Tulsa race riots

[WuWei]

@FloridaYankee

Carrying while black was their crime.

It wasn’t the cops.

[conan]

@Jezcoe

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

And it seems Blacks are doing it today…so your point is?

It was wrong then as it is now.

[WuWei]

@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.

Very much so. Are you blinded by color?

[Jezcoe]

@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.

Recognizing history is stirring up outrage now.

C’Mon!!!

[conan]

No…I’m just saying if you’re prepared to get in gun fight don’t go ■■■■■■■ crying to me if you get shot.

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

Recognizing history is stirring up outrage now.

Revising history very much can be.

[TheRedComet]

Not at all. Governments throughout history have no qualms about crushing people.

Hell it wasn’t too many years after Tulsa that the US government commanded the Army to brutally quell the Bonus Army protests. Mostly white veterans of the Great War (there were blacks, Natives, and Asian veterans there too, but the vast majority were white) simply asking for what they were owed a little early to survive the Great Depression.

They used tear gas. They gassed veterans who had survived, in some cases, gas attacks by the Germans during the Great War. They used armored cars and cavalry units. They beat them and burned down their shanties with their possessions in them.

Learning about that event shook my faith in several famous US commanders of WWII. Namely Patton and MacArthur, who played important roles in that horrible event.

[FloridaYankee]

@WuWei

@FloridaYankee

Carrying while black was their crime.

It wasn’t the cops.

“Crime”

[WuWei]

@conan

No…I’m just saying if you’re prepared to get in gun fight don’t go ■■■■■■■ crying to me if you get shot.

Stopping a lynching is a worthy cause.

[DougBH]

No one forgot about the Tulsa race riot. It is brought up every now and then. It certainly wasn’t recently new to me.
So lets not pretend. It just isn’t the center of American history in 2021. We had gone long past that until some decided to become outraged anew about it.

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

@PurpnGold

I’m not surprised, sadly.Even Being accused of whistling at a white woman was a death sentence for a kid.

Evidence?

Wait, you don’t know?

[Jezcoe]

@WuWei

@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.

Very much so. Are you blinded by color?

Let us put likes with likes.

I would categorize 2020 with things like the Watts riot and the 1968 DNC Riots in Chicago.

Tulsa I would place with Wilmington and the like. It is about the intent and goals.

But I am getting bored with this so I will let you disagree and be done.

[conan]

@FloridaYankee

They were leaving peacefully

That is what 1 person claimed. Where you there?

[Jezcoe]

@conan

No…I’m just saying if you’re prepared to get in gun fight don’t go ■■■■■■■ crying to me if you get shot.

Being armed does not equal being prepared to get into a gun fight.

[Jezcoe]

@WuWei

@Jezcoe

Recognizing history is stirring up outrage now.

Revising history very much can be.

What is being revised here?

[FloridaYankee]

@DougBH

No one forgot about the Tulsa race riot. It is brought up every now and then. It certainly wasn’t recently new to me.
So lets not pretend. It just isn’t the center of American history in 2021. We had gone long past that until some decided to become outraged anew about it.

Nah, just people marking thy100th anniversary. The only new outrage is from people that didn’t know about it. There are a lot of them.

[Jezcoe]

@TheRedComet

Not at all. Governments throughout history have no qualms about crushing people.

Hell it wasn’t too many years after Tulsa that the US government commanded the Army to brutally quell the Bonus Army protests. Mostly white veterans of the Great War (there were blacks, Natives, and Asian veterans there too, but the vast majority were white) simply asking for what they were owed a little early to survive the Great Depression.

They used tear gas. They gassed veterans who had survived, in some cases, gas attacks by the Germans during the Great War. They used armored cars and cavalry units. They beat them and burned down their shanties with their possessions in them.

Learning about that event shook my faith in several famous US commanders of WWII. Namely Patton and MacArthur, who played important roles in that horrible event.

Do you know anything about the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921? That one is super crazy.

[DisturbedGuy]

@WuWei

@moonshine

up until very recently the riot was mostly forgotten

That’s horse feathers.

No it’s not. It sure wasn’t taught when I was in school.

[Jezcoe]

@DougBH

No one forgot about the Tulsa race riot. It is brought up every now and then. It certainly wasn’t recently new to me.
So lets not pretend. It just isn’t the center of American history in 2021. We had gone long past that until some decided to become outraged anew about it.

Commemorating things on a centennial basis is a pretty standard thing.

Why is Tulsa different?

[Borgia_dude]

@DougBH

No one forgot about the Tulsa race riot. It is brought up every now and then. It certainly wasn’t recently new to me.
So lets not pretend. It just isn’t the center of American history in 2021. We had gone long past that until some decided to become outraged anew about it.

Interestingly enough, it wasn’t even mentioned in Oklahoma history classes until recently.