linkspam: Black Mayor in Alabama, heteropessimism

[lotesse]

Black Alabama Man Thought He Was Mayor. White Folks Said 'Naaah.' He tried that in a small town. By Stephen Robinson. Eye-opening account of very small-town rural political structural dysfunction, racism in the Old South edition

via highlyeccentric, some interesting links on the term "heteropessimism":

On Heteropessimism, by Asa Seresin

from Heteropessism, by Ellie Anderson

Comments

[goodbyebird]

Heteropessimist, what a word *tucks in back pocket*

[adore]

i like the word 'heteromiserablism' even better

[torachan]

I read that story about the mayor last week and was just floored. Like, based on the total number of townspeople and the percentage of Black residents, there's basically only about 40 white people in the town, but they're holding the whole town hostage.