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In their shoes (letters to the editors)

Started by Natasha, March 01, 2008, 06:18:59 PM

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Natasha

In their shoes

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_8411981
03/01/2008

"Sen. Chris Buttars' comments, including his penitence before a predominantly black Baptist church, makes one consider how often the sum totality of an individual is reduced into one or two words.  Buttars' discomfort at being characterized as a racist was unsettling enough for him to take extraordinary steps to show he was more complex, more human than reflected in a single word.

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