Around Tornado Deaths, a Nagging Tale of Shelter Denied

[groovedaddy]

(It seems entirely possible that the woman who turned them away, did so without the knowledge of anyone else in side the church, which doesn't excuse her racist behavior at all - gd)

CORDOVA, Ala. — Everybody in town heard about it.

It was discussed openly and in whispers, over the phone and in the church pews. When it was brought up at school, the curious were quickly shushed. Eventually, the whole thing got pushed aside by other concerns, a bit of nastiness better forgotten, or judged never to have occurred at all.

But Madison Phillips says it is true. He says that he and his mother, Annette Singleton, both black, were turned away from a church shelter by a white woman on the afternoon of April 27, the day of the tornadoes. And within hours, Ms. Singleton and two of Madison’s young friends, who had been huddling with him in his house within yards of that church, were dead.

“People said, ‘Don’t go around telling this, this is going to ruin Cordova’s name,’ ” said Madison, 16, who is now living in Hawaii with his half-brother, a Marine corporal. “But the truth is going to sit there forever and ever.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/us/16cordova.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. OMG

[felix_numinous]

2. Too late now

word's out, and will be spread far and wide.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Come to Cordova - the center of Racist America!

All Christian racists are welcome!

[jwirr]

4. Refused sanctuary in a church - how christian.

:sarcasm:

[NOLALady]

5. OMFG!

[tblue37]

6. This reminds me of the way African-Americans from NOLA were

not only prevented from crossing a bridge to safety, but actually shot at when they tried to flee the flooding from Katrina.