I took this photo one week ago this morning. As far as I know, if you drove down Bishop L.N. Forbes Street today, this is what you’d see.

Sixteen days later, and we have had no explanation of what happened on the morning of December 10; no explanation of the original plan; no explanation of what the stones are and whether there are graves beneath them; no explanation of the path forward.

And no apology.

The City of Wilson wants you to believe that things have changed since it brutalized Vick Cemetery in the 1990s. Maybe some have, but the disrespect remains constant.