What about the Bowling Green massacre?

Very graceful and articulate even at 106 and 107

https://youtu.be/ilQYj3LzhrQ

Telling that few even talked about it until the 80s and 90s. And even then barely.

I don't recall hearing about it until sometime in the last 20 years.

I found it during some type of Wikipedia rabbit hole back in the mid 2000s. Definitely didn’t hear about it in school.

I think my initial reaction was thinking it wasn't true because I hadn't heard about it.

I found it during some type of Wikipedia rabbit hole back in the mid 2000s. Definitely didn’t hear about it in school.

I think there was a paragraph or two dedicated to it in one of my high school history text books in the early 2000s.

I thought it was interesting both Watchmen and Lovecraft Country had plot lines and/or episodes devoted to the event last year.

impressive that Van Ellis chose to serve his country afterwards

What is the federal nexus for this to be a plea for federal reparations?

I see that the producer is analogizing it with the 9/11 victim fund. That is a disaster relief fund. I can see issuing money as disaster relief. Framing it as reparations implies an injury caused by the repairing party. Did the federal government play a role I am not aware of? Educate me if I'm ignorant of facts

Iirc there was a bombing done by the U.S. military.

I imagine Woodrow Wilson probably would have okayed it by telegram in between viewings of Birth of a Nation.

He was drinking tittie milk. It definitely had a bigger impact on his sister -the woman who spoke first- because she was 7 or 8 at the time.

Not surprising to hear that a lie from a woman was responsible for this.

Are you talking about the girl in the elevator? I hadn’t heard her accused of lying before.

Yep! Something about a kid tripping and bumping into her. A female clerk got him arrested for assault. That meant that the men needed to be "men" and protect the women.

I got interested in this after that Coates reparations article. Like many (it seems), I didn’t hear a whole lot about Tulsa back in school. I vaguely recall a reference or picture in a textbook, but nothing that really went into it in sufficient detail.

Anyway, I read some book about it and thought the story was that the girl would not press charges as she said it was a minor interaction. Speculation was either that he bumped into her accidentally or that they were in a relationship. The local dynamics, a recent lynching, racial relations, etc. all kind of created a powder keg.

The radical left instigated the Tulsa race riots knowing that 100 years later they would be able to shame people into paying reparations to the people they themselves victimized. A dastardly cunning plan.

The Tulsa Riots were spearheaded by W. Tate Brady..a Democrat (and Klansman) ...go figure.

Iirc there was a bombing done by the U.S. military.

He was drinking tittie milk. It definitely had a bigger impact on his sister -the woman who spoke first- because she was 7 or 8 at the time.

Not surprising to hear that a lie from a woman was responsible for this.

Southern Democrat and Klansman went together back then..