Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 1, 2023

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.

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-Wilson
@Rycaut I once shook hands with a man whose father shook hands with a man who shook the hand of Beethoven.
Jun 1, 2023 at 8:44amWeb
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"