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Comment by gadders

11 hours ago

That's the urban myth, yes.

Well documented historical events aren’t urban myths.

  • People died, yes. But there was no white supremacism. There was no Wall Street. It was just like any high street. It was triggered by an attempted rape.

    • > there was no white supremacism

      People were murdered and homes and businesses destroyed by a white mob because they were black. How is that anything but white supremacy?

      > There was no Wall Street. It was just like any high street.

      It was one of the wealthiest black communities in america at a time. “Black wall street” was a nickname, not a literal description of a stock exchange.

      > It was triggered by an attempted rape.

      No, it was triggered by an attempted lynching of a black man. Or if you want to be more specific, because the community there stood up to protect the arrested man. It was triggered by a black community stopping a lynching.

      Your assertions are an ahistorical revisionist fantasy.