A trans pastor and mayor commits suicide after being outed
Meanwhile Candace Owens calls Native Americans drug abusing cannibals to smear trans people
Fred “Bubba” Copeland was a benefactor, a counselor, a Mayor, and a preacher. Copeland lived in Smiths Station, Phenix City (Lee County, AL), and could be counted on to lead in times of great devastation, such as a life-altering tornado that tore the town apart a few years ago.
This Pastor, this Mayor, this father, and husband—this friend, lost their life to suicide after being outed as trans.
In a statement to the press, Copeland’s good friend, former Democratic Senator Doug Jones, wrote:
I am so saddened at the death of my friend Mayor Bubba Copeland. He was a good man and a great mayor who led the small town of Smith Station through the tough times of a devastating tornado a few years ago.
I toured the destruction with him, helped him navigate the FEMA recovery efforts and made sure that he was able to plead his case directly to President Trump.
It is sad and disgusting how he was treated by the 1819 News for personal decisions however misguided they might have been. We live in a mean, bitter world where the self righteous tend to throw the largest stones and the 1819 News is the perfect example.
Doug Jones is, of course, right, but even in his loving statement, Jones casts judgment on his friend. How was Bubba misguided? In what way? I’d like for him to answer that question because the way I see it, F.L. Copland was pushed into a closet she was struggling to find a way out of, and even in death is being demonized for the crime of trying to be her/himself.
Bubba wasn’t misguided—society is.
Let the character assassination begin
After responding to a welfare check at around 4:00 o’clock., Bubba’s life ended Friday at approximately 5 p.m. Friday according to Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones. A slow pursuit by car commenced in Beulah, after which Bubba emerged from the car, gun to head, and fired.
The body is barely cold, and Republicans are already trashing Copeland's memory in an effort to wash the blood from their own hateful hands—I don’t think they will be able to scream out damn spot on this one.
The blame rests squarely on the bigotry that rushed to judgment after he was outed, and now, seeks to vindicate itself by claiming the now-deceased father of three was some kind of sexual deviant, using out-context posts (the validity of which I question on its face anyway) to prop up their claims.
As one Alamaba native pointed out, the accusations people on the right are making in the wake of Copeland’s death are salacious and insane as a town that small would have been aware of such posts.
These jerks, of course, are getting their cues from Republican leaders and pundits like Candace Owens, who pushed back on a young woman’s attempt to teach about Two-Spirit folks and Native Americans’ historical acceptance of them.
Talking Mean Girl meme Candance Owens has an opinion by gum!
Never one to let Boebert or Greene one-up her in stupidity or vileness, Candace Owens took to the circuit to bash the media creation of trans folks, because, golly-gee -willickers, they never existed until some globalist cabal with a socialist agenda pointed a camera at them, am I right?
Many blessings to the woman who patiently tried to educate Candace on the centuries-long existence and acceptance of Two-Spirit folks (transgender and gender-fluid peoples) who were accepted and revered in Native American tribes.
The sad but telling exchange went as follows:
The audience member asked Owens how she could believe trans identities are somehow a new trend fueled by the media when Two-Spirit Native Americans have existed for thousands of years.
Two-Spirit is an umbrella term used in Native American communities to describe those who do not conform to their sex assigned at birth and who are said to possess both a male and female spirit. Two-Spirit people were once considered healers and shamans, but colonization led to their marginalization. Many communities, however, are working to revive their sacred roles.
Owens had never heard of Two-Spirit people, and she responded to the question with a series of derogatory comments about Native Americans.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about with Two-Spirit people,” she said. “Is this like a Native American tribe, like high smoking and talking about your spirit? I’m asking you seriously, because when I think of Native American tribes talking about their spirits, I know that they used to smoke a lot, they used to do drugs, they also were cannibals who used to eat people, so I don’t know if we should be taking our cues from cannibals.”
The audience member then explained the history of Two-Spirit people to Owens, explaining that there have long been dozens of terms across Native American tribes to describe people who would now be considered trans.
Owens then denied the audience member’s claim that it is basic historical knowledge that there were trans native Americans.
“I don’t think that there were trans native Americans,” she said, before the audience member told her to educate herself.
Yah just gotta love it, doncha? Candace says “I don’t know what you’re talking about with Two-Spirit people,” and then later flippantly replies, “I don’t think that there were Trans Native Americans.”
Educate herself? Pishaw!
Ya’ll, how can she in one breath claim not to know something and then, rather dismissively in the same discussion say, “There is no such thing!”
How many of you have had the maddening experience of trying to talk to someone ignorant of facts, and when informing them of their error, are then told your information is false—without a shred of evidence to back up their claim?
It is this kind of ignorance and arrogance that led to the death of beautiful trans woman F.L. Copeland, who did more for their community than the likes of Candace Owens ever will.
And there is the tragedy.
Phenix Station didn’t lose out alone—we all did. We all did.
Beau’s Video on this topic is a revelation—check it out below.
“How many of you have had the maddening experience of trying to talk to someone ignorant of facts, and when informing them of their error, are then told your information is false—without a shred of evidence to back up their claim?”
This is why trying to argue with MAGAts is a fool’s errand. You can’t win. All you’re going to get is frustration and they will see that as a victory. I don’t argue with MAGAts. I stay the hell away from them. I’ve been doing it since Cheeto Pendejo came down that tacky escalator in 2015. I have severed ties with people who turned out to be MAGAts and I do not regret doing so to this day.
Thank you for taking the time to write this newsletter about this poor soul who was driven to take his own life by haters without any sense of the common good. So many of these people have skeletons in their own closets, and this is why they point fingers at others. Wait until we find out what’s really hiding under Mike Johnson’s over-the-top piety.