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#Louisiana Cemetery Refuses To Bury Black Deputy Because Of 'WHITES-ONLT’ POLICY

The widow of #DarrellSemien, who died last Sunday, was stunned to learn that #OaklinSpringsCemetery in Allen Parish had such a policy that dated back to a 1950s

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“Wow what a slap in the face,” Karla Semien wrote

Nearly a quarter of the residents in Allen Parish are Black

When she and her children went to the cemetery to pick out a plot, the saleswoman “just looked us cold in the face, and straight-up said, ‘I can’t sell you a plot,’”
The saleswoman also reportedly said that the graveyard was not for people of color

“It’s a white human being-only cemetery”

H. Creig Vizena, the board president said that he was stunned to learn Semien was denied burial.

He fired his 81-year-old aunt, the salesperson...

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