Several hundred armed Black men and women dressed in fatigues held a march downtown Saturday afternoon, paying tribute to ancestors who were killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and vowing that such an event will never happen again.
“This is the strongest Black presence that Tulsa has ever seen,” an organizer said through a megaphone just outside ONEOK Field. “White Tulsa will never forget this day.
“Black Tulsa has no reason to be afraid, ever again.”
The march was organized by the Elmer Geronimo Pratt Gun Club of Central Texas, but it also included members of the New Black Panther Party and others.
Most members wore all-black fatigues, face coverings and sunglasses, and carried rifles as they chanted slogans and sang while marching from Ben Hill Community Center, 210 E. Latimer Place, south through downtown Tulsa to just south of the baseball park.
Among the chants were “Stand up, Black man, Stand up, Black woman,” and “Black power! Whose streets? Our streets!”
Several hundred others also joined the group, and many motorists passing by honked their horns and raised their fists in support.
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There were no apparent counter-protestors.
As organizers led the group across various city streets, at least two members with rifles stopped traffic on either side to allow marchers to pass through intersections safely.
Organizers also made sure stragglers in the group and other bystanders finished crossing the streets safely.
The march began about 3:45 p.m. before marchers returned to the community center about 5:30 p.m. to take a break, before again marching north on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Participants dispersed about 7 p.m. after walking to Pine Street then returning to the community center.
“For the most part,” said Toni Frank, communications officer for the Elmer Geronimo Pratt Gun Club, “the march went fine in commemorating our ancestors … for our Second Amendment rights.”
He said he thought the group was “stopped a little soon” as they approached Greenwood Avenue downtown, but “I think we made our point and I’ll live with that.”
The marchers were stopped by police outside the Black Wall Street Legacy Festival, which was also going on at the same time in the Greenwood District. Police said festival organizers did not want open carry of weapons at that permitted event, which continues 1-8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Other organizers at the march declined to speak with reporters and one with a megaphone also encouraged others to do the same.
“We ain’t here to do an interview,” the organizer said at the community center. “We’re asking for … reparations and our Second Amendment right to bear arms.
“We didn’t come here to play games with nobody.”
One of the most intense confrontations was when a Tulsa police vehicle showed up and stopped at an intersection right in front of marchers as they were taking a break at the community center.
“Anybody call for pork?” one organizer with a megaphone said, gesturing toward the parked officer.
“Nobody called 911. Nobody called 911,” he said.
The officer after a few minutes eventually drove off.
“You can go somewhere else and harass someone else,” the organizer said.
Don Spencer, president of the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association, sent a statement about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to the Tulsa World prior to Saturday’s event.
“Citizens that were attacked should have never hesitated to defend themselves and their property, and the ability to use weapons could have been a deterrent to such a vicious unlawful attack,” the statement said.
“A right is a right and the State of Oklahoma should NEVER participate in its infringement, even if citizens or government are uncomfortable when it is exercised.
“Every person should be taught the history of the 1921 riot and massacre, so that all understand that self-defense is moral and imperative in a civil society, as we continue to heal and stop any motive from such a horrific event from ever taking place again.”
Frank said Spencer was not invited to Saturday’s event because his group is a “known racist group trying to incite violence.”
“I have personally spent 30 minutes trying to keep people away from that man so he did not incite violence on himself to cause a problem. He is not our friend. We don’t expect him to be our friend.”
Frank said of Spencer’s statement: “He did the bare minimum. Cool.”
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Isn’t it interesting how when one group participates in certain activities, it is looked upon as honorable; but when another group participates in a similar event, it is offensive.
So, all the noise about Confederate flags and monuments by Blacks is racist and perpetuates bad memories, but here this group can don combat gear and march in remembrance of some historical event, and look at their reaction when it gets cancelled. Had this been a White group honoring the Confederacy, they would have been labeled as White Supremacists.
If militant Blacks refuse to see the problem and correct their message, then they are wasting their time with these publicity stunts being conducting under the guise of seeking justice for whatever.
