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Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator - Saturday February 6, 2016 Ferguson unrepentant and ÔoffendedÕ by accusations (By Andrew Dreschel) An official with the Colombian consulate says it's not up to him to say whether Coun. Lloyd Ferguson should apologize for controversial comments about his country being backwards. "I leave that to the City of Hamilton," Toronto-based trade commissioner Alvaro Concha said Thursday. But far from entertaining apologies, an unrepentant Ferguson is on the attack. He's "offended" that his reference to Colombia as a "backwards" place where the only wealthy are "drug lords" and chickens ride buses has been branded as stereotyping by politicians and members of the public. "I wasn't making that crap up; it's what I visibly saw," said Ferguson, who visited Colombia 12 years ago for a weeklong business conference. "I don't like being accused of stereotyping because I wasn't stereotyping. I witnessed it first hand." Ferguson made his controversial comments during a budget meeting this week. He was responding to the city's transit director using a quote from the Mayor of Bogota, Colombia's capital city, stating a developed country is not where the poor have cars, but where the rich use public transit. Calling the ensuing kerfuffle a "tempest in a teapot," the Ancaster councillor and police board chair says he was objecting to benchmarking Hamilton against Bogota, a city of eight million. Coun. Mathew Green immediately took Ferguson to task for stereotyping. When the story went mainstream, it lit up social media and online commentary. Many demanded Ferguson apologize. The pitchfork-and-torch mob called him a racist and xenophobe. One twit on Twitter accused Mayor Fred Eisenberger of agreeing with Ferguson because he was silent on the issue. Eisenberger pushed back, calling that and other comments as "outrageous" as Ferguson's own. (Continued: Hamilton Spectator) http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/6264566-dresche

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday February 6, 2016

Ferguson unrepentant and ‘offended’ by accusations

(By Andrew Dreschel) An official with the Colombian consulate says it’s not up to him to say whether Coun. Lloyd Ferguson should apologize for controversial comments about his country being backwards.

Tuesday November 10, 2015“I leave that to the City of Hamilton,” Toronto-based trade commissioner Alvaro Concha said Thursday.

But far from entertaining apologies, an unrepentant Ferguson is on the attack.

He’s “offended” that his reference to Colombia as a “backwards” place where the only wealthy are “drug lords” and chickens ride buses has been branded as stereotyping by politicians and members of the public.

“I wasn’t making that crap up; it’s what I visibly saw,” said Ferguson, who visited Colombia 12 years ago for a weeklong business conference.

“I don’t like being accused of stereotyping because I wasn’t stereotyping. I witnessed it first hand.”

Ferguson made his controversial comments during a budget meeting this week. He was responding to the city’s transit director using a quote from the Mayor of Bogota, Colombia’s capital city, stating a developed country is not where the poor have cars, but where the rich use public transit.

Thursday March 12, 2015Calling the ensuing kerfuffle a “tempest in a teapot,” the Ancaster councillor and police board chair says he was objecting to benchmarking Hamilton against Bogota, a city of eight million.

Coun. Mathew Green immediately took Ferguson to task for stereotyping. When the story went mainstream, it lit up social media and online commentary. Many demanded Ferguson apologize. The pitchfork-and-torch mob called him a racist and xenophobe.

One twit on Twitter accused Mayor Fred Eisenberger of agreeing with Ferguson because he was silent on the issue. Eisenberger pushed back, calling that and other comments as “outrageous” as Ferguson’s own. (Continued: Hamilton Spectator)

 

Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: apology, Columbia, council, Fred Eisenberger, Hamilton, Lloyd Ferguson, Matthew Green, pillory, stocks
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