[VIDEO] Over the past weekend we've been hearing a lot about this 1921 race riot out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's been drained in our head over the years how devastating this was to the Black Wall Street there in the Greenwood community over 100 years ago. I even stated that if there are to be reparations I think those affected back then should be entitled to whatever their ancestors were owed from back then.
I think what Officer Tatum is trying to tell you all is to do more research for yourself on this subject. I can be guilty of this unfortunately, there isn't much I know about this unfortunate incident in our history. As most race riots go a crime was alleged against a Black person and a white mob come into Black communities to burn, pillage, and sometimes to kill people. Tulsa of course isn't the first example of this behavior.
And it's funny to hear Tatum say the white folks of Tulsa came and pulled a BLM on Black Wall Street. He would say BLM will become the civil rights movement of the 2020s and even question the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. We had a Black Wall Street in the 1920s and 100 years later we're not even close. It's a legit question to ask, what happened?
On the other hand even as he labels Martin Luther King Jr. as a socialist, I would rather follow MLK Jr. than the Marxists of BLM. MLK is right to want people to be judged on the content of their character not the color of their skin. It seems today's racial/social justice activists want race to absolutely define you as either a victim or an oppressor. That's not the society I want to live in.
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