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To: wolfcreek
Blacks did not riot, I think you misunderstand. The Greenwood district of Tulsa, known at the time as 'Black Wall Street' because it was a financial area, was gutted and several black Tulsans were killed in the Tulsa Race Riots of 1912. The perpetrators were white and got away with it scot-free. It is genuinely an ugly event in Tulsa's history, and not something to excuse lightly.

None of that means that reparations paid to individuals are in order, but that is another issue.

17 posted on 10/31/2005 11:55:52 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (Father, we pray that lies will destroy the liars and the truth will lift up the truthful.)
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To: JustaCowgirl

Sorry, I guess I was preoccupied by the thunderstorm. I haven't heard thunder in a while.


18 posted on 10/31/2005 12:06:38 PM PST by wolfcreek
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To: JustaCowgirl
The perpetrators were white and got away with it scot-free. It is genuinely an ugly event in Tulsa's history, and not something to excuse lightly.

You are absolutely correct, and thank you for your moral stance.

But people that live in glass houses should not be throwing stones. Maxine Waters must be as much furious about L.A. riots, for instance, if she is moral and not merely a racialist. That she condones crimes perpetrated by blacks deprives her voice of any morality whatever.

20 posted on 10/31/2005 12:17:29 PM PST by TopQuark
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