Herriman, like many Catholics, are in the schizoid tradition. 
Articles describes New O. as "a deeply Catholic city" but then goes onto to note  this slave center, later segregation center, if not a hotbed of racism, where persons of the mythical "mixed blood" couldn't marry?!
Deeply Catholic as supportive of inhumanity?
The Catholic "virtue" of cognitive dissonance is alive, well, and thrives!