BACC letter stamped "RECEIVED" by MoCo State's Attorney's office |
According to witness accounts, initial remains discovered were illegally relocated and reburied in a different black cemetery near the Howard County line by the building's architect, indicating the builders knew full well they were disturbing a black cemetery. After that, bodies located in the footprint of the future building were illegally relocated into a nearby mass grave. Fill dirt was allegedly brought in and dumped atop the cemetery. Graves that were under the planned parking lot area were left in place, and the asphalt lot was placed on top of them.
"The desecration of Moses African Cemetery will be considered among the most egregious, callous, and racist in US history," Coleman-Adebayo wrote to McCarthy. " It is therefore incumbent upon you, as the chief law enforcement officer in Montgomery County, to protect Moses African Cemetery and to bring criminal charges against any and all of the parties who have knowingly participated in the desecration," the letter concludes.
22 comments:
Ludicrous legal claim. Any lawyers want to chime in?
Why isn’t the Africa American fraternal organization that sold the cemetery ever mentioned as being at least partially at fault here if they sold the cemetery and did not relocate the graves before the sale? They clearly didn’t honor their dead, but cashed out of the property.
I don’t disagree that later owners now have a responsibility to at least properly survey and likely move the graves to an appropriate site, but the real desecration occurred when the original owners decided to abandon their ancestors graves and apparently failed to disclose this information to the buyers.
Hate crimes for something that allegedly occurred at least 50 years ago? Heres's why this will fail:
- Statute of limitations
- Who's the injured party? Possibly the descendants of anyone supposedly buried there, but who is that, specifically? They've never named anyone who has provided proof their relative was buried there.
If the church cares so much about this plot of land, they can offer to buy it fair and square. Notice they've never offered to do so -- they just want it to be gifted to them.
Notice also that if they care so much about this "history", why haven't they at least set up a temporary memorial on their existing property? They have plenty of room in their back parking lot, if they don't mind giving up a few of those spaces.
What the heck is Robin Ficker doing in that picture?
Can this really be called "ongoing desecration"? The HOC did not exist at the time the cemetery is alleged to have been paved over.
No one knows for sure if there are still occupied graves on that site, or where on the site they may be.
I'm not denying there are graves. I'm not agreeing there are graves.
I'm talking the truth. There are indications, from old papers to old memories, that the graves were disturbed...moved, but there is no proof of where they currently are located.
Shouldn't that be determined first?
Would make a great purple line station....
An affordable housing complex would be the best memorial to the folks buried there.
I'm hoping for a museum on the site to tell the story of slaves in the Westbard area. The new development needs a community amenity like this.
1:52 PM All those new EYA townhomes going to the poorest of the poor. Sure. LOL.
2:11 PM I think it's great if the folks bagging your groceries will be able to walk a few steps to their new EYA tomnhome.
Why does another blogger continue to post here claiming to have scoops when it's always stuff Robert broke weeks, months, or in this case, years ago? :)
That is so true. When was this, I’d love to see. Please post links so we can prove it to Saul.
Gentle reminder: Dyer is the only MoCo blogger to NOT post false stories about Barrel & Crow
In Dyer we trust.
6:43 PM "Barrel & Crow cited for health violations"
7:42 PM Both were false reports from other blogs, my friend. No real live humans contacted before reporting. Barrel & Crow were irate with the smears from what I understand.
Dyer, meanwhile got the correct closure dates for Sears and the shooting gallery.
Marriott spox confirmed Dyer's reporting on Tastee during a public meeting.
Dyer had extensive reporting on the final days of Sears at Lakeforest AND Montgomery Mall. Please see his reporting for the last video tours of both stores. Saved for all MoCo history.
7:59 PM
Love Dyer's video tour of Sears Lakeforest. We need to preserve our MoCo history!
8:01 PM
I agree, Cap!
If you can't beat Dyer, then fantasize about him being banned..lol
weird local bloggers around here. Pro tip: just do you and don't focus on Dyer so much.
9:44, the child who wrote a story for their middle school paper would beat Dyer in Journalism.
It's like the Emperor's New Clothes in here.
Robert
If you can’t beat Hans, then fantasize about him being banned...lol
Weird local bloggers around here. Pro tip: just do you and don’t focus on Dyer so much.
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