Tulsa Race Massacre remembrance main event
suddenly canceled
CBS News,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/30/2021 12:08:35 AM
Next week's headline event marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre was canceled suddenly Thursday, with organizers citing "unexpected circumstances with entertainers and speakers."
In a statement, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission didn't specify the circumstances that led to the cancellation of the event scheduled for Monday at ONEOK Field in Tulsa. The commission statement held out hope that it might be rescheduled later this year. "Due to unexpected circumstances with entertainers and speakers, the Centennial Commission is unable to fulfill our high expectations for Monday afternoon's commemoration event and has determined not to move forward
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DARling 5/30/2021 12:52:55 AM (No. 800548)
Because of a money-grubbing lawyer. This is my shocked face.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 5/30/2021 12:57:17 AM (No. 800550)
I could see no good coming of picking open an old wound.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 5/30/2021 1:00:57 AM (No. 800553)
Televised nationaly. Stacey Abrams delivering the keynote address to a national audience. POTUS showing up a day later to do something. What could possibly go wrong?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/30/2021 3:19:02 AM (No. 800577)
Gee...a mouthy, gravimetrically challenged voting 'rights' activist doing a keynote rant and a multimillion dollar shakedown demand.....how typical.
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Replaced with, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree"...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/30/2021 6:45:42 AM (No. 800611)
What good be history, if you can't use it to extort money?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/30/2021 6:58:56 AM (No. 800617)
Just another excuse to get the natives riled up. How about we celebrate the sacrifices of the thousands of soldiers killed in the Civil War? How about reading a list of names of people shot in Chicago last year?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/30/2021 7:17:33 AM (No. 800625)
I grew up in Tulsa and that incident left a pretty well divided town. So divided that I never even met a Black person until I entered the University of Tulsa in ‘61. Then there were only a handful on the football team and that was about it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/30/2021 7:39:26 AM (No. 800639)
It used to be called the "Tulsa Rack Riot." The name has been changed to be more inflammatory.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 5/30/2021 8:22:38 AM (No. 800686)
A woke virtue signalling fb friend posted about this a few weeks ago. I just scrolled on by, mainly because I agree with #2. I grew up in Fort Wayne IN, a big town with a lot of blacks. Busing was a new thing when I started 9th grade and I had black friends and black enemies. Neither one was about color. But I moved, into probably the whitest county in Indiana, surrounded by experts on race relations. It’s amusing.
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I would like to say that I am shocked and dismayed at this turn of events, but, in point of fact, I really do not give a dam
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kidsmom 5/30/2021 8:46:31 AM (No. 800717)
I am shocked, I say, shocked that this has turned into another shakedown by survivors' families and their greedy lawyer. What could have been a meaningful event will be forever tarnished. Shame!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/30/2021 8:49:22 AM (No. 800720)
There are three living survivors of the massacre — 107, 106 and 100 years old.
Just wait for nature to kick in & pay nothing✔
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
msjena 5/30/2021 9:16:26 AM (No. 800741)
Why is it that there seem to be so many black centenarians? We keep hearing about health problems and lack of access to good medical care but every week, it seems, I read about some new (black) person who is well over 100. What records are being used to prove this? And what are these centenarians going to do with the millions in "reparations" they are allegedly seeking ? How many centenarians are mentally competent? It seems more like a money grab by their lawyers.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Laotzu 5/30/2021 9:24:00 AM (No. 800749)
My sense is, there is more to the Tulsa Riots than we will ever hear about from today's media. There was an odd show trial of communist organizers two years prior, and mayor's office was flip-flopping between Republicans and Democrats every two years. Wikipedia mentions -- just once -- that a new KKK was forming in Tulsa. I smell Lefty agitators.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 5/30/2021 9:55:52 AM (No. 800780)
This is a fan the flames kind of event. Even during the senior PGA event yesterday, they couldn't help themselves from bringing it up before a commercial break.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/30/2021 10:27:57 AM (No. 800810)
What will History Channel and Natgeo do to pick this racial wound? I grew up in the deep south and can truthfully say I never heard of the Tulsa Massacre until recent years. Must be an added argument from 'black supremacy' to arise maybe some more restitution to follow. There are stupid whites who cater to the whims of blacks that's why they are succeeding in their race war.
Stacy Abrams that a ticket winning choice to go watch to receive added fuel to the fire. Like the tired old dance song I'll have to sit this one out".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 5/31/2021 9:02:37 AM (No. 801532)
So the survivors, according to their lawyers, wanted $1,000,000 each just to make a brief appearance. I bet the lawyers would have kept a hefty slice of that ransom.
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