If you knew the history of the Tulsa Massacre, you wouldn’t have engaged in snark. These successful black people, tradesmen and merchants, were butchered.
Most definitely, that was a sacrifice.
Indeed, looking at the ugly past, learning from it, and making things better are the hallmarks of a righteous people. Condoleezza Rice (not exactly a Deplorable) put it best in discussing race relations in America last summer, when some CBS putz tried to maker her say America sucks:
Well, I’ve always thought that America’s greatest strength is that we are a country where you can come from humble circumstances and do great things, and where, despite our painful history, we’ve worked harder and harder every day, brick by brick, to build a more perfect union for all of us. And I would say to those, particularly in places like China and Russia and Iran, who may want to use this for propaganda, let’s not be absurd.
This is not Tiananmen Square where you’ve mowed down people who disagreed with the government. This is not the invasion of Crimea where you took land from your neighbor. This is not the Green Revolution in Iran where you killed people wantonly because they wouldn’t agree with the theocratic government.
Rice continued, “And I would even say to our friends abroad, in places like Europe, where I’m seeing demonstrations in support of what is happening here, thank you for your support, but please look in the mirror. Please ask yourself, in countries in Europe and countries all across the world, what are you doing about racial and ethnic inequality in your own circumstances? America has gotten better because we have been willing to confront our problems. And we’re going to confront our problems again. We’re confronting them now.
“But I really don’t need to be lectured by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about peaceful protest when they have themselves used their own force just because people wanted to criticize the government. That is not what is happening here,” she added.
BOOM!!!!
Back then Tulsa was an oil boom town with lots of crime. Not long before the riot a mob had lynched a white boy for murder. His age is often given as between 16 and 20 years of age.
Well, I'm sure something big happened there, as I've just read about it and seen some pictures of unrest. Unfortunately that's about all I'll ever know about it, since it was never taught in our history books prior to the day I became the world's biggest Doubting Thomas (the day that FOX News declared George S to be an off-limits topic).
That's all past history anyhow .. I'm concerned about there here-and-now, and I want to know if these protesters arrived to the protest (or to where the bus picked them up) in newer/nicer vehicles than mine.