# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2799
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2799 "2022-03-19T04:05:55Z")
Ford is building a massive plant in Tennessee, 15 minutes from the small town of Mason. Mason is majority black, but for most of its history, the entire city government was run by white people. The entire white government was recently replaced due to massive fraud, even though the state government approved their budgets for the entire time the white people ran it. Now that black people are running the town, the state has told them that they are going to need to give up the town charter, due to a pattern of badly run government. Giving up the charter basically wipes the town off the maps. The state officially took over the town yesterday despite the town government’s objections. > **[Predominantly Black Town Ordered To Surrender Charter After Ford Invests In...](https://ourgeneration.news/news/predominantly-black-town-ordered-to-surrender-charter-after-ford-invests-in-area)** > > Mason, Tennessee, found themselves a 15-minute commute from a new Ford plant that would create tens of thousands of new jobs. Then a letter from Nashville ordered the predominantly African American town of 1,000 people to surrender their town... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945)._