Rarely has Salt Lake City been subjected to such a tawdry, ill-considered case of post-election sour grapes as the hatchet job that appeared in the Nov. 19 Salt Lake Tribune (“Salt Lake City mayoral election and whiteness").
Despite the fact that Erin Mendenhall defeated Luz Escamilla by a whopping 16 percentage points, the five authors have concluded that Mendenhall’s victory can only be explained by pervasive racism among the Salt Lake City electorate. If they are going to smear the entire city with that sort of allegation, they had better be able to back it up.