Racial Issues in Utah

With so much tension these days between nativists and immigrant advocates, some of us tend to forget there are other issues that still haunt us.

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Different State Of Race Relations

With Few Blacks, Utah Feels Its Way

By Karl Vick

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 31, 2008; Page A01

SALT LAKE CITY -- Earlier this year, a state senator stood on the statehouse floor here and spoke disparagingly of a pending bill. "This baby is black," said Sen. Chris Buttars, a Republican, adding, "It's a dark, ugly thing."

Weary of talking about race? Come to [Utah] the Beehive State, where race relations is a topic of bracing freshness.

Here, basic issues of sensitivity -- what is spoken of aloud and what is best left unsaid, assumptions good and bad, all the delicate matters that in so many parts of the country have been burnished to exquisite subtleties by worry and constant attention -- are still very basic indeed...

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