Tameka Foster, the ex-wife of R&B famous person Usher, has began a petition to empty Lake Lanier, a man-made lake in suburban Atlanta.
Foster began the petition on the anniversary of the tragic loss of life of her son on the lake in Forsyth County, Georgia, that many urbanites across the nation consider is haunted.
The businesswoman used Instagram to pay homage to her son, Kile Glover, who was 11 years outdated when he was struck within the head by a dashing jet ski.
“On this important day, July 6, we bear in mind the tragic accident on Lake Lanier that without end altered my life. My brave son, Kile Glover, fought for 2 weeks with unwavering energy till his passing on July 21. In the present day, we honor his reminiscence by rallying collectively for change.”
To many, there’s legitimacy to the claims of a “haunting” over the water supply due to the inordinate variety of accidents and fatalities at Lake Lanier. Based on the Georgia Division of Pure Assets, within the first half of 2022 alone, there have been 114 incidents, 67 accidents and 14 deaths and drownings on the physique of water. Since its building, greater than 700 folks have misplaced their lives.
Most annoying and eye-raising about Lake Lanier is the truth that it was constructed over the positioning of the previous Black city known as Oscarville. Very like within the instances of Black Wall Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rosewood in Florida — and lots of different thriving Black cities in America — the town of Oscarville was burned to the bottom by racist savages due to a White girl.
Based on The Gainesville Occasions, in 1912, a White girl named Mae Crow, 19, was discovered lifeless within the woods adjoining to Oscarville, presumably after being raped. With no concern of retribution, the barbarians of neighboring White cities converged on Oscarville and commenced to slaughtering the Black residents and obliterating the city in totality. Most of the Black landowners who fled by no means bothered to return to assert what was rightfully theirs for concern they might even be killed.
Then, within the late Nineteen Fifties, the Buford Dam was constructed, Lake Lanier was created, and all vestiges of the city’s historical past together with the burial grounds have been washed away without end.
Whereas Lake Lanier stays reportedly the preferred Lake in Georgia, it is usually the place that has virtually turn into synonymous with tragedy.
Subsequently, Foster wish to “drain, clear, restore and enhance security measures” on the allegedly jinxed lake.
