A Trump supporter flies a Confederate flag outside BoK Center in Tulsa.

[highplainsdem]

Tweet posted minutes ago by Bloomberg reporter Rachel Adams-Heard, with video:

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Only one? I thought there would be dozens of those things.

[highplainsdem]

2. I've seen photos of others, but this is the most obvious one I've seen so far.

[onecent]

3. It's NOT over!

[procon]

4. Good! Make Trump own his racist supporters

By reminding everyone that his campaign attracts and welcomed all those "very fine people".

[cwydro]

5. They want to provoke.

I hope no one takes the bait.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Fairly stiff breeze & overcast

Wonder if we can get him to hold it up in a thunderstorm.

[highplainsdem]

8. There's a 40% chance of thunderstorms for a few hours before the doors open at 3 pm,

4 hours before the rally starts.

[Laelth]

7. Some people are truly tone-deaf. n/t

-Laelth

[SMC22307]

13. Tone-deaf? No, they know exactly what they are doing.

Carrying that flag is deliberate.

[enid602]

9. Jethro

Lotta Jethros and Jethrines in that video.

[bobbieinok]

10. In Civil War the Five Civiiized Tribes sided with the Confederacy

They had been forcibly settled in the eastern part of what is now Oklahoma. It was called Indian Territory. Tulsa is located in what was Indian Territory.

General Stand Watie, a Cherokee slave holder in the Territory, was the only Native American Confederate general.

The Five Civilized tribes are the Creek, the Cherokee, the Chickashaw, the Choctaw, and the Seminole

[struggle4progress]

12. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" describes that history

[bobbieinok]

15. Oklahoma and Native Americans

Some items

* Some wealthy Cherokees had slaves
For a while the decendants of the slaves had the rights and benefits of a tribal member. The the tribe no longer recognized them as members . I don't know where things stand now

*`In the 1920s the Osages in OK were extremely wealthy, oil money I think.
Then a group of whites plotted to get their money. Members of the tribe started turning up dead. This has bern extensively studied.

* The federal govt tried several times to move the Seminoles to Indian Territory
They retreated into FL. IIRC, many intermarried with the slaves who had escaped into FL

* The western part of the state was known as Oklahoma Territory.
In the late 1800s the govt decided to open it up to settlement. People who wanted to settle there lined up on the border for The Oklahoma Run. Some sneaked across before the run started. They were known as 'Sooners' That's where the name Sooners for the U of OK comes from

[Victor_c3]

11. Yup, the party of Abraham Lincoln n/t

[roamer65]

14. If Lincoln were alive now, he would be a Democrat.

[bobbieinok]

16. Bits of odd info about Tulsa

* Tulsa grew because oil was discovered in the area. But no oil wells could be set up within the city limits. Oil wells were on the capitol grounds in OKC

* Mercedes Lackey, internationally famous science fiction author, lives near Tulsa
She's written 2 books set in Tulsa

----Jinx High, play on name of high school in Jenks suburb. The school is the setting of a paranormal battle between good and evil
----Sacred Ground. Native American woman in Tulsa learning from her grandfather to be a shaman gets involved in fighting an ancient curse on land near the Arkansas River that an unscrupulous entrepreneur wants to develope

* P C Cast and her daughter have written a paranormal series House of Night, set in an alternate universe in which Tulsa is inhabited by humans and vampires!

[pwb]

17. I was looking for a white flag.

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