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Utah has work to do on racial tolerance despite some progress and good intentions.
Small Lake City
When Brigham Young declared, “This is the place,” he wasn’t considering people like me. He opined that servitude was justifiable in an address to the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1852. His contemporaries in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were at odds about slavery—on the fence, if you will.
But that's all old, 19th-century news, right? My third year living in Utah, I was working with families who adopted transracially. One of the White moms told me about an incident at Alta High School where a White student put a white pillowcase over his head with eye holes cut out.
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