YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Servecapitalbnews.orgexternal-linkmessage-square197fedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down126cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up11.02Karrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square197fedilinkcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ml
minus-squarecomplacent_jerboa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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.