Fox has blocked the rally for the last 2 hours. Anything but the rally. YouTube muted its coverage so you can’t hear what is being said.
I’m watching on PBS. My tax dollars helped pay for that feed.
They’ll claim it’s Trumps fault when we break their faces too. Who cares?
I remember in 1990. C Span ran a muddy, garbled, and deliberately sped up version of a Jesse Helms rally that was followed by a full color, live, Hollywood style rally for Democrat Harvey Gantt with perfect quality.
People called in to complain the following Monday and Brian Lamb claimed not to know anything about it. They have been a bogus outfit since the first Bush administration. They were good in the Reagan years.
>>Oh, yes, the site of the rally is controversial too because there was a violent race riot in Tulsa 99 years ago which is Trump’s fault.
That Tulsa riot has become mythologized. It really happened but so much has been distorted. “thousands killed” “air force bombardment” “black wall street”.
The guy the crowd wanted to lynch was not harmed, the local police saw to it that did not happen. In part because there had been a lynching of a prisoner the previous week or month (and the prisoner was white). And the charges against the guy were eventually dropped.
As to “black wall street”, I don’t think there was a singular case of such well to do black districts. I think numerous cities had them (by that I mean that Tulsa’s district was not an isolated example of a wealthy area of black commerce).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker
Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.[1] Multiple sources mention that although other women might have been the first, their wealth is not as well-documented.[1][2][3]
Walker made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women through the business she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. She became known also for her philanthropy and activism. She made financial donations to numerous organizations and became a patron of the arts. Villa Lewaro, Walker’s lavish estate in Irvington, New York, served as a social gathering place for the African-American community. At the time of her death, she was considered the wealthiest African-American businesswoman and wealthiest self-made black woman in America.[4] Her name was a version of “Mrs. Charles Joseph Walker”, after her third husband, who died in 1926.
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She didn’t just have the hair products company but also her schools and she put her money into other endeavors including a theater entertainment district in Indianapolis that her brother run.