A Black man who says he was elected mayor of a rural Alabama town but has been kept from taking office by White leaders of the town has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

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    Small towns suck. Big towns suck. Cities suck. America sucks and it’s not coming back.

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      it’s not coming back.

      Implying America was ever good at this in the first place.

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          The only people capable of fundamentally improving one’s country are those willing to see what’s wrong with it. The very country of the United States was founded by a bunch of people so mad about their country that they literally revolted.

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          And the rest of us are still waiting for all the blindly-supportive ignorant America lovers to get their heads out of their ass.