STRIKE PRICE and OU SAE video
For my friends who have already seen and reacted to the OU story, feel free to skip this post. But, as Santayana said, "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." p. 347-351 of Strike Price describes the long-concealed, or at best under-reported, Tulsa Riot of 1921, a riot which resulted in the destruction of Tulsa's Greenwood District--10,000 people homeless, over 300 killed, almost all African-American:
"In the early 1900s, Tulsa's population boomed from an influx of roughnecks, treasure-seekers, and Americans looking to make a fresh start. The secretive Ku Klux Klan, targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics, Asians, Republicans, Congressional radicals, and union members, had many members and sympathizers in Tulsa. After the Civil War, lynching resurged across the country. According to Tuskegee University records, in every year between 1883 and 1922 between fifty to more than one hundred and fifty African-Americans were lynched. In 1921 alone fifty-nine African-Americans were killed, (in Tuskegee's scholarly language) 'without legal sanction.' "
So tell me again how lynching is a joke.
"In the early 1900s, Tulsa's population boomed from an influx of roughnecks, treasure-seekers, and Americans looking to make a fresh start. The secretive Ku Klux Klan, targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics, Asians, Republicans, Congressional radicals, and union members, had many members and sympathizers in Tulsa. After the Civil War, lynching resurged across the country. According to Tuskegee University records, in every year between 1883 and 1922 between fifty to more than one hundred and fifty African-Americans were lynched. In 1921 alone fifty-nine African-Americans were killed, (in Tuskegee's scholarly language) 'without legal sanction.' "
So tell me again how lynching is a joke.
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