1921 Tulsa Massacre WAS A BIG LIE

[MizMolly]

The POINT is that it was not a "massacre," and to characterize it as one is a lie. It was a "race riot" which turned out badly for the outnumbered and outgunned Blacks. Seems like the local Authorities could have handled it much better, but second-guessing from a hundred years later is rather lame.

There are no reparations for times when you get into a fight and lose. It was regrettable for a number of reasons but one must move on.

Look up the definition of massacre, it certainly was in Tulsa.

 

[YoursTruly]

The POINT is that it was not a "massacre," and to characterize it as one is a lie. It was a "race riot" which turned out badly for the outnumbered and outgunned Blacks. Seems like the local Authorities could have handled it much better, but second-guessing from a hundred years later is rather lame.

There are no reparations for times when you get into a fight and lose. It was regrettable for a number of reasons but one must move on.

Look up the definition of massacre, it certainly was in Tulsa.

Someone can massacre 2 people.

 

[Penelope]

Fact is, there's two sides of this. One sides is telling at least a partial truth. The other side is probably telling the partial truth. We only know what we're told. None of us have a crystal ball to see actually what happened?
Was the woman telling the truth? Or was the young man telling the truth? Were both of them lying just a little, with enough truth to make their stories seem factual?
Who knows?

So then, we pick a side to believe and just go with it.
Question is, why do we choose to believe one sides over the other, when all we have to go on is what we're told?

The woman did not press charges that said he raped her. Why?? They suspected he rode the elevator everyday to use the black restroom. I don't know what happened in the elevator, but were they lovers and had a spat, or did someone tell her to allege rape. No one knows , but the woman did not press charges.