In June 1921, a white mob laid waste to Greenwood, a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street. Whites killed more than 300 Black people and destroyed more than 100 businesses. PHOTOGRAPH BY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BYDENEEN L. BROWN PUBLISHED JUNE 19, 2020 • 25 MIN READ A Black man lay half-conscious in the street after being beaten by a white mob during the East St. Louis Massacre of 1917. As the man tried to get up, a well-dressed white man standing behind him “lifted a flat stone in both hands and hurled it upon his neck,” a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote on July 3, 1917. For an hour and 30 minutes on the evening of July 1, the reporter witnessed barbaric scenes of white mobs “destroying the life of every discoverable black man.” The gruesome displays of racial violence were among the worst the United States would ever see. The Illinois massacre had been sparked by the fear of Black men migrating from the South to factories in the North and taking jobs from white people. Tensions exploded that July 1, and raged for three days and nights, leaving as many as 39 Black people and nine white people dead, according to reports. But historians believe hundreds more Black people were killed during that time. (Read how the death of George Floyd connects to this brutal American legacy.) More: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...d-summer-white-mobs-massacred-blacks-tulsa-dc
So? My anscestors weren't here during this time. I don't give a fuck. It was probably your anscestors that did it.
That is why this event is never taught in schools or discussed in any history of the U.S. It simply gets white washed over. People don't give a fuck. Happened 100 years ago but only recently is mentioned and known about. It is not about whether YOU personally did it, it is about something that happened in THIS country that is buried and hidden because no one wants to accept it happened.