Are you surprised?
You shouldn’t be, because this is America.
What happened to Blue Lives Matter?
The board of a cemetery in Oberlin, La., has issued an apology after it denied to bury a Black sheriff’s deputy in light of an arcane rule only allowing white persons to be buried within the cemetery.
The controversy was brought to light by a Facebook post by Karla Semien, the widow of the late Officer Darrell Semien. Upon arriving at Oaklin Springs to select a burial site for her husband, Semien was informed that she was ineligible to purchase a plot of land due to the whites only clause.
“He was good enough to protect you, being a police officer of all these years,” she told The Washington Post in an interview. “But he wasn’t good enough to be laid to rest in your cemetery?”
The deputy’s poor wife.
Flip the page for her Facebook story on what happened when she tried to buy a plot.