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Black Star News
Long Island Murder, Immigration And Racism
Interesting History of Hatred and Racism
By Colin Benjamin
November 27th, 2008
Some Excerpts :
Historically, in times of economic unrest, the majority population in America has always been given, by politicians and elites, a scapegoat to blame. Once, Blacks were the scapegoats. The destruction of the city of "Black Wall Street" is one example. By 1921 the Greenwood section, of Tulsa, Oklahoma was home to one of the 20th Century’s most successful Black towns known as "Black Wall Street." This highly prominent area had over 600 successful businesses including: movie theaters, law offices, a bank, a hospital, libraries, restaurants, groceries, a post office and several private airplanes.
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Unfortunately, in the 1920’s Ku Klux Klan membership was on the rise, and would reach its zenith during this period. Amid this backdrop, on May 31, 1921 the Tulsa Tribune published a story based on the claim of a white woman, Sarah Paige, that she was assaulted by Dick Rowland, an African American. This story was all the pretext jealous whites needed to destroy this thriving town. The death toll is known to be much higher than the 26 Blacks reported, and more than a thousand businesses and homes were obliterated.
Black Star News
Long Island Murder, Immigration And Racism
Interesting History of Hatred and Racism
By Colin Benjamin
November 27th, 2008
Some Excerpts :
Historically, in times of economic unrest, the majority population in America has always been given, by politicians and elites, a scapegoat to blame. Once, Blacks were the scapegoats. The destruction of the city of "Black Wall Street" is one example. By 1921 the Greenwood section, of Tulsa, Oklahoma was home to one of the 20th Century’s most successful Black towns known as "Black Wall Street." This highly prominent area had over 600 successful businesses including: movie theaters, law offices, a bank, a hospital, libraries, restaurants, groceries, a post office and several private airplanes.
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Unfortunately, in the 1920’s Ku Klux Klan membership was on the rise, and would reach its zenith during this period. Amid this backdrop, on May 31, 1921 the Tulsa Tribune published a story based on the claim of a white woman, Sarah Paige, that she was assaulted by Dick Rowland, an African American. This story was all the pretext jealous whites needed to destroy this thriving town. The death toll is known to be much higher than the 26 Blacks reported, and more than a thousand businesses and homes were obliterated.
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Now political provocateurs, like Levy, insist their issue is only illegal immigration. People like him, and CNN’s sanctimonious Lou Dobbs, feign ignorance about how the lines can be easily blurred between the two; in a nation as racist as America. Are they really as obtuse as they pretend? .
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When Dobbs rails about immigration, speciously insisting that "illegal immigrants" are a terror threat, how can people be surprised kids who grow up in intolerant neighborhoods, and homes, would react with violent hostility toward immigrants, especially, Latinos who are presumed to be here "illegally"? Dobbs has blood on his hands. Pity the Native Americans had no Immigration Department.
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