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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“Total dead and displaced unknown:
36 total; 26 black and 10 white dead (1921 records)”
That’s not much more than your typical weekend in south Chicago.
Deduct the total cost of all the set-asides, section 8s, welfare, and other social programs from the projected amount of reparations. Then deduct the estimated cost of black crime over the past 70 years. Pay out what is left to black FAMILIES whose members do not have any criminal records and have been self-sufficient rather than dependent.
As tragic are the deaths surrounding the Tulsa massacre, I would not say that that’s the worst chapter of forced death in American History.
The deaths that occurred when civilized Indian tribes were forced from their homes in Georgia and marched to Oklahoma, in what is known as the Trail of Tears, resulted in THOUSANDS dying on the way, and shortly thereafter from disease.
These Indians were not nomad warlike savages. They were civilized and lived peaceably in their communities.
Forcing them from their homes was American racism at it’s worst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
The Reparations should come, and come from the State of Oklahoma. This Massacre was a real shit stain.
Quite a stain. White Supremacy (Over Blacks specifically) was a very real thing in the 1920’s.
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