Ford Family Fracture

By Kleinheider Posted on May 8, 2008 at 7:34 am

Jackson Baker reports that Harold Ford, Jr.’s younger brothers, Jake and Sir Isaac, did not attend his wedding likely because of a very public interfamilial spat over some racial charged comments brother Jake made recently while campaigning as an independent for Junior’s former congressional seat:

Conspicuous absentees were the groom’s brothers, Jake and Isaac Ford, both of whom had been present, along with numerous other Memphians, at a pre-nuptial reception at the Brooks Museum in early April. Intervening between that event and the wedding itself, which took place on Saturday, April 26th, was a public disagreement between Harold Ford Jr.’s siblings, on one hand, and their brother and father, former congressman Harold Ford Sr., on the other.

That disagreement concerned remarks made by the two younger Fords on the occasion of Jake Ford’s filing as an independent for his brother’s former congressional seat. Candidate Ford was quoted as making racial and religious references concerning the 9th District’s need for black representation that were repudiated by brother Harold and by his father. Harold Ford Jr. called the remarks “insulting,” and Harold Ford Sr. termed them “not representative of the family.”

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