Posted on 06/02/2025 12:24:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The plan, the first large-scale attempt to address the impact of the 1921 atrocity, will raise private funds for housing assistance, scholarships and economic development.
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, killed up to 300 Black residents and destroyed a neighborhood. More than a century later, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday, the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.
Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Tulsa, unveiled the sweeping project, named Road to Repair. It is intended to chip away at enduring disparities caused by the massacre and its aftermath in the Greenwood neighborhood and the wider North Tulsa community in Tulsa, Okla.
The centerpiece of the project is the creation of the Greenwood Trust, a private charitable trust, with the goal of securing $105 million in assets — including private contributions, property transfers and possible public funding — by next spring, the 105th anniversary of the attack.
The plan does not include direct cash payments to the two last known survivors of the massacre, who are 110 and 111 years old. But such payments could be considered by the trust’s Board of Trustees, according to Michelle Brooks, a city spokeswoman.
Mr. Nichols, who announced the creation of the trust fund at a gathering in Tulsa to commemorate the city’s first Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, said a plan to restore Greenwood — a neighborhood that was so prosperous before the attack that it inspired the name Black Wall Street — was long overdue.
“One hundred and four years is far too long for us to not address the harm of the massacre,” Mr. Nichols said in an interview before the announcement. He added that the effort...
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$105 million grift money package that the left hopes their black loyal Dim-voters keep being duped into thinking the money will go to them.
Handing out $105M this year might make some people feel better — but what are you going to give them next year? They will be back for more, you know.
Are any of them still alive?
I doubt there are any living perpetrators or survivors of the 1921 massacre.
But if there are, transfer $105 million from the perps to the surivivors from the perps’ bank accounts.
That was my point.
Elderly having survived 1921 event so we hope they won’t listen to Al Sharpton trying to con them all out of their money for Sharpton’s causes. He wouldn’t spare them.
Sort of like the Clinton Foundation and Haiti.
So, did the mayor make this a campaign platform or did he wait until he was elected to spring this grift on his constituents?
“ The plan does not include direct cash payments to the two last known survivors of the massacre”
Say what.
Democrat history.
The answer to your question lies in the article. You might want to read it........
RE: Are any of them still alive?
Some waited to sign up to receive Social Security benefits as DOGE investigators found out. /S
Highly contended with the claim “In December 2024, about 90,000 beneficiaries aged 99 or older received a Social Security retirement check.” versus millions of records. Supposedly records were made before the current style of computers, apologists say. But the phony ones with numbers can be used by fraudsters to gain benefits in other ways. With no actual older than age 100 people for those records.
There a few alive - one lady is 111
“ Are any of them still alive?”
The article states: “ The plan does not include direct cash payments to the two last known survivors of the massacre…”
So it’s not for the victims it seems.
This is wrong and will encourage people to flee Tulsa.
They claim two survivors are over 110. Maybe.
And they didn’t award them anything.
I meant the perps ...
Are there any living perps to extract the $105 million from?
The proposed new $105 million dollar expenditure of taxpayer dollars makes me want to move to Tulsa and invest in their future.
If I could just withdraw a few thousand dollars from my 401K and send it to them it would make me feel better.
Then do 5 trillion for all those affected by black violence.
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