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.
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The area south of 62 was known as KKK until even the 80’s
First, it was a race riot, not a “massacre.”
Second, the whole thing got started b/c a black elevator operator tried to rape a white female.
Third, members of the black community shot and killed whites b/c they feared that a lynching might occur, i.e., the black folks started the violence.
BTW, the black-owned newspaper in the area acknowledged that blacks fired the first shots.
We need to stop letting these idiots rewrite history.
Democrats being Democrats.
Interesting, that as the South became more Republican, it became more Conservative and LESS Racist. Like EVERYTHING ELSE Liberals and Leftists lie about the past. MANY Segregationist Southern Senators were Liberals.
The Tulsa Race War started when a group of blacks fired rifles into a white crowd, killing several.
One previous poster use to always insist that Moffitt was off limits for all military personnel from Camp Chaffee. Downtown Moffit is mostly one huge automobile graveyard used part demolition yard. The stockyard is still in the same place near the Okla. bridge crossing. With one exception on Garrison Ave. in Fort Smith, the Justice Parker effect was mostly beneficial locally—not so much in South Sebastian County and across the Arkansas River South of Van Buren.
It was a Ultra Conservative President- Warren Harding, who went to the South and said thatSegregation must end.
Pick, pick, pick at that scab until it festers some more.
A non-event blown out of proportion by personal agendas and a corrupted power structure.
https://www.centerforpublicsecrets.org/post/the-notorious-sarah-page
excerpts:
On Memorial Day 1921, a young, white Tulsa, Oklahoma elevator operator named Sarah Page had a confrontation with a black teenager named Dick Roland. The incident in Tulsa’s downtown Drexel Building soon spiraled into the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Much like Roland himself, Page remains known today only through the accumulated legend of sparse news articles and the speculations of historians. As it turns out, most of Sarah Page’s legend is untrue. Fortunately, it is now possible to meet the real person at the center of Tulsa’s race war.
...A day later, the likely cause of the elevator rage was transformed into the Tulsa Tribune’s tale of attempted sexual violence. Sarah’s aggressive purse-wielding was replaced by a hapless young orphan’s scratched face and torn clothes. The Tribune’s managing editor later admitted that these inflammatory claims were untrue. Sarah Page was not responsible for inventing them. She did not mention them to her neighbor Anna Green. Green didn’t mention them in her interview with the Tribune. The police talked to Sarah on Monday and would have noticed scratches. A torn dress or blouse would have been Exhibit A. According to the police, Sarah denied those claims on Tuesday, June 1, and had not filed charges against Roland as of June 2.
...If neither Sarah Page nor Clarence Poulton were responsible for inflating the story, then who was? All trails lead to the 1921 Tulsa police force, headed by chief John Gustafson.
The police were likely telling the truth in the beginning when they claimed that they were far from convinced a crime had been committed on Monday. They were also likely telling the truth at the end, when they announced on Wednesday that Page had denied the Nab Negro article was true in its details and, further, that Page’s version was substantially the same as Roland’s. It was in the middle where they lied.
...Chief of Detectives Jim Patton headed the investigation. On Wednesday, while the embers still glowed in Greenwood, he delivered a statement to the Daily World calling Jones’ Nab Negro article yellow journalism, colored and untrue, and as having incited a disastrous racial spirit. Patton concluded that “If the facts in the story as told the police had only been printed I do not think there would have been an (sic) riot whatever.”
...In other words, if the Tribune had only printed Sarah Page’s story, there would have been no event now called the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Only recently did the race pimps, our liberal lying journalists, and the black community (with "reparations" on the brain), renamed it a race massacre.
For decades Tulsa ignored the disturbance so the city could develop. Now leftist elements are using it to stir strife.
another holiday given to celebrate by the killing of each other resent day
So in other words the media lied and people died.
When are we going to hold these liars and murderers acountable?
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