typical injustice of African-americans

[llashram]

down through american history and truthfully any melanin-enhanced minority. Money over people or in this case a cemetery full of African-Americans. "Racism is as American as apple pie" and trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/headstones-black-cemetery-potomac-river/2020/10/25/3586f0d4-0d7a-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

[SharonClark]

1. Paywall?

[llashram]

2. article I read,

I paid nothing to read it, do you have to?

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Here you go...

Virginia Politics
A Virginia state senator found headstones on his property. It brought to light a historic injustice in D.C.
By Gregory S. Schneider
October 25 at 9:02 PM ET

KING GEORGE COUNTY, Va. — Richard and Lisa Stuart were walking beside the Potomac River when they noticed an odd rock in the riprap on the water's edge.
“I think that’s a headstone,” Richard Stuart remembers saying to his wife that day four years ago.
Once they started looking, they saw another. And another. With horror, Stuart discovered that a two-mile stretch of erosion control along the riverfront farm he had just purchased was full of grave markers.
A state senator, Stuart enlisted Virginia historians to figure out where they came from. The trail led upriver to the nation’s capital, and illuminated a dark truth about how Washington became the city it is today: The headstones were from Columbian Harmony Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground that was dug up and relocated in 1960 to make way for commercial development. Now the site of the Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro station and surrounding shops and condos, Columbian Harmony had been the final resting place for a century’s worth of D.C.’s most illustrious Black citizens. Among them: Elizabeth Keckley, confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln; Philip Reid, who helped create the statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol dome; and scores of Black Civil War veterans from the Union Army.

But it wasn’t just famous names. Some 37,000 people were laid to rest there between 1859 and 1960. Columbian Harmony is among at least five major African American cemeteries in D.C. that were obliterated in the past century for the sake of development.

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The article goes on to discuss grave relocations and the desire for restorative justice. I recommend trying to access the article using an incognito tab. It's well worth the read. I wish we weren't limited by copyright rules, otherwise I would post more.

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