• Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    For at least 60 years, there’s never been an election in the town. Instead, the mantle has been treated as a “hand me down”

    Well this seems like the problem right here lol. Can’t the federal government intervene and force the state to actually hold elections?

    Also with that population split - 85% black people - how on earth does what has happened there make sense? How can a town that is overwhelmingly black be being controlled by a small handful of racist white people?

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      1 year ago

      How can a town that is overwhelmingly black be being controlled by a small handful of racist white people?

      I think you know the answer to that question. It’s about who has the money. Is that money the fruits of an old racist system handed down over the decades? Probably. But it’s likely the reason they’re still in charge.

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        1 year ago

        There’s only 275 people in this town though, and they’re not passing laws to restrict black peoples rights etc. There are only around 40 non-black people in the whole town.

        It just doesn’t make any sense.