Tulsa Still Faces Historical Trauma from 1921 Riot That Left 300 Dead on Black Wall Street

Tulsa Still Faces Historical Trauma from 1921 Riot That Left 300 Dead on Black Wall Street ( democracynow.org )

submitted 2016-09-22T16:19 by salvia_d

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stradian 2016-09-22T20:10

The only trauma here is the road construction.

100 and 300. And we’re not going to ever have a definitive number for a number of reasons. There are people who perhaps are buried in mass graves, and that’s still—there’s still a possibly of one or more mass graves here in Tulsa. Records were poor at the time. So, for a number reasons, getting an accurate count is virtually impossible. But what we do know is that the count that was issued at the time, the official count of 37, is far from accurate

Unlikely. With the current construction, and previous modern construction in Tulsa, no mass grave sites has been found. In addition, Dr. Robert Brooks and Dr. Alan H. Witten puts the death counts from the Tulsa Race Riot Commission at "39 black males, 13 white males, and 4 unidentifiable bodies". Far from what Johnson claims. There is only one location that is likely to be a mass grave, and it has yet to be uncovered.

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Pawn 2016-09-22T17:43

I think this is the only city that should have a license to riot. What went on in there is fucked.

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golgotham 2016-09-22T16:21

LOL "Historical Trauma" sounds very much like "Institutional Racism"...

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