facing this countrys real history of the treatment of blacks
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Truthmatters
"We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy."
--February 1999, opening address at the debate on the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
--February 1999, opening address at the debate on the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
evince
Truthmatters
If you claim to honor Mandela then you should honor the path he set his people on that HEALED them enough to move forward.
Face the reality of what this country did to black people.
don't make excuses
don't get all defensive and say they should just forget the history
act like you want to come together.
stop laying in the road and screaming " I don't want to see a better country just run my speed bump ass over"
get on the bus we wont even make you sit in the back.
That is what Madela told his people of all colors.
they got on the bus
Face the reality of what this country did to black people.
don't make excuses
don't get all defensive and say they should just forget the history
act like you want to come together.
stop laying in the road and screaming " I don't want to see a better country just run my speed bump ass over"
get on the bus we wont even make you sit in the back.
That is what Madela told his people of all colors.
they got on the bus
cawacko
Well-known member
""I hope that I'm not alienating anyone with my Nationalist banter. I'm from a community that has had a hard time here for as long as I can remember, one rife with immense pain and recurring setbacks. IN SPITE OF this history we have at every step made progress above beyond the prior generation. HOWEVER, I am part of a generation which for the first time will NOT (we can change this) exceed the strides made by the previous. What is even more alarming than that mutable statistic is the fact that information, communication, and hence opportunity for us seems to be at an unprecedented high. Thus I am very distressed and preoccupied with changing this trajectory. I am not a racialist (race is a farce) but I do feel that African Americans need to create a job and trade base amongst ourselves, similar to Latin- and Asian- Americans. Our disconnection with our homeland makes our position very different than those groups, yet we have the means to reconnect, or create a base here. We consistently seem neglect to take advantage of the opportunity to do so, and that perplexes me to no end.""
evince
Truthmatters
http://www.rosenwaldharlanites.org/Latest/BLACK-WALLSTREET-TULSA-OKLAHOMA-1921.html
this is the real history.
tell me why you don't know about it?
The Date Was June 1, 1921, "BLACK WALL
STREET"
The name fittingly given to one of the most
affluent All-BLACK Communities in America,
was bombed from the air and Burned to the
ground by mobs of envious Whites. In a
period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once
thriving Black Business District in northern
Tulsa lay smoldering -- a model Community
destroyed and a major African-American
economic movement resoundingly defused.
The Night's Carnage left some 3,000 African
Americans Dead and over 600 Successful
Businesses Lost. Among these were 21 Churches,
21 Restaurants, 30 Grocery Stores and 2 Movie Theaters, plus A Hospital, A Bank, a Post Office, Libraries, Schools, Law Offices, a half dozen
Private Airplanes and even A Bus System.
As could have been expected, the impetus
behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan,
working in consort with Ranking City Officials
and many other Sympathizers.
this is the real history.
tell me why you don't know about it?
The Date Was June 1, 1921, "BLACK WALL
STREET"
The name fittingly given to one of the most
affluent All-BLACK Communities in America,
was bombed from the air and Burned to the
ground by mobs of envious Whites. In a
period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once
thriving Black Business District in northern
Tulsa lay smoldering -- a model Community
destroyed and a major African-American
economic movement resoundingly defused.
The Night's Carnage left some 3,000 African
Americans Dead and over 600 Successful
Businesses Lost. Among these were 21 Churches,
21 Restaurants, 30 Grocery Stores and 2 Movie Theaters, plus A Hospital, A Bank, a Post Office, Libraries, Schools, Law Offices, a half dozen
Private Airplanes and even A Bus System.
As could have been expected, the impetus
behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan,
working in consort with Ranking City Officials
and many other Sympathizers.
evince
Truthmatters
evince
Truthmatters
Now think about this.
Madela was alive when those people were MURDERED simpley because they were doing exactly what you racist scream you want blacks to do.
They had created a great community and your white hate filled brethren killed them and BOMBED them from the AIR.
then they rounded them all up.
what did they do to the live people ?
do you even know?
Madela was alive when those people were MURDERED simpley because they were doing exactly what you racist scream you want blacks to do.
They had created a great community and your white hate filled brethren killed them and BOMBED them from the AIR.
then they rounded them all up.
what did they do to the live people ?
do you even know?
evince
Truthmatters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa,_Oklahoma#Post_riot
The riot began because of the alleged assault of a white elevator operator, 17-year old Sarah Page, by an African American shoeshiner, 19-year old Dick Rowland (the case against Mr. Rowland was eventually dismissed). The Tulsa Tribune got word of the incident and chose to publish the story in the paper on May 31, 1921. Shortly after the newspaper article surfaced, there was news that a white lynch mob was going to take matters into its own hands and kill Dick Rowland.[6]
A group of armed white men congregated outside the jail and, subsequently, a group of African American men joined the assembled crowd in order to protect Dick Rowland. There was an argument in which a white man tried to take a gun from a black man, and the gun fired a bullet up into the sky. This incident promoted many others to fire their guns, and the violence erupted on the evening of May 31, 1921. Whites flooded into the Greenwood district and destroyed the businesses and homes of African American residents. No one was exempt from the violence of the white mobs; men, women, and even children were killed by the mobs.
Troops were eventually deployed on the afternoon of June 1, but by that time there was not much left of the once thriving Greenwood district. Over 600 successful businesses were lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half-dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. Note—It was a time when the entire state of Oklahoma had only two airports, yet six blacks owned their own planes.
