From [HERE] The Coalition to Save Historic Thoroughfare Monday announced that internationally-respected professor, author and justice activist Dr. Cornel West has offered his support for the effort to protect the graves of slaves, freedmen/freedwomen and Native Americans from being desecrated in Thoroughfare, Va.

That coalition recently filed a lawsuit against International Investments, LLC (IIL), Virginia’s Prince William County, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors and County Executive Elijah Johnson “for their deliberate and egregious actions in the failure to protect and eventual desecration of a private, historically recognized, protected, and culturally significant cemetery belonging to the families of freed slaves and indigenous Native Americans – the Scott Cemetery.” NOTE: International Investments, LLC is also known as “The Farm Brewery at Broad Run.”

In the video, Dr. West said in part:

“We want to put a limelight on the precious folks in the cemeteries…Black cemeteries, Indigenous people cemeteries in the county of Prince William County in Thoroughfare.

“We refuse to standby to see those cemeteries desecrated in any way-- demeaned or degraded in any way. And are willing to do what is necessary in the name of love and justice...and in the name of Allah and God. And in the name of what any decent person would want to do to make sure that those people are treated with dignity and decency in those cemeteries.” [MORE]