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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Texas. Texas. Texas. Part 2

Last week Dorothy Patton Barrera, who is white, approached her hometown cemetery, seeking to bury the ashes of her husband, who was cremated. Barrera later said that she was turned away because her husband, Pedro, was Hispanic and the plot was for “whites only.”

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/03/_white_s_only_texas_cemetery_reverses_decision_after_denying_widow_place.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content%26

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