Unfortunately, though, a lot of things in America have a lot to do with race.

Now, before you label me a racist and somebody who's always only talking about black and white issues, just remember ... I'm the guy who constantly screams for racism to be taught in schools so young black and white kids can get first-hand, educated knowledge of where it came from, what it's all about and why it's such a big part of our society.

One of the most unfortunate things associated with racism, though, is the age-old adage that you can't give us black folks a lot of power because we don't know what to do with it.

Unfortunately ... again ... it seems like it may be true.

Oh! Don't get me wrong ... people of ALL races do stupid stuff publicly all the time.

But it just seems magnified when we black folks do it.

Here in Detroit, the city's black mayor (Kwame Kilpatrick) has been using his office as a big sandbox to play games that benefit ... you guessed it ... Kwame Kilpatrick.

Kwame, a married father of 3, has been accused of banging more women than 4-time Heavyweight Champ Evander Holyfield... who has fathered at least 9 children out of wedlock and is going through a rather messy and public child support battle down in Atlanta.   

Holyfield, by the way, is black.

But instead of Kilpatrick putting ALL his efforts into straightening out the shameful economic ills of a once proud city, he's treating the Detroit mayoral job like a cool gig with perks for him, his family and his friends.

He's going on trial soon for lying under oath at another trial about his reasons firing two city cops who were apparently investigating his ass for an alleged wild, stripper-strewn party at the official mayoral residence.

In the course of his testimony, Kilpatrick was asked about the officer's allegations that they were really fired so he could not only cover up the party, but throw a big blanket over an alleged affair he was having with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty.

An allegation he denied.

Oh yeah, Beatty's also black.

The all-black Detroit City Council jumped all over Kilpatrick for paying out over $8 million of city money to settle the officer's case after it learned he did it to keep hot and steamy text messages between he and Beatty secret ... including one where they even discussed the room number of a Detroit-area motel room to meet at.

But just two weeks ago, it was revealed that the FBI is ALSO investigating AT LEAST two members of that same ... all black ... city council for taking bribes in exchange for their "yes votes" on a city waste-hauling contract.

One of those council members under the fed's microscope is Monica Conyers, wife of John Conyers, who is chairman of the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee ... not just any committee, either, but THE one charged with overseeing the administration of justice within the federal courts.

How embarrassing would it be for Mr. Conyers if Mrs. Conyers is unceremoniously hauled into federal court and charged with taking a few putrid thousand dollars just ... well, just because?

Wait! There's more!

Earlier this week, one of Detroit's pre-eminent newscasters, Fanchon Stinger (guess what color she is?) was caught on tape hanging out with Rayford Jackson ... a married black man ... who is an employee of the waste hauling company in question and a primary player in the shady contract deal the city council is being investigated over.   

Stinger apparently took money from the waste hauling company, too, but claims it was payment for services her private company provided and says she gave it back once all the shit hit the fan.

She'd better hope the feds don't have any tape of those services she provided.

  

It seems Stinger and Jackson have been allegedly carrying on a "relationship" ever since her divorce 3 years ago, even having gone so far as being photographed together many times ... including at the NAACP's Image Awards in Los Angeles earlier this year. 

Do I even need to throw in Rev. Jesse Jackson ... the omnipresent Director of Operation Push?

You do know he's black, right?

Jackson's recent off-camera comments (which he thought were private) about wanting "to cut Barack Obama's nuts off because his speeches always  talk down to black people" were actually overheard by, well, everybody because his microphone was still on.

Jackass!

It's one of You Tube's "most viewed" video clips this week.  

And now the right reverend is tripping over himself to apologize for the remarks.

Sorry. Too late Jess. We already heard 'em. 

Ya know, maybe there's something to this thing about us blacks always screwing ourselves better than anyone else ever could.

Too bad it seems to be coming true at a time when Obama ... a very intelligent black man, whom (unlike Kilpatrick) seems to have the correct head screwed on straight ... tries to become President of the United States.