To be fair, no one deserves to be the target of death threats. (Well, you know…exceptions can be made.)
But you gotta wonder: what would it take for Kwame Kilpatrick’s supporters to turn against him? Not sacking a high-ranking police official he wanted to keep quiet. Not the allocation of public funds for personal use. Not an embarassing public sex scandal.
And isn’t his invocation of racial injustice an attempt to change the subject? (Big ups to Richard Thompson Ford.)
How effective can he realistically be going forward? Detroit has a lot of well-documented problems, and he won’t be able to put a dent in them. He’s become too big a distraction.
(Apologies for being so video-heavy today.)