Rob Ford has to apologize for being racist a couple times
Rob Ford has to apologize for being racist a couple times
Next week’s city council meeting will be the setting of another classic Rob Ford forced apology, as he owns up to a few racist lowlights. The occasion is a report from the city’s integrity commissioner, who found that then-mayor Ford broke city council’s code of conduct in March 2012 during a wild St. Patrick’s Day bender, when he called a taxi driver “Paki,” then mocked him with “fake language sounds.” Ford will also be apologizing for his 2014 boast that he is “the most racist guy around,” and the language he used then to describe black people (in the commissioner’s judiciously hyphenated report, “n----ir”), Italians (“w-p” and “d-go”) and Jews (“k---e”).
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Does anyone really care any more? Rob Ford is an ongoing train wreck. Most of us tired of him and his problems long ago. He has become one of those things you find on your lawn after the snowmelts.
He should really be apologizing for his entire political career.
Omg, give it a rest with the race crap! I am an ethnic person who has gotten quite sick of it by now. Most of the racists i encounter in this City are other ethnic pple, give him a break, he is fighting for his life.
How does that excuse racism?
How does that excuse racism?
Robe is just an average KKKonservative in Canada
never heard any clear cut examples of him being racist. most Canadians cannot see who the real racists are in this country
You want clear-cut? Among other incidents, on March 5, 2014, Ford said, “Nobody sticks up for people like I do,
every f—ing k–e, n—-r, f—ing w-p, d-go, whatever the race. Nobody
does. I’m the most racist guy around. I’m the mayor of Toronto.” He also called a taxi driver a “p-ki”.
Racist epithets are a form of racism. So, do you conveniently only object to forms of racism that aren’t perpetrated by Rob Ford?
So should a lot of politicians nowadays. What about the scandals that have taken place in all three major parties in recent yrs?
Talk about beating a dead horse, making the guy apologize again for a drunken rant after he went to rehab, I’d like to hear the Ontario Liberals apologize for being sober lying thieves, not that I’d believe their apology anyway.
I have 10 bucks that says your white.
I am. What’s your point?
And does my whiteness prevent me from pointing out the race-neutral logical flaws in Rianna’s post? If so, why?