100 years ago - just after Memorial Day - a white mob burned down a thriving Black community.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Here's why so many haven't heard of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

For hours, beginning on the night of Memorial Day in 1921, a white mob rioted a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as "Black Wall Street." They looted businesses, set homes ablaze, and fired at Black residents in the district of Greenwood. The aftermath of the massacre left thousands of Black Americans displaced and an estimated 300 people died.

The Tulsa Race Massacre is "one of the biggest skeletons" in America's history, Scott Ellsworth, a historian, and author, told Insider. It was "covered up for a long time," he said

"There was a concerted effort to absolutely bury and suppress this history. Official records disappeared, never to be seen again," Ellsworth said. "Individuals who tried to study this as late as the early 1970s had their lives and their jobs threatened. Tulsa's white daily newspapers went way out of their way not to ever mention it for 50 years. It was just a taboo subject."

Decades after the massacre, Ed Wheeler, a white retired Oklahoma National Guard brigadier general, said he received pushback and threats while trying to research the race riot for an article. Wheeler, a former college history instructor, told Tulsa World last month that he hadn't heard about the historic attack in Tulsa until he moved there as a teen in the 1950s. He told Tulsa World the massacre wasn't taught in schools.

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[llashram]

1. and trump revived

this hate... and has 70,000,000 followers ready to do this again. is brewing

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. It's not surprising that this effort to bury this story is happening here.

Whites have always been at the forefront of whitewashing the true history, esp. when it comes to something that casts such a bright light on history as this does.

What happened was a crime. A thriving community burnt to the ground and hundreds of people massacred. Now the story is emerging, as we always knew it would, and the community reels in shock.

The Black community of Tulsa is way overdue for reparations and acknowledgement of their losses and their suffering. It is time.

[llashram]

3. of course it

wasn't taught in school!@! Thousands died at the hand of the "superior race" never to be recognized, remembered, or cared about in any respect by the 'superior race'. And trump got them ready to repeat this type of hate and they are ready to act upon their hate. 70million plus, at the least...

[Runningdawg]

4. I live in Tulsa a mile away from Greenwood

Sure, Trump stirred the pot, but it didn't need much help in Tulsa. I've lived her for 40 years and EVERY Memorial day weekend, the community is on edge. Every year, it gets worse. This year, thanks to one of the many memorial committees who really dropped the ball, even the black community is divided.
Yesterday I reported 5 people for racist comments and threats on The Tulsa World FB page. ALL FIVE were removed by FB. 5/5 should tell you how bad it was. I could have continued reading and reporting but I just couldn't take anymore.
The massacre isn't taught in schools, it's taught in churches where the white people were justified.
Here is a link to our newspaper's FB - Read the comments and you will understand.
[link:https://www.facebook.com/tulsaworld|

[moondust]

5. Question.

What explains the fact that OK hasn't had a single blue county in a Presidential election since 2000 when Gore won 9 counties? I don't know of any other state with a record like that. Mainly racism/tribalism? Fossil fuels?

[Runningdawg]

6. I posted about this in another thread also

Waco in '93 and the OKC bombing in '95 really whacked the evangelicals hornets nest and it took a while for the results be seen in the elections. It's also the era when even the moderates started homeschooling their kids, under the direction of the church and of course history and science went right out the door. The Tuner Diaries became required reading. Learning to field strip a weapon or reload ammo a required skill. Since then the problem has grown exponentially.

[moondust]

7. Wow.

Sounds like a lot of Okies may have sided with David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh against the big bad gubment. Perhaps some were overly influenced by a lifetime of Oral Roberts and his "prosperity gospel" and other such televangelists. Which then continued with many turning away from public education toward cultish stuff like the Turner Diaries--the preferred reading material of...Timothy McVeigh.

I'm starting to get it. Yikes.

Thanks!

[Mr.Bill]

8. I don't have a college degree, but I consider myself

to be pretty well educated and well read. I had not heard about this until recently.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. Same.

I’m 37 and just learned about this massacre last year.

[Mr.Bill]

10. I'm 67. n/t