Human Interest

There have been many unthinkable travesties inflicted on Black people in this place the slaves called “merica”. We know about the lynchings, rapes, and thefts that were all too common and protected by law. In fact, because these horrors were done under cover of law they were useful tools to suppress the people of the stolen tribes of Africa. Not many people are aware of just how extreme and the lengths these people went to use some of these extreme forms of brutality. For example, what happened in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1921 where the government bombed and destroyed an entire black community.

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