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

You really didn't know about that?

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You really didn't know about that?

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No lie. That was never covered in my HS history class and I went to a pretty diverse Woodlawn in BR.
We had Black History Month assemblies and all.
And I'm the kinda white dude who walks 2 miles in freezing weather from my hotel to pay respects to the MLK memorial in ATL. I seek out all aspects of American history(positive and negative)on personal and business travel.
Not sure how I never heard of this.

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I feel no guilt about it. Why should I? Just because I'm white? wtf. That's the most ridiculous thing ever invented.

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I'm not telling you to feel guilt. I'm just sharing the story and my own feelings about it.

But to answer your question, it was destroyed in the Tulsa Race Riots of 1821.

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The riot began because of the alleged assault of a white elevator operator, 17-year old Sarah Page, by an African American shoeshiner, 19-year old Dick Rowland (the case against Mr. Rowland was eventually dismissed)

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I would have loved to be part of that riot at that time if this is true.

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I would have loved to be part of that riot at that time if this is true.

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Two things...

1. The charges were dismissed.

2. We get it, you don't like black people, you can stop laying it on so thick.

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I would have loved to be part of that riot at that time if this is true.

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There you are. Don't get my thread whacked or yourself banned. I am interested in opinions of my white southern peers b/c I'm pretty sure I was a minority when I felt some degree of shame reading that article my friend posted.

I try to be very rational and logical about all things in our colorful history. I even see the business and practical needs of forced labor in a time of early development of such a HUGE land mass. And I agree that many freed slaves after Emancipation were treated worse than during slavery. But this baseless(dropped charges) shite right here is downright sad. You don't have to feel guilt but who can argue that this was anything but a unilateral terrorist attack?

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Point was the barbaric nature and unmitigated invasion and demolition of an entire neighborhood seems implausible in the 20th century.

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Look up the Rosewood massacre.

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Look up the Rosewood massacre.

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I have read about that one, mostly because the movie and the Internet was becoming valuable research tool about the same time.
Rosewood Movie

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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.

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Yea after I thought about it, I feel kind of silly for feeling guilty. But I can't help it when I see people who look exactly like my grandfather and great grandfather doing shite like that whether it's old footage from Ole Miss, Baton Rouge sit-ins, or stuff like Greenwood and Rosewood.

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i said "if this is true"
Did the courts just let the black guy off for assault?
I don't know

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Black guys in 1921 were always catching breaks from the court system. The "assault" was probably that he looked at her.