A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve
A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve
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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Here's what I don't get... town is 85% black and only has 275 people.
That means a 234 to 41 split black to white. 5.7:1 ratio.
If those 41 people really are that racist and regressive, you haul them all out of their homes, tar and feather them, and ride them out of town on a rail.
This. Violence is not the answer.
Until it is. Violence sometimes only can be corrected with violence.
The minute, and I mean THE MINUTE, some racist asshat burns someones house down, as happened here, you deserve the right to stop being polite about it.
Violence is not THE answer, but it is AN answer.
You are wrong violence is never the answer.
Its a question and the answer is yes.
Our society needs to bring back public shaming, shunning and banishment.
Then in Alabama it would be used exclusively for black people.
Then start shaming and banishing the racist whites.
Seriously people, stop being afraid of them and combat them. It doesn't even really matter how, what matters is not taking their bullshit lying down.
I suspect (based on nothing, really) that most white people in this country are not racist. It's the tiny pockets of diarrhea like this town that are disproportionately racist, and have disproportionate representation in national politics.
I wonder if WFH could change this, as liberal white people from places like California start moving to different states, and begin to turn them blue. Or maybe I'm being too optimistic?
Racism/bigotry is not really a yes or no thing. It is a spectrum. Everyone is at least a little bigoted. Some people are pretty far up in that racism spectrum though.
The problem isn't just small towns like this where the clock stopped 70 years ago, it's huge portions of the South.
Gentrification from blue states isn't happening because the services needed (high speed internet) aren't available in small towns like this, and, because of other problems, nobody from the outside wants to live there.
Alabama ranks #44/50 on a "Best States" list:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings
40 Crime & Corrections
33 Economy
44 Education
20 Fiscal Stability
44 Health Care
36 Infrastructure
47 Natural Environment
32 OpportunityHaha, at first I read "country" as "county" and was like...wtf are you smoking, this is Dumbfuck, Alabama but on a country-wide level, I agree.
Idk about moving state to state but I noticed people's definition of "reasonable commuting distance" got a little bigger durring covid. Like I'll do a longer drive if I'm doing it 2x a week instead of 5x. People that'd otherwise be in town or a blue suburb pushed a little farther into the exurbs.
I think a lot of people are racist tho so idk if that's helping