Tulsa’s new Black mayor proposes $100M trust to ‘repair’ impact of 1921 Massacre

[1srelluc]

MSN

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.

The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma’s second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in the once-thriving district of North Tulsa that was destroyed by a white mob.

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Nichols said he does not use the term reparations, which he calls politically charged, characterizing his sweeping plan instead as a “road to repair.”

“For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city’s history,” Nichols said Sunday after receiving a standing ovation from several hundred people. “The massacre was hidden from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway built to choke off economic vitality and the perpetual underinvestment of local, state and federal governments.

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“The Greenwood District at its height was a center of commerce,” Nichols said in a telephone interview. “So what was lost was not just something from North Tulsa or the Black community. It actually robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have rivaled anywhere else in the world.”

Nichols’ proposal follows an executive order he signed earlier this year recognizing June 1 as Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, an official city holiday. Events Sunday in the Greenwood District included a picnic for families, worship services and an evening candlelight vigil.

Nichols also realizes the current national political climate, particularly President Trump’s sweeping assault on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, poses challenging political crosswinds.

“The fact that this lines up with a broader national conversation is a tough environment,” Nichols admitted, “but it doesn’t change the work we have to do.”

Jacqueline Weary, is a granddaughter of massacre survivor John R. Emerson, Sr., who owned a hotel and cab company in Greenwood that were destroyed. She acknowledged the political difficulty of giving cash payments to descendants. But at the same time, she wondered how much of her family’s wealth was lost in the violence.

“If Greenwood was still there, my grandfather would still have his hotel,” said Weary, 65. “It rightfully was our inheritance, and it was literally taken away.”

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In Tulsa, there are only two living survivors of the Race Massacre, both of whom are 110 years old: Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher. The women, both of whom were in attendance on Sunday, received direct financial compensation from both a Tulsa-based nonprofit and a New York-based philanthropic organization, but have not received any recompense from the city or state.

Let's not call it reparations. Let's call it a road to repair.

Yea, that'll fool 'em.

Boy, he sure didn't waste any time going for the grift vote did he!

Sigh, I guess Tulsa won't be a "fine town" for long now.

 

[Polishprince]

What a load of shit, really.

The Mongols sacked my home town of Krakow and killed many Poles in 1241.

Should they donate money to repair the damage of the past?

The idea should be to move on.

 

[Quasar44]

MSN

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.

The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma’s second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in the once-thriving district of North Tulsa that was destroyed by a white mob.

..

Nichols said he does not use the term reparations, which he calls politically charged, characterizing his sweeping plan instead as a “road to repair.”

“For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city’s history,” Nichols said Sunday after receiving a standing ovation from several hundred people. “The massacre was hidden from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway built to choke off economic vitality and the perpetual underinvestment of local, state and federal governments.

..

“The Greenwood District at its height was a center of commerce,” Nichols said in a telephone interview. “So what was lost was not just something from North Tulsa or the Black community. It actually robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have rivaled anywhere else in the world.”

Nichols’ proposal follows an executive order he signed earlier this year recognizing June 1 as Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, an official city holiday. Events Sunday in the Greenwood District included a picnic for families, worship services and an evening candlelight vigil.

Nichols also realizes the current national political climate, particularly President Trump’s sweeping assault on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, poses challenging political crosswinds.

“The fact that this lines up with a broader national conversation is a tough environment,” Nichols admitted, “but it doesn’t change the work we have to do.”

Jacqueline Weary, is a granddaughter of massacre survivor John R. Emerson, Sr., who owned a hotel and cab company in Greenwood that were destroyed. She acknowledged the political difficulty of giving cash payments to descendants. But at the same time, she wondered how much of her family’s wealth was lost in the violence.

“If Greenwood was still there, my grandfather would still have his hotel,” said Weary, 65. “It rightfully was our inheritance, and it was literally taken away.”

..

