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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 3:34 pm
(January 29, 2021 at 3:11 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (January 29, 2021 at 1:38 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: 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".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55860238
How the hell can this still be a thing in 2021?? 
No shit. The GOP is proof that time travel is real.
How do you know this has anything to do with the GOP?
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 3:44 pm
(January 29, 2021 at 3:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (January 29, 2021 at 3:11 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No shit. The GOP is proof that time travel is real.
How do you know this has anything to do with the GOP?
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He doesn't and it has nothing to do with the GOP. It's just the blathering of a fool.
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 3:47 pm
We have all kinds of "this race only" establishments scattered around my city/state. They never put it in writing, but the wrong people know they're not welcome.
We also have "this gender only" and "this income only".
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 3:59 pm
I remember asking where a wake would be held for the twin sons of a coworker who died in a car accident on graduation night. My husband responded with the name of a funeral home adding that it was the black funeral home. SC didn't ever bother with any sort of desegregation.
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 4:05 pm
(January 29, 2021 at 3:11 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (January 29, 2021 at 1:38 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: 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".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55860238
How the hell can this still be a thing in 2021??
No shit. The GOP is proof that time travel is real.
Ignorant dipshit.
Go check those whitey boneyards - and you find the vast majority of the stiffs were Democrats......
It was Dixiecrats that passed all the Jim Crow laws....
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I just can't imagine why the family wants to bury their dead in such dicey company.....
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2021 at 4:41 pm by Rev. Rye.)
And I take it we still haven’t read up on how Kennedy and Johnson became pro-Civil Rights, how the Republicans developed the Southern Strategy in response, and how, because of these two factors, the party of Lincoln became the party of White Supremacy and the party that opposed the abolition of slavery and the enfranchisement of freedmen in the mid-19th century became the party that at least tried to help the lot in life of their descendants?
Also, on the OP, I hoped that this was just some old, obscure regulation that was never enforced since the Civil Rights Acts but they still never got around to actually removing it from their rule book. But it turns out they were still enforcing it and putting the language “white human beings” on their burial contracts in 2021. Dafuq?
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 30, 2021 at 1:51 am
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2021 at 1:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 29, 2021 at 3:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (January 29, 2021 at 3:11 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No shit. The GOP is proof that time travel is real.
How do you know this has anything to do with the GOP?
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(January 29, 2021 at 3:44 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (January 29, 2021 at 3:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: How do you know this has anything to do with the GOP?
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He doesn't and it has nothing to do with the GOP. It's just the blathering of a fool.
Ummmm..... It does? Don't get me wrong. Continue to give Brian shit for this and that...but this isn't an open question.
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 30, 2021 at 2:56 am
The GOP courted southern black votes when the cemetery bylaws were written. They later bought the lean, but that's not working the original deal. Democrats did that, but the voters were pretty much the same.
Louisiana is one of those "different country" states. More so than Texas or which ever state you associate with "they're not like us." Current events and political winds notwithstanding, don't wake them too hard.
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 30, 2021 at 3:00 am
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But, you know...dixiecrats and shit, y'all?
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 30, 2021 at 3:15 am
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