For three years, Patrick Braxton says he has experienced harassment and intimidation after becoming the first Black mayor in Newbern, Alabama.

  • @[email protected]
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    1111 months ago

    The town is 85% Black, and 69% of Black people here live below the poverty line.

    What the actual fuck? This is like finding a primitive, isolated tribe. This shouldn’t be a thing in the 21st century.

    • El Barto
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      811 months ago

      You mean in the U.S.?

      Because it’s totally s thing in many parts of the world.

      Though I’ll agree with you on the sentiment.

    • @[email protected]
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      711 months ago

      What the actual fuck?

      Rural red state America.

      This shouldn’t be a thing in the 21st century.

      Shouldn’t be. Is anyway.