100th Anniversary Of The Tulsa Race Massacre.

Between May 31st -June 1st 1921 whst became known as " The Tulsa Race Masscre " took place. Here's how it began.

It is alleged that at some time about or after 4 p.m. on May 30, 1921, 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a Black shoeshiner employed at a Main Street shine parlor, entered the only elevator of the nearby Drexel Building at 319 South Main Street to use the top-floor restroom, which was restricted to Black people. He encountered Sarah Page, the 17-year-old White elevator operator on duty. The two likely knew each other at least by sight, as this building was the only one nearby with a restroom which Rowland had expressed permission to use, and the elevator operated by Page was the only one in the building. A clerk at Renberg's, a clothing store on the first floor of the Drexel, heard what sounded like a woman's scream and saw a young Black man rushing from the building. The clerk went to the elevator and found Page in what he said was a distraught state. Thinking she had been assaulted, he summoned the authorities

The suspect Dick Rowland was later arrested and taken to the jail situated on the top floor of the County Couthouse. A large crowd surrounded the courthouse and 3 men entered demanding that Rowland be handed over to them.

And then this occured.

a group of approximately 50–60 Black men, armed with rifles and shotguns, arrived at the jail to support the sheriff and his deputies in defending Rowland from the mob. Corroborated by ten witnesses, attorney James Luther submitted to the grand jury that they were following the orders of Sheriff McCullough who publicly denied he gave any orders:

Having seen the armed Black men, some of the more than 1,000 Whites who had been at the courthouse went home for their own guns.

And then everything just went downhill from there on. Including attacks by air from private citizens using firebombs.

Deaths.

Oklahoma's 2001 Commission into the riot provides multiple contradicting estimates. Goble estimates 100–300 deaths (also stating right after that no one was prosecuted even though nearly a hundred were indicted),[101] and Franklin and Ellsworth estimate 75–100 deaths and describe some of the higher estimates as dubious as the low estimates.[102] C. Snow was able to confirm 39 casualties, all listed as male although 4 were unidentifiable; 26 were Black and 13 were White.[18] The 13 White fatalities were all taken to hospitals.[103] Eleven of them had come from outside of Oklahoma, and possibly as many as half were petroleum industry workers.[104] Only 8 of the confirmed 26 Black fatalities were brought to hospitals,[103] and as hospitals were segregated, and with the Black Frissell Memorial Hospital having burned down, the only place where the injured Black people were treated was at the basement of Morningside Hospital.[105] Several hundred were injured

Property.

The commercial section of Greenwood was destroyed. Losses included 191 businesses, a junior high school, several churches, and the only hospital in the district. The Red Cross reported that 1,256 houses were burned and another 215 were looted but not burned.[108] The Tulsa Real Estate Exchange estimated property losses amounted to US$1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property[109] (equivalent to a total of $33 million in 2020). The Red Cross report on December 1921 estimated that 10,000 people were made homeless by the destruction.[110] Over the next year, local citizens filed more than US$1.8 million (equivalent to $26 million in 2020) in riot-related claims against the city

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Tulsa race massacre at 100: an act of terrorism America tried to forget

"Anniversary" denotes a celebration, what's to celebrate?

Further, there were 99 "anniversaries" before this one, where was the outrage for those?

The media is enemy Numero Uno. The blatant manipulation is absolutely criminal. But whatever, keep digging, you'll find whatever you need to justify just about anything.

Matter of fact, I could care less about this event. It doesn't in any way shape or form excuse the PRESENT rate at which black males are ending black lives.

This deflection game is weak as fk. Live in the past and you will remain there. Money/reparations isn't going to change anything because there's no intention to change the culture. Polish a turd all you want, it's still a turd.

So I guess we shouldn't teach any history in schools then, since that was then and this is now, right?

a reply to: EternalShadow

originally posted by: EternalShadow
Further, there were 99 "anniversaries" before this one, where was the outrage for those?

It's discussed every year, it isn't exactly one of the high points in our country's history.

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
So I guess we shouldn't teach any history in schools then, since that was then and this is now, right?

a reply to: EternalShadow

The deflection game continues...🤦🏾‍♂️

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: EternalShadow
Further, there were 99 "anniversaries" before this one, where was the outrage for those?

