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Source: Associated Press
Associated Press in Jackson, Tennessee
Tuesday 4 August 2015 22.03 BST
Police say the tombstone of a relative of Roots author Alex Haley has been vandalized with the words White Lives Matter.
The Jackson Sun reports that the Savannah police chief, Gary Will, says the tombstone of Queen Haley was spray-painted earlier this week. Queen Haley was Alex Haleys grandmother.
Alex Haley was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which is the story of an enslaved African American family. The book was later made into a TV miniseries. Alex Haley died in 1992.
The police chief says a professional cleaning company has been hired by the cemetery to remove the paint. Will says a protective coating will be added to the stone so that if it is painted again it will come right off.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/04/tombstone-roots-author-alex-haley-grandmother-vandalized
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)GitRDun
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lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Next time the punks will use sledge hammers.
malaise
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Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)And who the hell keeps obsessive tabs on the graves of all the members of Roots, ffs? Oh right, shit-for-brain racists.
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Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Desecrating graves? Your post makes no sense.
Well exactly, who?
Seems very unlikely an actual white person would be responsible for this, and even if they had a problem with Alex Haley, they're not going to bring his dead grandmother into it. That only really leaves two options: either this was some kind of family fallout, possibly a dispute over an inheritance or something similar (remember how nasty Nelson Mandela and MLK's families got amongst each other), or it was someone committing another fake "hate crime" in an attempt to discredit white activists.
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Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)"WhiteLivesMatter" activists or whatever you want to call them
Desecrating someone's grandmother's grave isn't something I can see them doing. Most likely, this is the Haley family having some kind of dispute with each other, or maybe Alex Haley is having financial troubles and trying to make some money off people's sympathy.
We've had far too many of these hoax "hate crimes" in recent years for us not to treat this with extreme caution and skepticism.
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Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Please furnish a list of some of these countless false-flag operations to make white racists look bad--or "activists" for "whitelivesmatter", if you prefer. I'm all ears to hear how Obama being in office has unleashed a tide of oppression from Alex Haley's relatives, his literary critics, or others to make white people look bad.
There has been too many of them to count
Especially since Obama has been in office. Let us not forget that Alex Haley also had many black enemies due to his plagiarizing from other black authors, and unpaid debts. White "racists" don't go around desecrating the graves of random, long dead black women. There is not a single shred of evidence to suggest a white person was involved here in any way.
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Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)You've moved the goalposts from countless acts of false-flag vandalism to one sad tale from a waitress. Where are the long lists of acts to make "white activists" look bad? And you haven't explained what Obama being in office has done to unleash this horde of crazed anti-white operatives.
A recent example
There was the black waitress who claimed to receive a "None n***er" tip at the restaurant where she worked from two white customers. Later handwriting analysis confirmed this was a hoax.
How about Dylann Roof? Was he a white activist?
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Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)I'm a pacifist but I would be tempted to pass a fist their way.
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)madinmaryland
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)Sometimes I hate being a carbon-based life form. It means I have to share the planet with these jerks.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Grrrrrrrr.....