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Toot

Written by Michele Feltman Strider on 2025-01-11 at 16:45

I've lived many places and, often, people assume that Alabama was the worst. Or Georgia. Maybe Florida.

Sadly, no*.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oklahoma.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/tulsa-race-massacre-report-doj

• I've got stories, tho

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Written by Michele Feltman Strider on 2025-01-11 at 17:04

"Last June, the Oklahoma supreme court threw out a lawsuit brought by Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, two Tulsa race massacre survivors, that sought to make the city of Tulsa pay restitution to survivors and their descendants. Randle and Fletcher, who are both 110, were children at the time of the massacre."

No money for massacre victims, yet the city of Tulsa will pay randos $10,000 to move there.

https://www.tulsaremote.com/

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Written by Court Cantrell will not comply on 2025-01-11 at 17:07

@michelestrider This state is so very backward and getting worse.

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Written by Michele Feltman Strider on 2025-01-11 at 17:12

@courtcan I hate it for all of the good, decent, caring people who live there and deserve better

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Written by Court Cantrell will not comply on 2025-01-11 at 20:51

@michelestrider Thank you. Me too! 😫

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Written by bytebro on 2025-01-11 at 17:40

@michelestrider

Never seen this story before. I'm crying for the immense injustice. Thank you for posting this.

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Written by Michele Feltman Strider on 2025-01-11 at 17:43

@bytebro Many people, like my husband, who grew up in Oklahoma were not aware. The coverup was that deep and wide. I learned about it in 1999, thanks to KGOU, a local public radio station. But for many folks, it is news.

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