Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Plead For Justice
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- ‘Our country may forget this history, but I cannot’ - These Tulsa race massacre survivors shared their emotional stories and told Congress they have ‘waited 100 years’ for justice
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This needs to be mentioned when talking about American History and Black History Month
I feel so sorry for the children these days.
Y'all don't get the same education we had back in our days. Especially during Black History month in a class of 30+ children where each child was made to pick a subject and give a report.
People with children in the public school system need to demand better.
@@thisistheaccountname The reason the educational system is garbage is because of money. No one wants to spend the amount needed just the bare minimum.
@@Christophertruck no.. the reason the education system is garbage is because people with interest of private schools take control. They line their own pockets and ruin the Public education system.
@@MuiKaHo You just agreed with me, it's about money instead of educating the youth properly.
Exactly and how African culture and spirituality directly influenced all Abrahamic religions. Also history on Ancient Pharaohs and the Zulu Empire.
What's almost as disgusting as hearing the replay of this from survivors, is the fact that many people are learning of this for the very 1st time.
I am one of those...learning of this horror for the first time. 😔
You are spot-on with that comment...the fact that many within our own nation remain unaware...it is disgusting.
I heard of it, but didn't know the details.
I understand. It's very sad to witness the darkest side of USA's culture. I live in the Carribbean and we know of several times when the state and anti-black groups massacred the influential and affluent blacks just out of spite and jealousy. Even today there are ongoing protests in Penn, because the remains of a 14yr bombing victim is being used by 4 ivy league colleges in their forensics and pathology faculties in "show and tell" lectures by professors, having been slaughtered along with other children and adults - all 1 family - when the police dropped a bomb on their home in 1985. Only because of the story coming out from someone who was involved with an online lecture. The surviving family wants their loved ones' remains to be able to respectfully lay them to rest. It is very disturbing how the blacks are intentionally kept distracted and apart so as not to be able to access justice, safety and education for themselves and past and future generations.
Im 32 and only learned this about a year ago. The government trying to whitewash their history and bury these tragedies.
@@mdhhthh8593 Elaine massacre
"White men with guns".
A theme that continues to this day.
This is a great example of why they fight so hard to keep them.
@@joshdavis416 Isn't it because they are just looking for an opportunity to create another Tulsa Race Massacre?🤷🏻♀️
Hmm sounds familiar in regards of the Atlanta spa shooting doesn’t ?
@@akshat3422 yeah... Colin nior comes to mind... but that's gonna hurt the narrative...
@@akshat3422 ik but you immediately assume black people have guns because they are black. Your allowed to literally walk around with a gun in America. Look up black vs white gun social experiment vids.
God bless these people. It’s a disgrace that this is not taught in schools. Sad commentary on US education and racism
It was taught in the schools I went to 20 years ago when we got up to that year in History class.
I went to 13 schools, all in the south, and I can remember learning about it at least six times.
Blame it on budget cuts and the mishandling of school funds as well.
In my school we spent longer on this than the holocaust.
I grew up in Oklahoma in the 80s. My school system conveniently forgot to include this with any significance in the curriculum, or I'd remember it. I learned about the massacre from my family members n others who descended from these survivors.
@@leahs.1480 even down here in the little hick town I live in now I went to my second out of three high schools and we learned about it here. It is the school system of today which is why I always get my nieces and nephews educational gifts. I guess I'll be getting them some history books this Christmas.
I learned about the 1921 Tulsa Massacre from watching the 2019 Watchmen series. Racism is an evil virus that persists to this day, 100 years later. Fight against racism! 💪
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X
That's true... that's why people should be good but vigilant.
Never embrace evil, never to killing, stealing and destroying.
That's what's happening with the government and media stooges twisting critical race theory.
@@erickcassibo8172 Oh, really? Are we fools? ☺️
The hater...the "oppressor"..has spewed and spread hate and deception of the hated..the "oppressed" long before "newspapers" and the media.
@@bridgettjohnson7437 Kindly tell the people if this is hate if this will be said... "Never embrace evil, never to killing, stealing and destroying."
I live in Tulsa. That day has destroyed thousands of families in my city. White fragility made them jealous and angry that black Wall Street was so successful
Fragility? More like Violence when they are told to blow up on "those others" by the rich who seek a scape goat to distract them with.
