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<h6><span style="color: #2b2020;"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8216;A Christian is supposed to &#8230; keep your races pure,&#8217; &#8211; Jim Cleveland</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2020;"><strong>Councilman in the Georgia town of Hoschton said the idea of interracial marriage &#8216;makes his blood boil&#8217; </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2020;"><strong>Cleveland </strong><strong>is considering resigning from his position on the city council after he </strong><strong>came under fire for racist remark regarding interracial marriage</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2020;"><strong>The idea &#8216;that&#8217;s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live&#8217;, he insists</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2020;"><strong>And he&#8217;s not the only government official spewing racial remarks in Hoschton </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2020;"><strong>Hoschton Mayor Theresa Kenerly also faces calls for her resignation, officials say</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2020;"><strong>In documents, Kenerly is quoted as saying that there was a strong candidate for the city administrator job &#8216;but he was Black and we don&#8217;t have a big black population&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2020;"><strong>Documents allege Kenerly didn&#8217;t believe that Hoschton &#8216;was ready for [a Black administrator]&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-318713" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jim-Cleveland-1-300x195.png" alt="" width="605" height="395" />Weird Christian doctrine: Hoschton City Councilman Jim Cleveland [photo], has drawn furious responses by some townspeople and othe</strong>rs when he said opposes interracial marriage because he&#8217;s a Christian. He says now considering stepping down </span></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">A councilman in a mostly white Georgia town who drew nationwide scorn for his comments on interracial marriage says he&#8217;s considering stepping down from his position.<br />
City Council member Jim Cleveland said he is praying about the decision, though some townspeople have urged him to stay on the council in Hoschton, he said Wednesday.<br />
&#8216;I&#8217;m getting &#8220;don&#8217;t step down, hang in there, everything&#8217;s going to be okay,&#8221;&#8216; he said.<br />
Hoschton city Mayor Theresa Kenerly similarly faces calls for her resignation.<br />
In documents released by the city, Councilwoman Hope Weeks wrote that the mayor told her they had a strong candidate for the city administrator job &#8216;but he was Black and we don&#8217;t have a big Black population and she just didn&#8217;t think Hoschton was ready for that&#8217;.</span></div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318711" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Theresa-Kenerly-1-300x194.png" alt="" width="872" height="564" /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">Amnesia: Hoschton Mayor Theresa Kenerly photo], who&#8217;s also faceing calls for her resignation claims she can not recall endorsing race based job discrimination</span></strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mayor Kenerly has said she doesn&#8217;t recall saying that. Messages left for the mayor at city hall Wednesday were not immediately returned.</span></div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Cleveland drew furious responses by some townspeople and others when he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he opposes interracial marriage because he&#8217;s a Christian.</span></div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">The idea &#8216;makes my blood boil because that&#8217;s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live&#8217; and that a lesson from the church is to &#8216;keep your races pure,&#8217; he&#8217;s told the newspaper.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8216;This all goes back to when I was a kid and I was brought up in the South &#8211; rural Georgia &#8211; and it was preached in the church,&#8217; he said on Wednesday.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">He thinks his comments are being taken the wrong way, he said, and that he wants to apologize for &#8216;anything I&#8217;ve said that offended anybody.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8216;I am much more tolerant now than I used to be,&#8217; he said in the interview. &#8216;When I see a black couple now, I say &#8216;okay, that&#8217;s the way of the times.&#8217; I have never ever done anything vicious, cruel, ugly to a black person because of any of my beliefs.&#8217;</span></div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318712" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jim-Cleveland-2-300x194.png" alt="" width="642" height="415" /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">The idea &#8216;[of </span></strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">interracial marriage], </span><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">makes my blood boil because that&#8217;s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live&#8217; and that a lesson from the church is to &#8216;keep your races pure,&#8217; Councilman Cleveland, [right], said </span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;"> <img class="alignnone wp-image-318710" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Hope-Weeks-1-300x192.png" alt="" width="618" height="395" /> <strong>In documents released by the city, Councilwoman Hope Weeks [photo], states that Mayor Kenerly told her they had a strong candidate for the city administrator job &#8216;but he was black and we don&#8217;t have a big black population and she just didn&#8217;t think Hoschton was ready for that&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318708" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Mary-Morrison-1-300x193.png" alt="" width="612" height="394" />As townspeople mount intense pressure for the departure of the two politicians, a resident, Mary Morrison [photo], spoke out during a city council meeting at the Hoschton Historic Train Depot in Hoschton on Monday </span></strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Faith leaders in the town planned a prayer vigil for Wednesday. The city&#8217;s website was offline Wednesday, with a message saying it was undergoing some work.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Cleveland, a former AT&;T manager who has been on the council for about a decade, said Wednesday that he&#8217;s weighing the effect of a possible resignation.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">If there are multiple resignations among the mayor and city council, he worries the city would be unable to carry on its official business.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8216;I&#8217;ve done so much for the city,&#8217; he said, adding that he&#8217;s paid $300 a year and donates all of it back to the city so it can be used for Christmas bonuses for employees.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">He&#8217;s also spent hundreds of hours over the years renovating and repairing city buildings, he said.</span></div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318709" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Residents-of-Hoschton-Ga.-protest-against-Mayor-and-Councilman-1-300x191.png" alt="" width="617" height="393" />Protests: &#8216;Hoschton will not tolerate racism&#8217;. Residents of Hoschton protested on Monday and called for both politicians to step down</span></strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318707" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Residents-of-Hoschton-Ga.-protest-against-Mayor-and-Councilman-2-300x191.png" alt="" width="613" height="390" />Another protester was seen holding a sign that read: &#8216;Hoschton will not tolerate racism,&#8217; during the council meeting</span></strong></div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">In recent days however, the fallout from his mind-bugling comments on fundamental race related issues seems to have gotten progressively worse.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8216;The more I talk to anybody, it seems like the worse everything gets,&#8217; he said.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Residents of Hoschton protested on Monday and called for both politicians to resign.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">One woman was seen holding a sign that read: &#8216;Hoschton will not tolerate racism.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Another sign read: &#8216;Resign Kenerly &; Cleveland. We don&#8217;t want you!&#8217; </span></div>
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