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Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by rectang on Friday April 24, 2026 @04:24AM (#47887301)
The broader theme of antagonism to Black success motivating the thoroughness of the destruction is a common observation about Tulsa.
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Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by notahacker on Friday April 24, 2026 @06:00AM (#47888010)
Here's a contemporary opinion, from the state attorney general at the time, the highest ranking person in a judicial apparatus that didn't prosecute anyone for participating in it. Looks like the fact that "the Negro" was so rich he didn't "accept the white man as his benefactor" was a pretty big deal...

The cause of this riot was not Tulsa. It might have happened anywhere for the Negro is not the same man he was thirty years ago when he was content to plod along his own road accepting the white man as his benefactor. But the years have passed and the Negro has been educated and the race papers have spread the thought of race equality.

Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by b112 on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:45AM (#47899010)
You're actually supporting my statement that Wikipedia does not discuss the unique wealth of the area as the reason. And further, that racism in the US did not require any additional reason to do such things to minorities.

Specifically, 'black wall street' was a specific area of rich black people, yet this statement says "the cause of this riot was not Tulsa". And "It might have happened anywhere". If it "might have happened anywhere", it therefore has nothing to do with being the unique high-wealth of this area.

Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by notahacker on Saturday April 25, 2026 @12:03PM (#47902464)
Takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to unironically suggest that the axiomatic Southern racist belief that "the Negro" should regard "the white man as his benefactor" has no links to their relative wealth.

When you find yourself drawing parallels between your own arguments and those of contemporary white supremacists asserting that the attitudes of local whites were not at all to blame, it's perhaps a good idea to reconsider...

Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by b112 on Sunday April 26, 2026 @11:05AM (#47910917)
Wow. Your own quote validates what I'm saying, but regardless of your position that it isn't so...

Delving into "you're a racist if you don't agree with my take on this event" is a very, very scummy and morally bankrupt thing to do. Especially since you're literally making up that comparison, for nothing I've said indicates I absolved anyone of anything at all. In fact, I've been asserting that whites of the time didn't need a special reason, like wealth, to do what they did.

People asserting that wealth was required to cause this tragedy, are actually giving excuses as to why it happened. Racism doesn't require that.

Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by shakna on Friday April 24, 2026 @05:46AM (#47887896)
Nice to see sealioning is alive and well on HN.
Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by Muromec on Friday April 24, 2026 @06:46AM (#47888358)
But do we actually have a proof that ** bombed *, maybe they bombed their own school to make you feel sad?
Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by Bnjoroge on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:39AM (#47889387)
honestly the entire country up until maybe 40 or so years ago
Re:US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winnin... by esseph on Friday April 24, 2026 @09:18AM (#47889808)
Arguably happening right now due to a joke Obama made about Trump