Saturday 20 June 2020

Can I Desecrate Graves Too?

A man is exasperated after repeatedly being told he would have to pay hundreds of pounds to see a “deeply offensive” racial term removed from two gravestones.
Because the world should immediately cave in and do it for free..?
Last week, St Margaret’s Church in Rottingdean covered up the headstones to two white music hall singers who performed in blackface. It has now promised to put the memorials – both inscribed with the word “c**n” – into storage.
But it has since emerged that a man had been battling to have the offensive language erased since last April.
Joseph Letang from Telscombe Cliffs, who is of Caribbean heritage, was upset by the wording. He wrote emails to church authorities and took his complaint to the highest levels of the Church of England.
He was repeatedly told the Church could not consider changing the wording unless he paid a £296.20 fee to launch a petition in a church court.
Personally, I'd have preferred the church to say 'No, not at any price. This is someone's gravestone, and the only people who can change it are the descendants'.

But of course, they didn't. Because they too are cowards, these days.
He is astounded by the length of time it took the church to act, and that as someone hurt by the language, he should have to pay for its removal.
How was he 'hurt by the language'? Could he see these gravestones from his window? Did he have to walk past them every day?

Reader, of course not:
He heard about the inscriptions from his 24-year-old daughter, who saw the graves on a walk in the churchyard.
He didn't even see them himself....
Mr Letang said he did not intend for the headstones to be taken away.
He said replacement stones without the offensive words should be put up to remember the dead and the originals, or photos of them, should be given to a museum.
When are we going to stop abasing ourselves to this 'offence culture'? There's no end to it. And the backlash is already starting.

9 comments:

Ted Treen said...

Let's hope the backlash grows very quickly and becomes very strong.

Stonyground said...

Was he really hurt by some words on an old grave stone, I mean really? Or is it more likely that he is just an attention seeking pillock? Generations ago people used derogatory language about people's race and other physical features too. That we have outgrown such behaviour is a good thing. However, an old headstone is just an old headstone, nobody would have known about it if this idiot hadn't drawn attention to it. At least we know that he hasn't got any actual problems to worry about.

Feral said...

Well he has got what he wanted. No more hurty words. I suppose words made him feel suicidal and affected his quality of life. For God's sake (does saying that upset anyone?) there is a whole big world out there. Live your life. Words can't hurt you. It's about time these namby pambys grew up.

Anonymous said...

I find myself far less racist after the BLM riots than ever I was in the past. I wonder what came over me?

Tom Mein said...

Find it strange how people can become offended by statues or gravestones of long dead people yet seem to find it perfectly acceptable when there are songs/rap music using the terms ho's, bitches, etc?

MTG said...

@ Tom Mein

Excellent points. That form of 'music' offends and irritates...although plod may yet hold me to account for expressing the 'wrong' view. Assuming, of course, they find time to arrest me with so many peaceful stabbings taking place across the UK.

UsedtobeBanned said...

"Sticks & stones may brake bones,
But words will never hurt me".

When did that go out of fashion as an infant school mantra ?

JuliaM said...

"Let's hope the backlash grows very quickly and becomes very strong."

Not so far, I'm saddened to say...

" At least we know that he hasn't got any actual problems to worry about."

Good point!

"... yet seem to find it perfectly acceptable when there are songs/rap music using the terms ho's, bitches, etc?"

Another good point!


Anonymous said...

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https://www.facebook.com/joseph.letang

Can I just leave these 2 links here please. They are relevant I promise you.