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In Tulsa. Home of the single worst incident of racial violence in our country's history.
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More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and as many as 6,000 black residents were interned at large facilities, many for several days.[16][17] The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead, but the American Red Cross declined to provide an estimate. A 2001 state commission examination of events was able to confirm 36 dead, 26 black and 10 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates and other records.[1]:114 The commission gave overall estimates from 75100 to 150300 dead.[1]:13, 23
The massacre began over Memorial Day weekend after 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a black shoeshiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, the 17-year-old white elevator operator of the nearby Drexel Building. He was taken into custody. A subsequent gathering of angry local whites outside the courthouse where Rowland was being held, and the spread of rumors he had been lynched, alarmed the local black population, some of whom arrived at the courthouse armed. Shots were fired and 12 people were killed: 10 white and 2 black.[18] As news of these deaths spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded.[2] White rioters rampaged through the black neighborhood that night and morning killing men and burning and looting stores and homes, and only around noon the next day Oklahoma National Guard troops managed to get control of the situation by declaring martial law. About 10,000 black people were left homeless, and property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property (equivalent to $32.25 million in 2019).
Many survivors left Tulsa, while black and white residents who stayed in the city were silent for decades about the terror, violence, and losses of this event. The massacre was largely omitted from local, state, and national histories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Right?
Sigh.
Gotta signal to that KKK base that hes one of them.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)I mean, close your eyes and pick a spot on the map where you could be more tone deaf.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)39 There is no such thing as coincidence.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,816 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)Signal received.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,572 posts)n/t
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Dump is too stupid to make the connection but Santa Monica Goebbels surely knew.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)What with his embracing the confederate flag, confederate forts, and now this.
For a brief second I was worried he just might pull something off. But, phew. Hes staying true to his stupidity.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)malaise
(269,003 posts)It's all a con to this monster
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)You know he picked that day and place on purpose.,that piece of racist shit.
I wish he'd have a heart attack,stoke out,get eaten alive by bears. I just want him gone and powerless,same for all republicans supporting that monster .
And the NEO-liberal greedy parasite republicans too, any of them that believe that NEO-liberal shit..
Docreed2003
(16,859 posts)Is this where the rumored speech on "race in America" will take place? Fuck these fascist, racist, bigoted assholes
panader0
(25,816 posts)sop
(10,182 posts)He's completely alienated just about every other group, even military leadership. Trump's a dead man walking.
Hekate
(90,690 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)But I can't quite put my finger on it!
madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)"Coincidences take a lot of planning!"