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Small Alabama Town Wins Lawsuit Allowing Residents To Vote For First Time In Decades (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)

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[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago

I thought Clarence and John said voting rights were all good long ago and the feds didn’t need to worry about it anymore?

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

(F)as(c) is tradition for fascists.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Fascist radition for fascists

I see fascist everywhere....

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Holy crap i didn't notice that bwahahha

Its the latest fasch

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

In this case, voting rights weren't the issue... they just didn't have elections...

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 34 points 2 years ago

Does professor Sherman need to teach another lesson?

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Do it again, Uncle Sherman.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

The article should be required reading in all American schools.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 2 years ago

I remember when this story broke about the elected mayor being squeezed out. Good to see that some amount of justice is taking place, though I’m sure this won’t be the end of pushback from the power-holding white gentry. Insane that they were getting away with this in modern times.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

I remember when this happened, and I was stunned. There are only 133 people in the town and the vast majority of them are black, it should have been a self solving problem to throw out the white minority.

Another good article here:

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

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it really is one of the most egregious examples of organized racism in the modern era. A white minority of an entire town holding onto power over the black majority by unlawful and unethical practices that they coordinated.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Does anyone know where I can find a time line of this case? I'm really curious how it took four years to litigate something this egregious. Four years to reach a settlement, not even a litigate court ruling.

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