@@letsomethingshine yes and they were more than happy to blow up on “those others” who have stepped out of their place and challenged their fragile white egos
Sad to say that most Americans that didn’t learn about this is college found out through a tv show
Ruffino Vega, its a hidden history for a purpose and when dug up Girngos tried to minimize it . but they sing shoa all day .
Now i am amazed that these survivors of the massacre , not only lived through that horror but they are actually surviving 2 pandemics, since la gripe española was 1918
It’s my understanding that the massacre was presented as a ‘ riot,’ which would make people assume it was started by the Black population of Tulsa.
@@Patricia-sv8zb Another reason that it was called a riot instead of a massacre was so that insurance companies didn't have to cover anything. They would have had to cover a massacre, but they didn't have to cover a riot.
@@PHlophe Humans are a weird bunch, the winner gets to spin the narrative. This was mostly covered up, however when brought up it was spun to seem the black people caused the problem. Now 100 years later look to Israel and Palestine. Whose winning, whose spinning the narrative and how is the rest of the world looking at it. Are the oppressors wrong or those being oppressed.
So in the US case, blacks were brought here and unwillingly treated horrendously for a long time. When finally given a chance to thrive, they were cut back down to size and kicked around for another 100 years and counting. Every time they win some freedoms, bam the oppressors make their lives as difficult as possible so they can continue to make the oppressed look like the bad guys. In Israel the Palestine's are being oppress by the very people who were given the land because they had been oppress by others. We never seem to learn anything. Maybe because again the winners get to spin the narrative. It's time to question the narrative...
The sadder thing is that it was more massacres just like this and even worse. Some even built monuments to commemorate the white people who died while murdering 100s of black people.
Just because the Civil Rights Act was signed doesn’t mean that all injustices was answered that that part of history is over, history doesn’t end it is a never ending page unless we address the past we cannot move in the present and the future.
Ìm lost as to why nobody posted yet, but u r right, and heard yo frfr.
This was tough to watch but it’s necessary. It’s also necessary to start teaching this in schools.
"But that's not patriotic. It makes people hate their country." - Republicans
It's really sad that I learned about this in elementary school in Germany, but when we moved back to the states, I never once heard about it again in school, not even during Black History Month... only saw about it on TV specials occasionally. That's ridiculous.
Message to White Conservatives: It's kind of hard for poor Black Americans to "pick themselves up by their bootstraps" when your actions (be it a century ago, a few decades ago, or even today) like burning down their churches and businesses keep them from achieving economic equality/stability.
How can we pick ourselves up by bootstraps without ever having boots?
@@coreypolk1305 And when we had boots, like in Tulsa, that was a time and place of Black wealth and excellence, people came for our ankles and kneecaps.
You know the funny thing about the saying "Picking yourself up by the bootstraps?"
It was used originally pre 19th century as a way to convey asking the impossible. Like Baron Munchausen pulling himself and his horse out of a swamp by pulling on his own hair.
Somehow it's winded up a normal saying for completing a task unaided.
bro i put in a TH-cam comment in one of this channels vids asking why do white Americans call black and asians living in America african Americans and asian Americans but just call themselves Americans and a guy answered and said that America is predominately white but then i told him that other countries dont call white people born in their countries white africans or white bajans or whatever we just call them bajans or whatever and then the guy had the auducity to say " its our white country and our white rules"
Ohhhhhj Simply put!
We were thriving. We were pulling our selves up by our bootstraps.
They didn't want that to continue. They hate us.
nothing but facts
His country screwed him over and yet he proudly wears his military cap. I hope these folks find justice in their lifetime.
Wow,never thought there were survivors still among the living!God bless them,this is absolutely a chapter of American history that should not be forgotten or swept under the rug!
Exactly! I hate that Republicans want to erase certain sections of history because it will make them “feel guilty”. But they never acknowledge how we, as black people, feel seeing symbols of hate every day. It’s sad we just can’t progress together as a nation but yet be divided by a select few .
There are and there are descendants from them too who have ignorant racists running around talking about any black person who sees racism happening and calls it out are racebaiting. Just more than a slap in the face to the poor victims and their descendants. And i’m sure the descendants of the racist, evil monsters that committed those crimes of that massacres sit there comfortably with all kinds of things that were stolen from black people.
@@anonnnymousthegreat what you're saying is absolute truth...but it's not only us who have been killed and wealth stolen but also the native inhabitants of this land...who are living under foreign occupation to this day!Together we stand,divided we fall!!!
