‘I am seeking justice’: Tulsa massacre survivor, 107, testifies to US Congress

[Moonglow]

Hard to imagine it was covered up with nobody held accountable

Why is it "hard to imagine"? A lot of historical events have been covered up and the perps never held accountable. When will the people of Rome ever be held accountable for the unfair trial and execution of Jesus H. Christ? When will the Turks be held accountable for their terror attack on the city of Constantinople in 1453?

When will God be held accountable for all those he murdered by a great flood? I can be stupid also with analogies.

Actually, you libs are more pissed at Almighty God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as it showed Him to be a Divine Homophobe.

Actually I couldn't give ratz azz about Sodom and Gomorrah since this thread is about Tulsa

It might as well be about Sodom. Because , like in Tulsa, all of the responsible parties have long since passed away. And that's the real point. Do we hold people responsible for the actions of their predecessors?

Then why did the Japanese get reparations for WWII internment in the US?

 

[Care4all]

Hard to imagine it was covered up with nobody held accountable

Why is it "hard to imagine"? A lot of historical events have been covered up and the perps never held accountable. When will the people of Rome ever be held accountable for the unfair trial and execution of Jesus H. Christ? When will the Turks be held accountable for their terror attack on the city of Constantinople in 1453?

When will God be held accountable for all those he murdered by a great flood? I can be stupid also with analogies.

Actually, you libs are more pissed at Almighty God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as it showed Him to be a Divine Homophobe.

Actually I couldn't give ratz azz about Sodom and Gomorrah since this thread is about Tulsa

It might as well be about Sodom. Because , like in Tulsa, all of the responsible parties have long since passed away. And that's the real point. Do we hold people responsible for the actions of their predecessors?

Not with criminal charges, but reparations...money...is different. And the Oklahoma govt let it happen with no justice for those families harmed, and the govt covered it up....

The govt should pay reparations.

 

[Moonglow]

Hard to imagine it was covered up with nobody held accountable

Why is it "hard to imagine"? A lot of historical events have been covered up and the perps never held accountable. When will the people of Rome ever be held accountable for the unfair trial and execution of Jesus H. Christ? When will the Turks be held accountable for their terror attack on the city of Constantinople in 1453?

When will God be held accountable for all those he murdered by a great flood? I can be stupid also with analogies.

Actually, you libs are more pissed at Almighty God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as it showed Him to be a Divine Homophobe.

Actually I couldn't give ratz azz about Sodom and Gomorrah since this thread is about Tulsa

It might as well be about Sodom. Because , like in Tulsa, all of the responsible parties have long since passed away. And that's the real point. Do we hold people responsible for the actions of their predecessors?

Not with criminal charges, but reparations...money...is different. And the Oklahoma govt let it happen with no justice for those families harmed, and the govt covered it up....

The govt should pay reparations.

Yep, that piece of history was never put into a book on Oklahoma history or civics class. The white devils also got their due last summer when the Supreme Court gave the Indian nations their jurisdiction back on jurisprudence and criminal prosecution in their nations.

 

[Polishprince]

Hard to imagine it was covered up with nobody held accountable

Why is it "hard to imagine"? A lot of historical events have been covered up and the perps never held accountable. When will the people of Rome ever be held accountable for the unfair trial and execution of Jesus H. Christ? When will the Turks be held accountable for their terror attack on the city of Constantinople in 1453?

When will God be held accountable for all those he murdered by a great flood? I can be stupid also with analogies.

Actually, you libs are more pissed at Almighty God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as it showed Him to be a Divine Homophobe.

Actually I couldn't give ratz azz about Sodom and Gomorrah since this thread is about Tulsa

It might as well be about Sodom. Because , like in Tulsa, all of the responsible parties have long since passed away. And that's the real point. Do we hold people responsible for the actions of their predecessors?

Not with criminal charges, but reparations...money...is different. And the Oklahoma govt let it happen with no justice for those families harmed, and the govt covered it up....

The govt should pay reparations.

The government doesn't have any money. They would have to confiscate it off of taxpayers who weren't alive in 1921, and had nothing to do with it. And then they would pay it to people who also weren't around a century ago.

