Four nabbed in ghoulish scheme to dig up graves in historic Illinois cemetery

[WillowTree]

A group of Illinois grave diggers were charged Thursday with running a morbid scam in which they exhumed corpses in a historic black cemetery to resell the empty plots, cops said.

Investigators suspect more than 300 bodies were dug up in the suburban Chicago graveyard and discarded in a pit so the ghouls could cash in.

"There should be a special place in hell" for the perpetrators, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said during a press conference at the desecrated grave yard.

The famed Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip is the final resting place of civil rights lynching victim Emmett Till and his mother, as well as jazz legend Dinah Washington, bluesman Willie Dixon and boxing champ Ezzard Charles.

While the graves of the notables were believed to be intact, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said that doesn't lessen the outrage.

"What we found was beyond startling and revolting," Dart said.

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Why was there an all black cemetery in Illinois? I thought segregation was a "Southern" thang!?

 

[AllieBaba]

I don't get why they were doing it?

 

[WillowTree]

Money Honey!

 

[strollingbones]

o hell back up the short bus......willow agreeing with jesse jackson....can we bronze this? is willow becoming a liberal? willow the liberal.....kinda has a nice ring to it....

 

[Modbert]

o hell back up the short bus......willow agreeing with jesse jackson....can we bronze this? is willow becoming a liberal? willow the liberal.....kinda has a nice ring to it....

No, she simply is trying to say these black people are racist by having an all black cemetary.

However, Willow is a fucktard for good reasons.

Burr Oak Was Once The Only Black Cemetery In Chicago - cbs2chicago.com

"This is the only place in the Chicago area you could bury a black person and over the years my whole family is here," Leonard Johnson said.

Veteran funeral director Spencer Leak Sr. lived that history in an era when blacks were limited to a handful of Chicago cemeteries because they were barred elsewhere.

"There was a great concentration of African-Americans in the cemeteries that did provide service and had a history of providing service to African-Americans," Leak said.

In fact, Leak's father, A.R. Leak, led demonstrations to help open the South Side's most historic burial ground, Oak Woods Cemetery, to African-Americans.

The protests came to a head Memorial Day 1964. Hundreds filled the streets outside Oak Woods, which once buried blacks but no longer did after an ownership change.

 

[WillowTree]

can you hear me gagging? wellcanyahuh?

 

[strollingbones]

o the things i could say...gagging on ....i will resist....

 

[WillowTree]

o hell back up the short bus......willow agreeing with jesse jackson....can we bronze this? is willow becoming a liberal? willow the liberal.....kinda has a nice ring to it....

No, she simply is trying to say these black people are racist by having an all black cemetary.

However, Willow is a fucktard for good reasons.

Burr Oak Was Once The Only Black Cemetery In Chicago - cbs2chicago.com

"This is the only place in the Chicago area you could bury a black person and over the years my whole family is here," Leonard Johnson said.

Veteran funeral director Spencer Leak Sr. lived that history in an era when blacks were limited to a handful of Chicago cemeteries because they were barred elsewhere.

"There was a great concentration of African-Americans in the cemeteries that did provide service and had a history of providing service to African-Americans," Leak said.

In fact, Leak's father, A.R. Leak, led demonstrations to help open the South Side's most historic burial ground, Oak Woods Cemetery, to African-Americans.

The protests came to a head Memorial Day 1964. Hundreds filled the streets outside Oak Woods, which once buried blacks but no longer did after an ownership change.

Reading comprehension is a skill you need roberto come up outta the basement. What I'm asking is this: "If racism is a white southern thang! why was it necessary to have seperate cemeteries in Illinois?? Isn't Illinois north of the Mason Dixion line???

 

[WillowTree]

o hell back up the short bus......willow agreeing with jesse jackson....can we bronze this? is willow becoming a liberal? willow the liberal.....kinda has a nice ring to it....

No, she simply is trying to say these black people are racist by having an all black cemetary.

However, Willow is a fucktard for good reasons.

Burr Oak Was Once The Only Black Cemetery In Chicago - cbs2chicago.com

"This is the only place in the Chicago area you could bury a black person and over the years my whole family is here," Leonard Johnson said.

Veteran funeral director Spencer Leak Sr. lived that history in an era when blacks were limited to a handful of Chicago cemeteries because they were barred elsewhere.

"There was a great concentration of African-Americans in the cemeteries that did provide service and had a history of providing service to African-Americans," Leak said.

In fact, Leak's father, A.R. Leak, led demonstrations to help open the South Side's most historic burial ground, Oak Woods Cemetery, to African-Americans.

The protests came to a head Memorial Day 1964. Hundreds filled the streets outside Oak Woods, which once buried blacks but no longer did after an ownership change.

save this for bobo..

 

[Steve Jobs]

"A special place in Hell", eh? Oh yes, that's right, because blacks are so much better than everyone else.

When the fuck is this Jesse Jackson going to get hit by a bus?

 

[Sweetchuck]

Maybe they were the GOP's identity looking for Ronny.

 

[AllieBaba]

I still don't get it. How do they get money by digging up dead people?

By using their sites?

 

[jgbkab]

"A special place in Hell", eh? Oh yes, that's right, because blacks are so much better than everyone else.

When the fuck is this Jesse Jackson going to get hit by a bus?

What are you 10? He meant digging up dead people not dead black people. And he was only asked for commentary because it happened in a black cemetery. Once I let your hand go, you're gonna have to walk on your own.

 

[WillowTree]

I still don't get it. How do they get money by digging up dead people?

By using their sites?

yes, apparently they dug up the bodies, put them in a mass grave, then resold the plots.

 

[AllieBaba]

As it says in like line one of your first post. Sorry.