My Mayor Sucks

Mayor Herenton resigns. What a feeling it was to hear those words. I was knee deep in refinishing the floors in my house, but I took a hiatus to sit down and listen to what I have been waiting to hear for years.

I really wasn’t surprised to hear his farewell speech was the same old racists rhetoric that talked about blacks, whites, and money. That’s what has appealed to the Herenton followers all these years; money, and putting down white people. They love to hear the uppity jive talking that Herenton is famous for. It’s like when you hear a preacher tell a dirty joke. You know he knows it isn’t right, but it seems to make the joke that much funnier. The joke has been on Memphis.

Herenton spoke as if he was moving on. There were no more challenges for him. An old pro that had beaten every opponent, but the real message was loud and clear. It was a message that said, I have been caught dipping in the till, I’ve been caught awarding jobs to those that have the goods on me. I’ve been caught being something that black people have been fighting against for decades; a racist. Basically, Herenton had been found out. He knew that he had to move on to get out of the spotlight, the federal spotlight. He thinks that he can just move on down the road and the feds will just go away. Ain’t gonna happen Willie.

My thought is that Herenton doesn’t want to lose that pension from the city when he is indicted. The charter says that if you are indicted while in office, you won’t get the cheese. Willie can’t have that. Willie gonna need some cheese when he has to pay that heavy retainer. My thought is that we will see Herenton lose the racists rhetoric when he gives Leslie Ballin a call to represent him. The black attorneys are fine when it’s Joseph Lee, or we are over billing the city with one of his cronies, but the doctor needs the best.

The bottom line is this, Herenton is a crook. He tried to cover his crimes with the falsehood of racism. He was good at it. But, it finally came to a head and he got caught. The racism was the perfect instrument to use in the city of Memphis. It was perfect, but, in the end, it was a little too perfect.

Goodbye to America’s greatest racist. Goodbye, Willie Herenton.

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