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People forget that every time black people in America started amassing any considerable collective wealth, there were plenty of discriminatory laws and violent
by michaelchisari 9y ago
People forget that every time black people in America started amassing any considerable collective wealth, there were plenty of discriminatory laws and violent movements ready and willing to take it away from them.
Greenwood, Tulsa always comes to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa
- dTal 9y ago>>Law enforcement officials used airplanes to drop firebombs on buildings, homes, and fleeing families, stating they were protecting against a "Negro uprising." Holy shit. Now there's something they don't teach you in school.
- justjash 9y agoPretty crazy that this is the first time I have heard of that. Our family would take a short trip to Tulsa once or twice a year when I was a kid.
- spacehome 9y ago> the Oklahoma state government with the assistance of Tulsa's white residents massacred hundreds of black residents and razed the neighborhood within hours Words are insufficient. I also didn't learn about this in my history classes.