YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoA Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Servecapitalbnews.orgexternal-linkmessage-square208fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down127cross-posted to: usnews@beehaw.orgnews@lemmy.worldsoundsaboutwhite@lemm.eeusa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up11.04Karrow-down1external-linkA Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Servecapitalbnews.orgYoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square208fedilinkcross-posted to: usnews@beehaw.orgnews@lemmy.worldsoundsaboutwhite@lemm.eeusa@lemmy.ml
minus-squarecomplacent_jerboa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoit’s actually not gerrymandering. it’s not having a mayoral election at all, and just treating “mayor” as a hereditary, monarchist-style title.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI didn’t say the mayoral feudalism was the result of gerrymandering. I was saying that both forms of undemocratic fuckery are driven by the same racism.
it’s actually not gerrymandering. it’s not having a mayoral election at all, and just treating “mayor” as a hereditary, monarchist-style title.
I didn’t say the mayoral feudalism was the result of gerrymandering. I was saying that both forms of undemocratic fuckery are driven by the same racism.