.. promised in investment by Ford.
Basically:

- White elected officials ran this town for 100 years and exploited the black population
- All the white officials resigned in 2016 over corruption
- Black elected officials took over
- The town won a new Ford contract and now the white folks want back in

MASON, Tenn. – The Tennessee Comptroller issued an unusual appeal last week to residents of this small, majority Black town, which occupies fewer than two square miles in rural west Tennessee.

“In my opinion, it’s time for Mason to relinquish its charter,” Comptroller Jason Mumpower wrote in a letter mailed to each one of Mason’s 1,337 property owners.

Mumpower urged local residents to “encourage your local officials to do what’s necessary to allow Mason to thrive. There is no time to waste.”

https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/03/14/this-is-akin-to-a-hostile-takeover/

But the Comptroller’s unprecedented public callout comes at an unprecedented time not only for Mason, but for the state. Mason, located in the southeastern corner of Tipton County, now finds itself with some of the most coveted real estate in Tennessee.

It’s one of the nearest towns to the massive new site to be built for Blue Oval City, a key component in Ford Motor Co’s multibillion-dollar pivot to electric vehicle manufacturing.

Basically state officials want to cancel their charter to get their hands on the money! The thing is Mason,Tennesee has been 60 % black for generations but it seems apathy,massive corruption by the previous white leaders and the usual attachment to Dems has screwed them-as usual!

In 2011, a former Mason town clerk pleaded guilty to embezzling $100,000 in taxpayer funds. In 2016, a former public works superintendent was indicted by a Tipton County Grand Jury after investigators discovered he had paid himself an extra $600,000 between 2007 and 2015. The town’s financial problems stretch back even further: a 2001 state examination of the town’s finances found numerous accounting errors in tax and court collections.
“This administration inherited half a million in debt,” Rivers said.
In 2015, after fraud allegations emerged, nearly the entire town government resigned, leaving a newly elected junior alderman, Gwen Kilpatrick, to assume the office of mayor. Kilpatrick became the city’s first Black mayor. Since then the city’s leadership has remained largely African-American.

This is an important read offering many important lessons on the structure of US racism-at all levels,federal,state,county,city and municipal this is how it goes. Political and economic sabotage are inflicted upon Blacks via judicial means to disenfranchise them. We land as students and immigrants and few of us for many reasons look deeper into the racial social economic structure of things. Rarely do we notice the turnpikes simultaneously surrounding and dividing black areas,the practice of redlining and racially unfair banking practices which increases the number of pay day loanshark outfits preying on blacks,redistricting,gerrymandering etc,etc and all the tricks in the racist f'ery playbook.
Fyi,this ishyt has happened before-many black towns have been taken over,destroyed or even drowned!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HDIMvgosPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3D4hSQcWbk

That's just how the Real Owners of America roll! Black People will only have the crumbs they allow for which they shall be grateful. I,for one wonder-what do the Architects of f'ery see in us that scares them so? What do they know about us?

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