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| Raskin touring the Moses African Cemetery site with BACC President Marsha Coleman-Adebayo earlier this year |
Leaders and members of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition will converge on the Rayburn Office Building office of U.S. Congressman Jamie Raskin (D - MD 8th District) this afternoon, Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 3:00 PM. The organization, which advocates for the desecrated Moses African Cemetery now hidden primarily on the Westwood Tower property in Bethesda, says Raskin has ignored the cemetery issue despite being briefed on its history and visiting the site. BACC says it hopes to meet with Raskin during the office visit, and will demand he stop the ongoing desecration of the site, and call for a federal criminal investigation into all crimes committed at the cemetery since it was first disturbed in the 1960s.
Despite his awareness of the cemetery issues, Raskin has said he will continue to defer to Montgomery County officials rather than take action himself, BACC says. "The local officials he is referring to are the same who are responsible for the crimes," BACC argues in a press release. BACC says anyone wishing to participate in this afternoon's visit should meet outside the Independence Avenue entrance of the Rayburn Office Building at 2:30 PM. "BACC will continue to visit Jamie Raskin until it is clear that he will take action," organizers said in a statement.
I agree with BACC that the Bethesda African American Cemetery should be recognized and memorialized. That said, I don’t understand what the federal issue is and what type of action BACC is asking of Congressman Raskin.
ReplyDeleteRaskin cares only about himself so unless he can spin this to his advantage, he could care less.
ReplyDeleteThe site was never owner by the church and was never a cemetery according to posting on the construction fence from the developer and letter from MD Historical Trust.
ReplyDeleteHa! Far Left Dems eating their own. Keep voting them in MD. He doesn't give two craps about you, the good folks involved in this cemetery issue or much else if he doesn't benefit from it. Another proud wacko son of Takoma Park. Did Elrich and Raskin have playdates when they were kids? They are about the same age.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a federal issue. It's not federal land and no federal laws were broken.
ReplyDeleteConservatives pretending this is a federal issue or that Raskin is terrible for not getting involved are hilarious. If Raskin did get involved I'm sure they'd say that's terrible, too.
ReplyDelete@3:44 Raskin and his wife are part of the problem. Both are corrupt and seek only to enrich themselves. When caught, they claim ignorance and retroactively refile documents that would put Republicans in jail. It's good to be a Democrat.
ReplyDelete2:41 - Correct. And they love him here. Most educated part of the entire country according to many reports over the years. Smart but blind or clueless it seems. Keep voting Dem and this is what your get. The pride of Takoma. Great! Things are going well over there too by the way with a gas station shoot out yesterday early evening. Terrific!
ReplyDeleteYup, dumbest "smart" people around.
DeleteIf the intended victim in TP wasn't a concealed carrier, we would probably be reading about his murder.
They’re probably going federal because MoCo is run by commercial developers and state doesn’t do anything.
ReplyDelete5:34 - no one is talking about the legal carry weapon as the news reported. The Marxist Elrich banned all legal conceal carry I thought. So how did he have his conditionally protected weapon then? Why wasn't he charged? In Dystopia, the good guy gets charged and the crook doesn't.
ReplyDeleteWTH are you people even talking about? Is this blog just a place for nutty people to hang out and make nonsensical comments on articles about a cemetery?
ReplyDeleteA bit of introspection?
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