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[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago

My wife and I had never heard of the Tulsa Race Massacre at the time. We were debating whether it was in poor taste to write such a disturbing/racist/violent event in fiction. Then we actually looked it up and realized how we had been failed by our grade school educations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Great show, but as a Tulsan the show was hard to watch because it's a nice city now, but still with some racial tensions. The Tulsa Race Riots were depicted pretty fairly; it was an absolutely heinous event in American history that gets little attention even here.

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

It was honestly mind blowing to learn that most white Americans legit didn't know what the US was like in the 1900s.

That realization played a large part in me investigating how white Americans basically lied themselves into believing the US gov/white Americans made amends for their crimes towards blacks during the period called Reconstruction - in reality, most gains black Americans made after the civil war (e.g. the surge in black politicians, the ability to get educated/start schools, etc.) were immediately taken away by means of terrorism, disenfranchisement, and bs legislation.

The movie/doc Exterminate All The Brutes does a great job detailing the stories Americans used to tell about themselves and how they had to deal with savage natives/tribes and whatnot. It's hard to watch but it really shows how we've all been victims of very effective propaganda. I mean, we literally recite a pledge of allegiance as children. The bs goes deep.

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