'Imagine if your family’s wealth ... was stripped from them a century ago. Stripped without compensation. Without justice,' columnist and Tulsa native roysj writes on the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. 'Where would you be now?'
Tulsa in those segregated times. Crossing the tracks and killing countless innocent men, women, and children, and burning to the ground homes and businesses of such prosperity and potential, the esteemed intellectual W.E.B Dubois called the area a “place of hope and power.”I’m glad it is recognized and remembered now. For too many years, for generations, it was not. Nobody’s fault. Call it a collective conspiracy of silence.
You may also know my father died when I was 11 years old, so most of what I know about him now and of those days in 1921, I’ve gleaned from research. From curiosity. Embers from the residue of firebombs dropped from airplanes onto the several blocks of businesses and homes comprising one of the most thriving Black communities in the nationEmbers from the souls of lives lost, Black lives—more than were counted. Lives dumped in the nearby Arkansas River.
The bombs dropped on the innocent people of Greenwood from airplanes commissioned by the government—imagine the American government dropping bombs on Americans. Oh, wait, you don’t have to imagine it because it’s happened. Not just in Tulsa—The murderous audaciousness that was the massacre was followed by bombs of dismissal by public officials and denial from insurance companies who refused to pay claims for lost property or even lives.
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