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What Century Are We In Again? Open Thread	Jul 05, 2008
Nanette

Although, technically, all threads are pretty much open.

Anyway, I agree with P6… this really is pathetic:

Burial Exposes Racial Rift in Texas

The corpse of a white woman whose 2007 killing barely made headlines is now at the center of a peculiar racial conflict over the desegregation of the cemeteries in a rural Texas county.

Black leaders in Waller County, northwest of Houston, say white county authorities deliberately sabotaged their efforts to have the woman’s unidentified body buried in one of two public black cemeteries. Judge Owen Ralston, the county’s top elected official and the man who decided where the woman would be interred, denies the accusation, insisting that cost - not race - led to her burial on Monday in a white cemetery.

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“I had no idea what color the lady was and didn’t care,” Judge Ralston said. “There’ve been some bad racial situations in this county, but I’ve tried to be right about it. I’m not a racially motivated person.”

Upon learning Wednesday night that the burial had taken place without his knowledge, a county justice of the peace, DeWayne Charleston, who is black, said, “I’m going to have that body exhumed.”

[....]

Judge Ralston denied that he was biased, and insisted that until reading the news release he did not know the victim was white. He had assumed, he said, that she was black because her body was to have been handled by Mr. Singleton’s funeral home. Judge Ralston pointed out that he had not been troubled that in ordering the body handled by the Canon Funeral Home, he was, had his assumption been correct, effectively directing the integration of a white cemetery. And he questioned his critics’ motives.

[....]

But Judge Charleston vowed to fight to have the body moved and, he said, to have something positive emerge from a senseless death.

“Here’s a woman who nobody knows, and maybe, if nothing else, the Lord sent her to be laid to rest in Texas for this purpose, for a milestone,” he said. “She can help heal the racial divide in our community.”

Sigh.

Posted by Nanette on 07/05 at 10:35 AM
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