It's discussed every year, it isn't exactly one of the high points in our country's history.

Plenty of those to go around, take your pick. My point is how the focus is on everything else, while the abhorrent behavior and conduct is simply not an issue at all.

Shocking. I didn't know anything about this.

Equivalent to Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany but preceding it by 17 years.

Blacks are America's Jews.

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
So I guess we shouldn't teach any history in schools then, since that was then and this is now, right?

a reply to: EternalShadow

in germany, certain people doesn't like to be reminded at all that germany lost the second world war and what happened between 1933 and 1945 (it hurts their feelings). but they like to remember the kings and the vikings.

originally posted by: EternalShadow
Plenty of those to go around, take your pick.

Today I pick this one.

My point is how the focus is on everything else, while the abhorrent behavior and conduct is simply not an issue at all.

It sounds like your point is that you can only process one thing at a time, some of us can process multiple issues.

a reply to: alldaylong

This wasn't just a simple riot. This was initiated, escalated and perpetuated by the city officials. A good portion of the lynch mob was armed and deputized by the city.

The Tulsa Race Massacre Happened 99 Years Ago. Here’s What to Read About It.

‘Unearthing a Riot’ [The New York Times] A wall of silence surrounded the Tulsa race riot, which was instigated in part by the city itself, reported Brent Staples, by permitting and aiding the looting, arson and murders in Greenwood. The law professor Alfred L. Brophy argued that city officials “made the riot worse” when police deputized hundreds from a lynch mob. The state legislator Don Ross, who had published the exposé “Profile of a Race Riot,” detailing Ku Klux Klan involvement, also found evidence of the mayor and the city commission plotting to “steal black land so that the ‘colored section’ could be pushed farther north,” he said.

At dawn, a force of ‘citizens, police and members of the National Guard,’ numbering perhaps 1,500, moved into Greenwood from the south and west, under orders to take into protective custody unarmed blacks and to subdue any who resisted

Unearthing a Riot

In an analysis of the case, Brophy writes that the city ''clothed private citizens with the authority to arrest, almost surely instructed them to kill and quite likely instructed them to burn Greenwood.'

At the courthouse, the sudden and unexpected turn of events had a jolting effect on the would-be lynch mob, and groups of angry, vengeance-seeking whites soon took the streets and sidewalks of downtown. “A great many of these persons lining the sidewalks,” one white eyewitness later recalled, “were holding a rifle or shotgun in one hand, and grasping the neck of a liquor bottle with the other. Some had pistols stuck into their belts.”

Some were about to become, at least temporarily, officers of the law. Shortly after the fighting had broken out at the courthouse, a large number of whites - many of whom had only a little while earlier been members of the would-be lynch mob -- gathered outside of police headquarters on Second Street. There, perhaps as many as five-hundred white men and boys were sworn-in by police officers as “Special Deputies.” Some were provided with badges or ribbons indicating their new status. Many, it appears, also were given specific instructions. According to Laurel G. Buck, a white bricklayer who was sworn-in as one of these “Special Deputies”, a police officer bluntly told him to “Get a gun and get a 'n-word'.”

Shortly thereafter, whites began breaking into downtown sporting goods stores, pawnshops, and hardware stores, stealing -- or “borrowing” as some would later claim -- guns and ammunition. Dick Bardon's store on First Street was particularly hard hit as well as the J.W. MeGee Sporting Goods shop at 22 W. Second Street, even though it was located literally across the street from police headquarters. The owner later testified that a Tulsa police officer helped to dole out the guns that were taken from his store.

Another interesting aspect regarding the guardsmen who gathered at the armory exists. Not only were the Tulsa units of the National Guard exclusively white, but as the evening wore on, it became increasingly clear that they would not play an impartial role in the “maintenance of law and order.” Like many of their white neighbors, a number of the local guardsmen also came to conclude that the race riot was, in fact, a “Negro uprising,” a term used throughout their various after action reports. At least one National Guard officer went even further, using the term “enemy” in reference to African Americans. Given the tenor of the times, it is hardly surprising that Tulsa's all-white National Guard might view black Tulsans antagonistically. As the riot continued to unfold, this also would prove to be far from irrelevant.

