Posted on 10/03/2018 7:47:35 AM PDT by BeadCounter
TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum is calling for an investigation into possible unmarked mass graves from the Tulsa Race Riot.
Mayor Bynum says that he and Jack Henderson worked to find more information when they both served on the city council, but the city never took any further steps.
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1921 ?
The democrats only hope now: Race wars. Again. They’ve only got 5 weeks left.
But it worked for Obola in 2012, 2014 .. Not so successful for Hillary in 2016.
36 dead in the 1920’s. May they rest in peace.
BLM gonna have a field day over this.
This is Tulsa. Lots of loose ends still to tie up on those race riots. My issue is who is going to pay for all this.
Hell, send the diggers to Elaine, AR. Hundreds, if not thousands of blacks massacred there.
And what triggered this tragedy? OH, YEAH! A Black man was falsely accused of sexually assaulting a White woman. The timing of this is rather awkward isn’t it?
Ironically, the Tulsa Race Riots are a perfect example of how the Democrats operated in the past and now. The government structure in Oklahoma and its municipalities was dominated by the Democrats. The Democrats whipped up anti-black racial hatred to maintain the white vote and ultimately, their political power. The Tulsa Race Riots were a natural consequence of a political & social system that scapegoated blacks in order for the Dems to maintain political power. Now the Dems do the same thing but they whip up racial hatred against whites and conservatives in particular to maintain their power. I hope any investigation into the Tulsa race riots points out the culpability of the Democrats in power.
The Mayor is looking for a paying after-hours gig on a Tusla Riots Truth and Reconciliation commission.
Lots of 100 year old scabs can be ripped off.
For what?
The Tulsa race riot has often been portrayed as whites just upset that some blacks had managed to scrape together a nice neighborhood. Left out of it is that it was after an armed group of black men attacked an assembly of whites on the apparent presumption that the latter was there as a lynch mob.
The causes of the riot were more complex than envy.
As for elevated death tolls claimed years later — 36 were noted in 1921 (and that may include the 12 that died outside the courthouse) — I would suspect that at least possible some of that was people leaving town, as many were homeless. That could easily lead to urban legends.
I grew up in a suburb of Tulsa and moved there after college. Lived there for about 18 years.
A funny thing about the riot death count. As the years passed the black death count just kept growing.
Kind of like a fisherman’s story of the big one that got away.
I’m not saying that it wasn’t a horrible thing, because it was. The racially segregated black business community was burned down and pretty much wiped out and never really recovered.
And white residents were gathering to lynch a black person unfairly accused of sexual assault of a white woman. Black veterans of WWI went down there to protect him. Both sides were armed.
At that time Oklahoma was a solid southern state with Jim Crow laws and a not too friendly view of blacks. Once the initial battle was over some white folks pretty much went berserk.
But the death toll just keeps getting bigger and bigger with no real facts to back it up.
Heard it this am on tulsa radio station. Lots of callers dont like it one bit.
Waste of money and opens old wounds. Tulsa race probs are bad already and the crime rate seems really high.
There are better things needed to do than this stirring the pot.
More like 300ish and 35 blocks burned.
You are correct about the death toll. Tulsa krmg was mouthing a number like 300. Depends on who tells the story.
Tulsa isnt whst it usef to be and it isnt better.
That section of Oklahoma was GOP-leaning and the Mayor of Tulsa at the time of the riots, T.D. Evans, was Republican.
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