“Stand up, Black man, Stand up, Black woman,” and “Black power! Whose streets? Our streets!”,,,,,,Does that mean the ghetto’s will disappear, the streets will be swept clean of drug needles, tent cities, piles of human feces? Please, Please, Please take control of your own communities and streets and make them fit for humans to live in and walk down without fear of getting mugged, shot or raped. Knowledge is not power, nor knowledge of how to socially organize for a change where the color of the face of the corruption and power oppression just changes color, but the corruption remains the same. Black pride and black pwer over your fellow man, to become the very thing you despise in whites, is not pride, but prejudice in another form. Just how many invisible disguised political sock puppets reside atop all those outstretched angry black power fists? Just ask your Democrat party organizer.
? “Stand up, Black man, Stand up, Black woman,”
Ok, now we have them off the couch.
Shouldn’t they have ended it with:
“GO OUT, GET A JOB, PAY TAXES AND RAISE YOUR CHILDREN TO BE GOOD LAW ABIDING CITIZENS”?
If we had less welfare loungers and MORE PRODUCERS would they have accomplished the same goals 125 years ago?
Can you imagine if WHITE CONSERVATIVES had done that armed march.. THERE WOULD have been likely police out there, arresting them for “trying to stage an insurrection”.
“Several hundred armed Black men and women dressed in fatigues held a march downtown Saturday afternoon, paying tribute to ancestors who were killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and vowing that such an event will never happen again.
“vowing that such an event will never happen again” Huh??
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~53% of all the murders and ~55% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~8,600 African-Americans men, women and children are killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Hummmm…….. “Black Lives Matter”? …… To whom??????
Too bad the Governor didn’t bring in his National Guard and stop everyone of those with a weapon. You can bet your bottom dollar that there were many, many, of them that are felons and can’t legally possess a weapon. Of course they don’t pay any attention to our laws anyway, if they did there wouldn’t be so much crime committed by the blacks. Since the liberals are afraid of losing the black vote they will do nothing about this kind of action. As you said, were the crowd white it would never have been allowed to happen. There’s little doubt anymore that this country is on the edge of another civil/race war that people have been expecting, and gearing up for, over the last several years, and that it could very well lead to that second war for independence that may well be what it’s going to take to straighten out this country. It’s amazing that so many people can’t see that liberalism is destroying these United States.
While i agree with a lot of your comment…
Call out the National Guard to VIOLATE THEIR 2ND AMENDMENT to see if THE STATE HAS THE POWER TO “INFRINGE”?
In the 1800’s and early 1900’s, when prisoners were released from prison. and weapons were returned to them.
BUT…
THEN they had “paid their debt to society’ through HARSH PUNISHMENT, instead of POSH COUNTRY CLUB VACATION HOMES.
I think we need a RETURN TO THE OLD WAYS.
INCLUDING the DEATH PENALTY within a year.
DATE CERTAIN adds an additional FEAR FACTOR to the “HARSH PUNISHMENT” thingy
IF nothing else, the guard could have detained them to see HOW MANY HAVE FELONIES< and thus LEGALLY cannot have had those firearms…
Just to bring the reader up o date on the WHY of the’protest’.
Tulsa race massacre of 1921, also called Tulsa race riot of 1921, one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
It occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning on May 31, 1921, and lasting for two days.
The massacre left somewhere between 30 and 300 people dead, mostly African Americans, and destroyed Tulsa’s prosperous Black neighbourhood of Greenwood, known as the “Black Wall Street.”
More than 1,400 homes and businesses were burned, and nearly 10,000 people were left homeless.
Despite its severity and destructiveness, the Tulsa race massacre was barely mentioned in history books until the late 1990s, when a state commission was formed to document the incident.
I disagree with their militant stance, but I also understand it.
While I support all 2A supporters, I notice the organizers of the Elmer Pratt gun Club did not invite the organizer of the March for reasons of racism. The two groups are working, both to prevent attacks on Blacks through 2A activism. I hope they can get together. We Need a wider support of everyone who wishes so, to be active in their own defense through exercise of their GOD given, Constitutionally Protected Right to Keep and Bear Arms!
I may understand their argument Crusty. BUT I DO NOT in anyway agree with what they did.. Especially their stance on “ITS OUR STREETS”.. No its not. ITS EVERYONE Street!
