Toledo Talk "Jack-ass Ford's racial addiction" id 1378

The former clown mayor of Toledo writes a column for The Sojourner's Truth. In his May 24, 2007 column, Ford continues to show his inability to look past skin color. Why some people are so stuck on skin color is truly amazing in an ignorant way.

No-talent comedic

There is so much going on with the Toledo Public Schools that I feel like the mosquito at the nudist convention – I don’t know where to start.

Okay, that opening sentence should tell you that his column is going to be senseless. It's not an original piece of humor. Who hasn't heard of the mosquito at the nudist colony joke?

Rainbow coalition

Can Toledo elect two Hispanics to the school board? I can see Vasquez slide by Richard Brown and Toledo Police Department Detective Harold Mosley, who may declare this week, if they split the black vote. Point Place activist Lisa Sobecki is in a great position. She is a smart, Democratic white female with the Party’s endorsement.

Disturbing. What do race and gender have to do with the qualifications of being on the public school board? And what do political party affiliations have to do with being on a public school board? I don't understand political party endorsements for school board candidates. It should not be political.

Vote by moving

It's this kind of whacked mentality that makes it so I can't wait until we have moved out of Toledo and Lucas County, so our tax dollars don't support TPS and other failed entities like Toledo and Lucas County government, which are ruled by the likes of Ford.

Problem is, it's not seller's market in Toledo. We live three blocks off Douglas. In those three blocks, 10 houses are currently for sale. Some have been for sale for well over a year. It had been eight houses, but two more went up for sale this week. I've never seen so many houses for sale on our street in the five-and-a-half years that I've lived here.

For kicks, we drove around downtown Perrysburg a few weeks ago. Within a several block radius of downtown P-burg, it was hard to find a total of 10 houses for sale. Yet 10 houses are for sale on a two hundred yard stretch of one street in West Toledo. Buyer's market in Toledo, a seller's market in P-burg.

Burbs are whiter

When we do move out of Lucas County, probably next year, Ford would say it's because our new community is white. In the summer of 2006 in one of his columns, Ford gave reasons why Toledoans flee for the burbs:

It's greener, it appears newer and we think it is safer. And, for those of us who really are honest, it's whiter!

I'd say escaping the homeland of small-minded public leaders like Ford is one big reason for leaving Toledo. City and county government are infested with similar lame-brained pests. Their actions are proof. Just follow what Toledo and Lucas County public officials say and do. It's a comedy of errors, along with being a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Bow down to Malcolm

Mayor Jack Ford said black businessmen should remember that smiling faces sometimes pretend to be their friends. Mayor Ford, addressing about 35 members of the Minority Contractors Group on Saturday morning, March 19, pledged that he will continue to insist on diversity in the awarding of government contracts if he is re-elected this November.

He said some white business people smile and say they also embrace diversity, but really are upset that they’re not raking in as much government money as they used to.

[Ford] said that no matter which part of town he’s in, he always reminds groups that minorities strongly support public works and other levies, and that they should have a fair chance to compete for contracts.

[Ford said,] "Some of the school levies would never pass if it wasn’t for the black and Latino vote. I point that out all over town. Folks nod their heads in the majority community but I have the sense sometimes when I walk out the door that they say ‘Yeah, that’s true, but we want it all.’ Affirmative action really has no teeth to it anymore. So the only teeth you can put into it is what the mayor and the council say that they want to see happen."

The mayor also got laughs when he talked about some white businessmen’s reactions to artwork in his office on the 22nd floor of Government Center. One is a picture of Muhammad Ali. The other is of Malcolm X, the more militant Civil Rights Movement peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "That’s so when folks come in there, I want them to see instantly what time of day it is. Literally, business guys have come in there and their legs buckle. They come in and say ‘Oh my gosh, the mayor’s got Malcolm X on his wall.’ That means we’re going to do the right thing; that’s why that picture’s up there," Mayor Ford said.