I've never forgotten this history since the day I learned it. Thank you for making this video. We will never do better as a society until we learn to face what we've done. This is why the right is so desperately trying to ban books and so-called CRT. It's not just that they don't want people to learn ABOUT our history, they don't want us to learn FROM our history.
This haunts me along with so much of our history…Ur absolutely right. Everyone should have woken up when book bans started. People always ask how anyone could just stand by as it’s happening. We’ve seen it ourselves and I STILL can’t believe it. The trail of tears is another one 😭
It’s weird because when I heard about it. I was 10 years old, it was kind of strange though. Because you had like a portion of the city that refused to acknowledge its existence. With another half had full knowledge about it.
People who like to say "oh, that's ancient history" don't realize my own racist grandfather was 36 years old in 1921. Time passes both more quickly and more slowly than most people realize.
The last surviving civil war vet died in 1956. A man who shot traitor tots in the civil war lived to see the invention of the plane, 2 world wars, the atom bomb, the radio, the television, color TV… he lived long enough to see Eisenhower elected president and ride on a jet plane, and died a year before the first satellite was launched into space…. History is rarely as far in the rear view as we think it is
@off_jawaggon did you know that on February 19th 1600 that volcano, Huaynaputina erupted in peru and it was the most violent volcano recorded in history to date, I would say that's about as relevant as what you posted. So when you figure out what the point to all of this is, maybe you can let me know. I'm sure next I'll hear you talking about reparations,
Embarrassingly i was not aware of how black people orignally arrived in oklahoma! Thank you for that information that i should have been well aware of. The massacre was horrendous and despite my education in history a story i had to find out about on my own years afterwards. Check out the wilmington nc massacre, the only time in american history that a legally elected government was violently removed and replaced as well as black people being once again forcibily expelled from their urban community. Another interesting governmental relocation of population was the discharge of gay men out of the navy into san francisco after ww2 leading to the strong gay community that we find there through today. Important story, thanks for highlighting this sad event that every american needs to be informed about.
Not anymore. It surged back into the spotlight and has helped revitalize the district. I've been there. It is amazing to meet people to go into the businesses and talk with them to touch the bricks that are melted into stone because of the heat of the fires. It is a truly, truly powerful place. And I hope everyone gets the chance to go there and then go to Oklahoma City and go to the Murray building and see where the hate of your government takes you.
You're absolutely right! It took awhile, but it's now a thriving community. I used to live in Tulsa and I was fortunate enough to watch a Tower of Power concert near that location.
I was 32 when I learned about this, High School, college, and university history did not ever mention this not once, thank goodness for documentaries, PBS, and TH-cam.
Sir, we had something similar in Springfield, Illinois, Abe Lincoln's home town, in 1908. See Wikipedia for the Springfield Race Riot. Poet Vachel Lindsay's father was a doctor who treated many injured Black people, but even so he had to do it on the sly for fear of retaliation. It was also the catalyst for the formation of the NAACP. It's now a National Monument administered by the National Park Service.
I learned about the Tulsa massacre on the Watchmen HBO show😳 Very pissed off that it took a comic book show to teach me about such an important event in this ongoing debacle of a country. Thanks for dismantling the public education system 👍🖕
I've lived in Oklahoma 60+ years and only found out about this 15-20 years ago from the book "A Fire in Beulah", by Oklahoma author Rilla Askew. Another dark stain on our state's history.
"ignorance is not an excuse"... Isn't that the 'Asset Class' s' go-to...? Lest anyone forgets, much of American Tort law has it's basic roots in the European Feudalism era...
😂😂😂😂 I hope maybe one time you point out like a some of the other massacres like rosewood and other stuff and how black people have been being executed for a long time but your content of course. Secondly, thank you so much for once. It seems like a person not dark-skinned finally gets it now. If we could just get some of you guys to start wearing black lives matter stuff. The revolution being full swing. But again thank you for the video ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
I don't believe the Indians who owned slaves freed them until emancipation. The wealthier Cherokees put their slaves to work clearing land and building houses and plowing fields, just like they were doing back home.
I can’t say for sure, but I told the story as I read it about with the best information I could find. I’m sure at least some held on to their slaves though
@@off_jawaggon I was referencing information from: The 1619 Project. I'm sure there is nuance to the story. I like how you worded the statement: "The so-called civilized tribes...". When I first encountered the history of the Trail of Tears in: Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, I was appalled that the tribes that were so compliant and accepting of "white man's ways" (even up to the point of owning black slaves) that these were the people that were forcibly removed from their lands and subjected to abuse and humiliation, and in many cases death.
