#tulsa oklahoma

This is long overdue. And they need to win.

“We want them to see justice in their lifetime,” civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons said, choking back tears. “I’ve seen so many survivors die in my 20-plus years working on this issue. I just don’t want to see the last three die without justice. That’s why the time is of the essence.”

Tulsa Massacre was state-sanctioned bomb dropping, gun-toting, fire setting, bat swinging racial violence against Black Americans of the 35-block area in Greenwood District aka Black Wall Street and their businesses in 1921. Domestic terrorism that is only familiar to Black Americas because it’s happened countless times on this soil against our people without consequence.

Photos are from this post.

Don’t nobody want no damn grants as a form of payment, no scholarships, no semi-payments, no dumbass apologies. Only tax-free cash payments for the three living survivors—Lessie Benningfield Randle, 107, Viola Fletcher, 107, and Hugh Van Ellis, 101—and hopefully for the descendants of those whose family has since passed so they can rebuild their community that has been subjected to poverty. 

Reparations is a debt owed for injustice. Pay it. 

This will be the first of three separate forms of reparations being sought. The other two are lineage-based state reparations for Black Americans, which are currently being studied to figure out the monetary number in a number of states like California, and federal reparations to follow…even tho y’alls president is being an ass per usual.  

Enough been enough. 

Black American wealth has been projected to drop to zero by 2053 for how many years now? Fuck that.

Give those Tulsa survivors and descendants their damn money so they can rebuild without spending a dollar outside off their community like other ethnic groups in America get to do today without consequence of being domestically terrorized and bombed. 

When it comes to Black Americans fighting for monetary repair against the horrors of continual vile injustices that never ceased since our people were declared as property on this soil, all of a sudden people get leery and have so many questions: “Where will the money will come from? Do citizens have to pay? Why should it be paid at all when it happened so long ago?The people who did it are dead?” 

Blah blah blah. Got all the juice for the descendants chattel slavery who built the damn country they’re reaping the labor of through resources and governmental set asides that intentionally cut us out among other things. They don’t ask none of these questions when it comes to reparations being paid (annually) to other ethnic groups in this country AND outside of this country. Only when it’s the niggas. 

Pay them.