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    In Atlanta, some black voters weigh backing city's first white woman mayor

    Dec 04, 2017 6 minutes
    Atlanta resident James Morgan says that after nearly 50 years of black leadership, Atlanta may be ready for a white mayor.

    James Morgan feels in his bones that being a “descendant of slaves” is still a defining quality of his existence as a black man in America.

    In that way, the retired gas-line worker takes particular pride in Atlanta’s nearly five decades of black leadership, epitomized today by Mayor Kasim Reed, a descendant of Nigeria’s Igbo tribe who has overseen a spectacular economic run for the South’s preeminent trade and culture hub.

    Born and raised on the city’s rapidly-gentrifying east side, Mr. Morgan, wearing a fedora and leather jacket, understands the importance of the city as a paragon of black competence – a legacy that to him seems especially important as the FBI in November reported an uptick in racial hate crimes nationally against both whites and blacks.

    Yet Atlanta and its AA+ bond rating face a pivotal choice Tuesday. Morgan, for one, says he is torn between the two candidates facing each other in a run-off. On one hand, there is former

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