Spinoff of White Guilt Thread- What happened to Black Wall Street?

You really didn't know about that?

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This was 1921 not 1821. Kinda shocking.

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Why is this shocking? Blacks were still enslaved in 1821. This wouldn't even have existed back then.

White Fright.

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What happened to Black Wall Street?

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you can only diversify yo bonds so much

This was discussed in the last year around here. Horrible shite and of course most students never heard about this or many shitty things in our history.
There was some other "sides" to the story that thers had pointed out in this issue, but I have no reason to believe the criminal justice system at that time would have done anything in favor of a black man in just about any situation.

With that said, I feel no white guilt what-so-ever. Both my grandparents were dirt arse poor and probably came from some kind of indentured servent bullshite.

Seriously, our countrymen have done some damn shitty stuff, but we are still a far better place than 90% of the rest of the world.

Scruffy doesn't feel guilty about it.

He is angry at the British for kicking his people out of Nova Scotia.

Scruffy hopes you all have British Guilt.

Yeah, I learned about this a few years ago. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

Do I feel personally guilty? No. Why would I?

But, do I recognize that there was systemic injustice and oppression here that affected a lot of people for a long time? Yes. That much is obvious.

Quit getting your damn history from Wiki. There is a lawsuit attached to the events that tell the whole story. A white man who owned businesses in the black part of town sued his insurance co. for damages. His claims were denied.

Facts entered into evidence were as follows

1) black guy was roaming in downtown on a holiday, when he claimed to have been working

2) white elevator operated claimed to have been attacked

3) black guy arrested, reports of whites gathering to lynch him

4) black ministers met with sheriff and he told them about posting guards, deactivating elevators, etc, etc

5) ministers returned to their side of town to report, and were called liars

6) blacks began amassing with weapons to go free the inmate from jail

7) whites began amassing with weapons once the blacks road through the white part of town armed to the teeth

8) whites gathered at the railroad tracks to keep the blacks from returning, when . . .

9) a sniper from the black part of town killed a white man on the opposite side of the treacks


THEN ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE