, prostitute's....whatever you want to call them....they lost their life in this mess. Remember Tamara "Strawberry" Greene cause like Kwame she had 3 kids she left behind too. The truth shall be revealed all in the end.
As for Carlita...I honestly respect her. Do I think she should have spoke last night.....NO. Her Image Consultant did not advise her well on that suit she wore. She should have been impeccable in dress, hair and make-up. But understandably Kwame is stressing her out. I hope she really just spoke to ask the media to spare her children from this mess not the Mayor. She is doing what a wife is suppose to do....standing by her husband. Regardless, she has to be with him after his term is over. So she SHOULD stand by him...thats her duty before God. Hell....she may have to stand by him after he leaves office and faces a jury about the murder of 2 women who died senselessly. But I tell you this I would have dressed up as a NINJA...broke into the Manoogian mansion while Kwame was sleep and beat his ass like never before. Carlita should slap him into 2010 for putting his family through this and beat Christine Beatty just for thinking she was seriously the ONE! Sorry but that would have made me feel better THEN I would have went to church to repent and ask God to forgive me for that butt kicking....lol.
But seriously Detroit I hope this saga will end after 2009 election and we rise to be the world class city of the Midwest that we have the potential to be again!
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