Posted on 05/31/2021 2:34:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The grit and jubilance of Greenwood were on display Sunday as residents who know the history of this moment, along with visitors eager to learn, walked Greenwood Avenue ahead of the centennial of a race massacre that is getting new national attention....
many here said they are determined to celebrate the culture and community that Black Tulsans built — while using this moment to demand reparations for all that has been taken from them....
.... Joe Biden will visit Tuesday, the day that officially marks the centennial. While Biden's visit is not expected to be public, he will tour the Greenwood Cultural Center across the street from Vernon AME Church. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and musician John Legend had been scheduled to headline a "Remember and Rise" event Monday, but it was canceled because of a disagreement between the event's organizers and representatives of massacre survivors and their descendants over funding for reparations.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Great. Any living lyncher has to pay any living victim compensation.
Here come da race-baiting, poverty pimps led by Plugs the Pedo and Scaty Ghettopotamus to exploit the race hate.
My favorite line from this:
“...Stacey Abrams and musician John Legend had been scheduled to headline a “Remember and Rise” event Monday, but it was canceled because of a disagreement...”
In other words, they all wanted the limelight!
In other words
Because of a racist act 100 years ago, we want you to commit racist acts today.
OH! In reparations of those racist acts 100 years ago.
Sure, let’s by all means, keep the racist animosity train rolling.
The hypocrisy of the Left is amazing.
They talk of the Red Lining that supposedly took place to keep Blacks from owning property, but let us have Red Lining to keep Whites out of our neighborhood.
“The governor also tackled the problem of race relations. Racial violence terrorized not only Oklahoma but also the nation after World War I. The revival of the Ku Klux Klan and the emergence of African American returning war veterans with a new sense of independence fueled the flame of violent outbreaks. After lynchings and attempted lynchings occurred in Oklahoma City, Okmulgee, Tulsa, and other towns during his first year in office, Robertson created a commission on race relations that consisted of five prominent whites and three African Americans, including Roscoe Dunjee, editor of the Black Dispatch in Oklahoma City. This did not stem the violence, and in 1921 one of the worst outbreaks of interracial violence in the nation’s history occurred in Tulsa. The governor declared martial law there and sent Gen. Charles F. Barrett and the National Guard to control the city.
This was not the only incident of mob violence during Robertson’s reign. In 1919 violence erupted at Drumright during a telephone operator strike. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and socialists were active in the area and used this opportunity to demonstrate. Turning violent, the mob apparently held the mayor, chief of police, and a councilman in the city jail and threatened to lynch them. Robertson sent out the Guard to control the town. The governor took a strong position against strikers, especially public officials, and had harsh words for the twenty-eight Tulsa police officers who struck early in his administration. The governor threatened to send the Guard to Sapulpa in June 1919 to control a streetcar strike. Telegraphing the sheriff, he claimed that peace officers might be advising, assisting, and encouraging citizens to violate the law, and he threatened to investigate.”
It started when a large group of armed blacks opened fire on a crowd of whites, when a white deputy tried to disarm one of them.
The whites fell back to arm themselves, and the battle was on, with lots of shooting on both sides. Unfortunately for the black side, the whites were better shots.
Timeline of the Tulsa race battle
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/riot/tulsatime.html
I could see a repetition of that happening if an armed BLM march gets into a firefight.
There wasn’t room on the stage for Legend’s piano and the Abrams sweathog, at the same time.
btt
A little more info on it https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre
Re: 8 - Come on - that’s not when the riot started. You’re missing a whole group of acts that are both violent and otherwise.
I’m ok with reparations - - - as long as we can deduct the cost of damages from the BLM “peaceful demonstrations”
Are there any reparations for the relatives of the white man who was lynched in Tulsa just before this event (in which the black prisoner was not lynched)?
This turned into a giant cluster f..k.
I believe I read this (or similar) on a previous anniversary of the riot.
It seems that the riot was not the fault of one side or the other but simply the result of on going animosity on both sides.
And as usual the minority loses.
As Stalin said Quantity has a quality all its own.
As for reparations, I suppose the BLM sympathizers would argue the families of those who were asked to surrender and were subsequently killed when they would not, should receive reparations regardless of their actions.
There is no way to fairly distribute reparations at this late date.
A city, particularly in this country in this day and age is like a river, ‘you don’t step in the same river twice’.
The families that lived their then have largely moved on and new families have moved in. Those who lived in Tulsa then are almost all dead and those born since live there now. Certainly, those who governed Tulsa then are long since dead.
In no logical way are those living in and governing Tulsa today responsible for what occurred there 100 years ago.
From the reports cited in that time line there is no way to lay blame to what occurred to any person or group of persons.
“In other words, they all wanted the limelight!”
They wanted more money to appear.
So everyone that participated in these racist acts should be made to pay (of course they would be over 120 years old, so good luck with that).
Is Fat Albert?
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