Hip Hop vs. Scifi in Detroit Mayoral Smackdown

Detroit ’s new mayor , Ken Cockrel Jr. , wants his metropolis to live that it ’s in good hand because he ’s a scifi flake who loves Star Trek and Terminator . In his first speech this dawning , the Modern city manager said that his geekitude makes him different from his “ hip - groundball ” predecessor , Kwame Kilpatrick , who is beingsent to jailafter pleading shamefaced to two felony enumeration of obstruction of justice and no contest to one count of assault . While I ’m happy Detroit is acquire the geek it deserve in office , I do n’t see why Cockrel thinks being a “ eccentric ” is the opposition of being a “ pelvic arch - hopper . ”KanyeandKool Keithprove you’re able to have scifi hip hop , and beyond that hip joint hop itself is high - technical school musical genre whose solution are institute firmly in the early computer age when Thomas Kid startle using machines and computers to create novel sounds . On the pop culture side , you could argue that Brother from Another Planet is a scifi hip hop movie . Or you could say Will Smith is the ultimate scifi hip record hop action Cuban sandwich . What the hell , Cockrel ? Let ’s not fraction instinctive friend . Hip hop and scifi go together like peanut and butter . Still , you have to love the guy wire for quoting from both Terminator 2 and Star Trek in his speech . allot to the Chicago Tribune :

Cockrel wrapped up Friday ’s first address with quotes from the “ Terminator 2 : Judgment Day ” film and the “ Star Trek ” television serial publication . He endorsed the words of “ Terminator 2″‘s John Connor , who says “ the hereafter is not set ” and “ there is no fate but what we make for ourselves . ” And Cockrel says Detroit , like the Starship Enterprise , needs “ to boldly go where no one has gone before . ”

Will we have to start call Cockrel the Mayorinator?Detroit ’s New Mayor : I ’m a Geek[via Chicago Tribune ]

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