Different State Of Race Relations: With Few Blacks, Utah Feels Its Way

Karl Vick, Washington Post

- 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 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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