I learned about Black Wall Street on Twitter. Learned more from #Watchman & #LoveCraftCountry on @HBO. Been listening to podcasts about the massacre since. You should too. Oklahoma is doing WRONG by survivors, to this very day. Also, S/O to Gentrification. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bli…
And because nothing moves in this country unless white ppl can make money from it, with all of the new eyes on this history, gentrification is on the rise. Imagine that. White gentrifiers & land owners wanting to have their shops/apts/businesses in this historic area in Tulsa...
...while Black descendants of the survivors, themselves (still) business owners...cannot afford the rent anymore. Survivors, including living survivors, are still fighting for reparations. And today is the 100yr anniversary of what the racist, white GOVERNMENT did to...
...the Black people of Tulsa. No one (except Black ppl) were ever charged with ANYTHING. No one. Imagine that. And this is just ONE story. Even with this story being on HBO in TWO diff shows, survivors are still fighting. What a strange, strange feeling. Hope? Where? When...
...the Repub Gov just said schools would be fined if they taught “critical race theory”. When white government, white developers & white hipsters are a-ok with pushing Black survivors/descendents of the massacre out. Still! Listen to the accounts of Black residents. This is...
...about so much more than what happened 100 yrs ago. It’s also about what’s been hidden & how Black ppl are STILL being put through this racist bullshit. And white ppl ™️, are still a-ok with this. If they weren’t, it wouldn’t still be happening. Those are the facts.
Again, that’s just ONE story. This country has been jacking itself off on “democracy” & MLK & “colorblindness” for too damn long. But social media is here. And wp ™️, not only voted for that racist monster in 26’ they (wp ™️)voted for him in RECORD numbers AGAIN. So there’s...
...no mistake. What to do with that info? That, no matter how hard you work, how nice you are, how many after work things you go to, anti-Blackness is still right there. In everyone’s face. Just like it always has been. No idea what the answer is but get u some learnin 2day💜
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