Saturday, October 28, 2023

Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition to protest Maryland governor, congressman at Potomac fundraiser

BACC President Marsha Coleman-Adebayo at
a 2017 protest regarding Moses African Cemetery

The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition will protest outside a Maryland Democratic Party fundraiser in Potomac today, an event Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) and Congressman Jamie Raskin (D - 8th District) are expected to attend. Leaders of the BACC are demanding Moore and Raskin take action to end the desecration of the Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, and force the release the over 200 bone fragments that were exhumed on a construction site adjacent to the graveyard for testing, to determine if they are human remains. Those remains were trucked out of state to a Virginia warehouse, and neither Montgomery County nor the private developer of the site has agreed to make them available for independent testing. Raskin visited the graveyard site in-person, and was asked to act at the federal level to address the cemetery issues, but later said he would defer to Montgomery County officials on the matter and ceased correspondence with BACC.

Today's protest will take place between 12:15 and 2:30 PM outside 9400 Persimmon Tree Road in Potomac. This appears to be a private mansion. According to the website of the Montgomery County Democratic Party, the "Afternoon of Elegance" event will be held from 2:00 to 4:00 PM today.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

What does Raskin have to do with it? This is not a federal issue.

Anonymous said...

Raskin is an attention seeking grifter who could care less about any particular group unless he can benefit from it.

Anonymous said...

12:14 PM He portrays himself as the stalwart savior of our dysfunctional democracy.

Momo said...

Raskin was recently censured by his colleagues for acting as the Biden crime family's lawyer and covering up evidence of their influence peddling.

Anonymous said...

Lol, no, Raskin has never been censured. Read the actual news instead of moronic right wing gibberish sometime.
How embarrassing.

Anonymous said...

Embarrassing is a failure to acknowledge Raskin's failure to report holding and sale of stock on behalf of his wife who used her government access to secure funds for a private company which eventually hired her. The stock sale netted them just over a million dollars.

Republicans go to jail for much less. It's good to be a Democrat.

Momo said...

I'm so sorry 455. "Comer calls on Raskin to 'apologize' for 'disinformation' in Biden family investigation". The Hill. This better.