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     Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2043 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Some things are just not right. There are crimes and then there are crimes beyond belief. I can not think of a word to call these new felons or their crime. Four individuals from the Chicago area have been arrested for grave robbing. Well, their official titles were gravediggers but they've committed a crime that stole the hearts and memories of loved ones. the gravediggers allegedly took cash for new graves, then emptied existing plots and moved the remains to an unused part of the cemetery. It was a place covered with chest-high grass and dotted with trees. The body of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who was slain for allegedly whistling at a white women in 1955, rests in that cemetery. After a futile search for his brother and a nephew, a man from Chicago clutched a cemetery map and said, "this is a mess, we can't find our people". Piles of bones littered a remote area of the property. Some found undisturbed plots, but others wandered aimlessly, unable to locate loved ones. A sheriff said the displacement of bodies were not done in a very delicate way. Graves were stacked on top of each other. Remains were dumped haphazardly, littered with shards of coffins. It was said that it appears some coffins were pounded down to make room for the one placed on top of them. One person said it's almost like killing them all over again. Carolyn Towns, one of the arrested and manager of the cemetery, has also been under investigation for pocketing donations for an Emmet Till memorial museum. I 've heard it said that all money is not good money. I believe that to be true and I wonder what's the proper punishment for someone that takes money for a crime of this nature. How deep is the pain of finding out a loved one's last resting place has been exchanged for money. Some things just aren't right. What morbid souls would desecrate the graves and the memories of loved ones? | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13892 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Just as a side note, the media wouild have you believe that this cemetery was where all Blacks were forced to bury their loved ones when, in fact, there are other places in and around Chicagoland where blacks have been going since the late 1930s. I have always heard bad things about Burr Oak cemetery which is why I avoided it. Of course there is no excuse for what has happened, but all of the relatives showing up at the site, apparently never visited their loved ones until now or they would've noticed what was going on. As Rev Jesse Jackson was glad to have the chance to lament in front of the TV cameras, there's a special place in hell for people who descrate the final resting place of the dead. | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2045 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Yeah Cynique, last week I was at a funeral in Chicago. The burial site was on the south side, I doubt it was this place. Where is Burr Oak located (suburb)? | ||
| Abm "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Abm Post Number: 10401 Registered: 04-2004 Rating: N/A |
Carey, If it was someone Black you saw buried, it very likely was Burr Oak, which is in southern suburb (Alsip) of Chi-Town. | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13894 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Lincoln Memorial cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois, Carey, right down the road apiece from Burr Oaks which is kinda on the out-skirts of Chicago, is where a whole lot Chicagoland black folks have been and are going to. Oakwood cemetery actually located in Chicago is also well populated by Blacks. It is where the late Mayor Harold Washington is laid to rest and where the monument Senator Roland Burris erected to himself in located. Out my way, in Forest Park and around Hillside Illinois, there are 2 or 3 cemeteries that have been filling up with Blacks since the 1960s. | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13895 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
I have family members buried in Lincoln cemetery and go out there about once a year and there are a lot of well known black Chicagoans buried there. | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2046 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Yes, it was south of the city. the funeral was on the west side -- 3200 block of Holmes. It took us about 30-40 minutes to reach the grave site. | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8053 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
Typical Chi Town shenanigans. So what else is new? | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8054 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
I have always heard bad things about Burr Oak cemetery which is why I avoided it (You mean you have avoided being interred there? How many times have you risen from the grave?) | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13904 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
I've only risen once, chrishayden. Once was enough to do my work here on earth. Now go about your demonic tasks, carrying out the mission of the anti-christ. |
