ezmack@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoA Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Servecapitalbnews.orgexternal-linkmessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1992arrow-down120cross-posted to: usnews@beehaw.orgnews@lemmy.worldsoundsaboutwhite@lemm.eepolitics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1972arrow-down1external-linkA Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Servecapitalbnews.orgezmack@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square152fedilinkcross-posted to: usnews@beehaw.orgnews@lemmy.worldsoundsaboutwhite@lemm.eepolitics@lemmy.world
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-22 years agoSo, after brown v board desegregated parts of the south the response of the white community of Memphis was simple: They all picked up, moved 15 miles east through some wheat fields to set up a new city called Germantown. I’m Indian, I’ve never seen that level of weapons-grade racism, usually it’s just poor people, this was everybody.
So, after brown v board desegregated parts of the south the response of the white community of Memphis was simple:
They all picked up, moved 15 miles east through some wheat fields to set up a new city called Germantown.
I’m Indian, I’ve never seen that level of weapons-grade racism, usually it’s just poor people, this was everybody.