Commentary Prosecute Alvin Bragg The Minnesota Sun

It’s Jim Crow Alabama. In an old plantation town, a young black man — a sharecropper’s son — wants change. He walks up great steps of the county courthouse to dead silence. Proudly he marches under the glare of a puff-chested man chewing on a piece of straw. Stoically, that young man arrives at the counter of the county clerk, and there drops his petition to make it official: He’s to run for mayor. The straw-chewing man, the town’s current mayor — with thumbs hooked into his silver-plated belt and a hard face shadowed by a cowboy hat — resolves…