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

[BaggerofTea]

if only black players would boycott Alabama and auburn football. Take their talents elsewhere and leave those schools to get stomped out. That’s the only thing that will get those tuberville’s attention.

The entire South football system needs to be boycotted

 

[Neuromancer]

if only black players would boycott Alabama and auburn football. Take their talents elsewhere and leave those schools to get stomped out. That’s the only thing that will get those tuberville’s attention.

Yeah. Why won't they?

 

[Neuromancer]

The entire South football system needs to be boycotted

Seems a lot of athletes might be by duress.

 

[Will Ross]

The entire South football system needs to be boycotted

This makes no sense you taking one town but forgetting all the other cities that have black leadership that fun fine

 

[Scaaar]

I've been thinking about this the last few weeks. In this day and age why haven't we just established a new community? In this day and age we have enough people in different industries to establish all the basic infrastructure. Like a new greenwood district? How much would it cost? How do you get people to buy in? Also we have way more armed citizens and money that we won't be pressured out

 

[The Half-Blood FKA Prince]

Nonsense. The republican party told me racism doesnt exist in america and never has.

 

[V Skyye]

This is sad but believable. Black people need to get out of these small towns and go to larger cities. These towns really live in the past. They lack jobs, infrastructure, and they are extremely racist. Things like this happen all over the rural South.

 

[Fresh]

if you could let 25 - 30 cacs run you out of the town where you out number them 10 to 1, there is no amount of "moving" that is going to fix that problem

If there is evidence that these people are letting black people's houses burn, should there be feds involved and criminal charges?

 

[BaggerofTea]

This makes no sense you taking one town but forgetting all the other cities that have black leadership that fun fine

People like you do not exist in any other community but the black community.

You need to heal yourself

 

[dark_magic]

Politics is an analog of warfare.

 

[Arizax2]

Let's keep the pressure. Look at the store owner coping pleas on Facebook. See the post they wrote an hour ago

Vasser's Mini Mart

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Finally made CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/06/us/newbern-alabama-mayor-dispute/index.html

 

[MoshpitMazi]

I hate this country

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[get these nets]

Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, to return under proposed settlement

The tiny town of Newbern, where Black people outnumber white people by a 2-to-1 ratio, previously had "hand-me-down” positions in which mayors picked their successors, a lawsuit alleged.

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June 24, 2024

Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, to return under proposed settlement​

NEWBERN, Ala. — The first Black mayor of a small Alabama town, who said white officials locked him out of town hall, will return to the role under the terms of a proposed settlement agreement.
Patrick Braxton will be recognized as the lawful mayor of the town of Newbern, under the terms of a proposed agreement to settle a lawsuit between Braxton and the town. The settlement was filed Friday and, if approved by U.S. District Judge Kristi K. DuBose, will end the long-running dispute over control of the town government, pave the way for Braxton to take over as the town’s first Black mayor and allow the seating of a new city council.

“I’m pleased with the outcome and the community is pleased. I think they are more pleased that they can voice their opinion and vote,” Braxton, 57, said Monday