All of this "anti-Wokeism" is why we never learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-tulsa-race-massacre-why-we-didnt.html

There are always new things to learn, nuances of history that are different than the standard textbook fare that is produced for students, which, in my personal opinion, is a nauseating, boring, politically strong-armed mass of spoiled pablum that is rapidly becoming the enemy of democracy, or at least, is no longer providing the kind of informed electorate necessary to maintain it. With state legislatures further censoring and dumbing down the curriculum in many states, it's no wonder students are so ignorant of their history, and that bigotry is so rampant.

So it was not until I was in college that I ever even heard about the Tulsa Race Massacre, or any of the other pogroms, and yes, I'll use that word, in American history aimed at African Americans. Even then, information was not easy to find, and in the college library, there was only one book on African American history that I could find to gain some kind of understanding of what happened. One book, in a college library, on what was the worst tyranny in American history characterizes the whole attitude toward this subject, especially in light of what is going on today in places as diverse as Florida and Montana.

This is why we have to vote, to defeat what is an un-American evil.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Absolutely GD right!

The tree of liberty sometimes gets watered by the butthurt tears of white supremacists.

[MN2theMax]

2. The things we didn't learn in history class

In my mind, it is an ever growing list. I hadn't heard about the Tulsa Race Massacre, until I saw the sci-fi series, the Watchmen.
Then I had to google it to see if it was real.

[mopinko]

3. they teach kids in chicago about the 1919 riot here, but i suspect

the real reason for that was to tar the daley family. old man daley was purported to be among the crowd, but never charged.
it was over a south side beach.

[SalamanderSleeps]

4. When I was growing up Stonewall was just a rumor.

It never hit the papers. It was never on the nightly news. Nothing was real unless Walter Cronkite said it was real. Television was such a powerful medium that the nations reality could be shaped by three television networks and the AP.

Now, things are just the opposite. We now have a zillion voices buzzing in our heads every time we plug into that long series of tubes we call the interwebs.

With a little bit of critical thinking we used to be able to call "bullshit." But now that our public education system has been hijacked by delusional American Taliban our populace is being trained away from thinking for itself.

Bottom line, the oily slavers will do anything to stay in power and all of this is just a god damned game to them.

They are a special type of psychopath that feeds off of hate and loves to make all of it that they can.

Two Words.

Mitch McConnell.

What actually motivates this guy to draw another breath is a total mystery to me.

Is it just too much to be fucking nice?

[czarjak]

5. Grandparents and Dad were there, grew up hearing all about it.

[quaint]

8. Me, too. Gramma was carrying my mom in OK territory during.

[lees1975]

9. Locally, it would be difficult to hide.

But that is an event of major significance, and proportions, turning a district in a city into a war zone and killing hundreds. Should be in every history textbook as more than just a footnote.

[underpants]

6. Tulsa Wilmington and John Punch

Never heard of any of these until about 10 years ago.

[brush]

7. There were several dozen similar race massacres by whites against...

Black towns and districts before and after Greenwood/Tulsa.

https://www.bet.com/article/fqn50c/five-other-race-massacres-that-devastated-black-america