100 Years Later, Dearborn Confronts the Hate of Hometown Hero Henry Ford

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2. Here's the statement from the mayor's office

From the City of Dearborn's web site:

For years, Dearborn has supported and participated with interfaith organizations and in regional roundtables with diverse communities, and actively promotes initiatives dedicated to increasing unity and understanding.

So we want Dearborn to be understood as it is today—a community that works hard at fostering positive relationships within our city and beyond. We expect city-funded publications like The Historian to support these efforts.

It was thought that by presenting information from 100 years ago that included hateful messages -- without a compelling reason directly linked to events in Dearborn today -- this edition of the city-funded Historian could become a distraction from our continuing messages of inclusion and respect.

For this reason, the Mayor asked that the distribution of the hard copies of the current edition of The Historian be halted.

They also deny "firing" McGraw (because he is a contractor, not a city employee - never mind that the mayor told the curator to end McGraw's contract). Pretty fine distinction