‘I am seeking justice’: Tulsa massacre survivor, 107, testifies to US Congress

Even your own link "The sheriff persuaded the group to leave the jail, assuring them that he had the situation under control. As the group was leaving the premises, complying with the sheriff's request, a member of the mob of white men allegedly attempted to disarm one of the Black men. A shot was fired, and then according to the reports of the sheriff, "all hell broke loose.""
The men weren't breaking the law. The person who tried to disarm them when they were leaving DID break the law.

 

They sure weren’t, but when they shot him for it, they escalated the situation.

 

Uh at the end of the fire fight 10 whites were dead and only 2 blacks. it was 200 to 75 so IDK man, sounds like the klansmen got their asses kicked and firebombed a bunch of neighborhoods over it.

 

You try to take a gun out of my hand, I'm going to shoot you with it and you'll have asked for it and received your desire..

Do I need to look up your post history on Rittenhouse?

 

Not quite.


Deaths Total dead and displaced unknown:
36 total; 26 black and 10 white dead (1921 records)
150–300 black and 50 white dead (1921 estimate by W.F. White)[2]
39 confirmed, 75–100 to 150–300 estimated (2001 commission)

 

Did you just use Wiki?


Do some damn research and not some racist bullshit you tried to push

 

Oh you meant the original fight. Yeah that’s what happens when one group shows up armed to fight and the other group was just outraged and gathered over claims of rape.

 

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre

"In the hours after the Tulsa Race Massacre, all charges against Dick Rowland were dropped. The police concluded that Rowland had most likely stumbled into Page, or stepped on her foot. Kept safely under guard in the jail during the riot, he left Tulsa the next morning and reportedly never returned."

 

I have never seen a more racist post on this forum. It’s utterly reprehensible and you are a disgusting human.

 

Makes it even more unfortunate that the group of black guys showed up armed and killed 10 white people.

 

So it was cool when they killed 10 white people? No problem with that?

Imagine what would have to happen for a group of 75 men mostly armed with shotguns and single shot rifles to kill 10 people out of a group of hundreds? That was a brutal assault on an essentially unarmed group of people.

 

My bad, got the numbers wrong

"
Around 9 p.m., a group of about 25 armed Black men—including many World War I veterans—went to the courthouse to offer help guarding Rowland. After the sheriff turned them away, some of the white mob tried unsuccessfully to break into the National Guard armory nearby.

With rumors still flying of a possible lynching, a group of around 75 armed Black men returned to the courthouse shortly after 10 pm, where they were met by some 1,500 white men, some of whom also carried weapons."
So 75 to 1500, both groups armed. Now quit whining

 

I mean that's what happens when you try to illegally disarm someone, you get shot.
I think they call that self defense.

 

You mean its unfortunate that some dumbass tried to disarm one of them and got shot like he asked for? Yes, it is unfortunate that people cannot follow the law and attempt to form lynch mobs.


"The Tulsa Tribune, one of two White-owned papers published in Tulsa, broke the story in that afternoon's edition with the headline: "Nab Negro for Attacking Girl In an Elevator", describing the alleged incident. According to some witnesses, the same edition of the Tribune included an editorial warning of a potential lynching of Rowland, titled "To Lynch Negro Tonight".[53] The paper was known at the time to have a "sensationalist" style of news writing. All original copies of that issue of the paper have apparently been destroyed, and the relevant page is missing from the microfilm copy.[54] The Tulsa Race Riot Commission in 1997 offered a reward for a copy of the editorial, which went unclaimed.[54] Other newspapers of the time like The Black Dispatch and the Tulsa World did not call attention to any such editorial after the event.[54] So the exact content of the column — and whether it existed at all — remains in dispute.[54][55][56][57] However, Chief of Detectives James Patton attributed the cause of the riots entirely to the newspaper account and stated, "If the facts in the story as told the police had only been printed I do not think there would have been any riot whatsoever."[48]"

 

Has nothing to do with your racism. Why don't You like POC?


How do you know it wasn't accidental discharge when the first shot went off? Where does it say the lynch mob was unarmed in the historical texts?

 

Yeah they killed 10 people. Out of a group of hundreds and they only had 75. What do you imagine that scene looked like?

Please describe it.

 

I don’t dislike people of color. I dislike people who pretend to be innocents and we are supposed to have the utmost concern over their plight but the original massacre resulting in 10 people killed... we’re just supposed to forget that even happened.

It was bad what happened that night. But it was also not just a random act of racist violence.

 

Sounds like the 10 in the front thought their balls were made of steel, and found out they're just made of flesh like everyone else's.
According to the links they armed blacks were leaving, someone 'tried to disarm one of them' and according to the witnesses all hell then broke loose.
It sounds like a mexican standoff to me, begun by the white lynch mob trying to disarm one of the blacks

 

So maybe we do need to look up your posting history on Rittenhouse.

Is attempting to take a gun from someone absent legal authority a crime or not?

 

The practice of lynching blacks was the root cause.

I have seen nothing in historical texts that lead to your theories.

 

George Wallace, Democrat

He was such a nice non-racist politician. Right?

I can name hundreds more if you wish.

 

Brilliant! A random name generator. Can you do numbers too?

 

So what would it have to take for a group of 75 to kill 10 out of 1500? Spraying indiscriminately into the crowd. Not just one person but a whole group of them shooting. And that’s just the ones they killed, not the ones they shot.

 

Pretty convenient ALL the copies of this supposed story no longer exist including the microfilm.

Which you and I both know means it didn’t exist.

 

So much to add to the conversation. Wallace wasn't random. Had he not been shot liberals may have elected him to the White House. Racism and hatred from the Democrats!