Welcome to 2016: A cemetery in South Texas has denied a woman's request to bury her husband there. Why? Because he's Latino.
The cemetery in Normanna, Texas, says its policy does not allow any Hispanic or black person to be buried there. KIIITV in South Texas investigated the story, and spoke to Donna Barrera, the widow of the deceased man. "I love my husband with all my heart," she said of her husband, Pedro.
Barrera says she asked the owner of San Domingo Cemetery (yep, Spanish name!) if she could bury her husband on its ground.
"He wasn't supposed to be buried there, because he's a Mexican or of Spanish descent or whatever you want to say" owner Jimmy Bradford told KIIITV. "That's what I told her and that's what we've been doing."
Bradford said he wouldn't reconsider his decision unless Barrera "tells Obama and he comes down here and tells me."
"He wasn't supposed to be buried there, because he's a Mexican or of Spanish descent"
But Spanish people are white though, as are many Latin Americans. If they're going to be racist ****s they could at least get it right
"He wasn't supposed to be buried there, because he's a Mexican or of Spanish descent"
But Spanish people are white though, as are many Latin Americans. If they're going to be racist ****s they could at least get it right
It has to do with the fact that some Latinos call themselves Spanish, and this owner is trying to paint a wide brush by not wanting anyone with a Spanish name or surname in there. Pretty ignorant on their part, but then again its Texas.
Very much Texas. Those specific types of White people act like they own this place when it was originally natives and mexicans who populated the land. Makes me cringe.
Is that legal?