They thought there weren't any alive but there are and have to answer for it. However they don't want want to pay. They don't want to answer for the past as the people pass away so does the history and actual events that occured.
@@spearmonkylan20 wait but arent republicans the same ones who want to keep the statues of racist people for some reason? so if they dont want to feel guilty youd think they would agree to remove them
But they dont want schools to teach this?
Bet few knew victims were still alive.
@Skitzmadpaige Classic racism, use everything in your power to deny chances for other races to succeed so you can claim to be right about how you see them.
@Skitzmadpaige That series was how I found out about the massacre for the first time. I was really surprised (probably shouldn’t have been, but still) that something like that had happened and hadn’t been taught it any of my history classes. I definitely never learned about it in school.
@@maggieburkart907 It's really sad that I learned about this in elementary school in Germany, but when we moved back to the states, I never once heard about it again in school, not even during Black History Month... only saw about it on TV specials occasionally. That's ridiculous.
These were literally the _"hardworking Americans"_ that Conservatives love!
But they were the wrong colour of _"hardworking Americans"_ .
There is a spirit of hate that we are cursed, by all nations, because we killed the prophets and asked for a king- and didn’t want to obey Gods laws. This is not something that can be naturally removed, so you can forget about that!
……… if My people, who are called by My name , shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven , and will forgive their sin and heal the land; 2 Chronicles 7:14
We ARE who we are, yet because we are so hateful, envious, jealous, against each other, we gone continue to suffer injustices until we get right with God
So courages and brave. All of them for telling their story and demanding action.
I will like to hear Taylor Greene and the other GOP come and say that the Tulsa massacre and violence was not real just like January 6th and that these people don't deserve a dime of compensation.
Oh they will. Anything factual isn't real to people like her.
That’s the sad thought
Don't tempt her.
Let's not forget Candice Owens I can guess easily what she will say "That's no excuse for us black people to be 13/50 and poor, stop it guys."
CraftyArts 13/50?
Justice must prevail for the oppressed!
It will. In this life or the next, it will.
In the United States?
No. It mustn't.
The United States is very anti-justice. They are extremely dedicated to it.
@@BrotherKnowledge. why is this so true
To anyone giving this a thumbs down, you are the problem.
Strange, they never taught about this in school...
not strange at all its called whitewashing
If this doesn't move every human being, I honestly don't know what will 😥😥😥
In America, a significant portion of white people celebrate things like this.
@@scottielowe4726 We live with terrorists in our own country to this day.
@@Level1Rookie I'm Black. I know. You're the one late to that realization.
@@scottielowe4726 ? I’m also black lol, so how am I late?
@@Level1Rookie My bad.
Those that forget history are doomed to repeat it.
And those that remember history can ignore it anyways (israel) expelled innocent people from their home in the same decade that they themselves were expelled by a maniac
@@goodebening6564 "those who remember history" ("the oppressor") want to keep it quiet...swept under the rug...erased from history. The fact survivors "expelled" from their homes" are speaking history...a horror that they experienced..lived through...they will NEVER FORGET. If the oppressor realy could get away with it...there would be NO BLACK PEOPLE...NO BLACK HISTORY...PERIOD. We are a RESILLIENT People...WE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE.
That’s why the white supremacists are trying to rewrite history.
It's really sad that I learned about this in elementary school in Germany, but when we moved back to the states, I never once heard about it again in school, not even during Black History Month... only saw about it on TV specials occasionally. That's ridiculous.
Tulsa has got to pay. These people were innocent, living their lives. What if that was us?
The idea is to think we are all part of us. Jesus said, What you do the the least of these, you do to Me.
absolutely. Tulsa, Oklahoma, & the entire Federal government must pay. they dropped bombs on several blocks, burned businesses down, took lives. the survivors & descendants have barely gotten an apology, much less any repayment for lost wealth...
Now the question remains will the U.S not only recognise that this Massacre happened but give what it is owe to them and to their descendants!!??
They will say no it's been so long ago just let it go.
@@Christophertruck I hope you tell Holocaust survivors and survivors of 9/11 that
@@genericusername2276 What do you mean
@@Christophertruck I'm pointing out how telling victims of a massive inhumane event to "let it go" is a horrible thing to say.
Would you tell a survivor of the Holocaust to "let it go"? Would you tell a survivor of 9/11 to "let it go?"
