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Small Alabama Town Wins Lawsuit Allowing Residents To Vote For First Time In Decades (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)

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[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 69 points 4 months ago

I thought Clarence and John said voting rights were all good long ago and the feds didn’t need to worry about it anymore?

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

(F)as(c) is tradition for fascists.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Fascist radition for fascists

I see fascist everywhere....

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Holy crap i didn't notice that bwahahha

Its the latest fasch

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

In this case, voting rights weren't the issue... they just didn't have elections...

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 34 points 4 months ago

Does professor Sherman need to teach another lesson?

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

The article should be required reading in all American schools.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Do it again, Uncle Sherman.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 4 months ago

I remember when this story broke about the elected mayor being squeezed out. Good to see that some amount of justice is taking place, though I’m sure this won’t be the end of pushback from the power-holding white gentry. Insane that they were getting away with this in modern times.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

I remember when this happened, and I was stunned. There are only 133 people in the town and the vast majority of them are black, it should have been a self solving problem to throw out the white minority.

Another good article here:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/06/us/newbern-alabama-mayor-dispute/index.html

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it really is one of the most egregious examples of organized racism in the modern era. A white minority of an entire town holding onto power over the black majority by unlawful and unethical practices that they coordinated.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Does anyone know where I can find a time line of this case? I'm really curious how it took four years to litigate something this egregious. Four years to reach a settlement, not even a litigate court ruling.

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