Tulsa race riots

[conan]

Interesting.

[Jezcoe]

@conan

Now I’m reading up on History network.

I find this statement interesting.

Tulsa was also a highly segregated city: Most of the city’s 10,000 Black residents lived in a neighborhood called Greenwood, which included a thriving business district sometimes referred to as the Black Wall Street.

Can anyone guess what that is?

Blacks with guns showing up in automobiles, thriving business district etc. And that is decades before goverment assistance.

That might be a good topic in itself.

Tulsa Race Massacre - Facts, Photos, Coverup

And then that wealth burned down by a mob of white people. Wealth and a neighborhood that never recovered from it.

Yeah… it would be a super interesting topic.

[WuWei]

@TheRedComet

Being armed wasn’t and isn’t a crime. They did nothing wrong by bearing arms.

Agreed.

@TheRedComet

Considering the reality of their world, they had no choice but to be armed.

I don’t know if I agree.

[Jezcoe]

@conan

Yes…so when you show up armed don’t cry if you get shot.

So… showing up armed is all of a sudden a bad thing?

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

And then that wealth burned down by a mob of white people. Wealth and a neighborhood that never recovered from it.

Yeah… it would be a super interesting topic.

I agree, especially given the parallels to Summer of Love.

[JayJay]

Wait…so a white man was lynched once…therefore the blacks in Tulsa had nothing about which to be alarmed?

Is this where you are going?

[FloridaYankee]

@WuWei

@JayJay

Can anyone even imagine what it was like to live in a time when your life could be ended by a brutal lynching pretty much by whim? And often with the authorities of the day either turning a blind eye or else endorsing it?

And then when you think it’s about to happen, people suggest that if you try to go do something about it as opposed to just trusting those same authorities, this somehow proves you “weren’t all that innocent”?

It’s quite unbelievable to me, actually.

Even more so when the blacks actually DID trust those authorities after having a chat with them.

It wasn’t just black people.

Shooting a taxi driver and whistling at a white woman aren’t really in the same category however. Both illegal lynchings, no argument on that part.

[WuWei]

@TheRedComet

Being armed wasn’t and isn’t a crime. They did nothing wrong by bearing arms.

Considering the reality of their world, they had no choice but to be armed.

Have you read this?

Negroes-Gun-Black-Tradition-Arms/dp/161614839X

Fascinating.

[conan]

Not to change the subject.

Same theory…if you show up to overthrown the goverment don’t cry if you get shot.

Now where have I heard that before…Oh yeah Ashli Babbitt.

[Jezcoe]

@WuWei

@Jezcoe

And then that wealth burned down by a mob of white people. Wealth and a neighborhood that never recovered from it.

Yeah… it would be a super interesting topic.

I agree, especially given the parallels to Summer of Love.

There are very few things that are parallel to Tulsa.

Wilmington 1898 would be one. Negro Fort in 1816 would be another.

[TheRedComet]

I’m definitely gonna pick it up now that I’ve finally finished “The German Army in World War II.”

Haven’t had a lot of free time lately so that book took me forever to read.

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

@WuWei

@Jezcoe

And then that wealth burned down by a mob of white people. Wealth and a neighborhood that never recovered from it.

Yeah… it would be a super interesting topic.

I agree, especially given the parallels to Summer of Love.

There are very few things that are parallel to Tulsa.

Wilmington 1898 would be one. Negro Fort in 1816 would be another.

Summer of Love 2020

[WuWei]

@TheRedComet

I’m definitely gonna pick it up now that I’ve finally finished “The German Army in World War II.”

Haven’t had a lot of free time lately so that book took me forever to read.

One of the best non-fiction books I’ve ever read.

[conan]

Yes…but do you have to be Black for that to happen?

[DougBH]

It is telling that the woke have to go back 100 years to stir up their outrage.
No, nobody “forgot” about the Tulsa race riots. It was just not seen as a center point defining our culture until the recent desire to re center the important aspects of American culture.

There is no one left to blame for that event, it happened a hundred years ago. That won’t stop some from blaming the innocent.

Imagine a “woke” history where we decided that the important thing was the higher crime rates by blacks…and that they all had to be blamed. Come to think of it, the woke and the KKK have a lot in common.

[Jezcoe]

@WuWei

@Jezcoe

@WuWei

@Jezcoe

And then that wealth burned down by a mob of white people. Wealth and a neighborhood that never recovered from it.

Yeah… it would be a super interesting topic.

I agree, especially given the parallels to Summer of Love.

There are very few things that are parallel to Tulsa.

Wilmington 1898 would be one. Negro Fort in 1816 would be another.

Summer of Love 2020

I know that one would like to draw a parallel from white people going in and busting up what black people have built to 2020… but it isn’t the same thing.

Maybe the Watts riots would be a closer example.

[FloridaYankee]

@conan

Not to change the subject.

Same theory…if you show up to overthrown the goverment don’t cry if you get shot.

Now where have I heard that before…Oh yeah Ashli Babbitt.

Carrying while black was their crime. They were leaving peacefully. I’d say they were pretty dang innocent.

[conan]

@TheRedComet

Being armed wasn’t and isn’t a crime. They did nothing wrong by bearing arms.

I don’t care. If a bunch of Whites show up armed in Harlem…I’m not going to cry if they get shot.

Sorry…you don’t get to play this double standards with me.

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

I know that one would like to draw a parallel from white people going in and busting up what black people have built to 2020… but it isn’t the same thing.

Black people went in and busted up what black people built.

It’s parallels.

[Jezcoe]

@WuWei

@Jezcoe

I know that one would like to draw a parallel from white people going in and busting up what black people have built to 2020… but it isn’t the same thing.

Black people went in and busted up what black people built.

Yeah… it was a riot.

Not comparable to Tulsa.