@@genericusername2276 No I would not. What I'm saying is everyone else's struggles have been admitted to and have gotten some type of payout but Black People.
Thank God these folks are alive to tell the history of the Tulsa Massacre. How come I've never heard this story before ? And I grew up watching Oprah too.
Look up the move bombing as well.
Because we teach children the myth of American culture not the truth.
Go to The Zinn Project Online. Just about every race massacre and government sanctioned killing of non-whites is recorded there.
I'm Asian and im reading ebooks since 2018. I found it there
@@ravenandstar that's even more disgusting. Why do they have a justice system then... oh wait?
let me just say that they look fabulous ✨
It took over a minute for me to realize the people testifying are at least a hundred years old.
@@Chas-OTE especially the first lady, the seconsd one had a fly wig tho
@@louisaugustexvi4515 That was the first thing I thought of when I saw her. Got that wig laid baby.🤩😂💃🏽
@@twoplustwo07 exactly she was giving us a whole serve with that bob 💅🏾
Waiting for Marjorie to say it is what it is and Tulsa survivors don’t deserve a dime or a dollar.
@Marlo York Rodriguez No doubt. I'm honestly surprised she didn't pull a stunt like that immediately.
Straight up
I wouldn't be surprised.
Absolutely sickening...🥺💙🙏🏽🦋 Real people with real truths
And THIS is why we need to teach critical race theory. The people that experienced these horrible things in the US’ past won’t always be around. We should learn from the atrocities of the past, not forget them.
It's really sad that I learned about this in elementary school in Germany, but when we moved back to the states, I never once heard about it again in school, not even during Black History Month... only saw about it on TV specials occasionally. That's ridiculous.
Events like the Tulsa massacre are why it's important to always keep truth in the open for all to see. Children need to be educated about these atrocities.
I watched their testimonies & it makes me angry that schools just sweep this history under the rug. America has a terrible past & it’s time to start rectifying the wrongdoing.
They don’t wanna hear it tho because it will teach “white children” to hate their country and selves GTFHOH 😤😡
@@melcardenas389 😒exactly that's why they are crying critical race theory because it shows the dark past that build what is the richest country on earth today. The kids should know how their ancestors got that wealth and power and why was black people enslaved and treated like cattle on a farm. It's the only way they won't grow up being ignorant or insensitive kids they will have more empathy and compassion for each other. Some white folks just really think that they are above every other race and that's because what their privileged ancestors been telling their descendants it still happens today
@Ghost_ Slaayer I said some white folks😒. You only say this because you felt guilt instead of being ashamed of what your ancestors did.
@Ghost_ Slaayer I have to give it to you then because you very well did not listen to maybe a lot of your relatives and friends. We know that people are not born racist but rather taught to be racist. Society as a whole allowed this behavior for years. MLK,Malcolm X , and others leaders pushed to get change which they did by passing the civil rights. Just because some changes happened did not stop WS like society thought it just hid it better up until now. Just think about what I am saying this is why we are seeing the second half of the Civil rights movement. WS killed our leaders back then but they can not kill the whole community now
@@marshalljulie3676 yes it’s very true they just cannot hid it behind closed doors if this theory is taught to the masses of white children. WS is fighting to keep it’s ways under the radar not exposing themselves but we know.✊🏾
Thank you for sharing your stories! It's never too late for justice.
My body is shaking hearing them.... I'm so upset that they are in their age and still fighting for their rights
These icons look great to be over 100 years old
Melodie, got kept them with us for a reason. imagine surving la gripe española , then surviving the massacre by caucasians , and also surviving the current pandemic.
@@PHlophe I didn't even think of that...that's real strength to out live 2 global pandemics and a terrorist attack, plus all the other bs in between.
@@JustCallMeJaph don't forget a genocide
They point out that we have no generational wealth, because at every turn, supremacy ensured we'd never achieve the amerikkkan dream.. Black Wall Street is just one of many places that we as a people built with our blood,sweat and tears,only to be left in tears and ruin.. Central Park sits atop another of our towns,built from the ground up and destroyed because we were never meant to be equal or above..😔
Congress, y'all need to pay these people,while they're still breathing,so that they may taste justice!
Central park needs to be turned into a memorial for that city. They need to have statues and different areas where it will give a history on what was there before it was turned into central park.
