Why Kwame gets a pass in Detroit

For any of my liberal friends out there who are still in denial about whether or not there is a liberal bias in the media, I have just three words for them: Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Can you imagine all of the drama, the salacious text messages between KK and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, the ruined lives and careers costing the city tens of millions in lawsuits (as well as hundreds of millions more at stake), the angst, the treachery, the waste, fraud and abuse KK has visited upon the city of Detroit being perpetrated by, say, a black conservative Republican like a Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams?

As a case in point, you see how the socialist media is virtually apoplectic regarding the recent revelations of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s daughter being five months pregnant. Feminists across the nation, our supposed sentinels of the rights of women, have said virtually nothing about KK’s pathological womanizing ways, but are now on the warpath against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Why?

Palin, though a woman, is a conservative Republican, whereas KK is black and a liberal Democrat. Feminists could really care less about women or women’s rights; it’s all about power, control and forcing a radical socialist agenda upon every aspect of culture and society.

Since the Palin pregnancy revelation emerged, the mainstream media even interrupted coverage of a major hurricane (Gustav) as well as coverage of the Republican National Convention to speculate whether or not Palin was properly vetted by McCain since this info presumably wasn’t discovered until after Palin was picked as McCain’s running mate.

Likewise, if a black Republican were mayor of Detroit and had done just one of the dozens of alleged crimes KK has done, I could imagine the DNC at their convention last week in Denver devoting 24/7 coverage: that Mayor Clarence Thomas has ruined the once great city of Detroit; that Mayor J.C. Watts or Mayor Michael Steele’s ruinous leadership over black people and repeated abuse of women is nothing short of evidence of racism and sexism against the fine citizens of Detroit; that Mayor Thomas Sowell or Mayor Walter Williams’ felonious and fraudulent behavior must be put away immediately – otherwise the city of Detroit, the state of Michigan and the Republican Party are doomed!

Yet regarding KK’s notorious acts, Detroit actually receives little national attention from the mainstream media – why? KK is a liberal hack out of the tradition of Coleman Young and Marion Berry and skillfully plays the race card as a diversion. On the other hand, people like Gov. Sarah Palin, Justice Clarence Thomas and the other highly accomplished black conservatives cited above do not easily fit the liberal template. These people did not kiss the ring of the civil rights leaders and therefore owe no intrinsic allegiance to the civil rights movement. Neither does Palin owe her position to the feminist movement.

Palin doesn’t hate men, didn’t burn her bra in college and wasn’t a member of NOW or a Saul Alinsky “community organizer” in the ’70s; therefore, liberal Democrats are very suspicious, even paranoid about these dissenting opinions, thus hoping to ruin their reputations by any means necessary.

KK in a liberal world can do no wrong. Sure, he bankrupted Detroit, is a scoundrel, a thug, a felon and a soon-to-be ex-mayor who is about to be forcibly removed from office by a reluctant Gov. Jennifer Granholm, yet because he rules over black people in a black city, in the liberal Democrat way of thinking, its all in the family. KK had good intentions, and since he was on the right side of all “the issues,” he gets a pass.

Like Sen. Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne, the young woman that drowned at Chappaquiddick 39 years ago, or the murky connections between Ted Kennedy’s elder brothers, JFK and RFK, and the mysterious 1962 death of legendary actress Marilyn Monroe, Democrats freely offer absolution for any sins done as long that politician follows liberal dogma (i.e., devotion to abortion and FDR/LBJ big-government programs, etc.).

Remember how J.C. Watts for years was the lone black Republican congressman? How he was constantly vilified by the liberal media and considered a turncoat by his fellow Congressional Black Caucus members who refused to allow him to join their group?

Remember how Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell and Lynn Swann all ran unsuccessfully last year for senator of Maryland, governor of Ohio and governor of Pennsylvania, respectively, while the white liberal media and black “community organizers” of their states constantly denigrated them as not being “authentically black” and whose candidacies did not represent “black values”?

Why are black conservatives and black Republicans demonized by the white mainstream media and white Democrats? Because white liberals who are transfixed and guilt-ridden by race must promote the Big Lie as truth – that white liberal Democrats by the policies that they and they alone have created over the past 75 years have done what 400 years of slavery could not do: destroyed the black family. They know this. Civil rights activist and the Congressional Black Caucus realize this also and therefore have become masters at blame shifting.

Any unbiased reading of history will reveal that there is an irrevocable correlation between big government welfare programs and the destruction of the black family. However, to keep the 92 percent of voting blacks on the liberal plantation, these liberal politicians, intellectuals and activists have employed the tried and true technique of displacement.

What is displacement? “According to Freudian psychoanalytic theory, displacement is when a person shifts his/her impulses from an unacceptable target [liberals] to a more acceptable or less threatening target [conservatives].

That KK is still mayor of Detroit after six years of continuous scandals is the best evidence that there is a liberal bias in Detroit and why Democratic power brokers even as high as the anointed Barack Obama, Hillary the Congressional Black Caucus and most Democrats on a national level have had little to say about this rogue in their midst.

John summarized it best in John 3:18, 19: If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

I don’t fight against liberal media bias anymore. Now I thank God for liberal media bias, for it means that those that fall victim to it are on the road of truth and that in the end one sincere word spoken in truth will defeat a thousand words of flattery spoken in deceit.

Ellis Washington, former editor at The Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including “The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law” (2002). See his law review article “Reply to Judge Richard Posner.” Washington’s latest book is “The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust.”
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