• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    Or Tulsa, where the whites were like “go make your own black town!” So they did, and prospered while the whites stayed poor. So the whites just straight up raped, pillaged and burned the black town and got away with it

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      Worse part of The Tulsa Race Massacre is it took fucking tv show for it to become widely known. My wife and ex wife grew up here never heard of it. Not fucking once had it been taught in schools. Now the local media talks about it constantly. But only because it had been exposed by the HBO show Watchman. Fucking racist fucks all around.

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        Really? Even I as a random European know about it. I have never heard of the show though.

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            16 hours ago

            Exactly when I saw that episode turn to my wife asked if true. She said same thing never heard about it.

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              They did update the standards to include it, and it is more common now for people to know about it now. There was a high school robotics team I remember that might have done something to help with some search for the mass graves, and I know a local university has done field trips to Greenwood.

              Viola Fletcher passed away a few months ago. Never got any form of reparations.