Wow, no wonder the Nazis looked at what the south was doing to minorities, they not only did copy and “perfected” the use of laws and policies to keep discrimination going, they also must have noticed how big lies from a complicit press can keep the rest of the population under dark and easier then for the powerful to even eliminate the ones that they hate/d.
A veteran of the first world war has become the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa massacre of the Oklahoma city’s Black community, the mayor said on Friday.
Using DNA from descendants of his brothers, the remains of CL Daniel – from Georgia – were identified by Intermountain Forensics, said Mayor GT Bynum and lab officials. Daniel was in his 20s when he was killed.
The Department of Justice has just completed a comprehensive report:
Here is the 123 page report:
Honestly that’s not a surprise. How do you prosecute a crime that occurred over a hundred years ago? Any possible defendants are dead, as are any possible witnesses and surviving victims.
eta: Looking back in the thread, I see I may have made the same mistake twice. I assumed four years ago there were no surviving victims and was shown I was wrong. So some of those victims might still be alive and I might be wrong again.
I don’t know if actually prosecuting anyone was really the main goal. Given that many of us probably never heard about this in the first place, I didn’t know until around until I was around 25, for the feds to acknowledge it happened is a step in the right direction.
I first heard about it four years ago when Extra History did a nine-minute video on it.
I first heard about it in the late 1990s or very early 2000s watching a show on The History Channel. That was back before they had all those shows about ancient aliens, ice road Truckers, and people looking to buy and sell antiques. I was flabbergasted not only by the scale but that I had never heard a thing about it in school.
In school, but few details.
I heard about it, but only in the last five or so years. Appalling is not the word.
I grew up in Tulsa and went to junior high and high on the north side of town where the massacre occurred. In fact, my junior high, Carver Middle School, named after George Washington Carver, was located on Greenwood Avenue, which was the name of the area of Tulsa where the massacre happened. So yes, I know quite a bit about it.
So what kind of slant did the schools give to it?