Matthew Glavin walked into the Atlanta mayor’s office on June 14 with a convoy of television cameras in tow. He had come to deliver by hand a letter warning the city that if it didn’t abandon its minority set-aside program, his Southeastern Legal Foundation would sue.
Democrats leaped to the defense of Atlanta’s racial-preference policies. “We have finally hit upon somebody to hate. Matt Glavin is someone that I hate,” declared state representative Billy McKinney. Mayor Bill Campbell was even more blunt. “We will fight to the death,” he said at a press conference, in which he also likened the coming legal battle to “a shootout at the O.K. Corral”—a rather unfortunate phrasing, coming as it did just days before a local day-trader went on a shooting spree that left twelve others dead. All of a sudden, “The City Too Busy to Hate” was seething with it.
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