Okay, so there’s a small town north of Atlanta where time stands still.

Hoschton was hiring a city administrator and – oh Lord, we should have been this coming – a black man applied.

The mayor decided that although the man was qualified “she just didn’t think Hoschton was ready to hire” a black person as an administrator.  She said this privately to a council member.

“We are not Atlanta,” she carefully explained.

Two other council members were not in agreement and went to the city attorney to complain.

But Councilman Jim Cleveland agreed with the mayor.

“I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage. That’s the way I was brought up and that’s the way I believe,” Cleveland was quoted as telling the newspaper.

“I have black friends, I hired black people, he added. “But when it comes to all this stuff you see on TV, when you see blacks and whites together, it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live.”

Yeah, stunning.

Meanwhile, while racists were being racists, the man who had applied was hired at another city.  I hope at a much higher salary.

Thanks to Sam in Minn for the heads up.