I lived almost all my life within 10 miles of #BlackWallStreet. I had #Oklahoma history as a required class in high school. I never heard of the Tulsa Race Riot until I was in my 30s and there was that episode of The Watchmen on HBO.

This is not even CRT, it's just historic facts. And you cannot teach about the Tulsa Race Riot without talking about RACE!

#BlackWallStreet #news #Oklahoma #Tulsa
Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-race-racist-massacre-lawsuit-faa7f699092b40c7ea568f0e8459c979

You really can’t make this stuff up.

#Oklahoma #Republican state #education official claims the #TulsaRaceMassacre of 1921 was “not racially motivated.”

The infamous #massacre happened when white #racists murdered hundreds of black folk in what was one of the wealthiest black communities in the #USA at the time. The neighborhood the violent white extremists destroyed was called #BlackWallStreet.

#GOP #extremism #politics #uspol #uspolitics

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

The burning of #Tulsa’s #BlackWallStreet was a defining moment in #UShistory — but its story didn’t end there
https://19thnews.org/2023/06/tulsa-greenwood-victor-luckerson-built-from-the-fire-book/
In his new book, ‘Built From the Fire,’ #journalist and author Victor Luckerson examines the legacy of the #Greenwooddistrict, "the neighborhood that refused to be erased."

In Tulsa, an ‘incredible American story’ of Black resilience is finally recognized

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/in-tulsa-incredible-american-story-black-resilience-finally-recognized

#TulsaRaceMassacre #Tulsa #TulsaRaceMassacre1921 #resilience #reconciliation #BlackWallStreet #Oklahoma #Greenwood #BlackMastodon #BlackLivesMatter

On this day in 1921, the beginning of the worst race riot in American history. 2 days of violence destroyed the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, nicknamed the "#BlackWallStreet". White supremacists destroyed multiple businesses and killed 300 black people. It all happened after a black man was falsely accused of sexually assaulting a white woman.

History must be taught, no matter how brutal or embarrassing it is, so that it never happens again.

#TulsaRaceMassacre

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

#OnThisDay, May 31, 1921, the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street”, was attacked by a white mob that burned the neighborhood, killing between 100 and 300 black people and injuring hundreds more (depicted in Watchmen, 2019)

#TV #Television #Watchmen #BlackWallStreet

#OnThisDay, May 31, 1921, the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street”, was attacked by a white mob that burned the neighborhood, killing between 100 and 300 black people and injuring hundreds more (depicted in Watchmen, 2019)

#TV #Television #Watchmen #BlackWallStreet

5/31/1921 was one of this country's most horrifying episodes of racist mob violence. Hundreds of Black residents were killed in the #TulsaRaceMassacre. Survivors lost their livelihoods as a white mob set fire to 35 blocks of the #Greenwood District (aka #BlackWallStreet). 1,256 homes were destroyed. In recent years, historians & descendants of survivors have worked hard to revive memories of this all but forgotten chapter.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1178773425/tulsa-race-massacre-ramifications-of-what-happened-in-1921-can-still-be-seen-tod

#history #race #racism #RacisminAmerica #Tulsa

https://thenewworldspost.wordpress.com/2023/05/23/lizzo-pays-powerful-tribute-to-black-wall-street-at-tulsa-concert/

#BlackWallStreet #Greenwood
#Lizzo #Tribute
#TulsaRaceMassacre

Why does it feel like what is happening to #blackTwitter and other's right now is like what happened to #blackWallStreet when "they" burned it down?

And why do lot's of people now think that #blueSky will this time solve these problems when it's build by the same centralized minds that came up with the last single point of failure sh** in the first place?

Idolatry?
Monotheism?

Actually .. please .. don't join the #fediVerse! We don't wan't a seat at the table, we want something different.

RT @TheBWSTimes
The US Congress has been formally petitioned to recognize Black Wall Street's history and commemorate it with a National Monument. #GreenwoodDistrict #BlackWallStreet #NationalMonument https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2023/03/13/black-wall-street-community-lobbies-us-congress-for-national-monument/

In today’s edition of American History Few of Us Learned: the Greenwood Massacre of 1921. 35 blocks, an untold number of lives and an incalculable amount of generational wealth, all destroyed in 24 hours. I was in Tulsa today and visited the Greenwood Rising Project. So much work left to do, but a wonderful space to reflect. #Greenwood #GreenwoodRising #BlackWallStreet #AmericanHistory

Tulsa race massacre https://g.co/kgs/4Aie5j
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Tulsa Historical Society & Museum https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/
Three survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre receive $1 million ... https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/19/us/tulsa-massacre-survivors-1-million-donation/index.html
#BlackHistoryMonth #blackmastodon
#blackwallstreet #tulsaOklahoma
At the time one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States.The attackers
burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood

As unbelievable as it may seem: Almost nobody in Europe has ever heard about #blackwallstreet or the bombing of Tulsa in 1921. The US government had the army bomb black quarters in Tulsa, because they had become too successful economically - and that could/should/must not be.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/30/1000923192/3-documentaries-you-should-watch-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre

Survivors of #BlackWallStreet Massacre Challenge #Tulsa’s Atonement Strategy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-17/black-wall-street-survivors-challenge-tulsa-reparations-strategy

@majorlinux i claimed a spot on Greenwood Bank in hopes of this.... but i doubt it. Decentralized #BlackWallStreet sounds like a great idea!

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

When someone else doing well without hurting anyone else threatens your superiority, it means you are most certainly not superior.
RT RepJeffries@twitter.com: Black prosperity is a threat to white supremacy.
https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1399769976312143875

RT @RepJeffries@twitter.com

Black prosperity is a threat to white supremacy.

So they massacred hundreds of successful African-American families.

And burned #BlackWallStreet down to the ground.

Tell the story.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1399769976312143875