What Alabama lost is what Alabamians must remember

By: Brian Lyman

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: May 4, 2026

Words: 860

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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It’s spring in Alabama. But it’s winter for democracy.

And we are left facing some cold truths. We do not live under the clear dictates of the U.S. Constitution. The only laws are the vindictive whims of the U.S. Supreme Court.

We thought we were rebuilding, however haltingly and imperfectly, the multiracial regime lost after Reconstruction. But Alabama is still Alabama. And self-serving, self-justifying power is the state’s only civic virtue.

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