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learned new things today
May. 13th, 2010 04:03 amI watched a documentary this afternoon (got out of TA seminar to go!) about the Tulsa massacre of 1921, about which I had never heard, in which the city of Tulsa armed its white citizens for a riotous assault on what was until then known as Black Wall Street. Seriously--after they killed at least 300 people and making 10,000 people homeless, apparently there were ads in the local newspaper asking the marauders to give the borrowed guns back. !!!#(*$#&%&!!!!!
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It was upsetting, the whole documentary and the fact that I don't remember learning of this and hardly heard of similar atrocities (lynchings yes, massacres no), though I did know that there were black communities doing better before the early 20th century backlash. But maybe I am getting closer to understanding what to do. According to Darity, this now-rejected case is a good example of why the Statute of Limitations must die (or something). The Lilly Ledbetter case is another famous example, of course.
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It was upsetting, the whole documentary and the fact that I don't remember learning of this and hardly heard of similar atrocities (lynchings yes, massacres no), though I did know that there were black communities doing better before the early 20th century backlash. But maybe I am getting closer to understanding what to do. According to Darity, this now-rejected case is a good example of why the Statute of Limitations must die (or something). The Lilly Ledbetter case is another famous example, of course.
