I *AM* doing my own thinking, unlike 99+% of the Ford bashers on this board.
The problem is that no searches I have done have come up with any hits other than the one sentence, with absolutely no context.
I'm simply asking if you can provide the context. If you can, great. If not, so be it - I'll keep searching, but I think its totally inappropriate to jump to conclusions (which you do if you have a single sentence out of context). If you jump to conclusions, you're remarkably close to worrying about being PC....
Tell you what then. YOU contact Ford and ask THEM why their top executives said these things, and ask THEM what they thought the context was. And ask them why they support a group like La Raza. Get back to me then, and not any sooner.