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Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
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Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 1:38 pm
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??    Mad
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 1:41 pm
(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??    Mad

What’s the problem? I mean, they said they were sorry, so that makes everything alright, doesn’t it?

Doesn’t it?

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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 1:42 pm
(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??    Mad

My guess is that it's an old regulation that has never been challenged.  It's probably well known in that area to be a "white" cemetary.

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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 1:45 pm
[Image: icon_quote.jpg]Z-T-F:
How the hell can this still be a thing in 2021??

Agreed, black "people" should have learned long ago to stop being black.
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January 29, 2021 at 2:24 pm
In rural Acadiana, it would be hard to find a true "white human being," in terms of the one drop rule.  

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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 2:35 pm
I have never even met a white person, most people around here are various shades of pink!
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January 29, 2021 at 2:44 pm
(January 29, 2021 at 2:35 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I have never even met a white person, most people around here are various shades of pink!

Sir, I am beige.

Only pink if I get too much sun...then it's more of a red.
  
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 3:11 pm
(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??    Mad

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January 29, 2021 at 3:17 pm
I'm a red merle on white, for those familiar with herding breeds.
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RE: Louisiana cemetery 'sorry' after denying officer burial 'because he is black'
January 29, 2021 at 3:23 pm
Well, as long as they're sorry.

That makes all the fucking difference!
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