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Hughes Van Ellis, one of last Tulsa race massacre survivors, dies aged 102
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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It's sad that I learned about this event from the HBO show Watchmen. It was maybe a brief paragraph in US History class in high school. I'm in my 40s and white. A rather telling indictment of the US education system.
I learned it walking the fucking streets where it happened. In '89 there was no education on the subject, no monuments, nothing but fucking burned concrete outlines of foundations and sidewalks, planted in a huge, mowed field outside of Greenwood.
We were loud-mouthed, know-it-all teens back then, decided we would go check it out. We weren't loud-mouthed that day. We could barely speak walking that ground.
"Jesus... These were entire blocks of homes, streets, burned to the ground. Who lived here? What was it like then? Did anyone survive?"
Like watching hurricane damage on the news, it's so much worse on the ground than you can possibly imagine.
I'm crying and don't want to explain to my Philina gf, I'm out.
I learned about it from YouTube videos like as well as various news stories.
My high school history classes were basically "slavery happened which was bad. Then, Lincoln freed the slaves. Nothing important happened until the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his 'I have a Dream' speech and black people were fully given equal treatment under the law. Then everything was perfect and there were no lingering issues at all."
Now, I get that high school history classes are time limited. You can't possibly cover all of US history in 2 semesters. Some things need to be cut/glossed over. I don't expect a high school class to give a fully accurate accounting of EVERYTHING that happened. At the same time, glossing over all the bad stuff that happened to black people between slavery ending and the Civil Rights movement seems suspect as does glossing over any issues after the Civil Rights movement. (For reference, I was in high school in the early 90's.)