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...Birmingham FIRE...
...allow them to concoct a case against him. So why did he go to jail at all? "He wants to see if he can defuse the ((case)) by wrapping himself in the mantle of the civil rights movement," speculates political scientist Steven Daniels of the University of Alabama at Birmingham...
Uproar in Birmingham...
...contretemps has divided Birmingham along racial lines. Many whites suspect that the mayor might be hiding something. Many blacks, however, share the mayor's claim that black elected officials are being unfairly targeted. As 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...
...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...