Far-right Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters suggested at a public hearing in Norman that lessons about the infamous racial massacre that destroyed the most prosperous Black community in Oklahoma don't have to mention race, reported Fox 25 News."The Cleveland County Republican Party invited ...
Hi, Tulsan here. Raised in this city as long as I can remember.
Only in the last few years has the Tulsa Race Massacre entered mandatory curriculum, I didn’t hear about it until college. When I did hear about it, I also heard that it was purposely censored and historical records of newspapers were missing from libraries and the like. All these fuckers do is deny and pretend bad things didn’t happen.
It’s our own Tiannamen Square. To reiterate, it’s the Tulsa Race Massacre. That has never been disputed. They wanted to lynch a black man and destroyed countless black homes. Please keep talking about this race massacre whenever relevant so that we don’t forget it and let the republican disinformation machine claim another casualty.
I grew up in Idaho, I was a grown ass adult when I learned about it, stumbled into it really.
I found out about it because of the black history museum in Washington DC. I knew about some of the events that happened, but had a make eye opening experience going through that museum (And the Native American museum).
My highschool history classes 1000% glossed over 20th century racism and oppression. It was like “the civil war happened, then the civil rights movement made everything hunky dory, the end”.
I stupidly thought racism was just something in our distant past. Antiquated ideas no longer here. I was a naive idiot.