Wilmington, North Carolina was another one I learned about not too long ago.
@@anonnnymousthegreat I agree because Black History IS american history! It's been long enough that these atrocities have been covered up and silenced..Now is the time to allow us to know and see just who we were beyond slavery and the Civil Rights Movement..Why are we denied memorials and monuments..?
@@chanique2u Share your knowledge with all who will listen because these atrocities need to be known and our pride needs to be put into where we've come from, because we can and should rebuild..
We all are humans in this earth I hope the spread peace in the world without no violence and no racist ☹️
The courts better make a good ruling. I SWEAR
NEVER FORGET BLACK WALL STREET
In our country, this happened. And the USA has never acknowledged or apologized. 🙁
This ain't nothing new for America. Just ask the native Americans.
@@bigpoppa3999 or Mexicans. Pretty much if your brown, we'll take it.
@@dale8809 not only are they gonna take it, they're also gonna act like it never happened
I’m so happy that they’re still alive to have their stories heard.
The victims have waited way too long for this to be acknowledged. I hope they get the justice they deserve and that this atrocity is taught in textbooks all over the world.
Thank you for sharing their stories. 🙏
I found out about Black Wallstreet when I attended college in Tulsa. Never heard of it before or Juneteenth.
And they'll say "slavery ended and everything was equal"
Hard to come up if you never have that knee lifted.
I’m in my early 30s and I had no idea this occurred until only a few months ago. I’m glad we can bring greater awareness to this happening.
I hate how I never learned about this in school or I did, it may have been mentioned in a paragraph. Like many others, I really learned about it from seeing Watchmen.
It is amazing how I managed to go my whole life without ever learning that this event happened. This was never taught to me in school, and I loved history class. How can I be 36 years old, and just now be looking up information of this event? People need to be taught the truth. They are so brave to come forward and speak like this. We need to be just as brave and teach the truth of our past to the future generations, we owe them that and more.
She said "What did we do?" What yall did was pull yourselves up by your bootstraps and was more successful than them... Thats what yall did. 😠
Let's not forget Rosewood FL
Never forget!!
This is definitely not taught in school. If it is even mentioned, it certainly isn’t in as much depth as it needs to be. Horrifying. 😢 I’m so glad they are able to share with us.
I really hope they get the justice they deserve! I watched a documentary on the Tulsa Race Massacre and it was so so so heart breaking. It really wasn't that long ago, and these folks and their families deserve justice!
No adfence but how old are these people! We are so lucky to have them!
100+ yrs old😊
And if they are alive, I’m sure some of the ones who burned and looted and murdered those residents are also alive and they still should face the consequences
Thank you for calling it what it was: a massacre not a riot
What a sad story,
BLM from Norway 🇳🇴
I pledge allegiance, to all my brothers and sisters in America ❤
I'm a Native American. We have been through much more. But still people forget us!
you at least have gotten acknowledgement and money reparations. you got a genocide of millions so did Africans we became slaves for 400 years your land was occupied for well over that long i'd said were in the same boat in some ways.
I didn't learn about this in school at all, the first time I heard of it was from a movie I saw about a year or so ago. We need to teach our kids about the ugly parts of our history just as much as the shiny parts.
heartbreaking
Thank you for your story.....
That last women is a 106 years, and still waiting on justice. SHAMEFUL America just plain SHAMEFUL!
I'm glad they were able to speak.
It's a reason they survived All these years to tell this story🙏😢
Smh what took them sooooo long!!! Shame
Greenwood was famous even among us Natives. Our elders and Grandparents told us how their parents would travel over to Greenwood for supplies and such. The Massacre was horrible and word of it spread among Natives that the whites were burning down Greenwood, dropping bombs and killing Blacks. Our elders and grandparents called it the Greenwood Massacre and so that's what we know it as. Our families talked about it and taught us about it. Definitely not the schools but our elders, Grandparents and parents told us of it and recounted it often, because it was such an amazing part of town and such a horrific thing when it was destroyed and the people murdered.
I keep seeing news clips where African American kids keep saying they weren't taught about this and they seem to be from Tulsa... I really can't believe any Black/ African American born and raised in Tulsa would not have been told about it... they must have! If anyone whose family was affected reads this please tell me you were taught weren't you?
