Saturday, July 11, 2009

One of the Worst Examples of Black on Black Crime Ever--Burr Oak Cemetary Defiled 300 or More Graves Including that of Emmitt Till



The dead they sleep a long, long sleep;
The dead they rest, and their rest is deep;
The dead have peace, but the living weep.

--Samuel Hoffenstein
When this story first broke, I kept holding my breath with the hope that the fools responsible for desecrating the graves at Burr Oak cemetery outside of Chicago were not black. My hopes were buttressed because the criminally accused had not done "the perp walk."

Alas, it seems that the ign'ts--and ign't is a complement--who dug up and defiled 300 or more graves containing some of our most honorable and respectable negro dead, are themselves Black.

Is this not one of the worst examples of black on black crime which you have ever been witness to?

Come Sunday, we are going to initiate the discommendation of these disgusting, foul, knuckle dragging, disgusting, hoogah moogah, evil, maladjusted, worthy of anal rape with a hot curling iron, monstrous examples of humankind.

We are truly a society too sick to survive.




Emmett Till's casket found rusting in shack

DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer
Associated Press Writer

Illinois (AP) -- Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years, authorities said Friday.

Three gravediggers and a manager at the Burr Oak Cemetery are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses and either dumping some in a weeded, desolate area near the cemetery or double-stacking others in graves. The cemetery is the burial place of civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington.

While Till's grave site was not disturbed, Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic glass-topped casket rusting in a shack at the cemetery.

The 14-year-old Chicagoan was killed in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman during a visit to his uncle's house in Mississippi. Nearly 100,000 people visited the casket during a four-day public viewing in Chicago, and images of his battered body helped spark the civil rights movement.

When Till was exhumed in 2005 during an investigation of his death, he was reburied in a new casket. The original casket was supposed to be kept for a planned memorial to Till.

Thousands of families have come to the cemetery since Thursday looking for answers about their loved ones, authorities said. Hundreds of relatives, some clutching maps of the 150-acre (60-hectare) site, were seen at the cemetery Friday.

Dart said officials have assisted the families in locating relatives' plots, and family members have reported at least 30 cases of disturbed graves and missing headstones.

The Illinois official who regulates cemeteries said Friday that the process of revoking the cemetery's license has been started.

The suspects, all of whom are black have been charged with one count of dismembering a human body, a felony.

Bond was set at $250,000 for the cemetery's manager, and at $200,000 for the other three.

Authorities said the cemetery manager also pocketed donations she elicited for a Till memorial museum. She has not been charged in connection with those allegations. Court documents show she was fired from the cemetery in late May amid allegations of financial wrongdoing.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

have we, as a society, stooped this low?
i have no words...

Spinster said...

If there is a hell, may they burn and rot in it. How fucking despicable. I can't imagine how those families feel. If that ever happened to any of my deceased family members, they'd have to make sure that there is a vacant prison cell available for me. :-/

rotsamuck said...

This is an abomination; these criminals need never see the light of day again. To desecrate gravesites, to molest the memories of those who have gone before us is an incalculable level of viciousness and greed that should have every civilized person in the nation screaming.
Those who do not honor their dead, or anyone else's dead, have no honor. When black people do not value black lives, memories and dead, we are lost.
Emmett Till was lynched more than 50 years ago, but his memory and the memories of hundreds of others who rest in that cemetery were molested post-mortem, as are the memories of the tens of thousands of dead who fought for civil rights, and whose memories are desecrated by black on black crime, purposeful ignorance and the metamorphosis of black on black crime to entertainment.
Monica Davis, author, Land, Legacy and Lynching: building the future in Black America.