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Fla Dem

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Sat May 29, 2021, 09:23 AM May 2021

What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed.

NY Times interactive accounting of Tulsa's Black community in 1921. Scroll down in article to begin interactive presentations.


What the Tulsa Race Riots Destroyed

Imagine a community of great possibilities and prosperity built by Black people for Black people. Places to work. Places to live. Places to learn and shop and play. Places to worship.

Now imagine it being ravaged by flames.

In May 1921, the Tulsa, Okla., neighborhood of Greenwood was a fully realized antidote to the racial oppression of the time. Built in the early part of the century in a northern pocket of the city, it was a thriving community of commerce and family life to its roughly 10,000 residents.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html
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What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed. (Original Post) Fla Dem May 2021 OP
One hundred years later and the exact same thing is going on! The Jungle 1 May 2021 #1
K&R Solly Mack May 2021 #2
 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
1. One hundred years later and the exact same thing is going on!
Sat May 29, 2021, 09:53 AM
May 2021

We are now way better at keeping the minorities we don't like under our thumb. Heaven forbid these Americans progress to the point of having another success like Greenwood. Can't let that happen.
The only thing the racist fears is demographics. It keeps them up at night thinking about how they might be treated as they have treated others.
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