It's Time To Forget About Black Wallstreet & Juneteenth

[rhym3pays]

http://www.ebony.com/black-history/t...all-street-405


So a black co-worker of mine told me this weekend he and his family was celebrating something called "Juneteenth" -- I have never heard of this nor did I know this was something that was celebrated. He told me Juneteenth is just a holiday in honor of the African Americans (especially in the southern states), who were given emancipation from slavery in Texas on that day in 1865.

He then went on to tell me that they also use this as an opportunity to memorialize a tragedy that happened back in the 1920's called "Black Wallstreet" -- again, this is something else I never heard about. So I researched for myself -- in summary, Black Wallstreet was a predominately black district (about 40 square blocks) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was considered one of the wealthiest districts in the state, definitely among the wealthiest black districts in the country -- equipped with their own schools, hospitals, an airport and the biggest church in the city.

Ultimately the whole area was reduced to rubble during a riot where over 300 black folks were murdered, 1300 homes destroyed, 150 businesses burned down, that big church also was burned down -- 9000 other black folks were left homeless and lived in tents into the winter -- 6000 more black folks were arrested. I was told this was the first time that US planes were used to drop incendiary devices on their own citizens.

One eyewitness wrote: “I could see planes circling in mid-air. They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top,” wrote Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960).

While reading all this I was puzzled as to why would black people even want to remember something like this? Why remember a riot in which you burned down your own neighborhood, killed your own people, and even attacked the white people who were there to help you? Why would they continue to celebrate Juneteenth? When most of them are still on the same plantations that Lincoln freed them from -- I then realized, blacks' propensity to always want to remember tragedies that they inflicted on themselves is something you can't make them stop doing. I definitely won't be celebrating Juneteenth.

[katzgar]

http://www.ebony.com/black-history/t...all-street-405


So a black co-worker of mine told me this weekend he and his family was celebrating something called "Juneteenth" -- I have never heard of this nor did I know this was something that was celebrated. He told me Juneteenth is just a holiday in honor of the African Americans (especially in the southern states), who were given emancipation from slavery in Texas on that day in 1865.

He then went on to tell me that they also use this as an opportunity to memorialize a tragedy that happened back in the 1920's called "Black Wallstreet" -- again, this is something else I never heard about. So I researched for myself -- in summary, Black Wallstreet was a predominately black district (about 40 square blocks) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was considered one of the wealthiest districts in the state, definitely among the wealthiest black districts in the country -- equipped with their own schools, hospitals, an airport and the biggest church in the city.

Ultimately the whole area was reduced to rubble during a riot where over 300 black folks were murdered, 1300 homes destroyed, 150 businesses burned down, that big church also was burned down -- 9000 other black folks were left homeless and lived in tents into the winter -- 6000 more black folks were arrested. I was told this was the first time that US planes were used to drop incendiary devices on their own citizens.

One eyewitness wrote: “I could see planes circling in mid-air. They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top,” wrote Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960).

While reading all this I was puzzled as to why would black people even want to remember something like this? Why remember a riot in which you burned down your own neighborhood, killed your own people, and even attacked the white people who were there to help you? Why would they continue to celebrate Juneteenth? When most of them are still on the same plantations that Lincoln freed them from -- I then realized, blacks' propensity to always want to remember tragedies that they inflicted on themselves is something you can't make them stop doing. I definitely won't be celebrating Juneteenth.

You not knowing about stuff isn't surprising in the least

[Bourbon]

WHO?

[ThatOwlWoman]

Poor Katrina.

[Zarathustra]

http://www.ebony.com/black-history/t...all-street-405


So a black co-worker of mine told me this weekend he and his family was celebrating something called "Juneteenth" -- I have never heard of this nor did I know this was something that was celebrated. He told me Juneteenth is just a holiday in honor of the African Americans (especially in the southern states), who were given emancipation from slavery in Texas on that day in 1865.

He then went on to tell me that they also use this as an opportunity to memorialize a tragedy that happened back in the 1920's called "Black Wallstreet" -- again, this is something else I never heard about. So I researched for myself -- in summary, Black Wallstreet was a predominately black district (about 40 square blocks) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was considered one of the wealthiest districts in the state, definitely among the wealthiest black districts in the country -- equipped with their own schools, hospitals, an airport and the biggest church in the city.

Ultimately the whole area was reduced to rubble during a riot where over 300 black folks were murdered, 1300 homes destroyed, 150 businesses burned down, that big church also was burned down -- 9000 other black folks were left homeless and lived in tents into the winter -- 6000 more black folks were arrested. I was told this was the first time that US planes were used to drop incendiary devices on their own citizens.

One eyewitness wrote: “I could see planes circling in mid-air. They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top,” wrote Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960).

