Thread by @TalbertSwan

Learn your history wypipo, you are the original rioters.

You didn’t riot because you were being unjustly murdered, you rioted to subjugate Black people.

You destroyed entire towns because Black people were becoming too prosperous.

You lynched and murdered us by the thousands.

The East St. Louis Massacre was sparked by the fear of Black men migrating from the South to factories in the North and taking jobs from white people. Wypipo murdered hundreds of Black people and destroyed the town. It launched what is known as ‘Red Summer.’

It was called ‘Red Summer,’ but was actually 6 consecutive years of racist violence, murder, and destruction wypipo exacted upon Black people for having the audacity to build their own communities.

It was during this time the all-Black town of Rosewood, Florida, was destroyed.

During Red Summer, thousands of Black people were lynched and thousands of Black-owned homes and businesses were burned by white rioters and looters. They massacred Black people in 26 cities, including Washington, D.C., Chicago, Omaha, Charleston, Columbia, Houston, and Tulsa.

‘Pull yourselves up, stop looking for handouts,’ you say.

But when we build our own, it threatens your perceived ‘superiority.’

Which is why you laid waste to Greenwood, a neighborhood in Tulsa, known as Black Wall Street, killed 300 Black people and destroyed 100 businesses.

I’ll close with the words of my Sister @TamikaDMallory:

“Don't talk to us about looting. Y'all are the looters. America has been looting Black people. America looted the Native Americans when they first came here. So looting is what you do...we learned looting from you."