“I really don’t feel like we need to perpetuate this systemic institutional racism of the past. I think that we can set a better tone.”
– Planning Commissioner Trinity White, on Tuesday, just before commissioners voted against staff recommendations for a rezoning of the Montopolis Negro School
This article appears in September 15 • 2017.
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