• NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
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    “At one point, we didn’t even know who the mayor was,” Ballard recalls. “If you knew somebody and you was white, and your grandfather was in office when he died or got sick, he passed it on down to the grandson or son, and it’s been that way throughout the history of Newbern.”

    Yeah that’s a monarchy. And those folks probably call themselves “patriots”. And they probably claim systematic racism doesn’t exist either while being the dictionary definition of it.

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      1 year ago

      As a northerner from a top 50 MSA, I have to say that I thought these towns only existed in quirky lifetime movies and black sketch comedy shows depicting comically absurd stereotypes of racist backwards towns. I mean wtf! Really?!