The Radical Center
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The Radical Center

Some Bigots Only Change their Party.

This really is astounding. Mayor Theresa Kenerly of Hoschton, Georgia — outside Atlanta — was looking for a city administrator and interviewed Keith Henry over the phone. But there was one fact about Henry stopping her from hiring him — he is black.

She told City Council member Hope Weeks that “the candidate was real good, but he was black… and she didn’t think Hoschton was ready for that.”

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James Peron

James Peron is the president of the Moorfield Storey Institute, was the founding editor of Esteem a LGBT publication in South Africa under apartheid.