 

[Care4all]

Hard to imagine it was covered up with nobody held accountable

Why is it "hard to imagine"? A lot of historical events have been covered up and the perps never held accountable. When will the people of Rome ever be held accountable for the unfair trial and execution of Jesus H. Christ? When will the Turks be held accountable for their terror attack on the city of Constantinople in 1453?

When will God be held accountable for all those he murdered by a great flood? I can be stupid also with analogies.

Actually, you libs are more pissed at Almighty God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as it showed Him to be a Divine Homophobe.

Actually I couldn't give ratz azz about Sodom and Gomorrah since this thread is about Tulsa

It might as well be about Sodom. Because , like in Tulsa, all of the responsible parties have long since passed away. And that's the real point. Do we hold people responsible for the actions of their predecessors?

Not with criminal charges, but reparations...money...is different. And the Oklahoma govt let it happen with no justice for those families harmed, and the govt covered it up....

The govt should pay reparations.

The government doesn't have any money. They would have to confiscate it off of taxpayers who weren't alive in 1921, and had nothing to do with it. And then they would pay it to people who also weren't around a century ago.

That's how it goes....

And the families of the crooks and criminals and govt that hid and covered it up, are still alive, and they benefited from grandpa's crimes years following his crimes.

 

[Desperado]

Ancient History and not relevant to the people of today

 

[Polishprince]

Hard to imagine it was covered up with nobody held accountable

Why is it "hard to imagine"? A lot of historical events have been covered up and the perps never held accountable. When will the people of Rome ever be held accountable for the unfair trial and execution of Jesus H. Christ? When will the Turks be held accountable for their terror attack on the city of Constantinople in 1453?

When will God be held accountable for all those he murdered by a great flood? I can be stupid also with analogies.

Actually, you libs are more pissed at Almighty God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as it showed Him to be a Divine Homophobe.

Actually I couldn't give ratz azz about Sodom and Gomorrah since this thread is about Tulsa

It might as well be about Sodom. Because , like in Tulsa, all of the responsible parties have long since passed away. And that's the real point. Do we hold people responsible for the actions of their predecessors?

Not with criminal charges, but reparations...money...is different. And the Oklahoma govt let it happen with no justice for those families harmed, and the govt covered it up....

The govt should pay reparations.

The government doesn't have any money. They would have to confiscate it off of taxpayers who weren't alive in 1921, and had nothing to do with it. And then they would pay it to people who also weren't around a century ago.

That's how it goes.... The families of the crooks and criminals and govt that hid and covered it up, are still alive, and they benefited from grandpa's crimes years following his crimes.

That's not true at all. Many of the families that were in Oklahoma in the 1920's migrated to California with the Fondas, a large number of the families that are now there were nowhere around and moved to the area to toil at the tremendous Oral Roberts U and other institutions that didn't exist a century ago.

 

[Care4all]

Hard to imagine it was covered up with nobody held accountable

Why is it "hard to imagine"? A lot of historical events have been covered up and the perps never held accountable. When will the people of Rome ever be held accountable for the unfair trial and execution of Jesus H. Christ? When will the Turks be held accountable for their terror attack on the city of Constantinople in 1453?

When will God be held accountable for all those he murdered by a great flood? I can be stupid also with analogies.

Actually, you libs are more pissed at Almighty God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as it showed Him to be a Divine Homophobe.

Actually I couldn't give ratz azz about Sodom and Gomorrah since this thread is about Tulsa

It might as well be about Sodom. Because , like in Tulsa, all of the responsible parties have long since passed away. And that's the real point. Do we hold people responsible for the actions of their predecessors?

Not with criminal charges, but reparations...money...is different. And the Oklahoma govt let it happen with no justice for those families harmed, and the govt covered it up....

The govt should pay reparations.

The government doesn't have any money. They would have to confiscate it off of taxpayers who weren't alive in 1921, and had nothing to do with it. And then they would pay it to people who also weren't around a century ago.

That's how it goes.... The families of the crooks and criminals and govt that hid and covered it up, are still alive, and they benefited from grandpa's crimes years following his crimes.

That's not true at all. Many of the families that were in Oklahoma in the 1920's migrated to California with the Fondas, a large number of the families that are now there were nowhere around and moved to the area to toil at the tremendous Oral Roberts U and other institutions that didn't exist a century ago.

