Archeologists and hardhats operating backhoes descended on an Oklahoma cemetery this week, hoping to find victims from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the most disturbing — and largely untold — moments of U.S. history.
Tuesday was this second day of an extraordinary dig at Oaklawn Cemetery, the final resting place for some of the massacre victims given a proper burial, and perhaps the site of many more in mass graves with no marker.
Late last year, geophysical scanning flagged an “underground anomaly," Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum said, which could be mass graves from the slaughter.
"It should not have taken 99 years for us to be doing this investigation," Bynum told reporters on Monday. "But this generations of Tulsans is committed to doing what’s right by our neighbors and following the truth wherever it leads us."
Brenda Alford, whose grandparents survived the massacre, said Monday she was "honored and humbled" to be standing feet way from where workers were seeking to unearth history.
"I know they could have never imagined this day in time when we would be speaking about the race massacre, let alone looking for the remains of those who were lost so tragically during those horrible days," Alford said of her grandparents and their neighbors.
"I am honored and humbled to be here, in this day in time, to witness this time in history to stand in their stead as we try to go about remembering them."
White mobs burned and looted the middle-class Black enclave of Greenwood on May 31 and June 1, 1921, reducing 35 city blocks to charred rubble and killing about 300 Black residents of the neighborhood known as Black Wall Street, according to the Tulsa Historical Society.
The massacre has largely been a footnote in America's troublesome history of race relations. But the Tulsa massacre re-entered public consciousness through two unlikely sources in recent months: an HBO superhero drama "Watchmen," and President Donald Trump, who scheduled a rally in Tulsa this past Juneteenth.
Poster Comment:
Great use of taxpayer money, I wonder if they'll actually find any bones in a f***ing cemetery?
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TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2020-07-14 18:34:11 Reply Private Reply
#2: BTP Holdings To: Dakmar (#0)
Another fine kettle of fish. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-07-14 18:36:52 Reply Private Reply
#3: Dakmar To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
The phrase "stir the pot" comes to mind.
Dakmar posted on 2020-07-14 18:41:17 Reply Private Reply
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X-15 posted on 2020-07-15 06:20:45 Reply Private Reply
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www.cbsnews.com/
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-07-15 06:39:01 Reply Private Reply
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http://holocaustmemorialmiamibeach.org/learn/FInal_Draft_11._10.23.1 5.pdf
One of the great Revisionist figures, possibly Andrew Anglin, has observed that eventually jews will claim they never said there was a Holocaust. Saw a page yesterday -- gotta find it again -- where Satanyahu kind of admits this.
BTW, X, Who is *The hook-nosed Jew*? Me, I hope ;)
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LOL
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#9: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#6)
I believe he really meant there were no homicidal gas chambers.
The camps in Germany were called "death camps" because of he Typhus epidemics which raged thru them.
The so-called gas chamber at Auschwitz has been thoroughly debunked. ;)
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#10: Lod To: Dakmar (#0)
Classic - thanks for the grin.
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www.merriam- webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp
......and admitting thereby that a huge chunk of what they've accused the Nazis of all this time was a lie.
Now you'll write again and blithely repeat your above reply. Apparently you're zealous to protect the poor beleaguered Chosen's reputation from nasty, hateful "anti-Semite™" NeoconsNailed ;)
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Dakmar posted on 2020-07-16 08:14:29 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#11)
Surely you are suffering from hallucinations. ;)
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#17: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#15)
That all depends on whether or not the commentary changes. ;)
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