-National Post
There’s nobody, but nobody, in politics that has helped out black people more than I have,” quoth Rob Ford on Wednesday night during a mayoral debate at the Jamaican Canadian Centre, up Jane-and-Finch way. My jaw dropped slightly, and I checked to make sure my tape recorder was working. It was. He said it. Then I realized I seemed to be the most scandalized person in the room. Many people might assume Mr. Ford would be chased out of a debate like this, but he definitely wasn’t.
Facing off against George Smitherman, Joe Pantalone and Rocco Achampong, I’d say he came close to winning it, and upon reflection it’s not hard to see why.
The question Mr. Ford was answering — from a no-nonsense Jane-Finch resident named Cathy — went like this: “I want to know what you would do for us in this area, especially for our black men who are getting shot down in the street and no one is being held accountable for it. Also, I don’t want to hear nothing about no basketball, no football, no soccer. We have bright, intelligent young people.”
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