Sorry Charlie!

The families harmed by our govt actions, deserve justice, and reparations are the only means to do such.

Did those tax payers in communities where the police are sued for one of their cops killing an innocent person, get out of paying retribution to the victim's families? Nope. The tax payers paid for George Floyds death, and Breona Taylor's, and etc etc etc....yet they had nothing to do with it....

Same thing with this.....

 

[Moonglow]

Hard to imagine it was covered up with nobody held accountable

Why is it "hard to imagine"? A lot of historical events have been covered up and the perps never held accountable. When will the people of Rome ever be held accountable for the unfair trial and execution of Jesus H. Christ? When will the Turks be held accountable for their terror attack on the city of Constantinople in 1453?

When will God be held accountable for all those he murdered by a great flood? I can be stupid also with analogies.

Actually, you libs are more pissed at Almighty God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as it showed Him to be a Divine Homophobe.

Actually I couldn't give ratz azz about Sodom and Gomorrah since this thread is about Tulsa

It might as well be about Sodom. Because , like in Tulsa, all of the responsible parties have long since passed away. And that's the real point. Do we hold people responsible for the actions of their predecessors?

Not with criminal charges, but reparations...money...is different. And the Oklahoma govt let it happen with no justice for those families harmed, and the govt covered it up....

The govt should pay reparations.

The government doesn't have any money. They would have to confiscate it off of taxpayers who weren't alive in 1921, and had nothing to do with it. And then they would pay it to people who also weren't around a century ago.

That's how it goes.... The families of the crooks and criminals and govt that hid and covered it up, are still alive, and they benefited from grandpa's crimes years following his crimes.

That's not true at all. Many of the families that were in Oklahoma in the 1920's migrated to California with the Fondas, a large number of the families that are now there were nowhere around and moved to the area to toil at the tremendous Oral Roberts U and other institutions that didn't exist a century ago.

The migration happened in the 1930's. The rest is pure BS

 

[Moonglow]

Ancient History and not relevant to the people of today

Neither is a Confederate statue that is pulled down.

 

[rightwinger]

Tulsa needs to erect a monument detailing what was done.
It is part of their history

 

[bodecea]

while robbing and burning more than 1,200 businesses, homes and churches

Sounds like a BLM gathering. Only it was “white lives matter” back then.

Social justice can go both ways. If you don’t like it, why push it today?

fascinating. Another trump fluffer trying to minimize the massacre.

It was only black people. I would shed more tears for rats.

^ this is a trump fluffer, folks.

 

[Polishprince]

Tulsa needs to erect a monument detailing what was done.
It is part of their history

Should Sanford FL erect a monument to Trayvon as well? Should Baltimore erect one to Freddie Gay?

 

[Moonglow]

Tulsa needs to erect a monument detailing what was done.
It is part of their history

Should Sanford FL erect a monument to Trayvon as well? Should Baltimore erect one to Freddie Gay?

Different set of circumstances in both cases, I know it is hard for you to understand when society needs to mend its fences.

 

[Turtlesoup]

For nearly a century she was denied a voice by a culture of silence. Finally, at the age of 107, Viola Fletcher got a national stage on Wednesday to bear witness to America’s deep history of racial violence.

Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of a massacre that took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 31 May and 1 June 1921 when a white mob attacked the city’s “Black Wall Street”, killing an estimated 300 African Americans while robbing and burning more than 1,200 businesses, homes and churches
She was just seven years old at the time.

For decades the atrocity was actively covered up and wished away. But Fletcher and her 100-year-old brother are seeking reparations and, ahead of the massacre’s centenary, appeared before a House of Representatives judiciary subcommittee considering legal remedies.

....A third survivor, Lessie Evelyn Benningfield Randle, 106, also testified virtually. She said: “It means a lot to me to finally be able to look at you all in the eye and ask you to do the right thing. I have waited so long for justice.”

‘I am seeking justice’: Tulsa massacre survivor, 107, testifies to US Congress

Viola Fletcher is the oldest survivor of the racist attack on the city’s ‘Black Wall Street’ in 1921 that left up to 300 African Americans dead

www.theguardian.com

Just the fact that there are three survivors still living is mind blowing.