The Tulsa massacre itself is a classic example of who was forced into the trail of tears. Greenwood was a well to do middle class community fulfilling civic functions as successful united states citizens and this was exactly why they were targeted....one must stay in their place in a stratified society and Tulsas greenwood community far exceeded its place. As for the Indians releasing their slaves, I'm sure a few were freed and they joined with the perhaps larger number that simply ran away in lawless and wide open territory that lacked legal structure or slave hunting officials and plenty of wilderness to disappear into. It would be a great subject for careful study if such information could possibly be teased out of I'm sure a very scant historical record.
Ok, so you believe that natives, displaced people, that were in the process of loosing their land, livilyhood and in most cases their lives, had slaves??????? And then once they got to Oklahoma they let them go????? Most of time you sound intelligent and present yourself with critical thinking skills! You presenting this information as fact diminishes that!!!!!
Unfortunately that's the whitewashed version of history. Even when their heart is in the right place the information they have to work with is typically slanted.
Natives had slaves. Was it like the chattel slavery that was in white areas. No. But it existed and happened. To say this is false is to diminish how the Native tribes treated those enslaved people. Most slaves held by tribes where treated well and where given tribal status once the servitude had been paid. No tribe was a monolith, but do tell the truth.
American exceptionalism is racism misspelled.
So many horrific things swept under the rug for decades. Thanks for talking about these things.
And it’s still going on today. Just take a look at our justice system.
I've never forgotten this history since the day I learned it. Thank you for making this video. We will never do better as a society until we learn to face what we've done. This is why the right is so desperately trying to ban books and so-called CRT. It's not just that they don't want people to learn ABOUT our history, they don't want us to learn FROM our history.
All the left does is talk about the terrible things the US has done. Howard Zinn is widely taught in public schools. Thomas Sowell is not.
This haunts me along with so much of our history…Ur absolutely right. Everyone should have woken up when book bans started.
People always ask how anyone could just stand by as it’s happening. We’ve seen it ourselves and I STILL can’t believe it. The trail of tears is another one 😭
Trail of Tears... and Death.
Trail of Tears because of Deaths.
I found out about Black Wallstreet and the Tulsamassacre about 1 or 2 years ago. This history must be kept alive and known.
Just “One” of many history stories that need to be told.
My mom, who is almost 80 and grew up in Tulsa, never heard about this until I told her about it 5 years ago. They did a great job suppressing history.
They don't teach it in schools. Public television and TH-cam fill in many gaps for us all. I learned about this around age 32 from a documentary.
That’s insane
It’s weird because when I heard about it. I was 10 years old, it was kind of strange though. Because you had like a portion of the city that refused to acknowledge its existence. With another half had full knowledge about it.
This was never taught in History. I didn’t learn about this until I was in my 40’s. It brought tears to my eyes. Absolutely sick.
This nation really does have one hell of a ray cism problem. Hope we get over it someday. The rich use it as a tool to keep our focus off of them.
People who like to say "oh, that's ancient history" don't realize my own racist grandfather was 36 years old in 1921. Time passes both more quickly and more slowly than most people realize.
I don’t even know your grandfather, much less how old he was in 1921.
So what's your point, want to start giving them reparations or something
The last surviving civil war vet died in 1956.
A man who shot traitor tots in the civil war lived to see the invention of the plane, 2 world wars, the atom bomb, the radio, the television, color TV… he lived long enough to see Eisenhower elected president and ride on a jet plane, and died a year before the first satellite was launched into space….
History is rarely as far in the rear view as we think it is
@off_jawaggon did you know that on February 19th 1600 that volcano, Huaynaputina erupted in peru and it was the most violent volcano recorded in history to date, I would say that's about as relevant as what you posted. So when you figure out what the point to all of this is, maybe you can let me know.
I'm sure next I'll hear you talking about reparations,
Just remember, the Civil War is closer to 2024 than it is to 1776.
Great history lesson .....thanks
I never even heard of this horrific event until I was 50!! It was never brought up anywhere in my education.
Same here. “Lies my teacher told me…”
Thank you for this!! Great that this is brought up and kept alive in our memory!
Thank you for this, Jordan!
i was taught 0% black history nor native American history in school. Shameful. Absolutely shameful.
Always love the history lessons - someday maybe we will actually learn them.
Between Tulsa and Philliy in 1985. I am ashamed and angered that I was well into adulthood before I knew about this.
Thanks for this recent history lesson. Those that don't pay attention to history are doomed to make it happen again.
Embarrassingly i was not aware of how black people orignally arrived in oklahoma! Thank you for that information that i should have been well aware of. The massacre was horrendous and despite my education in history a story i had to find out about on my own years afterwards. Check out the wilmington nc massacre, the only time in american history that a legally elected government was violently removed and replaced as well as black people being once again forcibily expelled from their urban community. Another interesting governmental relocation of population was the discharge of gay men out of the navy into san francisco after ww2 leading to the strong gay community that we find there through today. Important story, thanks for highlighting this sad event that every american needs to be informed about.
