MaryJoJun 1, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Today was the 102 year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in which white supremacist terrorists mass murdered 300 Black Americans.

Here's how media reported on it—a complete erasure of Black people.

Three Tulsa survivors—Hughes Van Ellis, 102, Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, and Viola Fletcher, who just turned 109, are with us today. They are the oldest living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. They have received $0 reparations.

This isn't ancient history. It's contemporary reality.

Jun 1, 2023 at 4:25amWeb
Show threadHurricane DaveosaurusJun 1, 2023
@QasimRashid Appalling take from the Ashburton Guardian, South Island, New Zealand: effectively "they should have done it sooner". https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19210603.2.30?end_date=31-12-1921
Show threadBrad AckermanJun 1, 2023
@QasimRashid And far too many people only know about it because they saw HBO's _Watchmen_ series.
Show threadanubis2814Jun 1, 2023
@backerman @QasimRashid People have to learn things somewhere, sometimes entertainment uses their powers for good,
Show threadAgoraJun 1, 2023
@backerman @QasimRashid too woke. According to Cons.
Show thread: j@fabrica:~/src;  Jun 2, 2023
@backerman @QasimRashid Especially among Tulsans. I’ve heard there is more awareness now, but I’d never hear of it before I went to Booker T Washington high school around the corner from the neighborhood.
It’s also important to know that Tulsa politicians destroyed the neighborhood’s resurgence again in the 60s with “urban development” eminent domain, esp teardowns for highways and parking lots.
Show threadBump On The Wire ⚛️Jun 2, 2023
@backerman @QasimRashid a series that wasn’t even filmed in Tulsa.
Show threadShannon ClarkJun 1, 2023
when I was a kid of about 10 I met a WWI (not WWII, WWI) veteran who lived in my town (he had lied about his age to enlist at 16). He remembered seeing and meeting Civil War veterans in his childhood (the last person with a Civil War pension actually died in 2020 a descendant of a veteran). As a kid I realized that some of those veterans he had met could have in their own childhoods met veterans of the Revolutionary War. My own great-grandparents whom I met were born in the 1800's
Show threadTim Holt-WilsonJun 1, 2023
@Rycaut I once shook hands with a man whose father shook hands with a man who shook the hand of Beethoven.
Show threadPaul H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺Jun 1, 2023

@timholtwilson @Rycaut

I know this is a very serious topic, but Tim, I'll see your Beethoven and raise you "My grandfather trod on Lord Louise Mountbatten's foot"

Show threadDaniel BrotherstonJun 1, 2023
@QasimRashid Wasn't there also a city which elected some black representatives, and then white racists overthrew the city government, installed their own people, and that government lives on today.
Show threadcaitpJun 1, 2023
@QasimRashid Ordinary people do fucked up things when fucked up things become ordinary, and encouraged by the system. It might look like media celebrating kyle rittenhouse as a hero, or acquittal or minimal sentencing, or education systems glossing over reasons for injustice while media portrays black people or "others" as inherently threatening -- the next time, maybe it'll be 10 Kyles, or 100, if we can't get around to actually fixing this.
Show threadAgoraJun 1, 2023
@caitp @QasimRashid I mean, many lawmen were open members of the KKK!!!
Show threadSecond Chance BikesJun 1, 2023
@QasimRashid
this and probably many similar but smaller stories are exactly what today's white supremacists want to keep secret
Show threadTC Won't Give In To LiesJun 1, 2023
@QasimRashid
Not erased in the Black press of the time
Show thread🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Jun 1, 2023

@QasimRashid The media has always provided cover.

There is no definite number of deaths, even today. Last I saw they were using radar to id mass graves. Didn't even keep records to discover. Secrecy because it was criminal and they knew it. Coverup to protect the guilty

Show threadAgoraJun 1, 2023
@QasimRashid “too woke to be taught to white kids” so, no one will learn this history🙄
Show threadreallyJimJun 1, 2023

@QasimRashid ...and like the 5th anniversary of me being aware of it.

Watchmen, yes, but at least it prompted me to learn about it.

Show threadALB1Jun 1, 2023
@QasimRashid as someone who lives in OK I never heard a peep about this till I was out of school and on the internet. Nobody in this sespool of fascism squeaks a word about it.
But the preacherteachers I was forced to listen to will yell you charles manson and maralyn manson is the same person. And youll go to hell just being a gay person the same as a mass murdering child rapist. Priorities, amirite.
Show threadBump On The Wire ⚛️Jun 2, 2023
@EdenCybernetic @QasimRashid Tulsa native checking in. I learned about it in high school through an extra credit project. It was not part of the curriculum. This was in 96/97.
Show threadMaryPotJun 2, 2023

@QasimRashid

I only learned about this about a year ago. They have done a good job of hushing it up - until it got shared on the internet and reshared!

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

Tulsa race massacre - Wikipedia