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...then, after only one night in jail, Arrington caved in, cutting short his protest by relinquishing his records. "It's not been great fun," he said. His abrupt abandonment of principle left some citizens shaking their heads and wondering whether the protest was orchestrated as a clever media ploy. Only the mayor can answer that question. What is certain is that the controversy exposed the city's raw nerves of race and that it will take a substantial effort to calm them...
...along, U.S. Attorney Donaldson, a white Republican, vehemently dismissed the charge of bias. Says he: "We're colorblind, and we simply follow the evidence where it leads." Last fall that evidence led to Atlanta architect Tarlee Brown, a former business partner of Arrington's, who pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding the city. Brown says he paid the mayor $5,000 in kickbacks for city architectural work, a charge Arrington denies. While the mayor contended that his records will exonerate him, he also claimed that turning the documents over to the prosecutors may allow them to concoct a case against...
...evidence, they cite the example of former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who was videotaped inhaling from a crack pipe by federal agents after being lured to a hotel by an ex-girl friend. Now, says the Rev. Abraham Woods, one of the civil rights veterans who has championed Arrington's cause, "they're out to destroy this fine mayor. They have a Klan mentality. They think they can treat blacks the way they want to. They belong to the old school...
...chapter in an old book. "We put it together once," roared Shuttlesworth to stamping applause, "and we can put it together again." Blacks are outraged that the man they elected, with the ballot they fought so hard to win, is under attack. To many people, the case against Arrington is a present-day version of trumped-up charges brought against King...
...equating the mayor with King is as bogus as comparing Donaldson to Bull Connor. The straightforward moral choices that Birmingham faced in King's day are not a reliable guide to sorting out the ambiguities posed by the Arrington affair. Back then, racist bombing attacks were so common that the city's best black neighborhood was nicknamed "Dynamite Hill." Parks, schools and buses were segregated, and most blacks were denied the vote. Today every legal vestige of Jim Crow has disappeared from the city, and Arrington sits in the mayor's office. The racial battleground is no longer black...