On the Ground at Trump's Tulsa Burnout: Pepper Balls, Protesters, and a Failing Conman
It was two days before Donald Trump’s arrival, and in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa some ground rules were being laid down.
America, incredibly, was just waking up to the fact that a century ago Greenwood included Black Wall Street, the most prosperous black neighborhood in the entire country. Then, in 1921, its citizens were murdered and their houses and stores bombed by a white lynch mob that killed up to 300 in one of the worst racially motivated massacres in American history. Now, there were rumors that either Donald Trump or Mike Pence might tour the neighborhood.
Folks were not having it. I knew because Cleo Harris told me. Harris owns a store selling Black Wall Street T-shirts and was holding court in his humid shop. “You know, Trump wouldn’t come down here by himself,” said Harris. “He’d have pushed 911 and just be waiting to push ‘dial.’”
Trump had earlier announced his rally would be on June 19th, a.k.a. Juneteenth, a hallowed day in black history, when the nation’s last slaves, in Texas, were notified in June 1865 that they were free, more than two years after Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Trump moved the rally back one day, and earlier in the afternoon quipped that “nobody had ever heard” of Juneteenth until he started talking about it.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-tulsa-rally-crowd-protests-black-wall-street-1018508/
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