I do know it depends on the community but some schools in Oklahoma or simply some teachers in Oklahoma actually did tell their students about this in the 60s, 70s and 80s. I read many accounts (comments) online of people saying they were taught and talked about this in their school in Oklahoma and thought that everyone was. I honestly was surprised when people started talking about this like it was just discovered just like I was surprised when people started talking about the Reign of Terror (aka Osage Murders newly coined as Killers of the Flower Moon) as if they just discovered it.
Never forget!
I'm an American citizen, but this is the first I've heard about this massacre. A whole community? I'm shocked. The most I learned about anything dealing with racism in school was brief mentions of slavery related to important events in history like it's abolishment, or Abraham Lincoln's involvement, and other black known individuals who fought against the inequality and wanted better lives back then. Never this kind of learning though.
Is this taught in schools under American history?? If not it should be. People need to know the mistakes made by their ancestors and they need to understand what and why it was wrong so they too will not make these same horrible mistakes.
It’s not, like at all
I am in my sixties and only heard about this horror a few years ago. What a nightmare racism creates.
inb4 tucker carlson complaining they read pre written testimonies and asking 'who wrote them for them an what agenda they have'
I am glad to see that even if its long overdue these people can finally share their story in court.
This needs to be in History books.
What happened in people tulsa is similar to what is happenning with the palestinians. It breaks my heart that this things happened and is still happening to this day. I hope people who has the power to the right should do something about it.
Its about time that this country talked about this. There were many other massacres as well against Black people in this country. Not only this one attacking Black communities or settlements. This is NOT a singular incident.
The TRAUMA they went through should be PAID back. What an atrocity to the black people & their community. Thank GOD they are alive to tell the TRUTH of what really happened.
Not just to them, to all of us. It happened in Black Bottom Detroit as well. They have shown what they do to us.
It will Never Stop.
Why do You have to tell them a million times, It's all Online and in books.
They know what they have done.
Keep in mind that the national gaurd joined the clan in attacking black wall street. When the first woman commented about hearing the planes it's because the national gaurd was shooting at them from above.
Don't forget that the Sheriffs actually deputized a lot of the white mob, so if one of them were killed, the black person that did it would get so much more time. That also gave the white deputies the ability to arrest the survivors.
The past, that revisionists would like us to forget, really wasn't that long ago.
Mercy!🙏
It saddens me to know that people has to use a skin color to address other people...just because they have darker skin doesn't mean they're inferior, we are all humans. We should love and respect other people, regardless of their skin color
It's really sad that I learned about this in elementary school in Germany, but when we moved back to the states, I never once heard about it again in school, not even during Black History Month... only saw it on TV specials occasionally. That's ridiculous.
It’s crazy how it’s so hard for people to believe that the effects of institutionalized racism still exist when there are also people alive today who experienced one of the most horrific singular acts in the entire American history; their homes burned, neighbors killed, and lives destroyed simply because of the color of their skin. These are people had their city destroyed, everything their parents worked so hard to achieve, by their white neighbors throwing literal bombs out of airplanes, and you are able to hear something they said this very day, in the year 2021, from your home on your computer or phone. Just let that sink in for a minute.
These survivors have my deepest sympathies.
Even after what was done to Mr. Van Ellis and his community this man still served in the Army.
I can't express the range of thoughts and feelings I have right now. An Army veteran myself.
saddening. so many stories like this one. That get swept under the carpet.
Can you imagine, she is 106 years old and waited 100 years for justice and to be acknowledged by the state. Like people are usually joking when they say they waited 100 years - this is no joke.
The lady is 106! God bless her ❤️
God bless these survivors! 🇺🇸🙏💐
I think it’s crazy and PATHETIC that I had to found out about this threw FACEBOOK while I was in college. It just shows you the mindset of the America.
How could people be so heartless and evil?
Stop the genocide
It's about time.
They won't teach you this in school.
Remember when the police fire bombed the affluent black neighborhood in Philadelphia? I think it was in 1984 or 1986.
Just 1 out of 250
😭😭😓
Never forget Never
The fact that victims are still alive today and people try to frame it like it was a forever ago. It is sad some people don’t see this as a bigger issue.
I don't understand.....why did this even happen?? And, why are we not taught this in school? Breaks my heart to know that people went through that, and in many cases, so many still deal with the effects of racism and prejudice. Terrible!!
American exceptionalism. Racism. Control.
They didn’t want black people to have a successful community that was all black owned businesses.. It was considered a threat.
Their evil rears its head