Current Events > Racist Town in Alabama Refuses to Acknowledge Victory of Black Mayoral Candidate

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09/10/23 4:03:14 PM
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Humble_Novice
09/10/23 5:58:46 PM
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out

This is precisely why racists should be ignored no matter what.

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DuuuDe14
09/10/23 5:59:23 PM
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Send in the guards

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Zikten
09/10/23 6:00:14 PM
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Yea I've heard of this. I don't understand why the feds don't get involved. Doesn't this count as treason?
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mybbqrules
09/10/23 6:07:59 PM
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Ah yes, yet another example of those "conservative values" we always hear about.

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Unsuprised_Pika
09/10/23 6:08:57 PM
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Life in prison for everyone involved in the conspiracy.

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DeadBankerDream
09/10/23 6:11:32 PM
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How can a 133 people town have a mayor?

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Heineken14
09/10/23 6:12:52 PM
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Running for mayor as a black man in an Alabama town of less than 200? Try that in a small town!

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Shadow_Don
09/10/23 6:14:56 PM
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0 people who love to remind us that banning the republican party would be fascism will comment on this situation.

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DarkChozoGhost
09/10/23 6:16:04 PM
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It's moddable to say what they deserve to have happen to them, but it's insane that they're not even in prison

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cjsdowg
09/10/23 6:28:56 PM
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Where is the national government .

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Southernfatman
09/10/23 6:35:37 PM
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Zikten posted...
I don't understand why the feds don't get involved. Doesn't this count as treason?

cjsdowg posted...
Where is the national government .

Sadly, they don't actually care about this sort of thing.

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EDF-5
09/10/23 6:36:10 PM
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You can have a constitution that says everyone
is equal but culture eats law for breakfast
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Serious_Cat
09/10/23 8:56:45 PM
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Zikten posted...
Doesn't this count as treason?
Probably not. Treason is a very specific thing. Textbook sedition though.

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HylianFox
09/10/23 8:57:49 PM
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Heineken14 posted...
Try that in a small town


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SaikyoStyle
09/10/23 8:58:19 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
Where is the national government .
Is capitalism or imperialism under threat?

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Evol
09/10/23 9:07:47 PM
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Its sad how the US hasnt improved.
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ablegator
09/10/23 9:08:51 PM
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This is like an episode of the A-Team.

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EyeWontBeFooled
09/10/23 9:10:44 PM
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Reading the article is like a story set in 1923 America.

But wait.

This is America 2023. Make it make sense.

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ChainsawFerret
09/10/23 9:27:22 PM
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Time to send in the National Guard. No need to mollycoddle the racist throwbacks.

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St0rmFury
09/10/23 10:40:51 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

From what I understood after reading the article, he basically won unopposed since there's no one else qualified.

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Kradek
09/10/23 10:54:12 PM
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Damn, we've had articles on this already.

These racist fucks still haven't relented?

Sucks seeing new ones or updates on how the situation hasn't improved.

I think the federal government has to consider stepping in at some point when the state government won't do it because they endorse the racism.

This town is also fucked up because for over 100 years they just didn't have elections because they would just put whoever they wanted in charge. Talk about a fucked system, and of course it was racist right-wingers doing it lol.

DeadBankerDream posted...
How can a 133 people town have a mayor?

Who else would be in charge? The town jester?

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Alteres
09/10/23 11:09:50 PM
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St0rmFury posted...
From what I understood after reading the article, he basically won unopposed since there's no one else qualified.
Qualified?

Some towns that size elect actual dogs for mayor, what would stop anyone who wanted to from running?

or was he literally the only person that gave a fuck?

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StealThisSheen
09/10/23 11:11:18 PM
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Alteres posted...
Qualified?

Some towns that size elect actual dogs for mayor, what would stop anyone who wanted to from running?

or was he literally the only person that gave a fuck?

It literally tells you all of that in the article.

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Alteres
09/10/23 11:15:54 PM
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StealThisSheen posted...
It literally tells you all of that in the article.
Yeah, and you could have just answered it too in the time it took you to post that.

I guess were both lazy tonight.

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Solar_Crimson
09/10/23 11:21:17 PM
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Shadow_Don posted...
0 people who love to remind us that banning the republican party would be fascism will comment on this situation.

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CADE_FOSTER
09/10/23 11:21:31 PM
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DuuuDe14 posted...
Send in the guards

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St0rmFury
09/11/23 12:17:01 AM
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Alteres posted...
Yeah, and you could have just answered it too in the time it took you to post that.

I guess were both lazy tonight.
To elaborate a bit more, the incumbent did not submit his application and just assumed he will remain as mayor after his term ended since that was how it worked for decades (wrongly I may add).

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EyeWontBeFooled
09/11/23 10:02:41 PM
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This issue actually needs more attention. I know a small village in Alabama can act like the Civil War ended just last year, but I don't think the state government can plug their ears that much on something like this.

