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Oklahoma

TreasonousBastard

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1. I remember reading about Tulsa. I'll look around some more later, but I seem to remember...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Nov 23, 2018, 12:30 PM

Nov 2018

it was only partly about race.

As I remember, AA's in Tulsa were wildly successful in business and politics while their white neighbors were sucking wind. Time came when they were "in the way" of some white ventures and so had to be taken out.

It's the American way.

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