01-30-2021, 07:08 PM
I'll just tuck this in here...
in 2021, a family is turned away from burying their loved one in their chosen cemetery because it's Whites Only (the decision was quickly reversed and the old lady overseer fired for saying as much, but... wow)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...?tid=ss_tw
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.”
in 2021, a family is turned away from burying their loved one in their chosen cemetery because it's Whites Only (the decision was quickly reversed and the old lady overseer fired for saying as much, but... wow)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...?tid=ss_tw
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.”