Fight it.

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Ruvan22
09/13/23 8:30:12 AM
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It's even more sad/depressing that I remember this story from months ago.. maybe even a year?
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Alucard188
09/13/23 8:31:43 AM
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Subverting the will of the people to maintain your agenda and keep power. Sounds like they learned from their leader.

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WesternMedia
09/15/23 1:18:07 AM
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So we've got this, a woman who hung racist dolls on their neighbour's property, and putting an age requirement for libraries.

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GGuirao13
09/15/23 4:22:21 AM
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Yes.

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brestugo
09/15/23 7:54:55 AM
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WesternMedia posted...
So we've got this, a woman who hung racist dolls on their neighbour's property, and putting an age requirement for libraries.

And Tommy Tuberville.

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brestugo
09/15/23 8:30:27 AM
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Kradek posted...


I think the federal government has to consider stepping in at some point when the state government won't do it because they endorse the racism.

The feds would have to find a federal statute/law being broken. Not saying there isn't one, but elections are unfortunately an area where most of the power resides with the state, just like education. Election laws are state laws.

It has only ever lead to racist fuckery. I'd prefer more federal control, but you'd have to change the Constitution to do that.

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RuneterranSnap
09/15/23 8:31:38 AM
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brestugo posted...
The feds would have to find a federal statute/law being broken. Not saying there isn't one, but elections are unfortunately an area where most of the power resides with the state, just like education. Election laws are state laws.

It has only ever lead to racist fuckery. I'd prefer more federal control, but you'd have to change the Constitution to do that.
They don't have to do anything of the sort.

Send in the national guard, install the new mayor, remove anyone who resists as peacefully as possible.

Let them waste time trying and failing to sue.

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brestugo
09/15/23 8:32:25 AM
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RuneterranSnap posted...
They don't have to do anything of the sort.

Send in the national guard, install the new mayor, remove anyone who resists as peacefully as possible.

okidoki

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Dark_Arbron
09/15/23 8:34:17 AM
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brestugo posted...
most of the power resides with the state, just like education. Election laws are state laws.

It has only ever lead to racist fuckery

Almost like "states rights" has always been about that very thing. States rights to... what, exactly? Hmm?

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brestugo
09/15/23 8:35:00 AM
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Dark_Arbron posted...
Almost like "states rights" has always been about that very thing. States rights to... what, exactly? Hmm?

Asking the real question.

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Dark_Arbron
09/15/23 8:35:03 AM
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brestugo posted...
okidoki

We used to have someone on 261 who posted exactly the same way. Can't quite remember their name though.

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WesternMedia
09/16/23 8:14:51 PM
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brestugo posted...
And Tommy Tuberville.
Oh yeah him too

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Sir_Will
09/16/23 8:22:05 PM
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he found that town hall had been stripped of its records, beyond a couple boxes of discarded items that looked like trash
How is that not illegal? Local cops on the side of the racists I assume.

Shortly thereafter, Stokes changed the locks again,
Racist company? Would just do that for him despite not being affiliated with the city anymore?

Braxtons decision to run for mayor upended a decades-long political system of entrenched disenfranchisement and effective mayoral dictatorship.
Ah, yeah.

Until Braxton decided to throw his hat in the ring, people in Newbern did not realize they had the option to run for mayor or council, or that elections were at all possible.
Holy....

Yeah that's enough. Just... ugh....

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FL81
09/16/23 8:35:29 PM
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How does a town even get away with just not holding elections?

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Serious_Cat
09/17/23 12:33:42 AM
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FL81 posted...
How does a town even get away with just not holding elections?
Nobody else runs. It's not uncommon not to have an election when there's only one candidate. It looks like have they go to Greensboro to vote in the rest of the elections.


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EyeWontBeFooled
09/18/23 3:13:03 PM
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Sir_Will posted...
How is that not illegal? Local cops on the side of the racists I assume.

Racist company? Would just do that for him despite not being affiliated with the city anymore?

Ah, yeah.

Holy....

Yeah that's enough. Just... ugh....
You know what is said about how evil triumphs when good men do nothing? Well when you get lazy and content, a corrupt system is more than happy to just let that same apathy and lack of education keep evil people in power.

Like is that town actually America, or a village dictatorship that masquerades as America? Which one do you want it to be?

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Dark_Arbron
09/18/23 3:18:21 PM
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EyeWontBeFooled posted...
Like is that town actually America, or a village dictatorship that masquerades as America? Which one do you want it to be?

America wasn't founded with equal rights or fair elections in mind, so...

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EyeWontBeFooled
09/18/23 3:30:40 PM
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Dark_Arbron posted...
America wasn't founded with equal rights or fair elections in mind, so...
I guess this small town in Alabama didn't get the Civil Rights Act memo. Or, the one announcing the results of what was presumably a fair and free election.

But he's Black, so he's gotta go. For reasons they can't say out loud.

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