Today is the 93 Yr Anniversary of the Tulsa Oklahoma (Black WallStreet) Race Riots.

[NobleDrewAli]

This my hometown, man. I was just in this neighborhood Saturday. Nothing but cacs and they built a baseball field on it. The black excellence is long gone

 

[NobleDrewAli]

And Ive spent my whole life in Tulsa, but what's crazy is the last time I remember learning about it was in 1995. Anything past elementary and they not bringing it up. fukk around cause another riot.

Same here. Learned about it in 6th grade for like two days and that was it for the rest of my school days. Everything I know about it now is cause of my own research.

 

[Easy-E]

I'm looking for a good book on this.

 

[Rekkapryde]

fakkit ass cacs who did this.

 

[Danie84]

How backward is it that Black Wall Street existed in 1921 but we haven't been able to pool in any of our resources to attempt to create another one Yet we have awll these ballas and shot callas running around Also, historically, a cac women has been a brotha's downfall One day, you devil cacsuckas will pay: Die Slow

 

[Donald J Trump]

Reminds me of Atlanta..which is why im trying to move out there

 

[QuintessentialBM]

I'm about to speak on some real... You posters may think I'm c00ning right now, but I'm speaking on the realities because I'm a native Oklahoman(or Okies as we're affectionately called).

Most of black Oklahoma is LOST... period. The aftermath of the riots did massive amounts of psychological damage, as well as, physically and economical infrastructure damage. The average black Okie that grows up here(especially where I'm from) gets their education, then move out of state, especially to Dallas. This is a continuous cycle of what exactly occurred after BWS was completely burned to the ground. They left and never returned. Like most places in the Bible Belt/Republican South..... Whites are in absolute control and blacks are unorganized & without education/resources.

You don't have to believe me... Ask someone that has been to OK and they will tell you the same.

 

[dynamik]

The biggest mistake of the blacks in Tulsa at the time of BWS was that they didn't form a militia or a police force to protect what was their own at ANY cost. Just my $.02

 

[Scottie Simpen]

Same here. Learned about it in 6th grade for like two days and that was it for the rest of my school days. Everything I know about it now is cause of my own research.

And I went to Carver and BTW with black teachers bruh.

 

[Scottie Simpen]

The biggest mistake of the blacks in Tulsa at the time of BWS was that they didn't form a militia or a police force to protect what was their own at ANY cost. Just my $.02

If they would've done that, it would've given them more of a reason to come fukk shyt up sooner. On some "Why they need their own PD ours aint good enough" type shyt

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Bu bu Bu what about black on black crime? @tommyknocks
@Napoleon

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

i got a presentation and essay i can do on any political event this week im thinkin of doing it on this but im not sure what my thesis argument would can someone help me out , it would be pure ether for all the cacs and the teacher

Do it on the circumstances and events leading up to the Tulsa race riots as well as its ramifications on the community

 

[loyola llothta]

And people really believe that blacks aren't entitled to reparations?

From the YT commemt


"Year 2000, there was a meeting held by the NAACP in Oklahoma City at a Jewish Synagogue to discuss if whether or not Black people in Tulsa deserve reparations. There were black and white people at this discussion. I would never forget the statements made by whites, "This was just a case of good people who did a bad thing". Reparations were denied to Black people in Tulsa because,"No survivors were living". REALLY?"

 

[ryshy]

every time i read about it i can't help but smh and get frustrated thinking not only how evil the people who did this must have been but how much black wall street could have helped black america for generations down the line if it was never destroyed.

funny how america tells us to never forget pearl harbor, never forget the boston marathon bombing, never forget 9/11 but completely gloss over this.

I think if its not affecting white people no one cares, probably not the most insightful post (mine not urs)

 

[JBoy]

Tulsa was an outright pogom, disgusting what those people went through all because they happened to be Black and lived in a country that hated their blood for no good reason.