I wish someone like a Spike Lee or Stephen Spielberg would do a movie on this. Some local guys did one around 2022, but it wasn't very good. To truly appreciate the 1921 massacre, you need a re-enactment.
Superiority complex is an intense mental disorder. It’s a bunch of ppl who have that mental disorder who hide behind Christianity for safety. Obviously they learn nothing from the book they murder for, because they don’t believe in anything other than their pathetic egomania.
It definitely is a mental illness, but if you dig deeper, you will see how it connects to superiority complex, which is also a mental illness, the core of all our current problems. Including social interaction. Reason for genocide existing, amongst many other issues, and why progress is stagnating
Yeah that's it. Maybe waiting 115 yrs to investigate was a bad idea?
The DOJ report says prosecution is no longer feasible because the youngest potential defendants would now be over 115 years old and relevant statutes of limitations "expired decades ago," leaving no legal avenue for federal charges
No Black person should be surprised by this! I’ve yet to see any hate crime, massacre against Black communities, etc. prosecuted in this country, let alone reparations offered.The DoJ is an arm of the same racist institution and I’d never expect it to turn on itself. This country is a hate crime.
Did you honestly expect anything different? Seriously?
Since when would white America ever take responsibility for the greed, racism, cruelty and murder the myth of white superiority is built on?
With many white Tulsans still benefiting from the wealth they stole?
Ha! Dream on!
This was definitely a horrible repugnant crime by the local government. But we can’t undue every past atrocity. If we did the American Indian would have a bigger claim. We have to remember and try to make things better.
If the orange turd can be convicted as a felon, those who perpetrated this massacre CAN BE CONVICTED AS FELONS EVEN IN ABSENTIA, EVEN AFTED DEATH, TO MAKE THE VITAL POINT THAT WAS MADE ABOUT THE TURD.
This is the same DOJ that existed in 1921. No. Same one. Different people, sure but same DOJ, same Federal Government, both of which knew what they were doing then and know what they are doing now, not speaking to the massacre until over a century later.
This "We must not use the language of 'riot.' Whether it was Springfield, Illinois; Wilmington, North Carolina; or Tulsa—they weren't riots. They were murders, bombings, and insurrections."
I have a rather large axe to grind with Merrick Garland. I don't believe that he ran the DOJ to his greatest capability out of FEAR. In my view his PROCRASTINATION FAILED the NATION. -ONE.⚖
That the report wasn’t issued until at least forty years after anyone who was alive could have been found criminally liable is a miscarriage of justice.
An expected outcome but I fear this will be used as reasoning in the future for HR 40 if it ever gets moving. The discussion of reparations for slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the civil rights era and so forth I fear will never come.
This country will never make right its wrongs against us
That will be the country’s undoing. It’s not about making individuals accountable anymore. It’s about systems and groups that have benefited from all of these things over the years. We must come to a point of some accountability. We can’t get away with just sweeping it under the rug.
At this point should we expect any different from the country we live in? We live in a racist country and it’ll be even more racist with a pure racist at the helm.
Joy, someone needs to bring back to the publics attention about East Palestine Ohio train bomb. Over 60% of the residents are reporting severe health effects. Now that polyvinyl chloride has been exposed to sun light, it creates formaldehyde, which has now poised 3 states.
How do you propose prosecuting crimes that happened over 100 years ago? The perpetrators are all dead, and even if they weren't the stairs of limitations would have expired long ago.
Shall we dig them out of the ground and try their skeletons?
100%. The comments would be different if they did, especially: “The DOJ report says prosecution is no longer feasible because the youngest potential defendants would now be over 115 years old and relevant statutes of limitations "expired decades ago," leaving no legal avenue for federal charges.”
We feel with you, @joyannreid.bsky.social . This happened to us Jews in 1492, & it has happened to us repeatedly again and again - with no justice - upon our sacred Canaan land of Israel, and throughout Europe and the Middle East. MENA Jews are still bringing court cases, regardless the denials!
The headline is misleading. It's no longer prosecutable simply because even the youngest defendants would be over 100 (hence - they are already dead). There's no one left alive to put on trial. I realize that's very frustrating, and many folks want *some sort* of prosecution, even if in name only.
Asking honestly: What's to be done, at this point? Investigation and official acknowledgement here is a victory. All the perpetrators are long since buried. You can't prosecute the dead. What would be satisfactory now from a moral standpoint? I'm just not seeing how this is anything but vindicating.
The real issue is why this wasn’t properly investigated before now. Murder is always murder, right? Or is that only for other countries? African leaders?Nazi camp guards? Eastern European leaders?
This crime should have been prosecuted decades ago.
Face it, America is just a racist country.
The two are intertwined.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
How many more examples do we need?
Prosecute crimes in real time. You know, like they do when they think the perpetrators are one of “those people “.
It was 104 years ago. Who, precisely, do you intend to chastise? Feel free to hold a seance to admonish whoever the Attorney General was at the time, but you're tilting at the wrong windmill here.
As I said: Murder is murder.
If white people who took part were punished AT THE TIME, you know, the way black Americans were/are, then justice would have been done.
Don’t come back with “that was back then “. If so, this discussion is over.
This was brushed aside because of who the victims were.
We'll continue to absorb and bear mass shame over these atrocities as we move forward into the cultscape. These emotional weights accumulate and cause illnesses inside all living things. There seems to be little path forward towards a reasonable expectation of a healthy life well lived.
It cannot be lost on people that the U.S,which has the highest incarceration rate in the world and that black men disproportionately suffer incarceration at almost 3x that of white men,that today, a wealthy white man with 34 felonies walked out of court with zero punishment
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The DOJ report says prosecution is no longer feasible because the youngest potential defendants would now be over 115 years old and relevant statutes of limitations "expired decades ago," leaving no legal avenue for federal charges
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Since when would white America ever take responsibility for the greed, racism, cruelty and murder the myth of white superiority is built on?
With many white Tulsans still benefiting from the wealth they stole?
Ha! Dream on!
Same. Government.
This country will never make right its wrongs against us
We need to stop “Kinging” and do more X’ing…
Shall we dig them out of the ground and try their skeletons?
They weren't riots. They were murders, bombings, and insurrections.
The Justice Department's findings must be built upon, and this moment must stir action, even if the results take time.”
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Our team has started to investigate possible locations of a mass grave thought to have been at the Canes and/or Newblock Park areas.
This is an abominable decision.
This crime should have been prosecuted decades ago.
Face it, America is just a racist country.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
How many more examples do we need?
Prosecute crimes in real time. You know, like they do when they think the perpetrators are one of “those people “.
If white people who took part were punished AT THE TIME, you know, the way black Americans were/are, then justice would have been done.
Don’t come back with “that was back then “. If so, this discussion is over.
This was brushed aside because of who the victims were.
This criminal enterprise has not been anything less. 💯✊🏾
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