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First victim of 1921 Tulsa massacre of Black community is identified since graves found, mayor says
AP News ^ | July 12, 2024 | KEN MILLER

Posted on 07/12/2024 2:03:29 PM PDT by Texan4Life

A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa massacre of the city’s Black community, the mayor said Friday.

Attorneys for the two, Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, are asking the court to reconsider the decision. Attorneys are also asking the U.S. Department of Justice to open an investigation into the massacre under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007, which allows for the reopening of cold cases of violent crimes against Black people committed before 1970.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: graves; massacre; oklahoma; tulsa
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Never forget the racism and white supremacy that raged in some parts of America in the 1920's.


1 posted on 07/12/2024 2:03:29 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

Interesting how no one cares about the hundreds of Whites, mainly women, who were murdered at the hands of blacks since 2000.


2 posted on 07/12/2024 2:06:23 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Texan4Life

Any surviving white participant would be an elderly man with a poor memory who was less than 5 years old in 1921.


3 posted on 07/12/2024 2:06:49 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Interesting how no one cares about the hundreds of Whites, mainly women, who were murdered at the hands of blacks since 2000.

No one?

Good grief.

4 posted on 07/12/2024 2:08:07 PM PDT by Fury (I )
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To: Texan4Life

The first thing to know about the so-called “Tulsa Massacre” is that it was not a massacre.

It was a full-blown race war. A shooting war, with both sides armed and engaged.


5 posted on 07/12/2024 2:08:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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graves filled with more than a hundred victims


Has that actually been confirmed now?


6 posted on 07/12/2024 2:10:49 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Fury

You’re not seeing it on the news, are you?
If the roles were reversed, this country would have burnt to a crip.


7 posted on 07/12/2024 2:11:37 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Texan4Life

If AP news is publishing a story, we can know it is politically motivated bullsh** and propaganda.

Weird how the left has discovered this “Tulsa Massacre” story 100 years after-the-fact.


8 posted on 07/12/2024 2:11:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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I foresee a Tulsa massacre day in our future, but not before St. George Floyd day.


9 posted on 07/12/2024 2:14:03 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: Texan4Life

Just so everyone remember the community massacred was overwhelming Republican.


10 posted on 07/12/2024 2:15:04 PM PDT by mware
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly! And of the proven deaths, a third were white. Of course they are constantly trying to find more bodies.


11 posted on 07/12/2024 2:15:07 PM PDT by River Hawk
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Until recently, it was known as the “Tulsa Race Riot” not the
“Tulsa Massacre”.


12 posted on 07/12/2024 2:18:19 PM PDT by River Hawk
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It was actually a Race Riot and only recently the narrative was changed to favor black oppression to satisfy race bating libtards


13 posted on 07/12/2024 2:18:20 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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Really sad, as the Tulsa of today mixed racial marriages are very common and many churches are bi racial in makeup. Sad that they want to dig this up. The INdians ought to go Sadfishing, I am sure they got a bad deck of cards dealt them in Tulsa... There are historic sites where they got cut out of the government bonanzas.. Then with the Indian Money that came to the reservations, they got a LOT of it back at the Casinos. It is common talk at coffee shops in Tulsa.


14 posted on 07/12/2024 2:20:27 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: BenLurkin

I remember being at Camp Chaffee Arkansas and being out to get Pizza near the Oklahoma border/bridge. A black Corporal on my team said Sergeant Burke, if you drive toward that bridge, I’m going to jump out the window. The other side of that bridge is Moffit, Oklahoma, the town where the Klan never died. That was 52 years ago in ‘72.


15 posted on 07/12/2024 2:20:39 PM PDT by KC Burke
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Zzzzzzzzzz the horror zzzzzz


16 posted on 07/12/2024 2:23:48 PM PDT by wardaddy (Biden versus Trump boy after 60 or so it sure goes fast for some and not others not so much)
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It was a “race riot” when I learned about it.
When did it become a massacre ?


17 posted on 07/12/2024 2:26:36 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: mware

I wonder if Robert Byrd was leading it.


18 posted on 07/12/2024 2:28:01 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Texan4Life

A black man assaulted a white girl, the whites wanted to lynch him, blacks protected him, a shot went off and the rest is history.

People get tired of black violence.


19 posted on 07/12/2024 2:28:45 PM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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Yeah. What happened there, 100 years ago, was bad. I think the country has learned a lot since then. But these people think it’s important to relive this. And relive it. And re live it.

There has to be a way to remember it, learn from it, and move along.

But I think they would suggest the way to do that involves suitcases full of cash.


20 posted on 07/12/2024 2:30:12 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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