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Comment by kennywinker

8 hours ago

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.