Posted on 05/30/2021 8:13:10 AM PDT by Salman
A cornerstone event of the Tulsa Race Massacre commemoration in Oklahoma was abruptly canceled because lawyers representing survivors and descendants demanded a higher fee for their participation in the event than had been originally agreed upon, a commission official said.
Legal representatives for the three living survivors approached the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission about including them in the "Remember and Rise" occasion in return for $100,000 each and a $2 million seed gift to a reparations coalition fund, state Sen. Kevin Matthews, chairman of the commission, said in a Friday press conference.
The parties agreed to those terms, he said.
At the last minute, the lawyers representing the survivors moved to change the agreement, requesting $1 million for each and $50 million for the fund, said Matthews, who did not take questions.
"We could not respond to those demands," he said. "I absolutely want the survivors, the descendants and others that were affected to be financially and emotionally supported, however this is not the way, no matter how hard we try."
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It’s always about the money.
Can’t they have a commemoration event, without paying people? Those making demands for more money can simply just not be there, while a commemoration event takes place. Maybe I’m missing something.
They should get nothing now.
I’m curious to know if that included the Whites that were killed........
Stir that pot until it stinks again or more than it already does.
Extortion.
Good ol’ Kevin. Wonder what his cut is?
You’re missing that it was always about the money, but the folks in question are not good at negotiation.
“ Maybe I’m missing something.”
No one would show up if there was no potential to get money or break things. They don’t care. It’s just an opportunity.
In it for the money.
Now we know why they are always wailing about being victims. So they can extract money from us and still blame us for their self-inflicted pathologies.
May 31 will mark 100 years since a white mob started looting, burning and murdering in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, then known as Black Wall Street, killing up to 300 people and displacing thousands more
From the contemporary record:
A checking up of the fatalities brings the number of white dead to ten and the number of Negro dead is placed at twenty-four.
Contemporary Report Regarding the Events in Tulsa May 31, 1921
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Booker T. Washington
Thanks for the link! I posted the FR link so I appreciate the base link.
Meh? I think it’s racist to build statues or commemorate events that remind minorities of “America’s racist past.” Let’s just forget it and move on. Cancel it henceforth and never speak of it again.
My ancestors were enslaved (I'm sure... sometime in the last two millennia). I am their descendant. Where's my compensation?
Regards,
Hard to believe that Tusley Town was originally a Creek Indian town in the Indian Territories.
I remember, way back in the early 1960s, an article in the Tulsa World of a doctor who had lived all his life in the town, from when it was two blocks long till the 1960s.
it’s all about money. They see this as another chance to extort money from whitey. Like so many of the other problems facing blacks, the Tulsa Riot was their own doing. They started it by sending a mob of armed blacks to the courthouse, and they also fired the first shots.
Survivors? I am only aware of one baby now over 100 who claims to be a survivor.
“...when you had to choose between history and legend, print the legend.”-John Ford.
“Ransom Stoddard: You’re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
So in the Tulsa riot there was “Million Gazillion blacks killed!”
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