Alarmed over the discovery of 215 multiracial bodies found buried in a pauper’s cemetery behind the Hinds County, Mississippi jail, Reverend Hosea Hines,
  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    11 months ago

    When I read the headline my instant thought was they found some old mass grave from the 50’s or some shit. Jesus fucking christ this is recent.

    im…well i can’t say COMPLETELY surprised but still jesus fuck this is bad by even american standards.

    • xorEnglish
      141·
      11 months ago

      in the last year…
      uh, so i’m thinking this is where they put police murder victims

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    265·
    11 months ago

    What does “multiracial bodies” mean? American news is so weird sometimes. Absolutely, hopelessly, psychotically obsessed with race.

    “Gretchen Hankins, who is white…”
    “Mary Moore Glenn, a Black woman…”

    The article barely provide any other details, it’s so confusing to a European. The reader doesn’t need to know, it has no bearing on the story, it’s really jarring.

    Anyway I thought this would be an old prison cemetery, but it sounds like a relatively recent mass grave. Containing, as they were keen to point out in the first sentence of the article, people of various ethnicities.

    What series of decisions led to this, I wonder? Could it have been during the pandemic? At least that might partly justify something like this as a temporary measure.

    • atomicorange@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      11 months ago

      Police violence in the US is disproportionately leveraged against black people. Cops have a deserved reputation for being racist as hell, so whenever there is police fuckery we naturally want to know if it’s yet another example of law enforcement’s obvious disdain for black lives or if there’s something else going on.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      11 months ago

      The aim of CRT is to make race the forefront of everyone’s identity. Which is odd, considering the first point of CRT is that race is a social construct, and not a biological truth (which I agree with after initially struggling to understand). In far left Liberal circles now, people are identifying other people through race and sexual orientation when texting or emailing. My buddy who is very liberal will tell me about interactions he has with people I don’t know and he always adds something like “so she (black, gay, her) told me bla bla bla” to the text. I was quite confused the first time he did it and I asked why he felt those were necessary identifiers, and he said because they are at the core of our identities and imperative to understanding her perspective. I do not agree with this new perspective, but I’m in the minority among the liberal circles. I would prefer to see us united as people, part of the human race, not divided into a thousand sub-tribes. The news often does it to sensationalize their stories, adding racial outrage to otherwise mundane reporting. I will probably be accused of bigotry, and downvoted for pointing out that I disagree with this approach to communication and perspective, but such is the state of things these days.

  • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    Gretchen Hankins, who is white, held a picture of her son, Jonathan Hankins [aged] 39. Mary Moore Glenn, a Black woman, held a picture of her son, Marrio Moore [aged] 40, and Betterstem Wade held a photo of her son, Dexter Wade [aged] 37. They were shocked to learn their relatives had been buried behind the jail.

    Even being extremely generous regarding cause of death while under state control, at a bare minimum any decent human being would have contacted the next of kin.

    Some relatives of those found buried behind the jail simply thought they were missing. They object to having to pay a fee for the removal of their loved one’s remains that are needed for a proper burial.

    An essentially unmarked grave at the side of the road like garbage from a street sweeper, and the state is asking the relatives to pay for a real burial now their failure has been exposed. Disgusting.

  • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    What else is new? Nobody is gonna stop the police. I can’t even get anyone slightly interested.