THE TULSA MASSACRE: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
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🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Alarmist, Rebecca Delgado Smith decides who is to blame for the Tulsa Massacre. Special Guest Randy Thompson, Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Amanda Lund are there to help! Guest Expert, Tim Madigan (author of The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921) stops by to shed light on the events that led to the massacre. On the board this week: Racism, Birth of a Nation and the Tulsa Police.
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| 0:25.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:29.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own |
| 0:38.0 | brain. My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing and that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame. They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch. My name is |
| 1:00.4 | Rebecca Delgado Smith and I am The Alarmist. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into The Al alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk |
| 1:15.0 | about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we'll be |
| 1:19.7 | discussing the Tulsa Massacre. It's one of those that is not taught in history classes. I |
| 1:25.3 | actually hadn't even heard of it until the Watchman episode came out. I think it's |
| 1:30.2 | important that we all educate ourselves and learn about these historical topics that have been buried in our nation's history. |
| 1:37.5 | Let's get started. Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:40.0 | The second largest city in its state, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was incorporated in 1898. |
| 1:49.0 | After discovering oil in 1901, the town leaders promoted Tulsa as the oil capital of the world. |
| 1:55.0 | Afterwards, Tulsa experienced an oil boom and its population skyrocketed. |
| 2:00.0 | By 1920, it had over 70,000 residents and approximately 15,000 were black. |
| 2:07.0 | Many of them lived in the community of Greenwood. |
| 2:10.0 | Dubbed Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a thriving cultural and financial center with commercial businesses booming. |
| 2:17.0 | Its affluent residents consisted of lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs, and domestic workers for middle and upper class white families |
| 2:25.6 | on the white side of town. |
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