Remember Patrick Braxton? The absolute legend who got sick of his small Alabama town being run by a bunch of unelected racist anti-vaxxers? The guy who ran for mayor of Newbern, AL, and won, despite said unelected officials trying to give him the wrong information about running for office? The guy who was then subsequently locked out of the mayor's office by said racist anti-vaxxers and sued?

Well, he has had a minor setback: a federal judge refused to grant his and other plaintiffs' request for an immediate injunction forcing Haywood "Woody" Stokes III (the unelected, white mayor who inherited the mayoralty from a 60-year-long chain of unelected white men) to stop locking Braxton out of town hall and step down. She noted that the plaintiffs, by waiting over a year to file the suit, failed to show the urgency of the request. However, she also noted that his argument in the trial, set to begin this September, is likely to win out.

#USpol #ALpol #racism #WhiteSupremacy #DemocracyDocket #PatrickBraxton #News #breaking

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-in-alabama-denies-black-mayors-motion-to-force-white-town-leaders-to-allow-him-into-office/

https://www.theroot.com/he-became-the-the-first-black-mayor-in-a-rural-alabama-1850661440

Electoralism, eh, whatevs—but this story is wild. White racist town leadership are taken off guard that a black resident in a primarily black community in Alabama files to run for mayor and wins that they try to hold a special election and ice him out of the job which had historically been a hereditary hand-me-down since the days when these folks’ white ancestors incorrectly thought they could own black people. It reads like many of the town’s black residents were unaware that people could actually campaign to be mayor. That’s how long these white nepo babies thwarted democracy and representative politics. In 2023. Not 1875.

#PatrickBraxton #Newbern #Alabama #BLM

Black man who says he was elected mayor of Alabama town alleges that White leaders are keeping him from position

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/patrick-braxton-black-man-says-he-was-elected-mayor-of-newburn-alabama/

#CBSNews #PatrickBraxton #AlabamaTown #BlackMayor #WhiteLeaders #ElectionDispute #Politics #News

A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve

"For three years, Patrick Braxton says he has experienced harassment and intimidation after becoming the first Black mayor in Newbern, Alabama."

https://capitalbnews.org/newbern-alabama-black-mayor/

#PatrickBraxton #Newbern #Alabama #mayor #racism #harassment #rural #politics #civilRights