1. Take a look at the banner on this site: @2014MayorFord and start thinking about Ford's pitch to non-white voters.
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2. There's plenty of evidence that Rob Ford thinks the way to be re-elected is to mobilize non-white voters.
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3. What's Ford's pitch to non-whites? I think its based on idea that "I'm one of you" because I'm also marginalized by city elite.
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4. For many white Toronto, the police are emblem of respectability. For many non-whites, agents of racial profiling & capricious harassment
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5. Rob Ford is the price Toronto is paying for not dealing forthrightly with marginalization of immigrant communities.
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6. Homophobia of course is the toxic read meat that Ford uses to feed his alliance with socially conservative immigrant communities.
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7. There are well-to-do Torontonians who think that racism and homophobia aren't part of city's daily life. They are great fools.
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8. There's some parallels with Ford's use of homophobia to divide & conquer and similar technique in contemporary France.
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