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.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
    325·
    1 year ago

    it’s not coming back.

    Implying America was ever good at this in the first place.

      • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 year 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.