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Oh. Mi. Effing. Gawd.

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Definition of systemic racism.

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Whoopsie! I think these fine people forgot that racism is over in the U.S. Golly, they must be so embarrassed...

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What truly angers me though is how the predominate black citizens of these small towns put up with this.

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Yet the right wing wacko naysayers will still say systemic racism doesn't exist.

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"For at least 60 years, there’s never been an election in the town."

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How can that even be legal?

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He wont be the first Stokes to be acting like this.

https://youtu.be/RAf5xJfql60

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"Braxton asked both Black and white residents to join his council, but no white person agreed to work with him."

This is insane. And hateful. And also stupid.

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Welcome to Transvalbama.

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Dang! it's SER, so I really, really want to finish reading this, but once again, I couldn't. I bailed when I got through the part where people let that woman die.

Da fuq. Excuse me while I go shop for a nice place to live in another country.

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On the other hand, you could stay here and continue to fight this racist bullshit with the rest of us, as I’m sure you’ve done already.

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Fair play to you. I taught school for a year down in North Carolina. It was an eye-opening experience. I may have done some good there. I tried.

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No doubt you did.

I understand the sentiment, I’ve expressed the same myself. I’m quite possibly deluding myself, but I feel we’re at a tipping point. I want us all to hang in just a little longer, to see if that’s true.

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Much like those GOP called to testify for the Jan 6 insurrection and who refused to show up, there were no repercussions. No jail time for ignoring subpoenas no fines, no penalties. Defying the law doesn't scare these people because there are no punishments for doing so. THIS is how you let a fascist government move in until it's too late. I can only imagine that the judge who hears this case will also side with the Klan members taking over the town.

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Try that in a small town…

(Blows into jug through missing tooth, adjusts Klan hood for optimized vision)

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Has Newbern put in an application to change their town name to Apartheid? Seems like it would be more descriptive that way.

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Ahhhhh this hurts my heart so much. Hope they get their just retribution, all of them. What a terrible, regressive, vile story.

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Money order?

He had to have a money order to the town to run for mayor?

This walking tall remake is fucking lit tho. Hope they get their asses handed to them

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When & where does Braxton’s case get heard in Federal Court? This one should get wall-to-wall MSM coverage for its sheer absurdity. He’s the legit Mayor and they locked him out of Town Hall?

Ike would have sent troops to escort him to work, <nudge> Merrick<nudge>.

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The press will be on it the moment they can find out where the white people there go for a diner

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I'm going to presume it will be the "Mayor" who owns it

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