Posted on 08/03/2024 10:52:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The News
The mayor of Tulsa, Okla., announced on Thursday the creation of a commission tasked with developing a plan for reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history. The commission will study how reparations can be made to survivors of the massacre and their descendants, as well as residents of North Tulsa.
Why It Matters
During the 1921 massacre, white mobs burned Greenwood, a prosperous neighborhood known as Black Wall Street, to the ground. As many as 300 Black people were killed, hundreds more were injured, and thousands were left homeless. City officials, historians and the courts acknowledge that the massacre has led to generations of racial inequity in Tulsa.
Calls for reparations in Tulsa are longstanding and have resulted in apologies, a scholarship program and other actions, but not direct financial redress.
The last two known survivors of the massacre, now centenarians, have pursued reparations through the courts, but the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed their case in June.
Two reports — one from a commission created by the State Legislature in 2001 and one by a group of Tulsa residents in 2023 — recommended reparations, including financial compensation. The commission announced Thursday, named the Beyond Apology Commission, follows the 2023 report’s calls for the city to create a group to examine and carry out a reparations program.
Mayor G.T. Bynum, a Republican, has signaled that he wants this body to make recommendations that would result in tangible action. He wrote a social media post this week that the commission is not intended to be merely a “study group.”
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You prefer ignorance“
And you are presumptive fool. I think l counted 8 NYT articles posted in one day. Enough to make me think you are masking feigned derision so you can flood FR with their BS. Posting articles from everywhere is good but this seems like more than that.
You should file a complaint against me for not violating any rules and have me banned.
The conflict started when a group of rifle-armed blacks fired into a crowd of whites.
What was happening was a black was arrested and accused of assaulting a white woman, the local paper made noises about a possible lynching, some black ww1 veterans showed up to prevent it. When a deputy attempted to take a rifle away from one, it went off, and the black riflemen thought they were under attack and started shooting.
Check out my FR home page and article posting history (13 years longer than yours) and say that with a straight face.
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Well, I guess there is no certainty as to who fired the first shot that ended the face-off with the lynch mob.
What about reparations to the families of the two WHITE young people killed execution style by black thugs in a Tulsa park. Oh, you’ve never heard of that TRUE racial attack about ten years back? Wonder why?
I’m in Tulsa County and he’s a demonRAT who ran as an ‘R’ as so many of them do. That pimp of a senator Lankford for example. Oklahoma is going to go the way of Kolorado and I hope I can be ..... somewhere else.
There are two individuals who were infants when the riot occurred.
Agreed, and they have searched cemeteries for years to find all the “mass graves” of the supposed hundreds if not thousands of blacks killed in the riot. Yet none have been found. Just a few unmarked graves. No mass graves. No hundreds of victims. It’s been so blown out of proportion.
The sooner tulsa is rid of this lunatic race baiter white guilt fanatic the better. He just will not let this alone. Rip that scab off fool and bleed some more.
Great matches for the roid rage thug and mental midget from Westville.
Pt bynum already dug up all the parks looking for them. Every time he does it gathers a gang of black poverty pimps like swarms of flies. So far, no mass graves but he is looking for more places to dig.
It has reached the point of urban myth.
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I stand corrected. Just on the news, they are digging again still and have two more boxes of bones.
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