Godboy
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Uhuh, and when youre investigation turns up nothing, youll still say it happened. Black people werent bombed by planes. Get a grip people!The reason why it is a good idea to investigate it is because we still have people on this very post who despite their blatant ignorance on the subject -- still has this righteous indignation that their ignorance is truth and that it is impossible something like this has ever happened.The events occurred, including another in Rosewood, Florida. Our nation's history isn't one of innocence. We've committed genocide against Native Americans, forcing them onto reservations, had slavery (no where near as much as Islamic nations and South of the Border had), and racist crimes against blacks. But, that's the past and all nations have had slavery and massive killings before. At least this nation acknowledges its past and sought to rectify it. As for investigating a crime scene from 1921, I do fail to see the point, as hardly anyone alive today was alive then and thus it's highly unlikely any guilty party could be rounded up.Your vile use of bigoted terms aside, i cant argue with that. A black man tripping caused a riot? That sounds SUPER far fetched to me. And dont give me any of this "thats how bad it was back then" bullshit. No way. Im sure it was bad, but it wasnt THAT bad. There were certainly black murderers back then that the racists could have focused their hate on, so they didnt need to start a riot over a guy tripping.“Tripped”? “Accidentally”? Riiight! And they know these details ; how? Oh... that’s right. They don’t. They’re just trying to am up the sympathy for the negros in the story...You'll need a little bit of intelligence to understand this:
Tulsa goes grave digging as it looks for answers in infamous 1921 race riot
Nearly a century after one of the most horrific episodes in American history, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, may soon be getting insight into a crime scene that was never fully investigated.
"This is blood land, this was a sacred space where people were burned alive," said Rev. Dr. Robert Turner. "The Greenwood District is not just a tourist site, it's a crime scene."
Turner leads the only African-American church in the Greenwood area that was left standing after the infamous 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, which destroyed one of the nation's wealthiest black communities. But Vernon Chapel A.M.E. Church, he said, was not left unscarred by the violence that took place on May 31, 1921.
"We have the only building that survived the massacre," Turner said — but he added, "we have members who died on that day."
A 2001 report by an Oklahoma commission dedicated to the event shows that the rampage was sparked by an incident when a black shoe shiner tripped over a white elevator operator and was accused of sexual assault of the 17-year-old girl.
Shortly after news broke out of the alleged assault, a white lynch mob was formed around the jail where the shoe shiner was being held. That prompted a group of armed black men to offer their services to protect the inmate, and it wasn't long before a confrontation broke out between a black and white man that led to an accidental shot being fired.
This signaled the start of a gunfight that would eventually stream into Greenwood as a white mob entered the city and destroyed much of its property.
Buildings and homes were burned and looted, and what was left of what was a bustling financial district — which Booker T. Washington and others called "Negro Wall Street" — looked charred and dismal. While accounts vary, the report estimated 30 to 300 deaths and the displacement of a majority of the town's black residents.
Theyve looked for these supposed mass graves before, but they never find anything because its just an urban legend.