Tulsa Race Riot

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🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Tulsa race riot, sometimes referred to as the Tulsa massacre,^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Tulsa pogrom,^[6]^[7]^[8] or Tulsa race riot of 1921, took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a white mob attacked residents and businesses of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.^[1] This is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States.^[9] The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, at the time the wealthiest black community in the U.S.

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0:00.0	Yeah, we are almost sold out for the platinum night.
0:05.4	Any idea what topic we should do?
0:07.6	Maybe something that's controversial that would have been shine away from or something
0:10.3	I don't know.
0:11.3	It's not a bad idea.
0:12.3	Not a bad idea.
0:13.3	Mother fucker.
0:14.8	I don't care how many alerts you set on your phone, you can't prepare for gunshots.
0:20.4	Yeah, well welcome to Chicago though.
0:22.8	I mean, Eli, what the fuck is going on man?
0:26.0	Oh, hey Noah, Tom, time out.
0:29.2	Out Tom, I said time out.
0:31.0	Oh, sorry, my bad, my bad.
0:33.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:34.7	Hey guys, so this week is the Tulsa race riot.
0:38.2	So I thought, you know, we can all get into the speed.
0:40.6	Eli, Eli, what does the laminated sign on the wall say?
0:45.2	Which sign on the wall?
0:46.4	Which one are you discussing it?
0:47.9	You know which one.
0:48.9	Oh, oh, that one.
0:49.9	It's that it says, it says number one, no blackface.
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