Posted on 05/30/2021 7:56:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
A century ago, my hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was engulfed in a riot, also called a massacre, that left an entire swath of the city known as the “Black Wall Street” burned, its residents either killed or displaced.
One hundred years later, I want to look at our history and then forge ahead to our future. I believe that the future leads right to success. We’ve talked about the problem for a century now. I believe it’s time the soul of a nation is healed.
When people look at the past, we often do things out of tradition, like beautiful Memorial Day celebrations when we remember those who gave their lives in military service. We also do things out of history, recalling events both good and terrible, like that two-day rampage in our city. Sometimes we do things reflexively, reliving something that is long past but can also raise emotions of fresh umbrage at the injustice. It’s those negative reflexive feelings that point to an unhealthy soul.
We need to adopt a healthy perspective about life that will keep us from drifting on the waves of emotion. To be healthy in our souls, we need to think differently and react effectively.
Our souls are like a utility. They’re like electricity. You can’t see it, but the soul makes things happen. We act the way the soul has programmed us to act. Everything about your life—past, present, and future,—passes through your soul. It's because of a sick soul that many people are stuck. They have a heart, they have a passion, they have a love, and yet they are in trouble because their soul is in trouble.
When it comes to healing a nation’s soul, the only way forward is to heal a person. By healing an individual soul, one person at a time, we can be healed as a nation. To do this, we must go through a process of elimination.
First, we need to eliminate race from being our focus. When you focus on race, it keeps you out of the race. According to Martin Luther King Jr, and the Bible, humans are all one race, one blood, and made in the image of God. This is what I believe, too.
The second thing to eliminate is negative emotions that cause us to quit. Anyone who lives as a victim will never be a victor.
The most binding prohibitive of soul success is table-talk. Stoop talk. No matter what we learn in school, or how much we excel on the job and in our communities, we have invited in these silent authorizers of our emotions and behavior.
The kind of table talk I mean is that which is intended to make us feel inferior. It makes us believe there’s nothing superior about us. It’s, “Don’t act smart, boy.” With girls, it’s a double dose because of our gender. “Girl, don’t answer that. A man don’t want smart.” From this table-talk and stoop-talk, we make vows that become the silent engineers of our souls. They fuel our emotions and frame our thoughts.
I was raised in New Jersey in the 60s at the tail end of the Jim Crow era. We lived through riots and did a lot of stoop talk. My family, no matter what, couldn't keep a job and couldn't get along. We talked and talked but never had a rational argument of, “This is what we’re dealing with, and this is what we need to do.”
“The problem” that never got addressed, is that we were conditioned to fail. No matter how many billions of dollars were thrown at “the problem” in the last hundred years, we have still not dealt with a format of failure that has been programmed inside. And if you don't train the inside, the outside is going to fly.
We can do it. We can succeed. We can have “power to the people” if we know what power is. Success is not racist. Success has no favorites. Success is an equal opportunity rewarder or punisher.
To be successful as a nation, we need to regain our souls. To have a healthy soul as a nation, we need healthy souls as individuals. To be healthy as individuals, we need to stop being victims, eliminate negative emotions, and eliminate saying that things are the way they are only because of race.
After the way I grew up, I should not be a success today. But I am.
So this is my emphasis. You can take it or leave it. We need to turn the corner as a nation. We need to move into a future of success and prosperity for all our citizens. When we heal our souls, the nation’s soul can then be healed.
A surprisingly good summary is found here, considering the source:
There was also an armed militant leftist black group, called something like the African Blood Brotherhood, on one side and the KKK then appearing on the other. Law and order was pretty fragile there….Tulsa made its living off of prostitution, bootlegging and gambling, and a white man had been lynched by a mob about a year earlier…after they had dragged him out of police custody. So consider the situation.
Regards,
You sound like an angry little man. And not too smart either. This site is for discussion, but obviously, you don't have the intellect to engage in that.
Ooooooo, harsh. Let’s be nice to one another.
Zzz
Over it
You’re boring. Nobody cares about your inner feelings and crackpot thoughts.
Your 3rd sentence answers your first. The fact that you were born only 30 years after this happened, while people who did it went about their lives unpunished and you never heard about it is why to talk about it. It’s a really bad thing that happened and then it just got swept under the rug. Things need to be acknowledged.
“WHY is ANYONE talking about this?”
That’s a good point.
Marxists use perpetual anger over victim hood and injustice to brainwash and control, divide and conquer.
In just a few cities run by the democrat party the number of killings by black on black exceeds the number from Tulsa many times over EVERY YEAR!
“when you focus on race, it keeps you out of the race”
I like that.
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Then don’t read my rants dumbb ass
That said, the Tulsa riots are being used as justification for reparations. It’s bullschit but we can’t just turn a blind eye to it. We need to know what our enemies are saying and we need to know how to combat their arguments
Heal the Nation’s soul? No comment other than “Deportation should work!” Get to work!
Read all about it in this month’s issue of National geographic
The sad thing about this is that we will never know exactly what occurred from a purely factual perspective.
I don’t believe that CNN, the same network that guaranteed me that DJT was a Russian, will have any desire to report what actually occurred.
The only useful atomized bit of Schadenfreude out of all this -- other than the original event -- was this:
"Cornerstone event of Tulsa Race Massacre commemoration was abruptly canceled because lawyers representing survivors and descendants demanded a higher fee for their participation in the event than had been originally agreed upon, commission official says.The original agreement was for $100,000 for each survivor and a $2 million “seed gift" to a reparations coalition fund, the commission’s chair, State Senator Kevin Matthews (D), said in a press conference on Friday afternoon. At the last minute, Matthews said, the lawyers had changed their mind and asked for $1 million for each survivor and $50 million for the fund."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAA!!! I got three words for that...
just because YOU never heard about it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Keep your fingers in your ears screaming LA DI DA, if you want.
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