To say this morning's 24 unanimous guilty verdicts against Detroit's ex-mayor are a hot topic is like saying the new pope will inspire -- obvious, yet still interesting to see and hear.

This social media roundup is being updated all day. Leave your reaction as a comment at the end.

  • "Justice was done today. . . . This should stop the crackers who think minorities won't convict minorities of crimes from spewing their ignorance and it should stop people who didn't sit through the trial from claiming that this was a modern-day lynching." -- M.L. Elrick, Fox 2 News reporter
  • "He is a bright man, and a talented politician. It's such a waste and another black eye for Detroit." -- Desiree Cooper of Detroit, past Free Press columnist, now community/media relations director at Planned Parenthood of Mid- and South Michigan
  • "#Kilpatrick verdict days before we could hear about #Detroit EFM. Overwhelming and historic week for sure." -- Christy McDonald, host of MiWeek on Detroit Public Television
  • "We are not close to being done until Ficano is sitting next to him." -- Tony Bissonette, St. Clair Shores
  • "There goes my productivity for the morning." -- Jessica Lange, Grosse Pointe Park 
  • "Nothing to celebrate. Even if justice has finally prevailed, there are children who will now grow up without their father." -- Michael Happy of Grosse Pointe Woods, digital content manager at Fox Sports Detroit
  • "Guess I should trash all those 'Kilpatrick 2017' signs I've been stockpiling." -- Vaughn Derderian, co-owner of The Anchor Bar downtown 
  • " It is very sad to see a young man with seemingly unlimited potential throw it all away for the quick payoff." -- Gary Naeyaert, public policy adviser from Mason, Mich.
  • "Sad because so much time was wasted and the city was hurt so badly. But satisfied that the jury trial system works." -- Cindy Brody, Comercia Bank attorney from Beverly Hills
  • "Corruption does not pay!." -- Jill Woodward, Grosse Pointe Park communication consultant 
  • "I voted for Kwame twice and I'm sad for him and his family." -- Keena Lee, Detroit
  • "I hoped he would helped city and I put my trust in him. He just fell into the fairytale of payouts and the sweet life." -- Suzanne Janik, Ferndale
  • "I have never felt good in advance about a verdict since O.J., so there was no confidence on my part that this jury would do the right thing. Glad to see they did." -- Kathy Canapini, Center Line
  • "A man is being taken away from his families. More black young men growing up fatherless. Yes it is very sad." -- Carol Adams, Oak Park 
  • "A bright young man who got the wrong advice from his daddy and who believed his own hubris. . . .  I am ANGRY that this man, this fellow CASS TECH grad, decided to take the quick and easy and corrupt path. To lie, with impunity, and not realize he would be caught." -- Gilda Snowden of Detroit
  • "Put him away forever." -- Samantha Bankey, Ferris State senior from Romulus 
  • "Goodbye Kwame." -- Mark Teggart
  • "There are people saying 'I told you so' about black men." -- Shannon Macvean-Brown
  • " It doesn't get the city its money back. Instead, he'll take more tax dollars away as we shack him up for his time in prison." -- Andrew Herron, Livonia
  • "The American judicial system still works. That's a very good thing. . . . That kid could have been President, but he threw it all all away because of greed." -- Marfion Christiansen of Detroit, marketing director at Ford Piquette Avenue Plant 
  • "We reap what we sow." -- Robert del Valle, Real Detroit Weekly columnist
  • "Just waiting for the next race-card playing. It's been disgusting all the way around." -- Donna Klein, Birmingham entrepreneur
  • "Don't you feel like daddy got off pretty easy?" -- Nicole German, Commerce Township
  • "The jury had no mercy." -- Regina Johnson-Reed, Southfield 
  • "Tough, tender judge helped #Kilpatrick trial run smoothly." -- Chad Livengood, Detroit News reporter

​-- Compiled by Alan Stamm