Segregated cemetery divides a Texas town

[struggle4progress]

Peter Holley
Updated: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 9:01am

...The absurdity of the cemetery's segregating fence has been a topic of conversation for decades ...

"I suppose they wanted that so the black ghosts wouldn't go over there and bother the white ghosts" ...

... mowing crews have to exit onto surrounding streets to get from one side of the cemetery to the other. Local leaders consider the racially divisive resting place an embarrassment.

"That should have been taken out 75 years ago," Councilman Wilbert Austin, whose district includes the cemetery, told the paper in 2014 ...

http://www.the-journal.com/article/20160607/AP/306079829/Segregated-cemetery-divides-a-Texas-town:-'That-should-have-been-taken-out-75-years-ago'

[marble falls]

1. Texas has a lot of racism and past racism hidden in plain sight.