While reading all this I was puzzled as to why would black people even want to remember something like this? Why remember a riot in which you burned down your own neighborhood, killed your own people, and even attacked the white people who were there to help you? Why would they continue to celebrate Juneteenth? When most of them are still on the same plantations that Lincoln freed them from -- I then realized, blacks' propensity to always want to remember tragedies that they inflicted on themselves is something you can't make them stop doing. I definitely won't be celebrating Juneteenth.

Why are you race-baiting so hard? You sound like one of those neo-confederate retards.

[Jack]

"The Tulsa race riot, sometimes referred to as the Tulsa massacre,[2][3][4][5] Tulsa pogrom,[6][7][8] or Tulsa race riot of 1921, took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a white mob attacked residents and businesses of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] This is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States.[9] The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, at the time the wealthiest black community in the U.S.

More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and more than 6,000 black residents were arrested and detained, many for several days.[10] The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 39 dead, but the American Red Cross estimated 300."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

Thanks for the post, 3pays.

#Remember Waco ... never know when it's your turn?

[Jack]

"Some black people claimed that policemen had joined the mob; others said that National Guardsmen fired a machine gun into the black community and a plane dropped sticks of dynamite.[12] In an eyewitness account discovered in 2015, Greenwood attorney Buck Colbert Franklin described watching a dozen or more planes, which had been dispatched by the city police force, drop burning balls of turpentine on Greenwood's rooftops.[13]

Many survivors left Tulsa. Both black and white residents who stayed in the city were silent for decades about the terror, violence, and losses of this event. The riot was largely omitted from local and state, as well as national, histories: "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place."[14]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

Brother Bourbon, '3pays' may be doing all of us a favor.
Obviously, Sister Owl, a PC Fascist and government stooge, can't see past her nose, so as usual, nothing is expected of her.

[evince]

http://www.ebony.com/black-history/t...all-street-405


So a black co-worker of mine told me this weekend he and his family was celebrating something called "Juneteenth" -- I have never heard of this nor did I know this was something that was celebrated. He told me Juneteenth is just a holiday in honor of the African Americans (especially in the southern states), who were given emancipation from slavery in Texas on that day in 1865.

He then went on to tell me that they also use this as an opportunity to memorialize a tragedy that happened back in the 1920's called "Black Wallstreet" -- again, this is something else I never heard about. So I researched for myself -- in summary, Black Wallstreet was a predominately black district (about 40 square blocks) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was considered one of the wealthiest districts in the state, definitely among the wealthiest black districts in the country -- equipped with their own schools, hospitals, an airport and the biggest church in the city.

Ultimately the whole area was reduced to rubble during a riot where over 300 black folks were murdered, 1300 homes destroyed, 150 businesses burned down, that big church also was burned down -- 9000 other black folks were left homeless and lived in tents into the winter -- 6000 more black folks were arrested. I was told this was the first time that US planes were used to drop incendiary devices on their own citizens.

One eyewitness wrote: “I could see planes circling in mid-air. They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top,” wrote Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960).

While reading all this I was puzzled as to why would black people even want to remember something like this? Why remember a riot in which you burned down your own neighborhood, killed your own people, and even attacked the white people who were there to help you? Why would they continue to celebrate Juneteenth? When most of them are still on the same plantations that Lincoln freed them from -- I then realized, blacks' propensity to always want to remember tragedies that they inflicted on themselves is something you can't make them stop doing. I definitely won't be celebrating Juneteenth.

it was white people who burned it asshole

[evince]

are the Irish supposed to forget the potato famine

[Jack]

it was white people who burned it asshole

I believe '3pays' is fucking with the Drones. Don't be a Drone, evince.
It's perfectly natural for the PC Fascist and government stooge Owl to be brain dead, I expect more from you.

[Jade Dragon]

Why are you race-baiting so hard? You sound like one of those neo-confederate retards.

It's a type of trolling, done to portray a certain side of the aisles bottom scrum.

[Jack]

It's a type of trolling, done to portray a certain side of the aisles bottom scrum.

Were you aware of the Tulsa Riot of 1921? I think it is a device to educate people on something not well known. ... just an opinion.

[ThatOwlWoman]

It's a type of trolling, done to portray a certain side of the aisles bottom scrum.

And if there's anyone who knows trolling, it's Katrina Jack.

[Jack]

Pumpkin.

It's a historical event that has almost been forgotten. '3pays' is bringing it to the attention it deserves. Read the article if you want to inform yourself.

[Jade Dragon]

Pumpkin.

It's a historical event that has almost been forgotten. '3pays' is bringing it to the attention it deserves. Read the article if you want to inform yourself.

Someone just bringing it to attention wouldn't add the racist comments. Don't you agree?