It was suspected by many blacks that the entire thing was planned because many white men, women and children stood on the borders of the city and watched as blacks were shot, burned and lynched. In addition, some of the black-owned airplanes were stolen by the white mob and used to throw cocktail bombs & dynamite sticks from the sky.[11] Property damage totaled $1.5 million (1921).[11] Although the official death toll claimed that 26 blacks and 13 whites died during the fighting, most estimates are considerably higher. At the time of the riot, the American Red Cross estimated that over 300 persons were killed. The Red Cross also listed 8,624 persons in need of assistance, in excess of 1,000 homes and businesses destroyed, and the delivery of several stillborn infants.[6]
The riot began because of the alleged assault of a white elevator operator, 17-year old Sarah Page, by an African American shoeshiner, 19-year old Dick Rowland (the case against Mr. Rowland was eventually dismissed). The Tulsa Tribune got word of the incident and chose to publish the story in the paper on May 31, 1921. Shortly after the newspaper article surfaced, there was news that a white lynch mob was going to take matters into its own hands and kill Dick Rowland.[6]
A group of armed white men congregated outside the jail and, subsequently, a group of African American men joined the assembled crowd in order to protect Dick Rowland. There was an argument in which a white man tried to take a gun from a black man, and the gun fired a bullet up into the sky. This incident promoted many others to fire their guns, and the violence erupted on the evening of May 31, 1921. Whites flooded into the Greenwood district and destroyed the businesses and homes of African American residents. No one was exempt from the violence of the white mobs; men, women, and even children were killed by the mobs.
Troops were eventually deployed on the afternoon of June 1, but by that time there was not much left of the once thriving Greenwood district. Over 600 successful businesses were lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half-dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. Note—It was a time when the entire state of Oklahoma had only two airports, yet six blacks owned their own planes.
It was suspected by many blacks that the entire thing was planned because many white men, women and children stood on the borders of the city and watched as blacks were shot, burned and lynched. In addition, some of the black-owned airplanes were stolen by the white mob and used to throw cocktail bombs & dynamite sticks from the sky.[11] Property damage totaled $1.5 million (1921).[11] Although the official death toll claimed that 26 blacks and 13 whites died during the fighting, most estimates are considerably higher. At the time of the riot, the American Red Cross estimated that over 300 persons were killed. The Red Cross also listed 8,624 persons in need of assistance, in excess of 1,000 homes and businesses destroyed, and the delivery of several stillborn infants.[6]
evince
Truthmatters
South Africa was EVEN worst to black people.
the Africaners treated them like half slaves.
20% white and 80% black.
guess why the were terrified of the black population?
one of the reasons south Africa was able to heal its wounds and make a go of it together was that NONE of the history was buried.
ALL THE FACTS were laid bare.
they all get taught in school as the REAL history of the country.
the Africaners treated them like half slaves.
20% white and 80% black.
guess why the were terrified of the black population?
one of the reasons south Africa was able to heal its wounds and make a go of it together was that NONE of the history was buried.
ALL THE FACTS were laid bare.
they all get taught in school as the REAL history of the country.
evince
Truthmatters
this country is living a lie every day we don't teach ALL of our history.
If it makes you feel guilty to read the real history maybe you NEED to feel guilty and LEARN to be a better person.
It doesnt not make me feel guilty.
It makes me feel good our country stopped this type of shit.
It makes me feel good that we can become a better place.
Its time to KEEP becoming a better place and teach the REAL history of this country to EVERYONE!
Black history is American history.
pretending its not for everyone is insane
If it makes you feel guilty to read the real history maybe you NEED to feel guilty and LEARN to be a better person.
It doesnt not make me feel guilty.
It makes me feel good our country stopped this type of shit.
It makes me feel good that we can become a better place.
Its time to KEEP becoming a better place and teach the REAL history of this country to EVERYONE!
Black history is American history.
pretending its not for everyone is insane
evince
Truthmatters
I know no one here will admit they didn't already know this history.
I didn't know it.
think of how I already feel about the treatment of black people in this country and realize I didn't know this history until I was 56 years old.
If you don't go teach your kids that this happened in the USA then you don't want your kids to know the truth.
why would you want to keep the reality from your children?
Your own GUILT
I didn't know it.
think of how I already feel about the treatment of black people in this country and realize I didn't know this history until I was 56 years old.
If you don't go teach your kids that this happened in the USA then you don't want your kids to know the truth.
why would you want to keep the reality from your children?
Your own GUILT
evince
Truthmatters
you even refuse to accept the current evil treatment of black people that has gone all the way to the SCOTUS.
you just pretend its not there even when its right in your face.
You can never be good for this country ever again until you accept the REALITY of the history of our country.
You will FOREVER FAIL.
You will FOREVER LOSE.
YOU will gulp tar
you will slam the toilet lid closed.
you will lie in the road like a speed bump screaming " I cant live in a better world just run me over".
you children will learn the history someday and wonder why you never told them it
you just pretend its not there even when its right in your face.
You can never be good for this country ever again until you accept the REALITY of the history of our country.
You will FOREVER FAIL.
You will FOREVER LOSE.
YOU will gulp tar
you will slam the toilet lid closed.
you will lie in the road like a speed bump screaming " I cant live in a better world just run me over".
you children will learn the history someday and wonder why you never told them it