Sunday's march will begin at Macedonia Baptist Church at 5119 River Road in Bethesda, and move across River Road to the cemetery site, around to the Kenwood Station shopping center (Whole Foods), and back to the church.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
More additions to speakers list for cemetery rally Sunday in Bethesda
Sunday's march will begin at Macedonia Baptist Church at 5119 River Road in Bethesda, and move across River Road to the cemetery site, around to the Kenwood Station shopping center (Whole Foods), and back to the church.
“save the historic African-American cemetery on the Westwood Tower property in Bethesda from development”
ReplyDeleteSo it’s completely undeveloped now?
Robert - your coverage of this story is appreciated. However, you’ll never win elected office. You’ve never held an elected position and never will. Hans Reimer would beat you by 100,000 votes next time, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteThe article in today's Washington Post is excellent.
ReplyDelete"The long-lost cemetery is said to have been located on land north and northeast of the Westwood Tower Apartments in Bethesda, which was paved over as a parking lot decades ago. For years now, the county’s Housing Opportunities Commission has met fierce backlash from activists from nearby Macedonia Baptist Church — a surviving vestige of the area’s historic black community — who claim any development on the property, as well as the existing parking lot, desecrates their ancestors’ bones.
ReplyDelete"Yet the commission, which controls the site, has had no intention of building a parking garage on the lot, said Shauna Sorrells, the commission’s director of legislative and public affairs. The allegations are based on sketches drawn up two years ago as part of a master plan process that were never acted upon."
If Federal Realty, Westfield, or Greenhill wanted to build a new shopping center on this land, instead of Regency and Equity One, you can bet that Robert Dyer would be in favor of it.
ReplyDelete7:20am Regency are from out of town- they could care less about Bethesda history or our local community. It's about maximizing every square foot for profit, bodies be damned.
DeleteI love seeing folks of all faiths and backgrounds coming together to stand against this outrageous plan to build a parking garage on a cemetery. Shame on you Regency Centers.
ReplyDelete6:59 PM - FIND: "Robert Dyer" - 0/0
ReplyDeleteLOL
7:31/7:33 - Fake cemetery, fake commenter.
ReplyDelete7:36am oh, I'm very real, my friend.
ReplyDeleteYou attack anyone standing with the church against this potential atrocity. My conscience is clear and I can sleep at night. Can you say the same?
"and I can sleep at night."
ReplyDeleteJudging from your 3 AM peeping in construction sites, and unhinged (signed) comments to readers at the same hour, I'd say no, you can't.
7:49am lol..I have no idea what your word salad means. Translate for us?
ReplyDeleteI'm standing firm against Regency's insane plan to build a parking garage on a historic African American cemetery. From Robert's reporting, I see the cavalry is coming and we're getting backup.
I'm standing firmly for Regency's plan to build a parking garage on a parking lot.
ReplyDeleteAndy, Andy, Andy...what brings you out today? You and Dyer must talk often, you use many of the same phrases (i.e.word salad.) And you always have the exact same opinion on everything as Dyer does. Peculiar.
ReplyDeleteOf course you're real. I seriously doubt that this little blog warrants the St Pete folks to deploy the bots. You just aren't named "Andy Van Slyke" so therefore, you're no more than an anonymous shill, selling his soul to a local blogger by providing atta-boys and taking on the bloggers who don't toe the party line. What a fopdoodle.
Andy Van Slyke said...
ReplyDelete"7:36am oh, I'm very real, my friend."
Good thing you didn't say "old sport".
9:24 AM - PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!
ReplyDeleteMore nobody speakers talking about fake news. Yay!
ReplyDeleteNow is a good time to remind everyone that this current Westbard plan has no support from Bethesda residents.
ReplyDeleteWhy is this so complicated? The land where this supposed cemetery was, was owned by a black benevolent society. They sold it. Blame the society for selling it, not the current owners.
ReplyDeleteIn which Robert Dyer blames a fatal lover's quarrel in Wheaton on "the coming turf war between MS-13 and a new spin-off rival".
ReplyDeleteWhether you like or dislike the Westbard development, it's hard to defend the way the county has conducted itself. It's worth asking how the county ended up needing a mediator between the planning board and the church. The planning board should be the mediator between the landowners and the greater community.
ReplyDelete4:27: How many "lovers" steal their "lover's" purse and cell phone after the "quarrel," old sport?
ReplyDelete10:15: Taking the phone and purse would magically eliminate all of the other physical/DNA evidence and nearby surveillance camera footage? Don't sign up for criminal justice classes anytime soon, old sport. LOL
ReplyDeleteStolen purse and cell phone?
ReplyDeleteAbsolute proof that MS-13 gang members committed this murder.
(At least in Dyer's mind.)
Over/under is that no more than 25 people will show up. BTW, nobody really gives a rats ass about this. Why do you keep reporting on matters (such as this) that the general public has no interest in, or is for your own personal interest?
ReplyDeleteDyer: "How many 'lovers' steal their 'lover's' purse and cell phone after the 'quarrel,' old sport?"
ReplyDelete@ 10:15 PM - "Lovers who are trying to destroy evidence that they killed their lover."
Dyer: "Taking the phone and purse would magically eliminate all of the other physical/DNA evidence and nearby surveillance camera footage?"
Notice how Dyer just can't stop putting words in other people's mouths? Who said that the purse and cell phone were the ONLY evidence? Who said that it is not desirable to dispose SOME evidence - that which is easiest to dispose?
9:28am Dyer should ignore the biggest social justice issue currently in Bethesda?
ReplyDeleteAs a journalist, he is doing his job.
Looks like no one showed up. LOL
ReplyDelete12:32: How would you know without being there? Are you in the remote viewing program of the Deep State?
ReplyDeleteDeep Basement
ReplyDeleteLOL
8:11 AM (EST) the next day, and still no story?
ReplyDeleteI guess no one showed up. A couple of speakers, speaking to no audience.