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[RandySF]

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[brush]

1. Thanks for posting. Reenforces that Tulsa was hardly a one-off.

Generational wealth shuff out all over the place.

[ck4829]

2. Philadelphia... 1985? Well, that's not "This was before anyone of us were born"! That's contemporary

Must be referring to the... *checking notes*... AIRSTRIKE that destroyed a black power group’s townhouse... and over 60 houses in the surrounding neighborhood, along with killing a dozen people, half of them children.

Critical Race Theory

[Grokenstein]

3. The MOVE Bombing. (MOVE didn't do the bombing, of course.)

That night, the city of Philadelphia dropped a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used in combat, laced with Tovex and C-4 explosives on the MOVE organization, who were living in a West Philadelphia rowhome known to be occupied by men, women, and children. It went up in unextinguished flames. Eleven people were killed, including five children and the founder of the organization. Sixty-one homes were destroyed, and more than 250 citizens were left homeless.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphia-bombing-1985-move

[flotsam]

4. So glad to see the MOVE aerial bombing here

A bombing with aerial support should never be forgotten.

[gratuitous]

5. Keep in mind after each of these atrocities

The perpetrators, who were the power in each locality, went largely unpunished for their crimes, remained in power, and continued to run things. Now consider being a survivor, too poor to move and too scared to ask for justice, living in these places. Knowing that any day could bring another round of reprisals for getting too uppity or being too prosperous in the hateful eyes of any white person in the vicinity.