DesertFox
10-28-2005, 04:07 PM
Ronald J. Hansen
detnew.com
28 Oct 05
DETROIT -- A newspaper advertisement likening media critiques of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to lynchings drew swift complaints from his opponent Thursday and reopened concerns that the mayor's re-election campaign was racially polarizing.
The Michigan Chronicle this week published a full-page ad headlined "Lynching is still legal in America." Beneath it is a faded image of black corpses dangling from trees with nooses around their necks.
Kilpatrick's opponent, Freman Hendrix, accused the mayor of approving the ad and called it despicable and divisive.
"What I think makes that ad especially reprehensible in the Detroit Chronicle is that it was printed in the commemorative edition for Rosa Parks," Hendrix said. "To place an ad like this at this time, it's typical of this administration who would try to win at any cost."
More (http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0510/28/A01-364390.htm)
detnew.com
28 Oct 05
DETROIT -- A newspaper advertisement likening media critiques of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to lynchings drew swift complaints from his opponent Thursday and reopened concerns that the mayor's re-election campaign was racially polarizing.
The Michigan Chronicle this week published a full-page ad headlined "Lynching is still legal in America." Beneath it is a faded image of black corpses dangling from trees with nooses around their necks.
Kilpatrick's opponent, Freman Hendrix, accused the mayor of approving the ad and called it despicable and divisive.
"What I think makes that ad especially reprehensible in the Detroit Chronicle is that it was printed in the commemorative edition for Rosa Parks," Hendrix said. "To place an ad like this at this time, it's typical of this administration who would try to win at any cost."
More (http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0510/28/A01-364390.htm)