There was a video clip of a woman speaking about supermarket looting that made me start questioning my total pacifism. This is a different video transcript from her but, on the same topic. I really appreciated how she laid it out.
… So if I played 400 rounds of monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, if you didn’t like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? Kimberley Latrice Jones on the topic of the social contract.
Skin colour was just a visual indicator of class that told white people that black people were lower in the social hierarchy than them. There’s a lot of overlap, it’s not like white people were terrified of the colour brown generally.
I think it would be a mistake to say that the Tulsa massacre, also known as The Black Wall Street wasn’t a heady mixture of both classism and racism.
There was a video clip of a woman speaking about supermarket looting that made me start questioning my total pacifism. This is a different video transcript from her but, on the same topic. I really appreciated how she laid it out.
I don’t think the Tulsa Race Massacre was a class thing but a race thing, with the whites killing black people.
Skin colour was just a visual indicator of class that told white people that black people were lower in the social hierarchy than them. There’s a lot of overlap, it’s not like white people were terrified of the colour brown generally.
I think it would be a mistake to say that the Tulsa massacre, also known as The Black Wall Street wasn’t a heady mixture of both classism and racism.