In Tulsa, there are only two living survivors of the Race Massacre, both of whom are 110 years old: Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher. The women, both of whom were in attendance on Sunday, received direct financial compensation from both a Tulsa-based nonprofit and a New York-based philanthropic organization, but have not received any recompense from the city or state.

Let's not call it reparations. Let's call it a road to repair.

Yea, that'll fool 'em.

Boy, he sure didn't waste any time going for the grift vote did he!

Sigh, I guess Tulsa won't be a "fine town" for long now.

More super corrupt black subhumans trying to steal money though racial injustice

 

[Quasar44]

What a load of shit, really.

The Mongols sacked my home town of Krakow and killed many Poles in 1241.

Should they donate money to repair the damage of the past?

The idea should be to move on.

Omg , I had some Jewish relatives from krakow !!

Can you tell me more about it

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

It's a private trust. I don't care what they do with their own money, as long as they aren't using taxpayer dollars on it.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

MSN

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.

The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma’s second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in the once-thriving district of North Tulsa that was destroyed by a white mob.

..

Nichols said he does not use the term reparations, which he calls politically charged, characterizing his sweeping plan instead as a “road to repair.”

“For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city’s history,” Nichols said Sunday after receiving a standing ovation from several hundred people. “The massacre was hidden from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway built to choke off economic vitality and the perpetual underinvestment of local, state and federal governments.

..

“The Greenwood District at its height was a center of commerce,” Nichols said in a telephone interview. “So what was lost was not just something from North Tulsa or the Black community. It actually robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have rivaled anywhere else in the world.”

Nichols’ proposal follows an executive order he signed earlier this year recognizing June 1 as Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, an official city holiday. Events Sunday in the Greenwood District included a picnic for families, worship services and an evening candlelight vigil.

Nichols also realizes the current national political climate, particularly President Trump’s sweeping assault on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, poses challenging political crosswinds.

“The fact that this lines up with a broader national conversation is a tough environment,” Nichols admitted, “but it doesn’t change the work we have to do.”

Jacqueline Weary, is a granddaughter of massacre survivor John R. Emerson, Sr., who owned a hotel and cab company in Greenwood that were destroyed. She acknowledged the political difficulty of giving cash payments to descendants. But at the same time, she wondered how much of her family’s wealth was lost in the violence.

“If Greenwood was still there, my grandfather would still have his hotel,” said Weary, 65. “It rightfully was our inheritance, and it was literally taken away.”

..

In Tulsa, there are only two living survivors of the Race Massacre, both of whom are 110 years old: Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher. The women, both of whom were in attendance on Sunday, received direct financial compensation from both a Tulsa-based nonprofit and a New York-based philanthropic organization, but have not received any recompense from the city or state.

Let's not call it reparations. Let's call it a road to repair.

Yea, that'll fool 'em.

Boy, he sure didn't waste any time going for the grift vote did he!

Sigh, I guess Tulsa won't be a "fine town" for long now.

The Afram boom was created by dealing drugs. The Whites were right in putting an end to it, which was corrupting their own young people.

Proof of how retarded the media are, despite their dishonest claim to being "educated," is their dysfunctional usage of "Nichols' proposal" instead of "Nichols's proposal." The Eweniversity's language-benders are the ones who started that nonsense.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

What a load of shit, really.

The Mongols sacked my home town of Krakow and killed many Poles in 1241.

Early Prevention of Afram Supremacy

You're taking the feralphiles' side if you equate concerned White citizens with the subhuman Mongols. Don't be tricked by this sneaky debating tactic.

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

It's a private trust. I don't care what they do with their own money, as long as they aren't using taxpayer dollars on it.

Exactly.

What a load of shit, really.

The Mongols sacked my home town of Krakow and killed many Poles in 1241.

Should they donate money to repair the damage of the past?

The idea should be to move on.

