Court Opinion

ID: 9553178
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:24:41.391922+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:30:09.246830
License: Public Domain

DOOLING, J.
I concur, but I cannot resist a word of protest. I cannot believe that a man’s mortal remains will disintegrate any less peaceably because of the close proximity of the body of a member of another race, and in that inevitable disintegration I am sure that the pigmentation of the skin cannot long endure. It strikes me that the carrying of racial discrimination into the burial grounds is a particularly stupid form of human arrogance and intolerance. If life does not do so, the universal fellowship of death should teach humility. The good people who insist on the racial segregation of what is mortal in man may be shocked to learn when their own lives end that God has reserved no racially exclusive position for them in the hereafter.