Obviously he should have been put in jail. He violated the conditions of his parole. The crazy thing is that biased people on here will say that he should not be jailed and it is because of his race that he is in trouble with the law. It is mind boggling.

THEM RACISTS WILL LOOK FOR ANY RESIN TO LOCK A BLACK MAN UP BUT WHAT ABOWT ALL THEM WHITE SEREAL KILLERS YOU DONT SEE NOTHIN HAPPIN TO THEM IT JUSS IGNORANT

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is not above the law. He is adding injury to insult. A simple authorization to travel out of the country could have saved him a lot of grief. One day in jail was not long enough, he should have served more time in jail.

Of course he should have gone to jail. Why would anyone think that he should be spared incarceration? The judge was clear when he informed him of his restrictons regarding travel outside of the state or country. He knew it. He just thought that he was “special”. His tenure as mayor has been shrouded in deception, lies and hypocrisy. I’m sure that there will be a few (and I stress “few”) black folks that will defend him simply because he’s black and they will actually feel that doing so is honorable. I call them the “loyally uninformed”.

As black people, we can’t break the law or do things that are unethical and then try to argue that our prosecution is somehow tied to racist white people. It diminishes our credibility when we confront “real” racism. They see us as “crying wolf”. I know that there are racist white folks out there who love nothing more than putting their foot on a blackman’s neck, but we can’t keep voluntarily giving them our heads on the chopping block, by breakingthe law and then complain when they swing at it. We can’t have it both ways.

Kilpatrick is a disappointment as a leader. He took advantage of his position as the city’s representative and had no respect for his office. Its time we hold black leaders accountable. Then and only then will we be able to demand that white America “Do the Right Thing”.

Everyone (especially us) knows that when you are in the spotlight i.e. politician, actor, sports,etc.) you can’t even jaywalk and it not be in the paper. YOU WILL BE PUNISHED! If they locked up Paris, Martha Stewart, Ron Isley, Lil Kim, Marion Barry , T.I., WHY DID HE THINK FOR ONE SECOND THAT “I APOLOGIZE” was going to work for him?!
What happened to the good old days when Blacks who made a name for themselves in sports, business, politics, music etc., reflected a positive image?! We say we are different from the white man but we do the same dumb, stupid, embarrassing, unnecessary things that they do when we have position and power.

Karen, you nailed it! Very well said. That’s the kind of responsible thinking that we need to hear. I hope we’re listening.

Sharonda, You need to go back to school or get your G.E.D. and learn how to spell!!!!

Karen, I agree. I am from Detroit and now live in Las Vegas, and I am ashamed to tell people where I used to live. He was a main factor in my and my adult daughters decsion to leave the city in 2004. He was not ready for the task at that time and his deeds from that point on has shown in his actions. I went back to the city in March 08 and was sadly dissapointed in what I saw. Yes, he improved downtown, but the area I grew up in (E. Grand Blvd, Eastside) is in shambles. My heart was broken. Kwama as everyone has always called him should just step aside. I could go on and on but to keep it simple, I pray he finds enough sense to pick up the few pieces of diginty he has left and move foward.

rocsi is a slut

rocsi is a wh#re

Rosci find you own man

Please, do not get me wrong when I say this, but, what if this was Mayor Bloomberg they were talking about? When I see this kind of thing in the news, I always ask myself the question, what if it was someone else?

What Mayor Kilpatrick did was very irresponsible, however, he did not do anything differently (besides getting caught) from what people in positions of authority have already been doing for years. I am not saying that because all those other guys do it, that means he should too, what I am saying is he is not the only one. Trust me,I know, I used to work for some pretty important guys and they did irresponsible things with resources all the time.

I totally agree with Gary though, we need to start holding black leadership accountable. Whether white America does the right thing or not, it is about us doing the right thing, even when people are not looking.

We as a people need to come to the understanding, when you make a covenant to be in a certain position or take on a certain task the people who surround you are not the only ones that hear you. GOD, is listening as well! These people swear on the Holy Bible when they take office and yet find it so easy to lie in the face of GOD. When you are in leadership whether it be secular or spiritual, people are watching life with hope that the way you live will give them an inkling of hope that the decisions you make will somehow help to make their lives better. We must be leaders by precept and example not in word only. We must let the WORD OF GOD lead us into all truths, instead of leaning to our own understanding,and in all our ways acknowledge him an he will direct our path. We are held to a higher standard and judged seven times more harsh for leading people to follow things, people, and paths, that are out of the will of GOD! i’M PRAYING for the youngman, because he needs deliverence from that spirit of LIES sexual perversity, sexual immorality, and spiritual delusion. Then once he comes to himself and realizes that he needs to repent, and ask for forgiveness openly, I trust GOD to forgive as he promises. PEOPLE, forgiving him, now that’s a different story. He seems to have no remorse I hope that will change, because repentance isn’t being sorry because you were caught, it being sorry because you rebelled against GOD!

This young mam is troubled a young sccessful black man should be conducting himself better. You can remove a personn from the getto but you can ot remove the getto from the person he needs help sdo not blame this on the white man blame this on stupidity.

As usual UMLAW your ignorance about black people is running wild…this man is an embarassment to the black race. He deserves to be punished like any other criminal. Just put him on the list of corrupt politicians and call it a day!

UMLAW, STOP ASSUMING THAT YOU KNOW THE MINDS OF BLACK PEOPLE…YOU WILL FOREVER BE LOST!!!