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Louisiana widow denied burial plot for sheriff's deputy husband in 'white's only' cemetery
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:11 am
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:11 am
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Pretty disgraceful thing to happen in 2021.
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Karla Semien said she tried to make arrangements at Oaklin Springs Cemetery for her spouse, Allen Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Darrell Semien, after he died Sunday from cancer, news station KPLC reported.
"It was in their by-laws that the cemetery was ‘whites only,’" Karla told the outlet. "I just kinda looked at her and she said, ‘There’s no coloreds allowed.’"
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Darrell’s daughter, Shayla, said the woman at the cemetery showed them a contract, which outlined "the right of burial of the remains of white human beings."
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Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, said he was "very ashamed" to learn of the racist practice, which has been in the contract since the 1950s, when the burial place opened.
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It never came up. I take full responsibility for that. I’ve been the president of this board for several years now," he said. The cemetery said it fired the employee who turned away the deputy’s family, KATC reported.
Pretty disgraceful thing to happen in 2021.
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Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:12 am to High C
"Build your own cemetery"
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:13 am to High C
Yeah and so is the hatred for white conservatives
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:15 am to High C
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Pretty disgraceful thing to happen in 2021.
i could understand that somehow being overlooked as being removed as a by-law, but holy shite at the guy repeating it out loud to the widow.
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he cemetery said it fired the employee who turned away the deputy’s family, KATC reported.
thank God.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:21 am to High C
Yep
This post was edited on 1/29/21 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:25 am to High C
Isn’t that a never mind it’s spelled similar
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:27 am to High C
Lots of cemeteries have that in their by-laws
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:44 am to High C
Something something dying to be white?
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:47 am to High C
Over under on the number of OT'ers and Poli-board denizens that have already called to change their plot to Oaklin Springs.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:50 am to High C
Not sure if I buy the president's remark that he had no idea about these written by-laws. But whatever.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:04 pm to FightinTiga
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Yeah and so is the hatred for white conservatives
Lol
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:06 pm to High C
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It never came up. I take full responsibility for that. I’ve been the president of this board for several years now," he said.
Totally believable.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:09 pm to High C
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It was in their by-laws that the cemetery was ‘whites only
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The cemetery said it fired the employee who turned away the deputy’s family
As deplorable of a story as this is, I suspect the employee would have a claim at a wrongful termination suit.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:10 pm to SabiDojo
Family in NE La is buried in a segregated cemetery, blacks on one side and crackers on the other. Zero gunfire or bickering can be heard from either side.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:15 pm to KemoSabe65
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Family in NE La is buried in a segregated cemetery, blacks on one side and crackers on the other. Zero gunfire or bickering can be heard from either side.
I've got a lot of family up there too. Pretty obvious reason as to why there isn't any "bickering" of course.
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:19 pm to Methuselah
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Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:20 pm to KemoSabe65
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Family in NE La is buried in a segregated cemetery, blacks on one side and crackers on the other. Zero gunfire or bickering can be heard from either side.
a lot of my Mom's family are buried in a cemetery(in the sticks of S. Ark.,) like that, when it was nearing capacity and wanted to expand, my uncle owned all of the land around the church/cemetery, he said I'll give you all of the land you want, just cut that shite out, cemetery goes back to pre-Civil war, so there! I'm not rayciss and neither is my family!
ETA: cut that shite out, as in don't segregate/discriminate
This post was edited on 1/29/21 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:23 pm to FightinTiga
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:34 pm to High C
why would a black person want to bury their kinfolk in a cemetery that says only white people?
Posted on 1/29/21 at 12:37 pm to diat150
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why would a black person want to bury their kinfolk in a cemetery that says only white people?
interracial couple? maybe a lot of cops buried there?
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