Board members later removed the word “white” from a contract stipulation conveying “the right of burial of the remains of white human beings”
time.com
"The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriff’s deputy held an emergency meeting Thursday and removed a whites-only provision from its sales contracts. The family of Allen Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Darrell Semien, who died Sunday, had been told that he could not be buried at the cemetery near Oberlin because he was African American.
Karla Semien of Oberlin wrote Tuesday on Facebook that a woman at the cemetery had told her that her husband could not be buried there because it was for whites only. I just can’t believe in 2021 in oberlin Louisiana this is happening,” Semien wrote. “To be told this is like we were nothing. He was nothing? He put his life on the line for them,” Semien told KPLC-TV on Wednesday."
Yea, it's hard to believe that this shit is still happening in 2021 -- but fortunately, the president of the funeral home made it right and even offered a free plot to the family to try to make amends....As was said in the article, the "whites only" provision was one of those hold overs from the Jim Crow era...I guess it takes awhile to totally dismantle a system like that; this was just one more brick removed....while some may have wanted to "conserve" that kind of privilege, progressing forward is good...
That's the legacy of the Robert Byrd/Joe Biden wing of the DemoKKKrat party.
The legacy of conservatism you mean.......
Since the main opposition to Civil Rights came from conservatives...
Which is why this story triggered you to blurt out dumb shit
Why do you lie so causally?
The 1964 Civil Rights acts got a much higher voting support by percentage from the Republicans than from the Democrats. Not only that it was Democrats such as
Robert Byrd who tried to stop it through Filibustering.
The country was divided over the issue on a geographical basis, rather than political. An obvious after-effect of reconstruction, and how one voted was dependent on where one came from, i.e. "Southern" aka the former Confederate States, or not.
Once you break down the votes on that basis, you get a different story.
By region
Note that "Southern", as used here, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that had made up the
Confederate States of America in the
American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.
[27]
The House of Representatives:
[27]
- Northern: 281–32 (90–10%)
- Southern: 8–94 (8–92%)
The Senate:
[27]
- Northern: 72–6 (92–8%)
- Southern: 1–21 (5–95%) – Ralph Yarborough of Texas was the only Southerner to vote in favor in the Senate
By party and region
The House of Representatives:
[3][27]
Note that four Representatives voted
Present while 12 did not vote.
The Senate:
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en.wikipedia.org
Once you break it up by region, the picture is clearer.
Higher percentages of Dems voted for it, than Republicans, both in the North and the South.
And then after that, over the years, somehow or the other, all those Southern states which had been controlled by the Dems for ever, turned Republican.
It was like a miracle...
