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notahacker 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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b112 a day ago | parent [-]

There is no discussion of wealth in your quote. And further, that quote supports what I've been saying.

It specifically 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 the unique high-wealth of this area.

	▲	notahacker 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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...

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shakna 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Nice to see sealioning is alive and well on HN.

	▲	Muromec 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		But do we actually have a proof that ** bombed *, maybe they bombed their own school to make you feel sad?