Ethics

The Sackcloth and Ashes Proclamation

By Ed Brayton

I poked a little fun at Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Larry Langford's "sackcloth and ashes" day of prayer to end crime in his city, but a reader pointed me to a PDF of the actual proclamation written by Langford; it's so riddled with grammatical errors that one wonders if it's not a parody. I swear to you that not a single letter or punctuation mark is changed in the passages below.

The City of Birmingham Like the City of Ninevah has experienced violence and murder that pails in comparison to the City of Ninevah in the Old Testament, Book of Jonah; and has become the fourth violent city per capital in the United States of America; and...

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).