Race Question Back for Cohen -- Challenger Jake Ford: Black Person Should Represent District

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U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen has said he thinks the 9th Congressional District has gotten beyond race in electing its representatives.

But independent candidate Jake Ford seemed intent on proving him wrong Thursday. He kicked off the congressional campaign by blasting Cohen, who is white, and saying Tennessee deserves to have at least one black congressman.

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Race Question Back for Cohen -- Challenger Jake Ford: Black Person Should Represent District

Still hot from his loss to Cohen in 2006, Ford, younger brother of former congressman Harold Ford Jr., also railed against the news media - specifically The Commercial Appeal - for not giving him, or his record...

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