Actually, if this was the small town in Missouri, it is because the black woman is a Republican who wanted to get the town back on a decent financial footing.
The defeated mayor was a Democrat who had been running the show for 30 something years.
Tx for the updated info. But, a black woman republican?
And the town is 2/3 white, 1/3 black and she won by a landslide.
This is not a big deal. Race baiters, liberal or faux-conservative, try to use it.
If there is something, I think it is the incumbents jumping ship after a decades long run of having access to the city coffers.
She is a Republican and a Christian missionary.