Charles Blow, NYT: Eyewitness to the Desolation of "Black Wall Street"

[McCamy Taylor]

Mr Blow interviews a 103 year old survivor and witness of the Tulsa ethnic cleansing called the Tusla Race Riot of 1921. A must read. This is the pre-FDR America that New federalists are trying to restore. A land where all but the top 1% live in poverty and despair--and the 99% are too busy killing each other to notice how squalid and miserable their lives have become. When will we finally achieve a country where the corporate bosses do not keep wages low by pitting one ethnic group against another?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/olivia-hooker-tulsa-race-riot.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer

[bobbieinok]

1. Attended Tulsa public schools 46-57. Never a word about this.

In the 90s I got to know a black woman in Tulsa. As we talked I said I'd only heard about the Riot fron 1 story my grandma told me. She just looked at me and said 'We have ALWAYS known about this!'

John Hope Franklin's family lived in Tulsa at the time. His dad moved the family out of town after the Riot.

It must be emphsized that it was not the blacks who 'rioted'. It was the whites.

[appalachiablue]

2. K & R. That was horrible in Tulsa, and the period 1917-1920s

saw many attacks on blacks, labor organizers, dissidents, radical 'anarchists' hysteria, the bombing of JP Morgan bank in NYC in 1920, ant-union repression. Since 1917 the fear of Bolshevism was huge, and many issues were causing unrest and reprisals....