Tulsa commemorative event CANCALLED due to white supremacist threat

[Stinky The Clown]

I'm sick to hear of this but totally unsurprised.

https://news.yahoo.com/tulsa-race-massacre-events-cancelled-134608160.html

Tulsa Race Massacre events cancelled due to ‘unexpected circumstances’ as DHS warns of racist threats

A televised event marking a century since the Tulsa Race Massacre has been cancelled, reportedly due to a recommendation from the Department of Homeland Security.

Featured guests at the memorial were to include singer-songwriter John Legend and political campaigner Stacey Abrams, and planned on airing on the tragedy’s 100 year anniversary and was titled ‘Remember and Rise’.

The decision to halt the event was shared yesterday via a statement by the organisers..

“Due to unexpected circumstances with entertainers and speakers, the Centennial Commission is unable to fulfil our high expectations for Monday afternoon’s commemoration event and has determined not to move forward with the event at this time. We have hopes to reschedule later in this 100th commemorative year,” wrote the The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission.

Aside from concerns about potential acts and speakers, the Department of Homeland Security expressed the possibility of an attack from neo-nazis and white supremacists.

While there had been nothing the Department deemed serious, they said in a note that said “the current Homeland threat remains heightened”.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. The article does not back the claim of the headline (nt)

[riversedge]

5. agree. confusing to say the least.

[gratuitous]

10. The organizers soft-peddled as "unexpected circumstances"

But I could take a wild guess about those circumstances, and I'm pretty sure I'd be right.

Trying to remember when was the last, first, or anytime in-between something was canceled because of a rumored threat of antifa or BLM or some other rights group's violence?

[WarGamer]

26. more nonsensical clickbait.

Seeing MORE of it every day.

They missed THIS part of the story:

But that all changed when, explained Centennial Commission Project Manager Phil Armstrong, organizers were notified within the last 24 hours by representatives for Legend and Abrams that “there would be unforeseen circumstances that will keep us from moving forward,” though specifics were not disclosed.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

27. That may've been added later I don't recall seeing that in the first reading

But it def. never explicitly said that some particular threat resulted in it being cancelled.

Article itself was pretty much innuendo from the start.

[WarGamer]

30. here's the local story link

https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/remember-rise-event-with-john-legend-and-stacey-abrams-canceled-organizers-announce/article_eb6be470-bf1a-11eb-bb3f-536dcc8e49a1.html

I'm getting REALLY tired of clickbait factories like rawstory, politicus and others telling half truths to generate progressive clicks.

They treat us like we're idiots and I don't like it.

[Karadeniz]

2. Deplorable that the evil ones dictate events.

[RKP5637]

3. WTF! Now it appears the US will be held hostage by these creeps. What's next ... n/t

[Initech]

4. Fuck white supremacists!

[gay texan]

6. When you cancel an event like this

They win.

At some point you have to stand up to the bullies...

[Hortensis]

11. This is Memorial Day weekend, and anywhere large and/or meaningful

groups of people gather, especially diverse, will be an opportunity for you to join and take a stand.

[gay texan]

31. I'm rather certain of that

But this is a highly specific event, probably one of the worst moments in our nation's history.

[uponit7771]

7. They should've told Trump to eat shit when he called DHS

[BGBD]

8. Awful decision

You can't give in because these guys make some threats. They are always going to make threats.

[Hortensis]

12. Who's the "you"? Do we have people here who still plan to attend

even if major terrorist targets like Stacey Abrams "give in"?

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. It's infuriating, but probably for the best right at the moment.

I agree that bullies have to be stood up to, but these are armed bullies that assface has whipped into a frenzy and emboldened. Short of having National Guardsmen locked and loaded on every corner, I wouldn't know what else to do. And remember, this is Oklahoma we're talking about.

[smb]

13. That's What It'll Take

At some point, we're going to give one of these gangs of thugs a whiff of grapeshot until the survivors run home in search of clean underwear.

[Buns_of_Fire]

20. Yes, I think there's going to be a "High Noon" moment in our future.

But these fools are going to have to be defanged one way or another. Better sooner than later; get it over with (until the next batch emerges).

[Progressive Jones]

14. Find those who made the threats and "educate" them. nt

[Mopar151]

15. Don't let the sun set on you in Tulsa!

Waylon Jennings

[FlyingPiggy]

16. a sign to me that the DOJ needs to quit pussyfooting around and actually DO something about these

domestic terrorists! ...EVEN when they look like white men. SMDH. This pisses me off.....

[vercetti2021]

17. Should have just done it anyways

Call these chickenshits bluff and do it. If they showed up to cause problems, let the police handle it or let them learn the hard way of this is 2021, not the 1960's anymore

[Bristlecone]

18. Terrorism

[marmar]

19. Different cause, per this nbc story:

Tulsa 'Remember and Rise' event canceled days before centennial of race massacre after dispute over payment to survivors


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tulsa-remember-rise-event-canceled-days-centennial-race-massacre-n1269028

[yellerpup]

21. There is more to the cancellation than these threats.

One of the organizers has sued to stop the event until reparations are raised to $50M and a whole bunch of other things, including that he be given a speakers slot. He's an attorney who organized the Reparations demands. Bitter disappointment locally.

[BannonsLiver]

22. Greedy lawyers are the reason for the cancellation

[WestIndianArchie]

23. America is not a racist country!!!

😉🤔🤔

[joetheman]

24. GOOD!

Now people can focus on the history and the story that is being told on Monday and not have to be distracted by white supremacists carnage.

[Crunchy Frog]

25. Couldn't they do the program from some other location,

that would be protected from potential terrorists?

I don't see why it would need to happen at the actual location, and in Oklahoma there's pretty much always going to be a terrorist risk.

I really hope they don't let the terrorists win on this. Terrible message to send out to the rest of the country.

[myohmy2]

28. what?

...only right-wing fascists have free speech rights in Tulsa?

...instead of cancellation why weren't police deployed to protect our 1st Amendment right?

...why wasn't our 1 Amendment being protected by our 2nd Amendment?

...shameful...

[AverageOldGuy]

29. W T F ?????

So surround the event venue with the National Guard with full riot gear and fixed bayonets -- then, dare the Republicans -- ooops, meant to say "the white supremacists and Nazis" -- to start anything.