Posted on 06/01/2021 4:31:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Tulsa (AFP) - In Tulsa, the city that still bears the scars of a 1921 racial massacre, African-American residents are eagerly awaiting the arrival of President Joe Biden on Tuesday, hoping he will hear their call for financial reparations.
"I just want him to feel our pain," said local activist Kristi Williams.
The Democratic leader, who has benefited from a strong support base among Black voters, will attend Tuesday's commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history.
Williams, who is descended from some of the massacre victims, wants Biden to "do us right."
Biden said Monday that "the federal government must reckon with and acknowledge the role that it has played in stripping wealth and opportunity from Black communities" such as Greenwood.
In Tulsa, this is just the beginning: residents expect further action from a president who has cautiously declared support for looking into financial reparations for Blacks.
In this city in Oklahoma, part of the previously slave-owning US south and a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan, the effects of the massacre are still felt.
There are marked inequalities between the northern part of Tulsa, which is predominantly Black, and the south, which has mostly white residents.
Beyond financial compensation, city residents are counting on Biden's visit and the ceremony for the massacre's 100th anniversary to bring more attention to the tragedy, which has long remained taboo.
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That’s it, DemoRats, stir up more racial divide and resentment with an event that occurred a century ago.
When will all the White businesses that were destroyed during the BLM/Antifa riots get THEIR reparations?
Crickets...
Not ironically, it's the great society b.s. that stripped the wealth (read that WORK ETHIC) from blacks in this country and the reason why they're (a) among the poorest in this country and (b) so damn' dependent on FedGov for everything. Am I the only one who sees it this way?
And deliver nothing.
Reparations? From who? Do anyone really expect him to track down 100 years later those who were responsible?
I left town. The stench will will be terrible.
Keep waiting.
Did we keep a sales receipt? Maybe we can return all of the descendants of slave’s to which ever Slave trading outfit is still operating over there...
EVERYONE SEES IT THE WAY YOU DO. (Sorry for the caps lock, but I wanted to make sure you understand.) 😎
Will disabled hispanic transgender people have to contribute to the reparations? Decisions, decisions. Pandering can be hard.
I think we've done enough damage to this community with welfare and unemployment benefits and the Great Society since the 60's. I don't think free ebt cards ad a new phone will change anything.
I think there are two of three but they most likely weren’t rioting when they were babies.
***There are marked inequalities between the northern part of Tulsa, which is predominantly Black, and the south, which has mostly white residents. ***
Might want to check out the Section 8 Housing south on Peoria just past I-44. Used to be a nice Brookside Area fifty years ago, but is now a dump.
Trillions of dollars have been given to those in need. In fact, several generations of families have been given welfare for years. Seems that is reparations by the American Taxpayer.
I did enjoy reading the original reports. How many will be told it was white marxist commies that started the riots using the blacks as fodder?
More die every weekend in Chicago, St Louis, etc etc by blacks on blacks. Every weekend.
...as opposed to working and living your best lives.
Interesting how the riot was mostly forgotten until REPARATIONS were mentioned. Now every slight for the past 300 years is suddenly on the front page.
I first learned of the riot from a book I found in the Tulsa County Library back in 1970.
But if you REALLY want to get the Reparations bug going look at Indian Territory in 1842, when the black slaves in Oklahoma revolted against their Cherokee and Creek Indian owners.
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL002
This story was no where near national news until Trump went to Tulsa last year and the race hustlers brought it up to smear him.
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