Outrage as Republican says 1921 Tulsa massacre not motivated by race

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/08/oklahoma-republican-tulsa-race-massacre

#GuardianNews #TulsaMassacre #RaceOutrage #RepublicanStatement #1921Tulsa #OklahomaPolitics #Politics #News

The OK Superintendent of Schools who wanted teachers to say race was not a factor in the 1921 Tulsa Massacre came from a non-profit that advocated for charter schools. He's trying to destroy public education. #Oklahoma #RyanWalters #TulsaMassacre #Koch

Ryan Walters Steps Down From Nonprofit Role That Drew Scrutiny https://oklahomawatch.org/2023/01/08/ryan-walters-steps-down-from-nonprofit-role-that-drew-scrutiny/

Oklahoma superintendent falsely claims Tulsa massacre wasn’t about race

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsa-massacre-ryan-walters-race-b2371449.html

#OklahomaSuperintendent #TulsaMassacre #Race #FalseClaims #HistoricalDenial #RacialInjustice #Politics #News

On a side note, given that hatred in America is growing ever more open and violent, specifically against the 🌈, in both skin color and sexual orientation...

AND

Petty tyrants are playing state level "fuck you" games...

AND

No one seems to remember history worth a shit...

... I predict a #Kristallnacht or #TulsaMassacre -like event happening soonish there. American media will then immediately ask "How could this happen here?" Possibly followed by Balkanization.

Stay safe!

On a side note, with hatred in AmeriKKKa growing ever more open and violent, specifically against the rainbow, in both skin color and sexual orientation...

AND

Petty tyrants playing state level "fuck you" games...

AND

No one seems to remember history worth shit...

... I predict a #Kristallnacht, or even #TulsaMassacre, -like event happening soon(ish) there.

AmeriKKKan media will then immediately ask "How could this happen here?"

Possibly followed by Balkanization.

Stay safe!

Today in Labor History May 31, 1921: The Tulsa Race Riot. From May 31 through June 1, deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans in the worst race riot in U.S. history. The violence began in response to a false report in the Tulsa Tribune accusing a black man of attacking a white girl in an elevator. The headline made the front page. However, there was an accompanying editorial that called for a lynching. White Tulsans went to the African American community of Greenwood (the Black Wall Street) and started shooting black people. They looted and burned 40 square blocks, destroying over 1,400 African American homes, hospitals, schools, and churches. Ten thousand became homeless and had to spend the winter of 1921 living in tents.

Many African American residents fought back, including veterans of World War One. This attempt at self-preservation prompted the deputized whites and National Guardsmen to arrest 6,000 black residents. Furthermore, they bombarded the community from the air in what was likely the first aerial bombardment of mainland U.S. residents. At least a dozen planes, some carrying police, circled the community and dropped burning balls of turpentine. They also shot at residents from the air. Many of the whites were members of the Klan, such as W. Tate Brady, who had also participated in the tarring and feathering of members of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1917.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #TulsaMassacre #riot #racism #pogrom #IWW #police #PoliceBrutality #massacre #greenwood #BlackWallStreet #kkk #klan

#TulsaMassacre #Science
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2023-04-12/scientist-progress-in-identifying-tulsa-massacre-victims

Two survivors of the 1921 massacre of black people in the US city of Tulsa have been granted Ghanaian citizenship.

Viola Fletcher, 108 and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, 102, are two of three living survivors.

About 300 black residents of Greenwood - a prosperous town then known as "Black Wall Street" - were murdered and their homes and businesses destroyed by a mob of white people.

#TulsaMassacre #Greenwood #Ghana #BlackHistory

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64822932

If you know nothing of the Tulsa Massacre, it's time you did. Please read about it and push for Black History to be taught in our schools.
#TulsaMassacre #BlackHistoryMonth

https://twitter.com/celtic_chick/status/1630045657204510721?t=tj1x76R3z83wQjWxefhS3w&s=09

https://apnews.com/article/forensics-massacres-7939fdd726723e2477b0233e7bb4dc45

You can't bury America's appalling past and expect it to stay buried. #TulsaMassacre #whiteterrorism #Greenwood #BlackWallStreet

RT @marlonw@twitter.com

The Steps To Nowhere

N. Detroit Ave. & John Hope Franklin Blvd.

This is all that remains of a block of homes that were destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre – Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

An utterly haunting place.
#Tulsa #tulsamassacre #remember

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/marlonw/status/1553560082922749953

RT @reparazz@twitter.com

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 16 años antes del bombardeo de Gernika. La historiografía oficial de EEUU silenció durante décadas este episodio de muerte y destrucción desde el aire. Hoy, 100 años después, #Greenwood recuerda a los cientos de afroamericanos asesinados. #TulsaMassacre

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/reparazz/status/1399608188744437764

RT @emilylhauser@twitter.com

of Black rights.

At every point in this story, you have adults who were alive in & formed by the events & narratives just 40-50 years earlier, if not far less.

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The past is not past. #ReparationsNow #TulsaMassacre
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emilylhauser/status/1399418307493646340

RT @emilylhauser@twitter.com

On the #TulsaMassacre: Context, history, & the ever-present past:

The Civil War ended 250 years of white Americans' brutal enslavement of Black people. World War One broke out just 49 years later. Some 350,000 Black Americans served in WWI; that they came home to lynchings
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emilylhauser/status/1399417137631006723

RT @BerniceKing
Today marks the 99th anniversary of the #TulsaMassacre. 400+ years of severe trauma. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/29/human-rights-watch-calls-tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-century-after-violence/