Mounds and Black burial grounds on the same ground: St. Petersburg and the overlay test

SUMMARYMounds and Black burial grounds on the same ground: St. Petersburg and the overlay test (Nov 5, 2026). Tito: "The slave burial grounds are the Indigenous. That's why they call them burial grounds, and they tend to be on mounds. Like in St. Pete, I've seen it personally: covered with a neighborhood, an insane mound complex, Black burial under it. Connect the obvious dots."
RECORD, the mounds under St. Pete: Pinellas Point Temple Mound (remains removed in the 1880s, mound cut in 1929); the Weedon Island burial mound dug by the Smithsonian (1923–24); Tampa Bay shell middens used as road fill (1879–1900); mounds still lie "under roads, in parks and neighborhoods" (Smithsonian Magazine).
RECORD, the Black dead under St. Pete: Moffett (1888, later used for African American burials), Evergreen (c. 1900, all-Black) and Oaklawn cemeteries were condemned in 1926 so the city could extend 5th Avenue South; remains were to be moved by race; the interstate later ran over the area

PATTERNin the same city, both the mounds and the Black cemeteries were cut, dug, paved and built over, by the same city and the same era's development

LENS (WW9)the Black burial grounds and the mound burials are one people's dead; "burial ground" names both.
RECORD, the Paris mirror (Tito: "Just like moving the bodies in the catacombs"): Paris closed the Cimetière des Innocents in 1780, and from 1786 moved the bones by night, in covered carts, into old limestone quarries under the city: the Catacombs, now holding the remains of about six million people, emptied out of the city's cemeteries over decades

PATTERNin Paris (1786) and St. Petersburg (1926), cities moved the dead to clear ground for building; the same playbook, a city clearing its dead for development.
LENS (WW9), Tito: "Those are Seminoles. It's a cover-up." RECORD beside it: the St. Pete records name Moffett as founded for Civil War veterans (1888) and later used for African American burials, and Evergreen as all-Black; the 1976 remains were found and building went on; FDOT says it will not survey. In Tampa, the Fort Brooke burial ground excavated in 1980 under a city parking garage did contain Seminole remains, alongside soldiers, settlers and African Americans

OPENwho exactly lies under I-175 (names from death certificates, church and funeral-home records, descendant families' oral history); any Seminole or Native ancestry in those families

PATTERNthe refusal to survey is itself a choice not to know.
OPEN, the overlay test: map every documented Black cemetery in Tampa Bay (Black Cemetery Network, Florida Public Archaeology Network) against recorded mound and midden sites (Florida Master Site File, which restricts exact locations). Count how many sit on or beside a recorded mound. That turns "I've seen it" into a number. Never publish exact burial coordinates.