I remember first hearing about Braxton a couple years ago, when he still hadn't actually managed to take office. (And the racist fuckers down there are still fighting him on it). The amazing thing was that until Braxton, the office of the mayor was inherited. The town leadership was quite literally landed gentry, operating a miniature feudalistic society.
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The defendants, listed as former mayor Haywood “Woody” Stokes III and his town council, held a secret, special election, preventing Braxton from appointing his town council. During their special election, the previous town council re-elected themselves, and ultimately reappointed the previous town mayor. They were aided, the lawsuit alleges, by the town’s bank and clerk. Newbern has effectively had two mayors since 2020.
I thought the FBI came in when these fucking inbreds pulled shit like this.
FBI always and forever are a bunch of absolute clowns. Acab
Shocking ignorance of what the FBI has done historically.
Like trying to get MLK Jr. to kill himself, or you thinking more like the ‘inventing terrorists so they can arrest them’ angle
The FBI isn't exactly a small group of people and there probably aren't too many people there now that were around in the MLK days.
If you've ever worked anywhere you'll know there's going to be good people in the workplace and also some really shit people. All companies, government institutions, educational institutions, political parties, and yes even non-profit organizations are like this. If you measure the value of an organization be the actions of the worst people in that organization through all history, then all organizations are horrible things, and you should just go live alone in a cabin in the woods because everything is terrible.
Actually I was thinking of the incredible number of integration issues they dealt with, but sure. When you look for shit, all you'll see is shit. It's not the best way of going through life. It's incredibly easy, if lazy and intellectually dishonest, to see things binary.
Was that before or after they undermined civil rights movements?? Oh yah, both, they've been continuously doing that for decades.
Such as?m
an FBI simp???
How does that old saying go. If you can't attack the message, attack the messenger? Something like that. I guess if I were cut of that cloth I would accuse you of being against forced integration in 20th century US. But that would be idiotic and simple, no?
Sure would
I'm so tired of these shit takes on Lemmy.
The FBI has actively been undermining activism for decades, they wiretap/spy on Americans. I'm honestly shocked that there are so many fans. Y'all are dumb as hell.
Actually you're just an asshole.
To people who simp for the FBI? Proudly.
I've never simped for the FBI, you have no idea what you're talking about
I’m so tired of these shit takes on Lemmy.
Which was a follow up of
Shocking ignorance of what the FBI has done historically.
Which is, you know, nothing of value at any fucking time ever.
You didn't like when I called out people for doing it, idk what your beliefs are and I don't really care
Right like imagine simping for fucking law enforcement
Imagine being so short sighted you see everything as black and white.
Yeah all cops are bad
Feels like talking to a child.
Is that because your perceptions of the world are so warped you have to look down on everyone for them to make any sense? Pathetic take my dude. Again, you're the one simping for fucking law enforcement.
Well, yeah, when you take on a paternalistic mindset and mentally align yourself with Feds, you're gonna think everyone who disagrees with you is a child.
As far as they're concerned this is a state matter. Which is hilarious because it's a denial of their basic rights. Which the feds respond to all the time.
Alabama is filled with backward ass POS racists.
Much of the US is, sadly.
No it is a minority, they just happen to be very spread out and vocal. And our system of government was setup to give them a massively oversized voice on the national scale.
"Much" still applies. As in "too much" of the US is a bunch of bigoted assholes.
Perhaps a minority by population (I doubt this myself) but a majority by surface area (which matters a lot in federal elections).
Yeah the whole effectively "land" votes system we use is a relic of colonization and needs to be destroyed.
It all reads like an onion skit, but it's real. Braxton was officially made mayor in 2020 and now 4y later still has no access to the town's official bank account, post box or even a key to the town hall. How can an ongoing crime that is this blatant, take years to resolve? Alabama I guess.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out
The reason that it's in the news again, is because mayor Braxton and a civil rights organisation are trying to have an actual election take place, which probably isn't easy to organise if you don't control the town's postbox. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/newbern-alabama-election-lawsuit-mayor
So after 4 years of this, the anti democratic cliques still haven't faced any negative consequences for their clearly illegal power grab. Completely insane, I would not have expected this to be possible in any western democracy.
I would not have expected this to be possible in any western democracy.
It isn't... And it's time to admit the USA does not have democracy
Democracy in the USA is like those sugary cereals pretend to be "part of a healthy breakfast"
Conservatism is a plague of racism and oppression. It always has been.
Conservatives need to go to prison in this case. Where is the FBI?
Marching with the proud boys, et al.
Unincorporate it and the county can tax their asses and give them nothing in return.
But Chief Justice John Roberts assured us racism was over when he gutted the voting rights act. /s