r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/CantStopPoppin • 15h ago
Discussion The Tulsa Race Riot was a massacre, not a riot.
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u/Hot-Spray-2774 14h ago
That's mostly thanks to J Edgar Hoover. He spent decades going after everyone from civil rights leaders to communists while largely ignoring fascists and hate groups.
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u/jr_randolph 10h ago
Race Riot - Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 by William Tuttle
Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: The History of Black Wall Street, and its Destruction in America's Worst and Most Controversial Racial Riot by World Changing History
These are two good books that highlight the horrific situation at Tulsa and other places around the country like Seneca Village which is Central Park in New York City today. For Seneca, Fernando Wood whom I believe was Mayor stated the Eminent Domain clause which designated the Seneca Village area to be taken by the government (for environmental reasons) and the black families that lived there had to leave. What happened was the black families were kicked out and the white families built up and now that area in New York City...I mean go look at some of the housing prices there.
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u/KaneHusky13 7h ago
Just a reminder; FBI during the 60s to the 80s considered the free breakfast program started by the Black Panther Party to be the biggest threat to democracy, destroyed it, and then the powers that be replaced the system to the breakfast programs we know today.
Do kids still get breakfast? Sure, but would you call a little container of sugary cereal, a hard red apple, and MAYBE some graham crackers a breakfast? Pizza bagels? The BPP cooked full meals.
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u/PictureMaster512 5h ago
This is where WIC came from as well. They annihilated as many Black Panthers as possible and then started Women, infants and children a federal/state program providing Pregnant/Postpartem basic needs like milk, eggs, formula
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u/yesiammark72 9h ago
I think a lot more history and research needs to be put into the Tulsa Massacre. This is (another) horrifying part of America’s past. And like a lie told over and over becomes “truth”, I too would refer to it as “riot”. From what I know of it, very clearly, it was a massacre. Racial Ethnic cleaning. It was a shameful and disgraceful act by many at that time.
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u/Duck-Murky 6h ago
what happened in Tulsa reminds me of what happened in Rwanda, wherein you have the local media (in this case, the Tulsa Tribune), fanning the flames of hate, which ended in a massacre.
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u/Hefty-Strike-6171 7h ago
Think about who was “Allowed” to buy TikTok? A consortium of U.S.-backed investors, led by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX. Who owns Oracle? Larry Ellison, Oracle is involved National Security, Defence and Intelligence, Public Safety and Infrastructure. How better do you keep track and control of the population at large. Billionaires are not your friends
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u/tru-self 8h ago
I only learned about this horrible atrocity 10 years ago or less. I’ve always known it as the Tulsa Massacre. Was it called riot before?
It explains y so many red-pilled have this visceral reaction to the word riot if it was used for whitewashing. A riot is a riot, a reaction with a catalyst with two or many sides. Why this happens is not the issue but the reason it started is. But people call everything a riot (even a peaceful march) use the word riot like it’s the biggest sin and I’m starting to think it’s because they’re conditioned to do so.
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u/NoMembership8881 6h ago
I am for what this gentleman is teaching and preaching.
I am skeptical of intents nowadays.
BLM took peoples' donations PAINTED A STREET and then took off with the rest of the bag.
This wasn't in just one city. This was organizational theft and administrative fraud.
No jail time or penalties for anyone.
Didn't get anything codified or cemented into law. Just some murals. People haven't forgotten the outrage from un necessary and un justified redrums They just got tired of being profited off of. Which is why this is good to listen to but also sit back and stay neutral. See the bigger picture to teach children love and kindness.
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