Thanks for that, geezer. I went to school when actual history was still being taught in our public schools. There was a heavy emphasis on American history and I still remember quite a bit of what went on in that class. We had a great teacher. But, this event doesn’t ring a bell. I swear this is the first I’ve ever heard of it.
It does not reflect well on historical Oklahoma and I understand the militant stance over it too. This might be the first good case I’ve ever heard for some kind of reparations but there’s a few problems with that. It would need to be from the people who got the money, not from government or taxpayers.
There can’t be very many people still living who went through this. And there would be even less people still living who participated in it, probably none. But, if they can match anybody up take them to court. I just don’t believe in shaking down people who weren’t even alive at that time for money.
NO matter HOW bad the event was, i never ever agree with any form of reparations.
we won’t forget any of this. not any of it. be assured crapmeisters we remember every anti america anti semite anti white anti religious projectile vomiting that comes from those illiterate ignorant foul mouths. and we see the whites marching around almost as if they just don’t get what this junk is all about. one can never underestimate the stupidity of the populace generally speaking. indeed, regardless of how much we underestimate it, it is never low intellect enough to be accurate.
Are these groups supporting ANTIFA and BLM who murder, destroy private businesses and government buildings? You should be getting rid of all these Mayors that did not protect all citizens from allowing the destruction of their cities
ALSO< how many black lives have been RUINED BY all the BLM Riots! How many blacks were KILLED BY those riots!
Where are the protests for THOSE lives matter?!
You must be a white supremacist. This was no publicity stunt.
$100,000-per-survivor gifts to $1 million, and instead of $2 million, they asked for $50 million—$50 million—in seed money.
We could not respond to those demands.
“Solomon-Simmons said “the $50 million figure was never a non-negotiable demand,”
So now we have a group of armed Negroes, demonstrating and DEMANDING
that White People pay them gifts for what happened 100 years ago.
Today: I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~53% of all the murders and ~55% of all robberies in the U.S..
Do victims of these black perpetrated crimes deserve Reparations from Black Communities, NAACP and BLM???
And the bad part is that the Democrat Party is supporting this intimidation by Blacks throughout Democrat ruled cities.
This latest liberal Democrat crusade has little or nothing to do with protecting the sensitivities of Black Americans and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts. For their cause is not defending the oppressed or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political Con.
Thanks for your service, Also Navy – Vietnam Service.
Race needs to be removed from our lives, we are all equal under the law and there is no such thing as racism in America, just a bunch of nut cases trying to get freebies and not having to work or pay taxes. When I was in the Navy ALL BROTHERS were equal and we did not give a **** about race! that is the way it should be, we all have equal opportunity so go out and get a job, work hard, make a living, support your family and don’t do the crimes! White punks go to jail also, so get over it.
Didn’t you get the memo? Not taking someone’s race into account is “racist”!
Thanks to both you & Scruffy for your service to our country.
Yup. Trying to be ‘color blind’ is racist.. Having black friends is ‘racist’. Treating everyone as equals, is ‘racist’.
ITS ONLY not racist, if you give blacks Supremacy…
” paying tribute to ancestors who were killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and vowing that such an event will never happen again”. What White people are massacring blacks? I suggest these “black power” advocates worry about the black on black murders in the inner cities and the black on black crime in the inner cities. Black on black murders and black on black crime is the “real massacre” that is going on in the inner cities.
BUT like always, THOSE blacks lives, never ever seem to matter.
Armed Marchers Take To Downtown Tulsa Streets prepare to meet heavily armed Oklahoma National Guard!
Too bad that didn’t happen!
Yet!
Exactly. ALSO why were armed 2a supporters not out there, to Counter protest??
Anyone who does not think that these and other militants do not mean to kill white people will not be ready when the pogroms start. The whole point of Burn Loot Murder and related terrorist groups is the extermination of the caucasian population and its replacement with the brown Third World lumpenproletariat that is being pitchforked into this country by the illegitimate Chicom puppet regime now in charge after riots and a stolen election. The attempted communist revolutions of the Twentieth Century were predicated upon setting class against class; the new generation of communist organizers realize that setting race against race is a more effective strategy. In the end, the survival of the American experiment, Western civilization and the European peoples who built these and are their last defenses now will depend upon the Second Amendment.
