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Published: September 12, 2008
Defending the indefensible
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
If Kwame Kilpatrick were white, don't you think he'd have been thrown out of office a long time ago? Heck, he'd be out of jail by now and shopping his memoirs.

Instead, it was just last week, after a year of scandal and revelation that has paralyzed his city and made it the punchline to an international joke, that Detroit 's mayor surrendered his office and copped a plea: 120 days in jail, five years probation and a...

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