[2ndDivisionVet]

Pick that scab!

[x]

All because she pooped in that pie ...

[1010RD]

The Democrats need all the help they can get. Why would black voters even come out to vote this fall?

[Old Yeller]

She should get the cameras rolling for the riots coming up.

[Gen.Blather]

I am so tired of being called racist. I’m really getting angry.

[kearnyirish2]

“estimated 300 people were believed”

Nothing says “myth” like “estimated” and “believed”. I know there was an incident back then, and I believe people might have been killed in it, but until they have something more concrete I’m going to file this with “revisionist nonsense to justify reparations”. Too many people believe hundreds of thousands of blacks were lynched in the South while hundreds of thousands of their churches were burned; this nonsense is tiresome...

[Salvey]

Pick that scab!

race race race race, race race race race.

[ansel12]

Almost 50 years of Black pride and black oppression/victim movies and TV have killed enough innocent people, we need to stop black violence, not continue feeding passions of revenge and blood.

[colorado tanker]

I knew about this. But I’m so old they actually taught history when I was in school.

[God luvs America]

when will oprah do a series on the race riots and brutal racism inflicted on blacks in liberal boston, mass???

[tanknetter]

What was that fight where returning WWII GIs overthrew their local government through armed force? Battle of Athens (GA), think?

THAT would make a great movie. IMHO.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Has Oprah found a long lost copy of an editorial Richard Lloyd Jones wrote in his newspaper THE TULSA TRIBUNE? All copies have disappeared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lloyd_Jones

[sheik yerbouty]

Why doesn’t the race racketeering 0prah Khazer do one on the LA riots, or Miami in 1980, or Detroit and Newark in 1967?

[re_nortex]

There are so many lies about the May 1921 race riot in Tulsa promulgated by the leftist lamestream media. The facts are quote different than what "Orpha the Whale" will present.

Hundreds were killed during the mayhem fueled by J.B. Stradford, a Negro radical who learned his anti-white bigotry while in Canada. The trigger for the May 1921 spree of murder and destruction was an assault on a white 17-year orphan, Sarah Page, by a thug, "Diamond Dick" Rowland.

A swarm of well-armed black thugs stormed central Tulsa and shot a white onlooker. That touched off days of bedlam. Even black apologist W.E.B. DuBois (a communist activist and co-founder of the NAACP) admitted that it was blacks from the Greenwood neighborhood that began the riot. Mr. Beyrl Ford, noted Tulsa historian, has shattered the liberal-produced myths, embraced by blacks, about the rioting and the reaction. One debunked claim was that airplanes of that era dropped "bombs" on a black neighborhood in north Tulsa. That never happened, Orpha! The planes were simply observational to determine the extent of the damage.

At the time of the riot, Republican T. D. Evans was the city's mayor and, of course, Warren Harding was President. So even with good governance at the time, well, thugs will be thugs, even going back to the first quarter of the 20th Century.

As you may surmise, I've studied this extensively, carefully researching the material of the day and visiting the Greenwood Cultural Center, even engaging the staff in dialog, as clearly biased as they were.

[yarddog]

When I lived in Tulsa, I knew a Black man who was a witness to the incident. He was coming to Tulsa from Muskogee and was warned about what was happening. He delayed his entrance to Tulsa until it was mostly over.

From what he told me I think the 300 number was probably correct or even understated. There was a lot of White victims too. He said they even used airplanes and strafed and dropped “turpentine bombs” on them.

I am unsure who was ultimately at fault but I tend to think the Blacks were more so. At the least they were equally to blame.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I’ve heard the Oprah network is carried on very few cable systems. It’s possible she won’t get wide exposure for what she wants to do here. It seems clear she wants to highlight allegedly racist acts from the past, for whatever reasons she has.

Why does she want to highlight a race riot? Why does everything she does, including movies she herself has acted in, have to touch somehow on race relations?????

[ExCTCitizen]

When will it be on, so I can make plans watching grass grow.

[Mark]

Why did Robert Byrd just pop into my mind?

[PapaBear3625]

Yes, let's get into the 1921 race riot in Tulsa. The riot which started when a group of 75 armed blacks opened fire at a crowd of white people.

From “The Eruption of Tulsa”: An NAACP Official Investigates the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

In the meantime the news of the threatened lynching reached the colored settlement where Tulsa’s 15,000 colored citizens lived. Remembering how a white man had been lynched after being taken from the same jail where the colored boy was now confined, they feared that Rowland was in danger. A group of colored men telephoned the sheriff and proffered their services in protecting the jail from attack. The sheriff told them that they would be called upon if needed. About nine o’clock that night a crowd of white men gathered around the jail, numbering about 400 according to Sheriff McCullough. At 9:15 [p.m.] the report reached “Little Africa” that the mob had stormed the jail. A crowd of twenty-five armed Negroes set out immediately, but on reaching the jail found the report untrue. The sheriff talked with them, assured them that the boy would not be harmed, and urged them to return to their homes. They left, later returning, 75 strong. The sheriff persuaded them to leave. As they complied, a white man attempted to disarm one of the colored men. A shot was fired, and then—in the words of the sheriff—“all hell broke loose.” There was a fusillade of shots from both sides and twelve men fell dead—two of them colored, ten white. The fighting continued until midnight when the colored men, greatly outnumbered, were forced back to their section of the town.

The lopsided casualty numbers, 2 blacks, 10 whites, indicates to me that the 75 armed blacks were facing an almost unarmed crowd of whites when they opened fire.

At that point, it was ON.

[VerySadAmerican]

There is one other thing they don’t talk about today. Back then blacks had their own communities, businesses, etc and liked it that way.

[MeshugeMikey]

"Also in the works: Belief, a seven-part docu-series “exploring humankind’s ongoing search to connect with something greater than ourselves.” The show will explore various belief systems around the world.

All given equal "respect" no doubt. and presented for the purpose of promoting Paganism.

the next extravganza will doubtless be "Jihad...Yours and Mine". DIversity....rules...