Where the hell is “White Tulsa”?
It’s not hard to find, it’s in the clean part of town.
THEN why did they not get out, to COUNTER protest??
Just another Democrat fraud to further destroy race relations. More Blacks are killed by other Blacks every weekend in the 5 major U S cities,. This is just something to dredge up to keep the racism going strong. The Dems talk all this s–t about the evil privileged Whites when that’s exactly who runs the Democrat party . The Democrats never do a thing to make these cities better because they don’t want them to be better. They appropriate zillions of dollars and then steal it. 12 thousand dollars per student per year in Baltimore and none of the students could pass a test in anything. Wake up fools.
They might as well be protesting the sale of blacks into slavery by their African ancestors. The only difference is that slavery is still extant in parts of Africa. Mostly in the islam areas that are close to poor blacks. While it is nice to remember these things, they are in the past. They are saying “never again” so something that did not happen before or after. Its been 100 years. I’d feel better about December 7 or 9/11 demonstrations by Americans. I wonder how many of these folks would fight for their country too. Their message would be better received in say February or on MLK day.
Since the ‘event’ they are protesting was where HEAVILY ARMED MOBS OF WHITE PEOPLE INVADED, MURDERED AND BURNED OUT AN AFFLUENT AFRICAN BUSINESS CENTER AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS….
This has nothing to do with ‘slavery’ or reparations for slavery.
THIS is the WHY they write History books.
I doubt a single bloody one, would fight for america..
On memorial day weekend ?? Sounds like a armed Insurrection ?
You can bet, had trump supporters done that, it WOULD have been seen as an armed insurrection… ANd i am left to wonder, SINCE the republicans supposedly have a Trifecta out there, THIS ARMED protest was allowed to go down?
A little history lesson: Blacks first appeared in the Oklahoma Territory as slaves of native Americans . The five southern tribes were forcibly relocated to “Indian Territory”, via the “Trail of tears”, and they took their black slaves with them. After the Civil War, the freed slaves remained in the territories, and lived peacefully with the Indians. They combined their 40 acre land grants, and built a successful community which thrived under capitalism. The black section of Tulsa became known as “Black Wall Street.” After Oklahoma became a State, white people moved there in droves to take advantage of free land.
In 1921, a young black man was arrested on a charge of raping a white woman. He didn’t do it, but the black population believed he was going to be lynched, so they armed themselves, and marched to the courthouse, to try to free him. The white people, fearing the armed blacks, organized an armed response, and invaded the black community, killing over 300 men, women, and children and burning the entire black community. The dead were buried in a mass grave without markers. The riot was stopped when the Oklahoma National Guard intervened.
These are the facts. Tragedy is often born of fear and hatred.
I looked it up and you were right. Blacks came armed to the court house. But for some reason ,today the news media leaves that part out.
I wonder, did the Klan show up armed?
They do have a right to gather and protest. However, if they are threatening white people simply because they are white then they are doing exactly the same thing that happened to their ancestors 100 years ago. The truth is that those who actually carried out and participated in the Tulsa Race Massacre are dead. Their sons and daughters are pretty darn old if they are even alive anymore. At this point even the grandchildren of the participants are quite old. It is wrong to set the sins of previous generations on the people of today.
If they are trying to highlight their history fine go ahead. If they are wanting reparations today from people who had zero to do with the situation they have crossed a line.
The left loves to whine “ITS wrong to condemn the kid for the sins of the father”, when it comes to illegal aliens. BUT LOVES DOING IT TO whites, re-slavery..
“White Tulsa”??? “Black Tulsa”??? WTH is that????
If a armed white group marched and spouted off at the mouth the same racist **** as those anarchists did, they would be rounded up and taken to jail! People like those insurrectionists should be removed from the streets and the country!
That just happened Jan 06 and many hundreds remain in jail without bail or have even been charged, just rounded up by our fearless FBI with their facial recognition software and bottomless resources.
YET hundreds of thousands of BLM/Antifa scumbags, Who DID STAGE INSURRECTIONS in state capitals or flat out took over sections of demon0rat infested cities, ARE STILL OUT ON THE STREET!
