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mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.world to News@kbin.socialEnglish · 2 years ago

A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve

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A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve

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For three years, Patrick Braxton says he has experienced harassment and intimidation after becoming the first Black mayor in Newbern, Alabama.
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    Jfc. White Alabama assholes proving yet again why the state can’t seem to dig itself out of the Jim Crow era.

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      Proving again that Sherman didn’t go far enough.

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