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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This rural town is 89 percent black. 59 percent of the black population in the US lives in the south in mostly rural places. Rural towns would still exist, they'd just be more pleasant and less racist. I'd even argue that rural America would thrive, because the majority of the population down there would be able to live their lives and do whatever they want, free of discrimination and prejudice.

If all of the KKK were to leave their current towns and start their own, it would be relatively small. According to estimates from 2016 there are about 5,000 - 8,000 KKK members in the US.

[–] InverseParallax 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.