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'Roots' author Alex Haley's grandmother's tombstone vandalized with racial graffiti
Vandals defaced the tombstone of "Roots" author Alex Haley's grandmother in Savannah, Tenn., spray-painting the phrase "White Lives Matter" on the marker, the Jackson Sun reports.
Gary Will, the police chief of Savannah, said the vandalism apparently occurred in the past few days and will be removed this week. The tombstone marks the grave of Queen Haley, who grew up in slavery, the daughter of a white plantation owner and his black slave.
Will said he didn't know why the vandals targeted Haley's grave. "This is a crime that should have never occurred," he said. "Wed like to know why, why they picked her gravestone. But it doesn't matter. It isn't right. ... Whether you're alive or deceased, your life mattered."
Queen Haley was the subject of Alex Haley's book "Queen: The Story of an American Family," which later was adapted into the miniseries "Alex Haley's Queen." The book was co-written by David Stevens, who finished writing the book after Alex Haley died in 1992.
The graffiti on Haley's grandmother's grave, "White Lives Matter," appears to be a reference to #BlackLivesMatter, a grassroots movement founded in 2012 by activists Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African American teenager.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-alex-haley-grandmother-tombstone-vandalized-20150805-story.html
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Mother....FUCKERS! (Original Post)
Blue_Tires
Aug 2015
OP
BLM and the growing courage to examine the truth about racism in America has gotten under some racist folks white skin.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#2
White people need to show outrage at this. This is beyond sick and disgusting
AllFieldsRequired
Aug 2015
#6
Ooooooh, it takes a big, brave person to attack a grave. I'll bet they were
Dark n Stormy Knight
Aug 2015
#10
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)1. but there is no racism right?
noooooooooo
(sarcasm flag flown way high)
lobodons
(1,290 posts)4. SCOTUS ruled
Its settled law now. No more racism in America as declared by the Roberts court.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. BLM and the growing courage to examine the truth about racism in America has gotten under some racist folks white skin.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)12. here and there......
greatauntoftriplets
(175,745 posts)3. ...
MuseRider
(34,112 posts)5. I just don't know what to say anymore. n/t
AllFieldsRequired
(489 posts)6. White people need to show outrage at this. This is beyond sick and disgusting
I, for one, am tired of reading about these things and then doing little about it other than show my outrage on the internet.
Something has to be done.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)7. Ugh. n/t
Skittles
(153,169 posts)8. disgraceful
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)9. "appears to be a reference to #BlackLivesMatter"
Uh, you think? Assholes.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)10. Ooooooh, it takes a big, brave person to attack a grave. I'll bet they were
extremely proud of themselves. Ugh.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)11. there is a showdown brewing
as quiet as it's kept.........
JustAnotherGen
(31,829 posts)13. Sure is!
And this brilliance will be missed.
MADem
(135,425 posts)14. I. am. sickened.
Beyond disgraceful.
Cowards.
MADem
(135,425 posts)14. I. am. sickened.
Beyond disgraceful.
Cowards.
DU has been laggy and slow, and for some reason this posted twice--but it merits being said more than once.
Cha
(297,378 posts)16. Poor dumbshit idiots. there is no hope for them.