Black Walstreet bombed from the air

[Pogo]

the tderpm game is:

make a charge of some significance, notwithstanding that it's an incident over 80 years old.

Then challenge people to discuss it as though it's somehow evidence of anything happening today.

It is after all a background.

Tulsa didn't happen in a vacuum. It was part of an infamous slice of our own history that our history books gloss over with the "gay '90s" and "roaring '20s" and "age of invention" veneer, but the era between roughly Reconstruction and the second World War were some of the most racist, most disgusting decades we ever had. And they're not that long ago that they don't have an influence.

Lynchings ran rampant. Bob Dylan's song "Desolation Row" is about one such incident that took place in Duluth, about as far north as you can get and still be in the United States. D.W. Griffith put out a blatantly racist film called "Birth of a Nation" and at the same time Georgia doctor William Simmons resurrected the Ku Klux Klan, a vigilante group that had died out by 1880 and adopted the flaming cross icon from that film. This new Klan made inroads not only the South but the midwest and west, and even elected a few public officials. So the riot in Tulsa didn't just spark from nothing; there was a long and painful backstory.

Arguably it was WWII itself that provided the catalyst to put a stop to this barbarity, but again --- not that long ago especially as regards building blocks of culture. This was the era our grandparents came up in.

Not a damn thing wrong with knowing our own history. Especially when it's one that has been glossed over. The Civil Rights movement didn't spring from nothing either; this era was its direct antecedent.

 

[Asclepias]

Its a great example of the lengths whites enraged over Black success will go to in order to destroy that success so they can continue to nurture their belief that white people are superior. Everytime that false belief system is shown to be a knee slapping joke whites riot. I remember reading about the riots when Jack Johnson beat the white heavyweight champion in boxing. The pattern repeats itself throughout the history of the US.

 

[PredFan]

I think a bomb must have landed on TM's head.

 

[Pogo]

Is the story wrong?

 

[Nutz]

So posting history is a no-no?

 

[Godboy]

Black wall street had street lights made out of candy canes and everyone used flying carpets for transportation. It was an AMAZING place of mystery and magic, until the white Muggles came and ruined everything.

 

[evince]

see how interested the right is In honesty

wow I thought I ha not been here for years already



It looks like a post of mine though

 

[evince]

black walstreet


more proof you hate black people

 

[ClosedCaption]

One of the darkest moments in Oklahoma and the United States history... With that said what is your game Truthmatters? To shame us?

Are you ashamed of the shameful? Who's fault is that? Shames fault?

 

[ClosedCaption]

How are things in Tulsa now?

Are black people building more stuff there?

What happened in the early turn of the century where black people had all this freedom to work for Presidents and buy land? Most of the stories I hear from that time are about how many blacks white people hung from trees.

What do you want to focus on? The success by (black people) in the story, or do you just want to highlight the horribleness of the white race?

Both and a side of everytime the black man stands up white people knock him down then ask why are they down there.