Hot GHETTO Mes!!!- Detroit Mayor Drops N Bomb at State of The Union

Ok so yall know The KING is from the metro Detroit area (Ann Arbor to be exact) so yall know I had to blog about this HOT GHETTO MESS!!... So are good ole' Mayor Kwame Droped th N word 7 times at the state of the union, why is this such a big deal you ask??? well Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stood before hundreds of people last summer and triumphantly proclaimed: "Die N-word, and we don't want to see you 'round here no more."
But the epithet that he and other black leaders symbolically buried in downtown Detroit during a national NAACP convention was resurrected by the embattled mayor Tuesday night during his annual State of the City address, carried live on local television and radio stations.
Facing possible perjury charges from testimony during a whistle-blowers' trial and criticism over sexually explicit text messages he sent to his former top aide, a defiant Kilpatrick lashed out at the media and opponents. The black mayor says he and his family have been subjected to racial slurs, as well as threats over the past month.
"In the past three days, I've received more death threats than I have in my entire administration," Kilpatrick said near the end of his 65-minute address. "I've heard these words before, but I've never heard them said about my wife and children."
Some local civil rights leaders criticized Kilpatrick and say he chose the wrong forum and wrong language for his outburst.
"It most especially was not a place to use the same word that, supposedly, we buried last summer," said the Rev. Edgar Vann, pastor of Second Ebenezer Baptist Church in Detroit. "You can make references to it without using it."
The N-word has been used as a slur against blacks for more than a century. It remains a symbol of racism, but also is used by blacks when referring to other blacks, especially in comedy routines and rap and hip-hop music.
Public discussion on the word and other racially insensitive remarks intensified after last year's remarks by white talk show host Don Imus, who described black members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and other national black leaders all have called for the use of the word to end. The Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held the public burial last July during the civil rights organization's annual convention in Detroit.
The ceremony included a slow processional with a pine box through downtown Detroit. The casket was buried at a local cemetery.
"Today we're not just burying the N-word, we're taking it out of our spirit," Kilpatrick said at the time.
National and local NAACP leaders did not condone Kilpatrick's use of the word Tuesday, but added that the context in which it was used should be considered.
"He was trying to make a point. He wasn't using it in the typical vernacular," national NAACP spokesman Richard J. McIntire said.
However, "it was never a word to be used for anything positive," he said.
The Rev. Wendell Anthony, Detroit NAACP president, attended the address and warned that Kilpatrick's message for the city's future should not be lost because of one word.
"It was a very good speech," Anthony said. "The final minutes obviously went toward his personal situation and it dealt with an area of his life that has come under a lot of pressure.
"In fairness to what was stated, we would have been more upset if he called someone that word. He describes a situation in which he was called the word. We don't condone the use and there should be no ambiguity around that."
But Kilpatrick's remarks only add to the racial polarization that has divided a mostly black Detroit and its primarily white suburbs over the past 40 years.
"I think people are tired of race being used as a tactic, especially when it becomes public like this," Vann said.
Eleanor Josaitis, co-founder of Focus:HOPE, worries Kilpatrick's use of the word will hurt race relations _ something her nonprofit organization has been working to improve since the 1967 Detroit riot.
"We've all worked very hard to bury the N-word," she said. "People are disappointed _ just disappointed in everything right now. Everybody is just praying we bring it to an end."
On Wednesday, Kilpatrick spokesman James Canning explained that the mayor used the N-word in his speech as an example of how hurtful the epithet can be for any community.
"He was explaining to the citizens of Detroit the situation he and his family have been put in by some very vile individuals who have decided they will thrust upon he and his family some very threatening forms of communications," Canning said.
Kilpatrick has been under fire since excerpts of the sexually explicit text messages from 2002 and 2003 were reported in January by the Detroit Free Press.
The Detroit City Council will consider a resolution next week that calls for the mayor to resign. Recently released documents show there was a confidential agreement linking the text messages to the $8.4 million settlement of the whistle-blowers' lawsuit brought by two former police officers. The council approved the payout, but did not know about the secret deal.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Wednesday she expects to make a decision the week of March 24 on whether she will charge Kilpatrick and former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty with perjury after the two testified during that trial that they didn't have a romantic relationship. Excerpts of the text messages released by the Free Press contradict their testimony.

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