This is unbelievable
This is unbelievable
Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
A Louisiana cemetery has apologised after refusing to bury a local black police officer because of a decades-old provision allowing only white people.
The Oaklin Springs Cemetery board met on Thursday to change its sales contract after an outcry over the "white human beings" rule.
Officer Darrell Semien's widow called it a "slap in the face" to be denied a plot "because he's black".
The board president said they had been unaware of the "horrible" policy.
Mr Semien, 55, was a local sheriff's deputy living in Oberlin, a town located 200 miles (320km) west of New Orleans. He died of cancer on Sunday.
When his widow Karla Semien and their children tried to purchase a plot at Oaklin Springs, a staff member told them it was a "whites only" graveyard.
"She even had paperwork on a clipboard showing me that only white human beings can be buried there," Mrs Semien wrote in Facebook post on Tuesday, adding that it was hard to believe this was happening in 2021.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55860238
A Louisiana cemetery has apologised after refusing to bury a local black police officer because of a decades-old provision allowing only white people.
The Oaklin Springs Cemetery board met on Thursday to change its sales contract after an outcry over the "white human beings" rule.
Officer Darrell Semien's widow called it a "slap in the face" to be denied a plot "because he's black".
The board president said they had been unaware of the "horrible" policy.
Mr Semien, 55, was a local sheriff's deputy living in Oberlin, a town located 200 miles (320km) west of New Orleans. He died of cancer on Sunday.
When his widow Karla Semien and their children tried to purchase a plot at Oaklin Springs, a staff member told them it was a "whites only" graveyard.
"She even had paperwork on a clipboard showing me that only white human beings can be buried there," Mrs Semien wrote in Facebook post on Tuesday, adding that it was hard to believe this was happening in 2021.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55860238
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How utterly disgusting. Losing her husband was bad enough and now this on top of it. Sometimes people really do utterly disgust me.
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That's appalling, and such unnecessary added grief for the recently bereaved widow.
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Disgusting - How was it that the Cemetery Board was unaware yet an employee of the cemetery had the paperwork to hand. The board should hold their heads in shame and resign
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The deep south is still in the 19th century.
A lot of rednecks want the right to vote taken away from not just black people but women also.
A lot of rednecks want the right to vote taken away from not just black people but women also.
David
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Dishonesty is the second best policy
Re: This is unbelievable
I was appalled to read about Jesse Owens. In school I was taught how he embarrassed Hitler in the Olympic Games in 1936. This turns out to be complete hogwash. See here:
https://www.britannica.com/story/was-je ... n-olympics
The next day—August 3, 1936—Owens won his first gold medal in the 100-meter dash. Hitler did not meet or shake hands with Owens. That said, there are several reports of a salute or wave. According to sports reporter and author Paul Gallico, writing from Berlin, Owens was “led below the honor box, where he smiled and bowed, and Herr Hitler gave him a friendly little Nazi salute, the sitting down one with the arm bent.” Owens himself later confirmed this, claiming that they exchanged congratulatory waves.
So, Owens was not personally snubbed by Hitler. However, Owens did feel that he had been snubbed by someone: U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. A month after the Olympic Games, Owens told a crowd, “Hitler didn’t snub me—it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.” Roosevelt never publicly acknowledged Owens’s triumphs—or the triumphs of any of the 18 African Americans who competed at the Berlin Olympics. Only white Olympians were invited to the White House in 1936. A number of explanations have been offered for the president’s actions. Most likely, Roosevelt did not want to risk losing the support of Southern Democrats by appearing overly soft on the race issue. The black Olympians who competed in Berlin were not recognized by the White House until 2016, when Pres. Barack Obama invited the athletes’ relatives to an event in celebration of their lives and accomplishments.
https://www.britannica.com/story/was-je ... n-olympics
The next day—August 3, 1936—Owens won his first gold medal in the 100-meter dash. Hitler did not meet or shake hands with Owens. That said, there are several reports of a salute or wave. According to sports reporter and author Paul Gallico, writing from Berlin, Owens was “led below the honor box, where he smiled and bowed, and Herr Hitler gave him a friendly little Nazi salute, the sitting down one with the arm bent.” Owens himself later confirmed this, claiming that they exchanged congratulatory waves.
So, Owens was not personally snubbed by Hitler. However, Owens did feel that he had been snubbed by someone: U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. A month after the Olympic Games, Owens told a crowd, “Hitler didn’t snub me—it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.” Roosevelt never publicly acknowledged Owens’s triumphs—or the triumphs of any of the 18 African Americans who competed at the Berlin Olympics. Only white Olympians were invited to the White House in 1936. A number of explanations have been offered for the president’s actions. Most likely, Roosevelt did not want to risk losing the support of Southern Democrats by appearing overly soft on the race issue. The black Olympians who competed in Berlin were not recognized by the White House until 2016, when Pres. Barack Obama invited the athletes’ relatives to an event in celebration of their lives and accomplishments.
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I found this an interesting article regarding the riot of Bamber Bridge, a village not far from where I used to live.
https://www.blackpast.org/global-africa ... 0in%201943.
https://www.blackpast.org/global-africa ... 0in%201943.
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Jim B
I lived near Bamber Bridge myself for a few years, never heard of this riot.
Jackie
I lived near Bamber Bridge myself for a few years, never heard of this riot.
Jackie
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Yes Jackie, there was quite a bond with the American forces in that part of world possibly due to the Freckleton plane crash, information about it is on Wikipedia.
Jim
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Thanks Jim
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Wow I never knew that, very interestingDominic wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:53 pm I was appalled to read about Jesse Owens. In school I was taught how he embarrassed Hitler in the Olympic Games in 1936. This turns out to be complete hogwash. See here:
https://www.britannica.com/story/was-je ... n-olympics
The next day—August 3, 1936—Owens won his first gold medal in the 100-meter dash. Hitler did not meet or shake hands with Owens. That said, there are several reports of a salute or wave. According to sports reporter and author Paul Gallico, writing from Berlin, Owens was “led below the honor box, where he smiled and bowed, and Herr Hitler gave him a friendly little Nazi salute, the sitting down one with the arm bent.” Owens himself later confirmed this, claiming that they exchanged congratulatory waves.
So, Owens was not personally snubbed by Hitler. However, Owens did feel that he had been snubbed by someone: U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. A month after the Olympic Games, Owens told a crowd, “Hitler didn’t snub me—it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.” Roosevelt never publicly acknowledged Owens’s triumphs—or the triumphs of any of the 18 African Americans who competed at the Berlin Olympics. Only white Olympians were invited to the White House in 1936. A number of explanations have been offered for the president’s actions. Most likely, Roosevelt did not want to risk losing the support of Southern Democrats by appearing overly soft on the race issue. The black Olympians who competed in Berlin were not recognized by the White House until 2016, when Pres. Barack Obama invited the athletes’ relatives to an event in celebration of their lives and accomplishments.