🇺🇸🗳️ The fight for #democracy ⤵️
He became the first Black mayor of a rural #Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out 👀

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out #America #USA #Newburn #PatrickBraxton

https://www.theroot.com/he-became-the-the-first-black-mayor-in-a-rural-alabama-1850661440

Electoralism, eh, whatevs—but this story is wild. White racist town leadership are taken off guard that a black resident in a primarily black community in Alabama files to run for mayor and wins that they try to hold a special election and ice him out of the job which had historically been a hereditary hand-me-down since the days when these folks’ white ancestors incorrectly thought they could own black people. It reads like many of the town’s black residents were unaware that people could actually campaign to be mayor. That’s how long these white nepo babies thwarted democracy and representative politics. In 2023. Not 1875.

#PatrickBraxton #Newbern #Alabama #BLM

Black man who says he was elected mayor of Alabama town alleges that White leaders are keeping him from position

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/patrick-braxton-black-man-says-he-was-elected-mayor-of-newburn-alabama/

#CBSNews #PatrickBraxton #AlabamaTown #BlackMayor #WhiteLeaders #ElectionDispute #Politics #News

I really think the #PatrickBraxton and #NewbernAlabama hashtags should get going here on the #fediverse & #mastodon
I mean the dead bird site will be all #racist jerks about this crazy story