Birmingham mayoral candidates left off the debate stage at the Carver Theatre earlier this week are protesting their snub as an unfair exclusion.

Candidates Kamau Afrika and David Russell panned the Tuesday debate sponsored by WJLD 104.1 FM as biased against them because they were not invited.

Five Birmingham mayoral candidates addressed a crowded audience and thousands more online and social media. Four other candidates were not invited.

Afrika said grass roots candidates should not be penalized for refusing support from “big greedy outside corporations that have taken control of governments across the nation.”

Afrika attended the debate as an audience member but was asked to leave after a disagreement.

“If the participants believed in the rule of law and fairness, they would not h

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