Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black

[Superbadbrutha]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

Maybe it wasn't so much him but his visitors?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

Maybe it wasn't so much him but his visitors?

Damn Jimmy Shitwood, did you write that all by yourself.

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

Maybe it wasn't so much him but his visitors?

Damn Jimmy Shitwood, did you write that all by yourself.

It is actually Chitwood my brutha

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

OMG!!! It is a Confederate cemetery dummy.....................Gawd almighty

 

[Superbadbrutha]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

OMG!!! It is a Confederate cemetery dummy.....................Gawd almighty

I thought you racist said there was BLACK Confederates dummy..............Gawd Almighty.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only

Private business.

If that response is good enough for Twitter, Google and Fakebook, it's good enough for me.

 

[HenryBHough]

If they just took and baked him a cake the cemetery folks wouldn't get shit from any court!

 

[Asclepias]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

The south is all fucked up but I'm sure some of the northern cities have some of the same antiquated laws that no one has bothered to take off the books. Remember this country thrived because of racism and became a super power directly due to the enslavement of Blacks. If not for Black people the US would be a failed penal colony.

 

[SavannahMann]

Later the Church Members can all explain that they aren’t really racist, and you shouldn’t boycott their businesses.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

this country thrived because of racism and became a super power directly due to the enslavement of Blacks

True, but not in the way you mean.

Giving ignorant blacks a say in this white country has certainly dragged us down as a nation

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Jesus Christ, what year are we living in?

 

[Asclepias]

this country thrived because of racism and became a super power directly due to the enslavement of Blacks

True, but not in the way you mean.

Giving ignorant blacks a say in this white country has certainly dragged us down as a nation

You dragged yourself down because you were too dumb to run a country on your own without a head start.

 

[Turtlesoup]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

OMG!!! It is a Confederate cemetery dummy.....................Gawd almighty

I thought you racist said there was BLACK Confederates dummy..............Gawd Almighty.

Blacks especially wealthy ones in the south could donate to the civil a

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

OMG!!! It is a Confederate cemetery dummy.....................Gawd almighty

I thought you racist said there was BLACK Confederates dummy..............Gawd Almighty.

Is this your poor attempt to distract from the actual facts.

 

[toobfreak]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

Don't Black people have their own cemeteries? Don't they WANT their own cemeteries? I mean, they want their own everything else, from black TV channels, black programming, black rapper music, black culture, black slang and language, black neighborhoods and churches. Even their own black holidays.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

Don't Black people have their own cemeteries? Don't they WANT their own cemeteries? I mean, they want their own everything else, from black TV channels, black programming, black rapper music, black culture, black slang and language, black neighborhoods and churches. Even their own black holidays.

They want their own. They just dont want to see whites have their own. Not even 8n death

 

[EvilCat Breath]

This is just an unfortunate understanding.

The prohibition of blacks in cemetaries was very very common. These limitations have been illegal for years. Some locations changed the language. Some simply ignored the provision. This representative was in her 80s and unaware of the mandated change.

There was no malicious intent.

 

[candycorn]

Jesus Christ, what year are we living in?

Happens in Texas all the time.

 

[candycorn]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

Don't Black people have their own cemeteries? Don't they WANT their own cemeteries? I mean, they want their own everything else, from black TV channels, black programming, black rapper music, black culture, black slang and language, black neighborhoods and churches. Even their own black holidays.

Hard to see why Republicans get almost no support from the black community.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

A southwest Louisiana cemetery refused to accept the remains of a recently deceased Black man, citing Jim Crow-era bylaws that permitted such exclusions.

Allen Parish Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Semien, 55, died this week after a brief battle with bladder cancer, and he had hoped to be buried close to his home in Oberlin, about halfway between New Orleans and Houston.

When loved ones of Semien, who was Black, approached Oaklin Springs Baptist Cemetery, they were rebuffed by a representative who said the graveyard was for whites only.

"I just kind of looked at her and she said, 'There's no coloreds allowed,' " widow Karla Semien told KPLC, an NBC affiliate based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, confirmed such language exists, showing KPLC a standard contract which shows that Oaklin Springs allows only for the burial of "white human beings."

Louisiana cemetery refused to accept remains of sheriff's deputy because he was Black (msn.com)

There isn't any segregation in this country, is there.

Don't Black people have their own cemeteries? Don't they WANT their own cemeteries? I mean, they want their own everything else, from black TV channels, black programming, black rapper music, black culture, black slang and language, black neighborhoods and churches. Even their own black holidays.

Really. Who would want to enjoy eternal peace with Whitey laying next to ya??