Is Sussex County Really Racist?
They wore swastika armbands and the medals of the German army. They practiced the Nazi salute in the New Jersey sun. And in the newspapers of the day, the men who built it did not hide what it was for. They called it, in their own words, “America’s white man’s camp.”
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Here, the bodies of three Black men were kept in a Space Farms Zoo cabinet for 30 years, and it was only in 2009 that those three men were finally given a proper funeral.
However, it was not the county that buried them, nor was it the Town of Newton. No resolution of the Sussex County Board of County Commissioners marked the occasion; no municipal ordinance authorized it; no official body reckoned, in any formal way, with the fact that three men had been enslaved on this soil and then forgotten for thirty years in a drawer.
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True to form, when the State Assembly voted 75–0 in 2015 to condemn official use of the Confederate flag, Sussex County’s own Parker Space stood alone as the sole abstention in the entire chamber. Parker Space even has a Confederate tattoo on his arm.
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