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Tulsa's new Black mayor proposes $100M reparations package
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:46 pm
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:46 pm
Tulsa's new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history. The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma's second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in the once-thriving district of North Tulsa that was destroyed by a white mob.
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“For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city's history,” Nichols said Sunday after receiving a standing ovation from several hundred people. “The massacre was hidden from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway built to choke off economic vitality and the perpetual underinvestment of local, state and federal governments. “Now it's time to take the next big steps to restore.”
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Nichols' proposal follows an executive order he signed earlier this year recognizing June 1 as Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, an official city holiday. Events Sunday in the Greenwood District included a picnic for families, worship services and an evening candlelight vigil.
quote:The Fatigue is real
Nichols also realizes the current national political climate, particularly President Trump's sweeping assault on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, poses challenging political crosswinds.
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Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:48 pm to BowDownToLSU
I don't have as much of a problem with more targeted programs like this
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:48 pm to BowDownToLSU
Pull all federal funding, then let them go nuts.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:49 pm to BowDownToLSU
So they'll be livin' on Tulsa Dime?
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:50 pm to BowDownToLSU
Who is gonna pay the white people massacred by the thousands by those same put upon folks??? The killing goes both ways, but is WAY lopsided in 2025...this is STUPID...
I am exhausted of all this victim crap by people not even alive back then...
or affected by it.
I am exhausted of all this victim crap by people not even alive back then...
or affected by it.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:52 pm to BowDownToLSU
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once-thriving district
I feel like this term is always used in situations like this.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:53 pm to TexasTiger08
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once-thriving district I feel like this term is always used in situations like this.
Yeah. I mean Detroit was once thriving too.
Seems like...well, you can draw your own conclusions
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:58 pm to BowDownToLSU
In ten years, it will all have been wasted, and they will still be asking for more and screaming about white privilege.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:59 pm to Powerman
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I don't have as much of a problem with more targeted programs like this
You seriously don’t have a problem with your tax dollars going to black people because of something that happened 110 years ago??
Do you let someone frick your wife while you watch too?
What is wrong with you people? Why do you hate yourself so much?
Posted on 6/1/25 at 9:59 pm to BowDownToLSU
So now Tulsa will have a completely shitty city government and never elect a white mayor again?
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:01 pm to BowDownToLSU
If reparations were ever going to happen, it should be like this.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:03 pm to BowDownToLSU
Good decision electing the black guy Tulsa. Way to virtue signal. Broken Arrow and Owasso fixing to see even more growth.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:06 pm to Demonbengal
And they will wonder why residents snd businesses will flee from Tulsa.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:06 pm to Powerman
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I don't have as much of a problem with more targeted programs like this
Do those programs ever work? It usually ends up being something where there are a lot of misused funds, etc.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:08 pm to OweO
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It usually ends up being something where there are a lot of misused funds, etc.
more politician millionaires on shitty salaries!
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:10 pm to BowDownToLSU
Ok. Do it. Then let’s sit back and watch what comes next. I’d be willing to bet my last dollar that within a few years not a damned one of them will have a dime left and not a damned thing to show for it.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:11 pm to BowDownToLSU
While Tulsa was a tragedy, reparations should have gone to survivors.
This will sow racial discord even further.
This will sow racial discord even further.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:12 pm to Powerman
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I don't have as much of a problem with more targeted programs like this
quote:Of course you don't. Most people who don't pay into taxes never do.
Powerman
What about this? When do white people get compensated for this massacre? Or is this different? These atrocities don't matter do they? Sack up and say it.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:13 pm to Darth_Vader
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I’d be willing to bet my last dollar that within a few years not a damned one of them will have a dime left and not a damned thing to show for it.
To be fair, he's not proposing direct cash payments (yet).
It's mostly an investment package for North Tulsa.
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:14 pm to LordSaintly
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This will sow racial discord even further.
The people who push this sort of bullshite see that more as a feature than a bug.
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