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A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve
"“When I first became mayor, [a white woman told me] the town was not ready for a Black mayor,” Mayor Patrick Braxton recalls.
"The town is 85% Black, and 69% of Black people here live below the poverty line.
“What did she mean by the town wasn’t ready for a Black mayor? They, meaning white people?” Capital B asked.
“Yes. No change,” Braxton says."
