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City of Kingman | Daily Miner
Every city has resident voices that challenge respect and dignity for others. They are wrong and unfortunate. That was no exception on Sunday’s “Who Is America?” show on Showtime in which an actor baited purported residents to vociferously oppose a fictitious, supersized mosque in our city.
Another in the audience also stated negative feelings toward African-Americans. No matter the instigation or that numerous “focus group” participants don’t even live in Kingman, the show’s characterization in the words of one member of our Kingman City Council “broke her heart.”
Why? Because our community has made great strides to erase previous perceptions. We do have a mosque. We do have a robust Latino community. We do welcome tourists from all over the world, especially more and more from Asia fascinated by our Route 66 history. We do have African-Americans applying for leadership positions with the city. This is the Kingman of today, not of yesterday.
