"Judge says Tulsa Race Massacre victims' descendants can't sue"

[Amo Husserl]

Following up on the developments of the Tulsa, OK reparations suit for the 1921 massacre.
Link to Chattanooga Times Free Press article

An Oklahoma judge said six descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre cannot sue for reparations, while allowing three known survivors of the attack in which a white mob descended on a predominantly Black neighborhood to move forward with the lawsuit.

The order, signed Tuesday by Tulsa County District Judge Caroline Wall, allows Lessie Benningfield "Mother" Randle, 106, Viola "Mother" Fletcher, 107, and Hughes Van Ellis, Sr., 101, to continue seeking reparations under state nuisance laws.

Wall's order calls for attorneys on both sides to amend the claim for reparations, which sought unspecified punitive damages and called for the creation of a hospital in north Tulsa, in addition to mental health and education programs and a Tulsa Massacre Victims Compensation Fund.

AP News article, more or less the same as above
Essence Magazine article, same as above

Interview with attorney:


Some history, Black Wall Street documentary:


Archival footage of survivors in 1992:

 

[parallax]

its crazy how some will recognize the fukked up things that have happened to us in the past and present, and just shrug their shoulders over it

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Yet the descendants of the Japanese interment camps got money

 

[Ricky Fontaine]

its crazy how some will recognize the fukked up things that have happened to us in the past and present, and just shrug their shoulders over it

They don’t give af. We don’t even calculate as humans in their minds.

The ones who pretend to just don’t want to accurately be described as racist.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Another judge can say different it's not over.

 

[saturn7]

Yet the descendants of the Japanese interment camps got money

The Japanese got Reparations through a Congressional Act not through the courts.

Reparations will not come through the courts!!! The policies we need have to come through Congress with the Executive signing the policies into law.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

The Japanese got Reparations through a Congressional Act not through the courts.

Reparations will not come through the courts!!! The policies we need have to come through Congress with the Executive signing the policies into law.

Congress is about to flip red.

 

[Big Mountain Hélà]

They not gonna pay reperations because the government already paid them…….to the slave owners who had to give up their slaves

 

[Strapped]

Yet the descendants of the Japanese interment camps got money

This country will never give you shieet

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

this is why I just look at the reparations arguments, despite their obvious legitimacy and well researched claims, as ultimately pointless.

White people are not going to allow it. Period.

For 40 million people? Are you serious?

OK

 

[1thouwow]

This is nonFBA fault

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This is nonFBA fault

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

lose court challenges because you don't vote for people who elect judges brehs

 

[GoAggieGo.]

loose court challenges because you don't vote for people who elect judges brehs

Disingenuous take; especially with what you just said 2/3 posts prior.

As you said above; your own party aren’t for them in whole.

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

This country will never give you shieet

This is what I doin' tythink ppl in the reparations movement understand. It has nothing to do whether they deserve it because it goes without saying. I opine that this country full of cacs would rather nuke themselves before giving what is due to ADOS. Hell, they wouldn't give the ashes to black people if it's in the name of reparations.