Posted on 04/14/2007 6:02:01 PM PDT by SmithL
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ City Councilman Edmund Ford received a package containing a white Ku Klux Klan robe, and the council chairman wants police to investigate.
Ford received the package by special delivery Friday. He said he didn't want to dignify it with a response.
Ford, who is black, accused at least some of his fellow council members of racism Tuesday, saying, "Sometimes you might just have to get a white sheet."
The KKK robe came with a letter addressed to Ford that began: "Mr. Ford I believe you are in desperate need of a white sheet, so I took it upon myself to gift you with your very own bigot robe."
The letter said some of the robe's special insignia was added just for Ford. "You will see the yellow bands on the sleeves. The yellow symbolizes cowardice."
The author also described a patch on the robe that says "guilty" and goes on to write, "you Mr. Ford are guilty of the very bigotry and racial hatred that you accuse others of."
Council Chairman Tom Marshall thinks police should look into the matter. He also said he doesn't want the incident to re-ignite the strife among council members, instead hoping it will unify the group.
"I suspect that it was a joke, but in any case, it was a hateful joke and that's a joke that's not funny to me," Marshall said.
Perhaps it came from England:
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Edmond Ford was the one that got caught in the FBI sting accepting bribes. He’s been howling racism and entrapment vehemently ever since.
When you are a Democrat and an elected offical does there have to be a crime for them to demand an investigation?
You can bet that had it been anyone besides his son they would have been charged with trespassing and littering at the very least.
agents provacateur. until I hear of suspects and evidence in this and the ‘bacon in the koran’ story of the other day I won’t get yanked by the nose hoop into thinking the neo’s are at work.
A hate crime?
< /sarc size=little >
Nope
John Ford is the former State Senator (from Memphis) caught by the FBI in the TN Waltz sting.
Edmund Ford is the Memphis City Councilman who ran up $16,000 in unpaid electrical bills (without having his power shut off). This was after Edmund lobbied heavily for Joseph Lee III to run the Utility company. Later, when the Council was voting on removing Lee, Edmund accused them of being like the KKK. That's what was behind the robe.
Both Fords are in the same corrupt family that sent Ophelia to Nashville using dead voters, and almost inflicted Harold Ford on the US Senate.
Here are a couple of recent threads:
EDMUND FORD: Uproar Over Memphis Power Broker’s Unpaid Utility Bills
I smell an inside job.
Maybe he meant it was sent “speedy delivery” by Mr. McFeely from the Mr. Rogers show.
Nor that he edmund was the receiver of favorable treatment on his electric bill...for several years...being allowed to rack up nearly a $20,000 bill for his several businesses...that because of this conflict of interest he should NOT have been in on the session concerning this issue.
Keeping up with democratic party political corruption is almost a full time job nowadays
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