Their deployment was far from impartial, for the “skirmish line” that the National Guard officers established was set-up facing - or soon would be -- the African American district. Moreover, the guardsmen also began rounding up black Tulsans, whom they handed over -- as prisoners -- to the police, and they also briefly exchanged fire with gunmen to the east. Far from being utilized as a neutral force, Tulsa's local National Guard unit along Detroit Avenue were, even in the early hours of the riot, being deployed in a manner which would eventually set them in opposition to the black community.

This was not a riot. This was a government attack on civilian people of their town. There were no "good guys" trying to stop the burning, looting and murdering... the "good guys" were the ones doing the burning, looting and murdering.

What a stupid comment, truly uneducated and absolutely no comparison a reply to: CJCrawley

Blacks in America live a very high standard, this it’s Natzi Germany. They do statistically commit a incredibly high amount of crime. It does sound like the media has fully indoctrinated you.

a reply to: MiddleInsite

Didn't you know? All history is now taught by observing a statue. That's why MTG wishes we had more Hitler statues.

a reply to: EternalShadow

"Anniversary" denotes a celebration, what's to celebrate?

Definition of the word " Anniversary "

the annual recurrence of a date marking a notable event

www.merriam-webster.com...

a reply to: alldaylong

Blimey and I don't know if it's a little sarcy to say it as I love pretty much everything to do with the new age experiment called the United States of America, but if Tulpa were to happen today there'd be calls for a coalition and regime change followed by the nations leaders banged up in the war crimes courts for ethnic cleansing

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: EternalShadow
Plenty of those to go around, take your pick.

Today I pick this one.

My point is how the focus is on everything else, while the abhorrent behavior and conduct is simply not an issue at all.

It sounds like your point is that you can only process one thing at a time, some of us can process multiple issues.

No, 'focus' being the keyword. One issue at a time, WORK THAT ISSUE TO COMPLETION, otherwise it's just drama.

50th Anniversary of the Zebra killing spree! What, they don't teach this in history class?


From the book "Zebra: The True Account of 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco" by Clark Howard:

"...determined to calm the fear and put a stop to the killings, Joseph Alioto held a press conference to lay out what he believed he knew about Zebra. ... he laid out a huge collection of speculative intelligence, claiming that more than eighty killings across the state going back to 1971 could be linked to Zebra, and implying that those responsible for all the crimes might be tied to the Nation of Islam."

"This was October of 1973. The California attorney general’s office had already secretly compiled a list of forty-five of those killings which had taken place in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Long Beach, Signal Hill, Santa Barbara, Palo Alto, Pacifica, San Diego, and Los Angeles; and in the counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Contra Costa, Ventura, and Alameda. All the victims were white. All the known suspects in the killings had been associated with the Black Muslim movement. The killings were even then continuing throughout the state."

openjurist.org...
San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto's figure of 75 execution-style murders of White persons by Black killers in California since 1971 has been expanded to approximately 400 by adding figures for similar killings with an apparent racial motive in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Police officials who added the unsolved killings in the six Midwestern states to those in California went as far back as 1969.

originally posted by: alldaylong
a reply to: EternalShadow

"Anniversary" denotes a celebration, what's to celebrate?

Definition of the word " Anniversary "

the annual recurrence of a date marking a notable event

www.merriam-webster.com...

You left out:

2 : the celebration of an anniversary

That is why I said denotes rather than defines.

originally posted by: EternalShadow
No, 'focus' being the keyword. One issue at a time, WORK THAT ISSUE TO COMPLETION, otherwise it's just drama.

Okay, fine, let's focus on this: the Tulsa Massacre has never been adequately addressed, the families of the victims are still seeking remuneration for the government-sanctioned destruction of their relative's businesses and subsequent murders.

Being that it's decades before whatever it is you're grousing about now maybe we should use your methodology to correct the issue.

originally posted by: EternalShadow

originally posted by: alldaylong
a reply to: EternalShadow

"Anniversary" denotes a celebration, what's to celebrate?

Definition of the word " Anniversary "

the annual recurrence of a date marking a notable event

www.merriam-webster.com...

You left out:

2 : the celebration of an anniversary

That is why I said denotes rather than defines.

I didn't leave anything out.

The description i gave was the context I used the word " Anniversary "