Posted on 10/07/2006 6:54:42 PM PDT by mcg2000
My guess is that Ford is less than 50% black. He's white!
Kudlow called for Haster's resignation on the radio today.
Jr.s mother is definitely black.
This is an old site but shares some more light on mr hollywood. Each page on this site about Jr. is better than the last.
http://www.fancyford.com/
I am very familiar with George Curry. You are right!
I heard that, he's a disgrace and a POS.
Black Like I Thought I Was
By Erin Aubry Kaplan, LA Weekly. Posted October 7, 2003.
The surprising outcome of a DNA test proves a man's race while throwing his blackness into question.
It's a couple of years old, but it turned up today in the reddit.com blog feed. I suppose it's because the guy want's publicity for the book he's writing.
POS?
100% black? A majority of blacks in the US are not.
I watched the debate between Ford and Corker tonight and there was no comparison in my mind. Corker is a self-made business success and philanthropist who is interested in solving problems. Harold Ford was jive and talked about religion all of the time. I remember a summer in Knoxville when every radio station was gospel, so maybe they like that, but I think he acted a fool.
Charles Crawford, a historian at the University of Memphis, says "considerable racial prejudice" in Tennessee will hurt Ford despite his near-celebrity status. The candidate is philosophical. "Anyone that's not going to vote for me because of my race, bless their heart," he says. "I can't control it, so there's no need for me to even bother myself with it."
Then from Black Commentator:
Actually, we don't think she looks white - however, we have eyes trained for this sort of thing. But that's not the point. The Ford's collective violation against Black people's history in this country is far more disturbing than the pretensions and self-debasement of one Black family. They make a fiction of their own family history, and thus allow others to extrapolate larger fictions, to further confuse the Black and white public about the real nature of African American's past and present.
Ford's campaign recently accused the Corker operatives (not sure if it was official campaign literature) of using race as a weapon because they supposedly made Ford Jr.'s skin look "too black" in a flyer they distributed.
But from reading about this racial reference to his family having a past white heritage, it seems apparent that Ford Jr. is himself playing the race card by claiming a past white heritage, something he's never done before. He IS controlling it, and he IS bothered by it. He's trying to appeal to the overwhelmingly white voters who compose almost all of the rest of the state east of Memphis, who have much less familiarity with him than Memphians. It's another disingenuous extension of his cloaking campaign, in which he downplays his liberal voting record and talks like a centrist Republican.
POS?
Just my way of saying how much disgust I have for him.
You have said so well!!!!!
Thanks, I hope everyone saw the same picture as you did!
I heard a variation of this argument back in 1971, when a group of black radicals told me that black conservatives such as the writer George Schuyler weren't really black. Almost in unison, they stated, "black is not a color; black is a state of mind." Apparently, this state of mind excludes conservative thought.
I can't find the remarks he made against his grandmother.
That's part of it. Another is that Ford's campaign ads are nothing short of brilliant from a purely political effectiveness standpoint. He is an energetic candidate, he is saying all the right things he needs to say. Up to now, his campaign has been well-run - though it seems as if the Democrats are now forming the circular firing squad.
In LA, if one was 1/8 black, that was black, but if he was 1/16 black, that was white.
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