Put your money where your mouth is and start a Private Trust.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

It was a shoot-out.
Both sides were armed and shooting.
I can't find reliable numbers on the number of people killed.
But there were both Black and White people killed.
It should not be called a massacre if there were people on both sides who were killed.

 

[MarathonMike]

"Private Trust". Yeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh. OoooooooKayyyy

 

[cnm]

They should have been grateful for their lynching then and should shut the **** up about it now.





Did I get that right for MAGA Crackers?

 

[MarathonMike]

They should have been grateful for their lynching then and should shut the **** up about it now.





Did I get that right for MAGA Crackers?

Foreigner clucking about US history he doesn't understand.

 

[cnm]

Foreigner clucking about US history he doesn't understand.

It really is so complicated, isn't it? You know, racial oppression, lynchings and such like.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

If whites in Tulsa don't like this kind of fleecing, they can move. Let Tulsa become another failed black city.

 

[Corvet]

There goes more Dem voters

 

[whitehall]

The democrat party is pretty much broke and can't raise a dime but the mayor of Tulsa wants to pick the pockets of taxpayers to the tune of 100 million to buy votes in some apology mission about a tragic event that happened over 100 years ago. No wonder they lost the freaking election.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

MSN

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.

The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma’s second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in the once-thriving district of North Tulsa that was destroyed by a white mob.

..

Nichols said he does not use the term reparations, which he calls politically charged, characterizing his sweeping plan instead as a “road to repair.”

“For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city’s history,” Nichols said Sunday after receiving a standing ovation from several hundred people. “The massacre was hidden from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway built to choke off economic vitality and the perpetual underinvestment of local, state and federal governments.

..

“The Greenwood District at its height was a center of commerce,” Nichols said in a telephone interview. “So what was lost was not just something from North Tulsa or the Black community. It actually robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have rivaled anywhere else in the world.”

Nichols’ proposal follows an executive order he signed earlier this year recognizing June 1 as Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, an official city holiday. Events Sunday in the Greenwood District included a picnic for families, worship services and an evening candlelight vigil.

Nichols also realizes the current national political climate, particularly President Trump’s sweeping assault on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, poses challenging political crosswinds.

“The fact that this lines up with a broader national conversation is a tough environment,” Nichols admitted, “but it doesn’t change the work we have to do.”

Jacqueline Weary, is a granddaughter of massacre survivor John R. Emerson, Sr., who owned a hotel and cab company in Greenwood that were destroyed. She acknowledged the political difficulty of giving cash payments to descendants. But at the same time, she wondered how much of her family’s wealth was lost in the violence.

“If Greenwood was still there, my grandfather would still have his hotel,” said Weary, 65. “It rightfully was our inheritance, and it was literally taken away.”

..

In Tulsa, there are only two living survivors of the Race Massacre, both of whom are 110 years old: Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher. The women, both of whom were in attendance on Sunday, received direct financial compensation from both a Tulsa-based nonprofit and a New York-based philanthropic organization, but have not received any recompense from the city or state.

Let's not call it reparations. Let's call it a road to repair.

Yea, that'll fool 'em.

Boy, he sure didn't waste any time going for the grift vote did he!

Sigh, I guess Tulsa won't be a "fine town" for long now.

He's learning from the US AID scammers to get a ton of money and get 3% of it to the poh people.

 

[fncceo]

Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921

Does he HAVE $100 million? Or is he going to ask me for the money?

 

[Papageorgio]

It's a private trust. I don't care what they do with their own money, as long as they aren't using taxpayer dollars on it.

I agree, do what you want with your money and government money doesn’t belong in such spending.

 

[martybegan]

It's a private trust. I don't care what they do with their own money, as long as they aren't using taxpayer dollars on it.

Reading into the article you get some snippets of what is being planned further.

Tulsa's new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.

Nichols said the proposal would not require city council approval, although the council would need to authorize the transfer of any city property to the trust.

Assume some NGO type public funding will end up in the "private trust", who's board members will more than likely be appointed by politicians.