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I don't know if there is valid suspicion about his role in the death of Anthony Smith or if it's runaway speculation. However, I do know that a man is dead, and that in someway his world intersected with the mayor's underworld, and the mayor has refused for over a year to speak to either the media or the police about any of it. For anyone else in any position that had any kind of effective oversight, this would be more than enough to remove him from the job.
People today are easily triggered into outrage by a few words. Anything disparaging of a minority people is our new profanity. Ford has used those words. But he's a crude, stupid man, who although wealthy was raised with a working class outlook, and raised at a time when a lot of those words that cause such concern down at the university were thrown around quite liberally. He used them while with supposed friends, getting high, partying. So I think some people can get a little carried away trying to peg him on those incidents. His real racism is most evident not in his disapproved vocabulary but in the way he spoke of his football players. And here is the same dynamic highlighted by Andray Domise this week in an article about how Ford refers to those in minority communities in TCHC or priority neighbourhoods. He is both paternalistic, claiming that no one does more for them than Rob Ford, while also spreading fear about them to other communities, saying that if Rob Ford isn't there to keep control the football team would run wild or that neighbourhoods would be erupting in violence and gunfire. He very much portrays poor minority communities as an other, people who aren't really upstanding contributing taxpayers like you and I. He seems to see Toronto likes it is some American big city we see in movies and TV.
People today are easily triggered into outrage by a few words. Anything disparaging of a minority people is our new profanity. Ford has used those words. But he's a crude, stupid man, who although wealthy was raised with a working class outlook, and raised at a time when a lot of those words that cause such concern down at the university were thrown around quite liberally. He used them while with supposed friends, getting high, partying. So I think some people can get a little carried away trying to peg him on those incidents. His real racism is most evident not in his disapproved vocabulary but in the way he spoke of his football players. And here is the same dynamic highlighted by Andray Domise this week in an article about how Ford refers to those in minority communities in TCHC or priority neighbourhoods. He is both paternalistic, claiming that no one does more for them than Rob Ford, while also spreading fear about them to other communities, saying that if Rob Ford isn't there to keep control the football team would run wild or that neighbourhoods would be erupting in violence and gunfire. He very much portrays poor minority communities as an other, people who aren't really upstanding contributing taxpayers like you and I. He seems to see Toronto likes it is some American big city we see in movies and TV.
