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Beau addresses the tragedy of Bubba Copeland's life and urges support and acceptance for ostracized individuals in communities facing stigma and loss.
Community members, activists
The full transcript provides a detailed narrative of Bubba Copeland's tragic story and Beau's call for community support and acceptance in times of crisis.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Beau again.
So today we are going to talk about Bubba
and Alabama and community
and just run through some information that people need.
So Bubba, Bubba Copeland,
Mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama.
That is as small as it sounds,
if you're not familiar with it.
It's like, I don't know, 6,500.
very much like a Mayberry kind of town. So, Mayor of Smith Station, Pastor of First Baptist
Church in Phoenix City, that's a different Phoenix. That's right on the Georgia-Alabama line.
Um, from everything you can find online,
Bubba led that community, guided that community through all kinds of things, tornadoes, just
tragedy after tragedy.
A few days ago, Bubba was involuntarily outed.
somebody who had an online persona, trans, exploring things online, I guess.
Now, seemed to be taking it in stride.
And a few days go by, somebody calls for a welfare check, wellness check.
pull him over. He steps out of the vehicle with a handgun and takes his own life.
The person who has guided that community through tragedy after tragedy will not be there to help
with this one because of a social stigma. If you or somebody you know is dealing
with something like this, you call 988 you can call 1-800-273-8255, you can
Talk to 741-741 or you can reach out to the Trevor project. If you are in a
situation where you find yourself being ostracized by your community, a community
that you may have loved and served. Being cast out like that, it creates
membership in another community. You're not alone. There are people that you can
talk to, there are people who can help, but they can't call you. You have to call
them. You have to reach out and make contact with them. I would imagine that
this becomes national news. At the time of filming it's not, but I have a feeling
given all of the different elements in this, this is going to become a big story.
I would suggest that if and when that happens we all make an effort to remind
people that first not every community is going to ostracize if they find out
about something like this. And even if that happens, you're automatically a part
of another community. You are not alone and you just have to reach out.
station now has to find somebody else to fill those shoes. Maybe next time
they'll be a little bit more accepting if they find out the person who fills
so those shoes also wears heels. I felt like this is probably a huge loss to that community
and one that will be felt for a while.
casting out of people for something that by all reports was done in the privacy
of his own home, with his family, with his wife, shows how far that bigotry is really
gone and also shows what kind of real world impacts it can have.
It's not something that just exists online.
Those people who wanted him gone, out of the community, this would be the point where you
step up and take care of everything that Bubba was doing.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
Y'all have a good day.
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