Very sad, horrible, and shameful...
Broken. Rusted. Battered. The image of a glass-covered casket with the body of Emmett Till was shown around the world in the 1950s. But on Thursday, as hundreds of African Americans searched frantically for the graves of love ones, the battered casket of Till was rusting in the back of a shack at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip.
The casket was surrounded by garbage and discarded headstones strewn about like litter.
When we opened it up trying to find what we have, a family of possums ran out," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
Cemetery workers had been cooperative and informed law enforcement officials that it was indeed Till's original casket.
"It sure looks like all of the photos I have ever seen," Dart said. "This is absolutely horrible."
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We now have another embarressment in this state, this was under jurisdiction of the State Comptroller, Dan Hynes, who is/was going to put his hat in the Governor's race.
Yep annother mess in Illinois.
I posted another CC cemetery disaster a few posts before this one on my blog, where Dan Hynes office did nothing but the Southside Newspaper helped get things stirring, just when we thought that was bad........now this.
We have news folks everywhere, and Jesse Jackson is there helping it get more coverage.
Then question is will Dan Hynes still be running for Governor?
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