Ninety-seven years ago today, the first bombs ever dropped on American soil fell
By The Black Wall St Times on June 4, 2018
Ninety-seven years ago today, the first bombs ever dropped on American soil fell on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, OK.
Greenwood ― the most preeminent black community in the United States at the time ― was home to 10,000 residents and contained scores of black-owned businesses, hotels, restaurants, law offices, doctors offices, movie theaters, and more. Following an incident between a young black man and a young white woman in a downtown elevator, many of the nearly 3,200 Klan members in Tulsa and countless more white vigilantes armed themselves with firearms and marched north to Greenwood.
They opened fire in the streets, set businesses and homes ablaze, and dropped napalm-like bombs from fertilizer planes flying overhead.
With the help of the National Guard and the local police force, they arrested nearly 6,000 black residents and forced them into temporary internment camps in the Brady Theater ― now a popular Tulsa music venue ― while their thriving community was systematically leveled. Many of those imprisoned were starved, beaten and killed in the same space the city hosts jubilant concerts in today.
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Great find, incredible lady! 
p.s. She said she's 95, despite the official title. 
Thanks so much for passing this on!
Tulsa Race Riot survivor, 103, to help kick off new NPR podcast series
Olivia Hooker, 103, will be a guest on the first episode of ‘Last Witness,’ which premieres Thursday
By Tim Stanley Tulsa World May 30, 2018 Updated Jun 1, 2018
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A 103-year-old survivor of the Tulsa Race Riot will be featured on the debut episode of a new NPR podcast series that launches Thursday.
Dr. Olivia Hooker, who was 6 years old at the time of the 1921 riot, tells her story as part of “Last Witness,” a new series from NPR and Radio Diaries.
The series is billed as “featuring interviews with the only surviving witnesses to major historical events.”
The series can be found at radiodiaries.org, or through other podcast providers.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/tulsa-race-riot-survivor-to-help-kick-off-new-npr/article_a1c329e8-6be2-56ce-a28e-1493878be99b.html
And it's not like she just survived at her very advanced age, but she's both a professor and psychologist and is still able to tell her important story! 
A difficult time for Americans during Wilson and Harding's administrations. Tulsa is a national horror and disgrace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
West Virginia coal miners displaying a bomb that was dropped during the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Main Street, Matewan, WV
https://www.wvminewars.com/
The tensions never quite dissipated. And on the night of Mother’s Day in 1985, the Philadelphia police arrived at MOVE’s Osage Avenue address. They had arrest warrants for four members, with charges from parole violations to owning illegal guns. The city’s first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode, had dubbed them terrorists, as did his police chief, Gregore J. Sambor. Their attempt to execute the warrants led to a firefight, police said. While Ramona says she can’t definitively remember if “her family” fired shots, she said the show of force was still one-sided: “How could it even be a firefight with the weaponry they came out there with?” As machine gun ammunition rattled, Sambor ordered the use of two “entry devices,” one-pound bombs dropped by helicopter — a lethal combination of explosive water gels.
https://www.ozy.com/politics-and-power/phillys-forgotten-massacre-when-black-activists-were-bombed-by-the-police/78743
US police are known globally for their corruption and racism and lawlessness, but mostly their known for their violence.
And of course, this:
And at the time, the Puerto Rican government had already adopted a law to muzzle the Nationalists. It was called the Gag Law of 1948, which made it a crime to even advocate independence or the overthrow of US rule in Puerto Rico. And so, as a result, the governor, Marín, Muñoz Marín, called in the National Guard. Two towns were bombed by the National Guard: Jayuya and Utuado.
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Between a thousand, two thousand people were arrested. Anybody who had any kind of political leanings toward independence or was seen as a leader was thrown into jail. And for years afterwards, it was impossible for supporters of independence to get jobs in the government. It really was an enormous repression and crackdown that occurred in the years following.
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/29/puerto_rico_marks_60th_anniversary_of
And that's just what was done deliberately. It doesn't included the hundreds of thousands killed by cancer related to nuclear tests ("New research suggests that the hidden cost of developing nuclear weapons were far larger than previous estimates, with radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973"), or the inmates and poor people deliberately exposed to WMDs to help weapons manufacturers develop their products. It doesn't include the countless dead in US prisons, put their by a corrupt and racist justice system.
