Whitey Ford
01-30-2021, 08:18 PM
WTF, this isn't Dead Nigger Storage.
After a Black man was denied a spot in a ‘Whites-only’ cemetery in Louisiana, the graveyard has apologized
https://i.imgur.com/21bgfJR.jpg
Fat mudshark with her then not batwinged buck
Before Darrell Semien died on Sunday of bladder cancer, the 55-year-old Black man left his family with a single dying wish: He wanted to be buried near their home in Oberlin, La., and close to his old stomping ground at the sheriff’s office.
So his widow, Karla, and their seven kids found a graveyard a few miles outside town, a quiet site surrounded by thick green forest. When they arrived Tuesday to take a look, she told The Washington Post, the overseer at Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery stopped them cold.
“Oh, we’re going to have a dispute. We can’t sell you a plot,” Semien recalled the woman saying. “This is a Whites-only cemetery. There are no coloreds here.”
Their interaction has since prompted the graveyard on Thursday to lift the race-based restrictions in its contracts, which stretch back to the site’s founding in the 1950s. But for Semien, who is White, the whole thing felt like a slap in the face.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/29/louisiana-cemetery-whites-only-racist/?outputType=amp#aoh=16119437496209&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s
After a Black man was denied a spot in a ‘Whites-only’ cemetery in Louisiana, the graveyard has apologized
https://i.imgur.com/21bgfJR.jpg
Fat mudshark with her then not batwinged buck
Before Darrell Semien died on Sunday of bladder cancer, the 55-year-old Black man left his family with a single dying wish: He wanted to be buried near their home in Oberlin, La., and close to his old stomping ground at the sheriff’s office.
So his widow, Karla, and their seven kids found a graveyard a few miles outside town, a quiet site surrounded by thick green forest. When they arrived Tuesday to take a look, she told The Washington Post, the overseer at Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery stopped them cold.
“Oh, we’re going to have a dispute. We can’t sell you a plot,” Semien recalled the woman saying. “This is a Whites-only cemetery. There are no coloreds here.”
Their interaction has since prompted the graveyard on Thursday to lift the race-based restrictions in its contracts, which stretch back to the site’s founding in the 1950s. But for Semien, who is White, the whole thing felt like a slap in the face.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/29/louisiana-cemetery-whites-only-racist/?outputType=amp#aoh=16119437496209&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s