A couple of days ago, Ford added to his aura of muddled centrism with an entry on the Huffington Post about Coretta Scott King's funeral. After a couple of paragraphs of boilerplate commeration, Ford wrote:
As the nation paused yesterday to reflect on what Mrs. King meant to each one of us, it is important remember [sic] we cannot divorce the way she lived her life from the way we celebrate her after her passing. Funerals should not be ceremonies to fabricate a life's works. Instead, they are a time to celebrate with honesty and dignity a woman's life, and to consider the legacy that she has left behind.
In the comments section, readers demanded Ford explain just what he thought might have been "fabricate"d about her life in the funeral. It sounded like Ford was dipping a toe into the those-Negroes-don't-know-how-to-behave waters as part of his ongoing effort to become U.S. senator from a Southern state.
I read his post over a couple of times to try to figure out just what he was getting at. For, as sickening as his obession with "centrism" is, I was having a hard time accepting that a Southern black man, even Ford, would actually be questioning the truths that were spoken at the funeral.
This morning Ford appeared on the show of radio racist Don Imus and commented further on the King funeral. Despite a couple of remarks that the world could have done without ("Some things may have been said that were out of wack." On the Presidents Bush: "I thought they were both awesome!"), his words there made it clear that he was speaking of those who would deny the truth of what Coretta's life was about as the fabricators -- the haters on the right we heard from Tuesday.
The reason Ford stumbled over himself on what should have been a slam-dunk condemnation of Right's crybaby response is that he is so concerned with maintaining that center line, he is afraid of saying anything that will offend large numbers of the white Southerners in his home state that he needs in order to achieve his short-term goal.
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