Patrick Braxton said that the "minority White residents of (Newburn), long accustomed to exercising total control over the government, refused to accept his election as mayor.

A Black man who says he was elected mayor of a rural Alabama town but has been kept from taking office by White leaders of the town has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

  • vd1n@lemmy.ml
    408·
    2 years ago

    Small towns suck. Big towns suck. Cities suck. America sucks and it’s not coming back.

        • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world
          29·
          2 years ago

          The only people capable of fundamentally improving one’s country are those willing to see what’s wrong with it. The very country of the United States was founded by a bunch of people so mad about their country that they literally revolted.

        • Pratai@lemmy.ca
          6·
          2 years ago

          And the rest of us are still waiting for all the blindly-supportive ignorant America lovers to get their heads out of their ass.