dear kwame,

youre making national news for being an idiot. i think you should stop. you say you wont quit on the city of Detroit, which sounds noble, except that it is that city which you have disgraced. it is because of you that Detroit has another black eye. (i'm beginning to wonder how many eyes the D has to blacken...) you are doing Detroit and Michigan a disservice by staying in office.

take a cue from Eliot Sptitzer, who has resigned after being caught up in a prostitution ring. he hasnt even lied under oath, before firing and then paying off cops with $9 million in city funds. get your head out of your ass and step aside so that Detroit can move on.

and in response to your state of the city address, which would have been a commendable effort except for the tirade at the end, i offer the following. how dare you call out council members for not sitting by your side on the stage. it is their prerogative to protest your actions and not sit on your stage while you try to sweep your illicit and illegal behavior under the rug.

i must commend those council members who did boycott the address for standing up to the corruption in the mayor's office. i also must commend those who stood outside orchestra hall to protest the mayor. i hope that you will see through this Kilpatrick jab: "This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has to stop." the citizens should and must continue their protests and cries for his your resignation, Kwame, because it is you that behaved in and unethical and illegal way. you are damn lucky that this is a figurative and not literal lynch mob. i want your figurative head on a charger. you can keep your literal and worthless one.

as far as the racial epithets that have been hurled at him, thats just stupid. lets not give Mr Kilpatrick realistic grounds to be upset at the public. we should especially care to leave his family out of this. they are not the ones that were wrong. they have been harmed most of all, being citizens of Detroit and being the family that he betrayed in his affair. they should receive nothing but our sympathy for dealing with and presumably loving and obviously flawed and stubborn man.

the following is straight form the Free Press.

"The last five minutes of that speech was stupid, childish and in the vein of our gangster mayor," said Detroit resident Thomas Ward, 19. "When he was defending his position and his family he should have stopped right there, but he continued on in that strange manner. To have a press conference about the state of the city devolve into a circus does not look good. It only discredits him."

In singling out Cockrel, who sat in the audience instead of his usual spot on stage because of the text message scandal, the mayor said, "President Cockrel, we have much more serious issues affecting our city than whether we attend a speech or not."

Cockrel said he expected Kilpatrick to call him out during the speech, but noted the mayor has not returned any of his requests to speak with him since the scandal broke.

"To be addressed in a public forum, I don't have a problem with it, but I have to question the sincerity behind that comment," he said. "If that's the way the mayor feels, he knows where to find me."(Freep)

Mr Kilpatrick, how can you call out President Cockrel like that when it is your scandal that keeps the city mired up, unable to effectively move forward. it is completely wrong of you to blame him for the mess that you have created. you have dug yourself into quite the hole, and for you to blame and accuse the city council for not digging you out is asinine.

i hope that President Cockrel continues to confront you on this and not let it got. i hope that the citizens of Detroit do the same. I hope that you finally come to your senses, and step aside, and let the city of Detroit move on and move forward on the trail that you helped to blaze. up until this scandal i was one of those who was willing to overlook your 'gangster' ways because of the progress that i have seen in Detroit since Coleman Young left office.

i love Detroit. it boggles the minds of people here in DC. i love the changes that i have seen in the city since i was in high school. but i and others keep calling for your head because you have harmed Detroit. and not only have you not appologized to the city for spending its money to cover up your illegal and illicit behavior, you refuse to step down and let Detroit continue its progress. you continue to mire Detroit in scandal. it is you who keeps the city from addressing real and pressing issues. its you. you are the problem. not the city council. not the protesters. since you dont have the good sense to resign, i sincerely hope that Kim Worthy serves up your walking papers if not worse.

i hope that everyone sees that this is not a race issue. Eliot Spitzer has shown that white guys have just as poor judgment as anyone else. he had the grace to step down and put his energy into saving his family life, not fighting a public battle and trying to run the constituents that he has let down. its not a black and white issue. its a right and wrong issue.

another more eloquent rebuttal to the mayors speech by Stephen Henderson.