In 2018 democrats stormed the capital building. It was during the kavanaugh hearings. But they were charged with Misdemeanors.
YEa i remember those folk storming. AND NOT ONLY were they only charged with misdemeanors, BUT THEY WERE NOT HELD FOR Months without bail..
COMMENTWell at least there wasn’t any violence, I’ll say that. In regards to the Elmer Geronimo Pratt Gun Club of Central Texas; I looked them up and they are a black-only gun club. Hmmm. If we formed a white only gun club, wouldn’t that be a problem? Also, to the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association, stay the hell outta Civil Rights issues. The gun club president already said he didn’t want your help. Finally, it was amazing how the Black Wall Street Legacy Festival didn’t want the Black Panthers at their event. Interesting that they see them as extreme.
I’ve often asked the same sort of thing. WHY CAN THERE be so damn many black only this, or black only that, or WOMEN ONLY the other.. BUT if i ever had a white only or male only anything, that would soon get SUED INTO obscurity for ‘racism or sexism’..
Where is the “diversity and inclusion” that is being shoved down our throats on a daily basis. Apparently it is only a ruse mostly used by democrats to make sure that blacks still believe in them and keep them in power. Good example: have you noticed that most commercials now feature a black member of whatever the commercial is about. You would think, this is “diversity and inclusion” but in reality it is a pony show with a “token” black which meets their agenda. Same goes with all these enormous companies who bow down cause now more black will feel obligated to buy their products and they still keep those already obligated to them.
As we’ve often seen.. INCLUSIVENESS is only something WHITE male conservatives need to show.
Tolerance is something only white/male/conservatives need to have…
wish i could have been at this protest-I would have gladly beeped my horn and raised both fists
with very prominent raised middle fingers-
reparations –no
2nd amendment rights for all americans—yes-
All this serves to tell me is how backward their thinking is. It what world would the massacre EVER happen again. The USA is the main reason they have the rights they do. The USA led the way for equal rights for everyone regardless of race, creed, color, sex. The USA is also the reason they can protest something so ignorant.
Police who would arrest white people for doing the same thing and will not arrest blacks for these threats are racists.
Many events of the past are sad, unfortunate, misguided, evil but realize that the past is past; it is over, gone, no longer a relevant issue for today. Yes, 100 years ago an evil event occurred in Tulsa but the good news that no one alive today was a victim of this.
Raking through the sparse remains of evil long gone with the hopes of sniffing out some tidbit of stench is certainly a symptom of some sort of mental illness.
But, of course, BLM and other race-baiting organizations live and breathe (and sniff) for the next opportunity to over react to some ancient occurrence with the intention to make it appear to be current and relevant in order to support their false assertion that white Americans are racist.
The facts are irrelevant to them; just their hatefulled agenda “matters.”
THEY live to bring up ANY history, to bash whites..
(4) white trash, one white baby, one Latino child, and one full grown negro. What a difference 100 years makes.
Gee . . WHO is the biggest enemy of blacks? WHO put them into slavery . . WHO created the KKK . . . .WHO instituted Jim Crow laws when their slaves were given the vote by the party of Lincoln . . . WHO destroyed the black family with the “war on poverty” and “great society” by rewarding non-work and illegitimacy . .. .WHO dumbed down and lowered the bar for blacks and placated them with over praising . . .. . WHO controls, legislates, and polices black communities . . . . Hint: It is NOT white Republicans
RHEEEEE
You brought up facts.
RHEEEE
That triggers leftists
as usual they were looking for something to complain about. I DON’T LIKE to generalize but…….. If they didn’t have whitey to complain about who would they blame all their self inflicted problems on? They’re just looking for an excuse to justify their own racism. I’d say the days of Martian Luther King is dead and buried on the scrap heap of history and the Democrap party. They’re only about 100 years late to the party. What took them so long to get mad.
They’d probably blame asians, latinos, or ‘lesser black’ blacks..
My heart cries for that little boy in the photo. He will probably grow up with a guilt complex inculcated by his parents, the lame stream media, the mis-education system, and sleepy Joe.