Not anymore. It surged back into the spotlight and has helped revitalize the district. I've been there. It is amazing to meet people to go into the businesses and talk with them to touch the bricks that are melted into stone because of the heat of the fires. It is a truly, truly powerful place. And I hope everyone gets the chance to go there and then go to Oklahoma City and go to the Murray building and see where the hate of your government takes you.
You're absolutely right! It took awhile, but it's now a thriving community. I used to live in Tulsa and I was fortunate enough to watch a Tower of Power concert near that location.
Geez…….I wonder why we were never taught this in school??? Hummmm….
I am ashamed to admit I learned about the Tulsa Massacre from the graphic novel, The Watchmen.
I was 32 when I learned about this, High School, college, and university history did not ever mention this not once, thank goodness for documentaries, PBS, and TH-cam.
No way! I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for the info.
Sir, we had something similar in Springfield, Illinois, Abe Lincoln's home town, in 1908. See Wikipedia for the Springfield Race Riot. Poet Vachel Lindsay's father was a doctor who treated many injured Black people, but even so he had to do it on the sly for fear of retaliation. It was also the catalyst for the formation of the NAACP. It's now a National Monument administered by the National Park Service.
Unfortunately, there are many more stories like this but have been totally covered up throughout the south.
This is the Great that MAGA want to go back to Again.
If you want a hard look at history, check this book out:
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action by Vicky Osterweil
😢🌰🌰🌰🌳keep planting trees for knowledge so that at least some of us learn from history.
Solid Journalism.
It was very horrifying a massacre and no accountability. All b.c of money and Greenwood isn't forgotten. Still makes me shudder 😢😢😢
So important to remember and tell this story repeatedly!
Thank you for covering this! It's been buried and forgotten, and whyte washed..
I learned about the Tulsa massacre on the Watchmen HBO show😳 Very pissed off that it took a comic book show to teach me about such an important event in this ongoing debacle of a country. Thanks for dismantling the public education system 👍🖕
I grew up in Oklahoma and knew nothing about the Tulsa massacre until a few years ago. SMH
I've lived in Oklahoma 60+ years and only found out about this 15-20 years ago from the book "A Fire in Beulah", by Oklahoma author Rilla Askew. Another dark stain on our state's history.
Not a story I'm comfortable liking, but not nearly enough people know about it.
"ignorance is not an excuse"... Isn't that the 'Asset Class' s' go-to...?
Lest anyone forgets, much of American Tort law has it's basic roots in the European Feudalism era...
Now do New York City and how the Park was created
We suck....
? Maybe Idelwilde Michigan?
😂😂😂😂 I hope maybe one time you point out like a some of the other massacres like rosewood and other stuff and how black people have been being executed for a long time but your content of course. Secondly, thank you so much for once. It seems like a person not dark-skinned finally gets it now. If we could just get some of you guys to start wearing black lives matter stuff. The revolution being full swing. But again thank you for the video ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
I don't believe the Indians who owned slaves freed them until emancipation. The wealthier Cherokees put their slaves to work clearing land and building houses and plowing fields, just like they were doing back home.
I can’t say for sure, but I told the story as I read it about with the best information I could find. I’m sure at least some held on to their slaves though
@@off_jawaggon I was referencing information from: The 1619 Project. I'm sure there is nuance to the story. I like how you worded the statement: "The so-called civilized tribes...". When I first encountered the history of the Trail of Tears in: Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, I was appalled that the tribes that were so compliant and accepting of "white man's ways" (even up to the point of owning black slaves) that these were the people that were forcibly removed from their lands and subjected to abuse and humiliation, and in many cases death.
The Tulsa massacre itself is a classic example of who was forced into the trail of tears. Greenwood was a well to do middle class community fulfilling civic functions as successful united states citizens and this was exactly why they were targeted....one must stay in their place in a stratified society and Tulsas greenwood community far exceeded its place. As for the Indians releasing their slaves, I'm sure a few were freed and they joined with the perhaps larger number that simply ran away in lawless and wide open territory that lacked legal structure or slave hunting officials and plenty of wilderness to disappear into. It would be a great subject for careful study if such information could possibly be teased out of I'm sure a very scant historical record.
1922 …not 2022
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Ok, so you believe that natives, displaced people, that were in the process of loosing their land, livilyhood and in most cases their lives, had slaves??????? And then once they got to Oklahoma they let them go????? Most of time you sound intelligent and present yourself with critical thinking skills! You presenting this information as fact diminishes that!!!!!
Unfortunately that's the whitewashed version of history.
Even when their heart is in the right place the information they have to work with is typically slanted.
Natives had slaves. Was it like the chattel slavery that was in white areas. No. But it existed and happened.
To say this is false is to diminish how the Native tribes treated those enslaved people. Most slaves held by tribes where treated well and where given tribal status once the servitude had been paid. No tribe was a monolith, but do tell the truth.
🍤 Algorithm food!
OK is not OK.