(This is one of the crappier moments in US history.. and its important to remember so we don't repeat the same mistakes.) The Tulsa race riot was a large-scale racially motivated conflict, May 31 - June 1, 1921, between the white and black communities of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in which the wealthiest African-American community in the United States, the Greenwood District also known as 'The Negro Wall St' was burned to the ground. Aerial fire bombing of black residential neighborhoods was reported. During the 16 hours of the assault, over 800 people were admitted to local hospitals with injuries, more than 6,000 Greenwood residents were arrested and detained at three local facilities. An estimated 10,000 were left homeless, and 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire. The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics was 36, but other estimates of black fatalities have been up to about 300. The events of the riot were omitted from local and state history; "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place." In 1996, the state legislature commissioned a report, completed in 2001, to establish the historical record. It has approved some compensatory actions, such as scholarships for descendants of survivors, economic development of Greenwood, and a memorial park, dedicated in 2010, to the victims in Tulsa. There's a great deal more at the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
Oh those evil, bigoted, racist, evil, monstrous, nefarious, evil, evil, etc, etc, horrible, evil, demonic WHITE FOLK!!! How dare they do that to those poor innocent black folk who were just trying to make it in America all the way back in 1921!!! I'm so outraged! Let's lynch the White race all over again like we did yesterday and the day before that and the day before that and... well, you get the picture. I can't believe how evil White people are. They're, like, so evil... and stuff. Black folk are such nice people, they don't deserve any of this. I say we (as White folk) hand over each and every dime and earthly possession we have to those poor, down-trodden black folk to make it up to them. You with me Margot? We should all dig a giant pit in the woods somewhere and live there. America should now belong to the blacks to make up for this awful deed we caused almost 100 years before I was born. Incidentally, here is a list of all the race riots that have taken place in the United States. I was going to list them one by one and explain in detail exactly how black "people" beat, killed, maimed, looted, burned, stole and destroyed entire cities for something as petty as police shooting one of their armed criminals, but there's simply too many to mention. I'd be here all week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_race_riots#United_States And here's dozens from the UK... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_race_riots#United_Kingdom I can't help wondering whether people who glorify and defend rioting, criminality and destruction are completely devoid of morals, principals and common sense. There's no excuse for being pro-crime. Also, one other thing... ANTI-RACISM IS A CODE WORD FOR ANTI-WHITE!
Well that was quite a rant.. I take it that you are a racist..... .. or think others must be "pro-crime"?
Yes... and yes. There's no other explanation for this thread or for defending the black race. I highly suspect all anti-racists are pro-crime. I have done for awhile.
This is just a history lesson.. Most people never heard of Black Wall Street or this riot in Tulsa. I think you must be having a conversation inside your head.
How about you doing a history lesson on the Zebra murders or the Zimbabwean farm murders or the most proloific serial killer in United States history Coral Eugene Watts? Most people haven't heard about those events either, it's only fair. I think there's more chance of seeing a low-crime black neighborhood, personally. I've said it once and I'll say it again... ANTI-RACISM IS A CODE WORD FOR ANTI-WHITE!
Aww, is that the only thing that happens when racism hits blacks? They get denied civil rights? When black racism hits Whites, people get tortured, beaten, raped and murdered. You're anti-White because you took the opportunity to highlight racism from Whites towards blacks and you wouldn't DARE highlight racism from blacks aimed at Whites... which is actually a far more serious problem in todays society. It's as simple as that really. You're an anti-White hypocrite of the highest degree.
This was one of the worst race riots in US history.. I think poverty and class envy was probably the causation. Sometimes extreme poverty turns both blacks and whites into rabid racists.
You got to be kidding margie. With 99.9% of the race riots here in America being insigated by blacks against WHITES (including MLK's sixties riots), and with people like you finding one example of perhaps one riot started by WHITES, and with the liberal media highlighting one example or made up examples of WHITE Tea Partier racism, and with the lib media refusing to acknowledge the high proportional black crime rates of rape and murder of WHITES etc.. etc...yet you still have the gall to insult our higher intelligence as WHITE humans in order to make the WHITE person out to be something of a lower form of homo sapien..akin to the black race? History, facts and personal experience tell us that you're wrong on all accounts.
Were you alive during the struggle for Civil Rights? I used to wonder why black kids could fight in Vietnam but couldn't sit at a lunch counter or check into a motel or drink from certain drinking fountains.. And God knows, Jim Crowe was an economic albatross for the South.
Maybe so and I'll admit it's interesting to learn about things like this, but have a little balance, hmm? You wouldn't have dared post this if it was the Zebra murders. The fact is race riots are a serious problem in America and in the UK... infact, anywhere where there are blacks living with any other race... and the overwhelming majority of the time it's blacks causing them over something extremely petty... just as we saw with the London riots last August. You posted this thread as a history lesson, to try and educate people... fair enough... but until you show some balance and a realistic outlook on racial conflicts, all you're educating us on is your own hypocrisy and anti-White bigotry. I couldn't have said this any better. Anti-racism is indeed a code word for anti-White. "Civil rights" I feel you have to earn civil rights and black "people" still haven't earned that right in the many decades since they've been given them. Since blacks have been given civil rights their murder, rape, robbery, drug peddling rates have overwhelmingly skyrocketed. Civilized people deserve civil rights.
blacks could eat at the lunch conter in the state I lived. apparently it was you that had not been alive during the so called civil rights era
Margot, if you live in the Southeast you know what blacks are capable of (bad things) and not capable of (good things). You must really be brainwashed under those circumstances.
"White Guilt" keeps today's White people from identifying with the atrocities inflicted by their ancestors on the Black people in Tulsa(Black Wall Street.) It wasn't that long ago when you hink about it. Goes to show how they indoctrinate their children over the decades to be emotionally detached from such an event as to toss aside any blame they inherently own.
What a stupid, pathetic, typically empty liberal argument. It's posts like this that make me glad I'm not a liberal. Is that all you have? Bumping a post from 2011 to ask me if I've earned my civil rights? REALLY??? To answer your child-like question... yes, I have. I am a law-abiding, hard-working, upstanding member of society who opposes crime and criminals. Unlike the majority of the black race. Race realism 1, ad-hominems 0.
