Resurrecting the “n” word
In July 2007, black leaders held a funeral for the “n” word at the NAACP annual convention. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gave an eloquent eulogy imploring those gathered to bury the “n” word once and for all.
“Today we’re not just burying the N-word, we’re taking it out of our spirit,†said Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. “We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word. We have to bury the ’pimps’ and the ’hos’ that go with it.â€
He continued: “Die, N-word, and we don’t want to see you ’round here no more.â€
[NAACP delegates ‘bury’ N-word in ceremony - AP - 07-09-07]
Watch and listen to Kilpatrick this week resurrecting the “n” word on live television in what was supposed to be his report card to the people of Detroit. Mayor Kilpatrick, who lied under oath about an affair with a top aid, instead lashed out at opponents by lumping them in with racists.
So what if Mayor Kilpatrick lied under oath about an affair with a top aide? I thought it was okay to lie under oath about sex. And Mayor Kilpatrick is right to lash out at opponents. They’re probably all part of the Republican attack machine, a product of a vast right-wing conspiracy. Why is Christian holding Mayor Kilpatrick to a higher standard than he applied to the Clintons?
Rob, you are entitled to your obsession with President Bill Clinton’s personal sex life, but I don’t recall anyone being labled a racist for holding Clinton to higher standards.
I do recall a number of people that worked in the Clinton/Gore administration measured President Clinton against higher standards when it came to perjury, including Al Gore who publicly expressed how many felt. Thankfully we all had a right, however and whenever exercised, to express those feelings without being called racists.