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A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (capitalbnews.org)
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[–] 39 points 3 years ago (15 children)

And yet a bunch of people, mainly good ol boys, from the south say racism isn’t real. How messed up has the US become. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is, what matters is your integrity. This is why I am actively trying to get the hell out of Texas, I can’t stand racism no matter who it’s by.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    One of those "racism isn't real" is the Chief "Justice" of the USSC

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    It goes even deeper in congress, especially those that represent the south

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yep, Congress still can't pass a Federal anti-lynching bill.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I escaped Tennessee.

    All I can say is: It gets better.

    Get out as fast as you can, nobody deserves to have to live in the south.

    Beautiful states with the absolutely most ugly people.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Facts. I transplanted here from Iowa in 2011. Everything was great until 2016 when the racist overtones really came to a head. My wife is a born Texan and she is liking the idea of moving to Colorado for more than the lack of of racism we see here.

    I live in east Texas and the racism here is so prominent by all colors that it’s no longer appealing.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Highly recommend Colorado, it's beautiful and the people are good too.

    We just let the south stay the same after the civil war, that's our mistake.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It took my pacifistic ass years to see the truth of that.

    When you take down a regime that bases itself on such anti-social behavior as chattel slavery, you really need to end it as completely as a termite infestation. Just one of them able to come into power again is all it takes to roll everything back.

    Every single person involved should have faced federal prosecution, permanently lost their right to vote, and the states on a probationary "no vote" federal oversight where the government re-educated the idea of black property out of their fool heads before the they could be treated as states again.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    you've got to consider that to a lot of these people racism "isn't real" because their bar for what qualifies as racist is set incredibly high. "how could that be racist if it's true?"

    you can see a similar anti-trans sentiment in the people who defend jk rowling. "she's just saying gender can't mismatch assigned sex, how could the truth be transphobic?" nothing could ever be transphobic or racist or whatever to these people when they think very concept of being bigoted isn't legitimate

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    My white former mother told my black wife both that A.) Racism is everywhere you go and also B.) Racism isn't that bad and she must be doing something to deserve the racism that our entirely white town was giving her. And that's why she's my former mother.

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