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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I am looking for reparations for sixty years of vicious anti-white hate and discrimination from government, corporations, universities and non-profits.
Democrats and their media will prioritize this development in order to further inflame racial tensions in this country. Just in time for the election.
He is not running for reelection and is essentially a lame duck mayor.
Survivors?
It was a horrific event, but as is true of reparations for slavery, we are asking for people who had nothing to do with this event to pay money to people who were not victims of the event.
Nope, all the blacks in Tulsa are gone. /s
Is the money coming out of the mayor’s pocket?
So, if your ancestors were “massacred” by “native Americans”, do you get a share of casino profits? Asking for a friend. Not sure if my friend is indian(dot) or black. Which week is it?
Time to sell all Tulsa property and vamoose, now, before the pending tax burden and racial clinate becomes financially and physically unbearable. Like the NYC real estate market, get out while you can.
“clinate” should be “climate.”
No handouts because they do not work, we know that.
Of course, the Democrats will reject my proposal.
Again, the first thing to know about the so-called “Tulsa Massacre” is that it was not a massacre. It was a stand-up day-long race war between armed men.
If you consider all the violence blacks have caused over the years, maybe they should owe us. Add to that all the taxpayer subsidies and perks, it’s been a bargain for them.
Destroying our nation with the ongoing race BS will be costly too.
Enough with the NYT BS already.
I wonder when the US gov’t will pay reparations to decedents of the Wounded Knee massacre and also the Trail of Tears ...
How about reparations from Mexicans smuggling in drugs?
Articles from the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, etc. get lots of interest and comments from people who want to be informed about what the enemy is up to.
You prefer ignorance, which is your right, but there are more people than you in the world, so grow up. If you don't want to read it, DON'T CLICK ON It.
"Ignorance is strength," --1984 by George Orwell
Democrat mobs.
Kicked off by the side that now want to be the “victims”
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