OMG! Just heard from friend---rhere are people blocking I44 in TULSA! At Peoria!

[bobbieinok]

She said cops blocked the freeway. Are being 'good'

If it's happening in OK........

[brewens]

1. This time we really get to find out how something plays in Peoria. n/t

[DURHAM D]

2. Well, it is the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre

https://www.essence.com/news/tulsa-race-massacre-99th-anniversary/

https://www.tulsaworld.com/tulsa-race-massacre-this-is-what-happened-in-tulsa-in-1921/collection_3763032b-1ecb-5203-b256-2ba1c370f6af.html#1

[malaise]

3. IT happened 99 years ago today

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100213512762

[stillcool]

5. jeezus...I had no idea.

[SharonClark]

4. Thanks for posting. I'd never heard of that race riot.

[KatyaR]

6. It wasn't a riot. It was a massacre.

I'm a native Oklahoman, and no, we didn't learn this in school.

[Leghorn21]

7. It wasn't a riot. It was a slaughter.

A well-kept secret, Sharon - I'm almost 70 years old and just heard about it in the last few years -

[WhiteTara]

9. That wasn't a race riot

unless you are saying the whites were rioting and killilng people who were black and had wealth. They brought in planes and shot from above and filled the river with bodies.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. could it be possibly be this ?

https://kfor.com/news/local/protester-hit-by-vehicle-during-protest-in-tulsa-over-george-floyds-death/

[bobbieinok]

10. Looks like it