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🥺🤦🏾♂️ “the remains of thousands of Black residents”
For now, I will pass on how terribly this situation has been handled by the State of Indiana & our city county council for over a century…the first 2 words that come to mind as I am typing this post are bigotry & capitalism! 😤
While I appreciate Keystone halting construction in “isolated areas of interest,” there’s concern about potential burial sites (potentially thousands of black bodies are scattered throughout this development site; not just in a few places that do not push back the development schedule). With public funds involved, I’d urge a comprehensive pause but as a young black man in Indiana, my voice likely will not even be heard, but the importance of respecting historical sites should not be dismissed. Keystone’s commitment to correcting past mishandlings is commendable, but actions will truly demonstrate their commitment!
Of course you have to play the race card. If you’ve followed the story from the beginning, there were all races, all politics, military, non-military, and so on. Focusing in to perpetuate ancient history is not healthy for anyone.
It sounds like Keystone is committed to making more effort than any other developer ever has before.
Kevin, stop pretending this issue isn’t about the buried remains being 90% Black people! It is racist to deny it!
Randy, research the history of that cemetery a bit more. There’s no racism here and no pretending. Keystone is handling it all in a professional manner. In fact some of my distant indigenous ancestors traveled and lived along White River, you or anyone else has never respected some of their burial grounds, except for collecting arrow heads.
Kevin, Aaron brings up the humiliation by the white people (before any of us) disrespecting the burial grounds of what is now mostly Black people – they moved the white people (I think to Crown Hill) and left the Blacks behind. And you chose to complain that he is “playing the race card”. So don’t pretend your comment isn’t racist. I have lived in Indy for about 20 years, and I can assure you I haven’t disrespected these burial grounds or collected arrow heads.
Kevin P, it is you who have not done adequate research. When the cemetery was closed most of the white persons buried there were reinterred elsewhere, including Confederate POWs. But most of the black persons were not. That’s the true history.
Hasn’t anyone seen the movie Poltergeist? “They moved the headstones, but they didn’t move the bodies.”
All the remains deserve the respect of proper removal.
Then there needs to be a massive sage burning.
It’s a farce that all of the bodies were never moved. And if race was a factor (I suspect it was), then it shouldn’t be ignored, and it doesn’t sound like it is. I just suspect there are going to be a lot of work stoppages just like this one.
I was in a Paris a few years back and ran into an interesting bit of history. For a thousand years Paris has been a city and graveyards surrounding the inner city churches had millions of bodies buried in them over the years. The old custom was that after the body decomposed, a grave would be re-opened and another burial would take place so every gave had multiple set of bones in them. About the time Napoleon came along, this was causing problems. People living near the cemeteries seemed to get sick more often than those living farther away, most likely from ground water contamination. Plus, there was all of this valuable real estate right in the heart of Paris that was being “wasted”. Napoleon ordered all of the bones to be dug up, and they were dumped in underground limestone quarries to the south of the city. Not too long after that somebody figured out how to make money of this by giving tours of these “catacombs”. To make it more interesting than just walking past piles of bones, they stacked them up to make designs using femurs and skulls. You can still visit this today. It’s a pretty gruesome bit of history. So my point is once the families that buried the bodies are gone, bad things happen old cemeteries and the bones get little or no respect.
Not knowing what might be found, but knowing finding bones could be a very real event, these guys seemed to have reasonable plan. It sounds like the records for this old cemetery are sketchy, and I would believe that given race as factor, records for POC could even be sketchier, there could be a tragedy unfolding here, but it seems there is plan to handle it, but given the past history it might never be completely right. We just have to acknowledge the past mistakes and try to make it right going forward.
The “current day issues” start with the city and state blowing by the old laws because they “weren’t codified”. Politicians on both sides suck at their job and arrived very quickly at an abominable path for the sake of a developer, a TIF district and money.
These behind closed doors actions, excluding public involvement will bring cities everywhere to their knees. They were ELECTED to represent US. They work for US yet are not held accountable!
The actions taken on this site are unconscionable. The poltergeist reference is spot on.
So we’re all supposed to follow laws that have been repealed? How does that make sense?
Can someone please offer up some actual facts that show keystone isn’t being respectful?