In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a State Commission to study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 has recommended that reparations be paid to survivors and their descendants. What has happened to that commission's recommendations?
This was the race riot on which John Singleton based his movie, Rosewood. Within the span of two days, up to 10,000 Whites came to Greenwood, a prosperous, all-Black town, and killed over 40 Black people and burned the town down.
The Rosewood movie depicted the factual situation that caused the riot: a Black man was falsely accused of having raped a White woman, when, in fact, she was having an affair with a White man who was not her husband. That man beat her after having sex with her. Because of the prosperous nature of Greenwood, the Whites of that area needed little fueling to come together to destroy their prosperous, segregated neighbors who were Black.
It will be interesting to see how the legislature
of Oklahoma will addresses the recommendations of that State appointed
Commission.
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