Here is the start to a WAPO article:
"A Georgia mayor is facing bipartisan calls to resign
following a report that she dismissed a candidate for a top city
position based on his race. Racist remarks from one of her defenders
further inflamed the controversy, revealing what some say are outdated
racial attitudes long pervasive in a small, predominantly white city.
The drama came to a head Monday in the Jackson County community of Hoschton, after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported
that Mayor Theresa Kenerly withdrew the application of Keith Henry, a
finalist for city administrator, 'because he is black, and the city
isn’t ready for this.'”
Her defender, a good Christian supported her saying:
“I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial
marriage. That’s the way I was brought up and that’s the way I believe,”
he said. “I have black friends, I hired black people. But when it comes
to all this stuff you see on TV, when you see blacks and whites
together, it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a
Christian is supposed to live.”
I think I missed that section in our Social Principles!
But the most disturbing portion of the above quoted portions is that:
"the controversy, reveal(ed) what some say are outdated
racial attitudes long pervasive in a small, predominantly white city."
Now, perhaps this is my misreading of the sentence or maybe it is poorly crafted. But, if I first read it, the writer says that some say such prejudice is outdated seems to leave some doubt as to its being outdated. The next we will hear is that there are good people on both sides!!
What I hope the writer meant to say is:
revealing what some say are outdated
racial attitudes (that) some say are long pervasive in a small, predominantly white city.
Why not just say it. These are are outdated
racial attitudes and have been and are long pervasive in every every small, medium and large village, town and city in America.
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