Honor to this Elder, speaking her truth.
“I am a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre. Two weeks ago, I celebrated my 107th birthday. Today, I’m visiting Washington, DC for the first time in my life. I’m here seeking justice, and I'm asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921.”
–Viola Fletcher pic.twitter.com/jlj4xeNgsd
— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) May 19, 2021
The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) tweeted at 9:55 AM on Wed, May 19, 2021:
“Greenwood represented all the best of what was possible for Black people in America – and for all the people. No one cared about us for almost 100 years. We, and our history, have been forgotten, washed away. This Congress must recognize us and our history.” #Tulsa100
(https://twitter.com/civilrightsorg/status/1395030300955136003?s=02)
Sampson Simpson IV (@sampson_iv) tweeted at 11:02 AM on Wed, May 19, 2021:
When people say “it was so long ago, get over it.” people who lived through Jim Crow, racial massacres ARE STILL ALIVE. And not all are in their 100s.
(https://twitter.com/sampson_iv/status/1395047163588235265?s=02)
.@CapehartJ remembers the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100th anniversary of this travesty nears, linking this atrocity to continuing the police brutality that Black Americans face, in this week's "Bye Line." #SundayShow pic.twitter.com/0TRCARmH7a
— The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart (@TheSundayShow) May 23, 2021
60 Minutes did a story on Tulsa.
In the early 20th century, people called the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma “Black Wall Street,” because the district was lined with Black-owned shops, restaurants, two newspapers and a grand hotel. https://t.co/HY2YVsAOAz pic.twitter.com/K2K3gPDcrN
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 24, 2021
In Tulsa, OK in 1921, an attempted lynching became a massacre. The police and National Guard joined a White mob against the neighborhood’s Black residents.
“Old women and men, children were running and screaming everywhere,” said an eyewitness. https://t.co/zeo3sfprLr pic.twitter.com/tVySuDfh1A
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 24, 2021
An unknown number of people died during the 1921 Tulsa massacre. Six thousand newly homeless African American survivors — whose houses were destroyed in the massacre — were forced into internment camps and released weeks later. https://t.co/MKPuvjQwvR pic.twitter.com/JOYTmiQj2Y
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 24, 2021
“I grew up attending segregated Tulsa public schools. Never in any of the schools was anything ever said about it,” says a Tulsa resident about the city’s 1921 massacre. https://t.co/UzDxGtwndl pic.twitter.com/9QZmkkPdKJ
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 24, 2021
After an estimated hundreds of Black Tulsa residents were massacred in 1921, no arrests were made and there’s never been a complete count of the dead. The nameless were buried in unmarked graves while their families were locked down in internment camps. https://t.co/XrgQIyEMv6 pic.twitter.com/JnovjyFMme
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 24, 2021
In 2018, Tulsa’s mayor ordered an investigation of all remaining evidence of the 1921 Tulsa massacre, in an attempt to better identify the victims. Oral histories, passed down through the generations, indicate at least four sites of possible mass graves. https://t.co/UotgAJ6a1z pic.twitter.com/iJlbDTbsQU
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 24, 2021
An October test excavation of a possible grave site of the 1921 Tulsa massacre revealed a mass grave with at least 12 individuals. Determining cause of death will be complicated because of that period’s pandemic. https://t.co/2UXYAg6PMz pic.twitter.com/1mAuDu1bJT
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 24, 2021
A full excavation of a possible grave site of the 1921 Tulsa massacre begins in June. Next steps include recommendations for a permanent burial and the question of how to honor those who have been waiting nearly 100 years for justice. https://t.co/BaPL9WMX2L pic.twitter.com/PVTnRdE8kp
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 24, 2021
“…Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren’s office released a detailed chronological account of a May 4 incident now receiving national attention and scrutiny.
What happened: Corey Pujols was working as manager at the Dunkin’ on South 50th Street in Tampa when a regular customer began verbally berating the staff because he was upset about service in the drive-thru line.
Then, per the state attorney’s office:
Staff told the 77-year-old customer to leave several times, but the man parked his car and entered the store.
Pujols told a coworker to call police.
The customer approached the counter and continued to argue with Pujols, who remained on the opposite side of the counter, separated by a waist-high swinging door, some six feet from the customer.
The customer called Pujols a racial slur. Pujols slowly walked forward through the swinging door and stood face-to-face with the man, with his hands at his sides, and warned the man not to say that again.
The man repeated the slur, and Pujols punched him in the jaw, which caused the victim to fall and hit his head. Pujols then slowly walked away.
The man died three days later in the hospital.
The state attorney charged Pujols with manslaughter; he was originally arrested on a charge of battery on a person older than 65.
Manslaughter is intentionally committing an act without lawful justification that causes the death of another person, where the death was not intended.
What they’re saying: “The victim’s use of racial slurs was highly inflammatory. Inflammatory speech alone, however, does not justify violence,” the SAO said in a statement…”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tampa-dunkin-manager-charged-manslaughter-102024462.html
“.. A dispute Sunday between two neighbors, one 73 years old and the other an 82-year-old great-grandmother, ended with the younger woman killing the other by repeatedly hitting her with a brick, according to investigators.
Prince George’s County, Md., police said Chun Oh is charged with murder in the death of Hwa Cha Pak, whose body was found Sunday morning in a garden behind the apartment building in Bladensburg where the women lived.
Authorities did not say what set off the argument.
Officers were called for a welfare check around 7:15 a.m. Sunday to the building in the 5900 block of Emerson Street, according to police. They found Pak dead at the scene with trauma to her upper body.
An initial investigation found that Oh and Pak were in a “dispute prior to the murder.” Police said that Oh “struck the victim multiple times with a brick.” Oh then called 911, police said.
Pak’s eldest grandson, Andy Kwon, said that when he heard of the death, he instantly became angry as he wondered “who in their right mind, or what kind of evil, had to creep up to take my grandmother’s life?”
Anger turned to shock when he heard that another elderly woman was accused of the crime.
Kwon said the majority of his family is deeply religious and wanted to keep the woman arrested — who Kwon said was not someone he knew — in their prayers…”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/woman-73-kills-another-senior-citizen-with-a-brick-in-maryland/2019/09/09/54be2266-d323-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html
Alan T. MacLeod (@Amacleod99) tweeted at 2:26 PM on Sun, May 23, 2021:
Likely will lose me friends here, but I strongly believe that the Progressive Wing needs to chill the fuck out, at least publicly with this Administration. Incrementalism is the way our system works, and if this shit costs Dems the House and/or Senate in mid-terms, we’re fucked.
(https://twitter.com/Amacleod99/status/1396548148764438530?s=03)
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