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A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (capitalbnews.org)
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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ... It's even worse than the headline appears. They went extra far out of their way to keep him not only from acting as mayor, but also in the town's fire department. They made blatantly racist comments. And they apparently had previously maintained an unelected white "dynasty" of sorts on the mayor position. Despite the town being 85% black, they've never had a black mayor (or an elected one, for that matter).