[News Feed] Racism a Challenge for Incoming L.A. Mayor (AP)

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AP - As a candidate for mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa packaged his ethnicity as carefully as he knotted one of his designer ties. Looking to appeal across the racial rainbow, he became the candidate who happened to be Hispanic, not the Hispanic candidate. But only days after his watershed election as the first Hispanic mayor of modern Los Angeles, fighting between black and Latino high school students forced him to speak to the racial lines that crisscross — and sometimes divide — one of the nation's most diverse cities.

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