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A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (capitalbnews.org)
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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.