And all of them are spouting propaganda........back then, if you were a criminal and protected criminals, you were run out of small towns. Tired of a fabricated twisted history being used to push white guilt.........

 

[bodecea]

Statute of limitations has long run out.

That's why it has to be reparations.

Let us look at what triggered this event
[snipped]
None of which excuses what followed....but it does help make it more understandable.

In fact much more understandable than the black on black and black on white violence which makes the Tulsa incident seem rather tame in comparison....39 blacks in Tulsa were killed along with 11 whites.

How long does it take in Chicago now for blacks to kill 39 other blacks....just a long hot weekend.

There is nothing understandable about the actions of the white mob that torched the black community other than traditionally whites are allowed to walk away unscathed from the wanton crime and destruction of the lives and property of black people. Their behavior is often downplayed to make it seem as if there was no malice or ill intent involved and excuses galore are made for why they should not be punished, just look at how the mob who stormed the Capitol on January 6th was allowed to walk away, no arrests were made at that time even when they were still milling about after curfew.

In the case of the Tulsa race riot, the alleged perpetrator was in custody, but the white mob wanted the sheriff to turn him over so that they could lynch him. That should tell you every you need to know right there. These people weren't interested in justice, they wanted vengeance and blood due to the allegation that a white woman had been assaulted when it was reported that the black teenager Rowlands tripped while entering the elevator and made physical contact with the white female who was operating the lift.

One victim, one alleged perpetrator who was in custody yet for that "offense" they torched the entire black community.

When white racists burn crosses, lynch black people, bomb churches, etc. there isn't just one victim. The act terrorizes the entire black community and that is by design. When law enforcement fails to round up the perpetrators and prosecute them, that adds to the injury. When the courts fails to find them liable or convict them, this injustice further adds to the injury, not just to the individuals involved but to the entire black community and again this is by design and the purpose of these acts. That's why we have hate crime enhancements

Sometimes, a violent crime can be considered both a hate crime and a terrorist attack. An example is the 2015 massacre of nine African Americans at a church in Charleston by white supremacist Dylann Roof. For the most part, though, terrorist attacks are not included in tabulations of hate crimes.​

And unless I'm mistaken the gang violence that occurs in some inner cities that you are attempting to compare to what happened during the Tulsa race riots is "regular" criminal activity for which the perpetrators are charged and prosecuted when they are found. None of the white mob were ever even sought out from what I've read, let alone charged or prosecuted for their acts of violence.

On a side note, the Tulsa race riot took place before the FBI began collecting crime statistics but even if they had been during this time period, this incident would have gone on the record as being caused by blacks with blacks being the perpetrators and the only arrestees, instead of the violent crime victims which they were. Just another example of what I've stated before, that the FBI statistics are only as accurate as the data that goes into their database and that a lot of crime perpetrated against black has never ever formerly been acknowledged let alone justice obtained.

Race riots suck, don't they?

It's why no one likes BLM.

"no one likes BLM"? Oh really?

 

[Desperado]

Tulsa needs to erect a monument detailing what was done.
It is part of their history

That would be interesting when BLM defaces and tears it down.

 

[rightwinger]

Tulsa needs to erect a monument detailing what was done.
It is part of their history

Should Sanford FL erect a monument to Trayvon as well? Should Baltimore erect one to Freddie Gay?

Mea Culpa
Tulsa owes it to their citizens. Unlike your lame....Whatabouts?

Tulsa encouraged and covered up the attack
Nobody was prosecuted, nobody was compensated

 

[rightwinger]

Tulsa needs to erect a monument detailing what was done.
It is part of their history

That would be interesting when BLM defaces and tears it down.

It is white rednecks who shoot up and deface monuments to Civil Rights

 

[Polishprince]

Tulsa needs to erect a monument detailing what was done.
It is part of their history

Should Sanford FL erect a monument to Trayvon as well? Should Baltimore erect one to Freddie Gay?

Mea Culpa
Tulsa owes it to their citizens. Unlike your lame....Whatabouts?

Tulsa encouraged and covered up the attack
Nobody was prosecuted, nobody was compensated

"Tulsa" didn't do a dam thing. Certain residents of the town , who are no longer around to defend themselves, may have.