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340 "Merry Kovid Kwanzaa, Madden the Death Merchant, the Flatbush Remonstrance"

The Fifth Column

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Why I Wasn't Taught About the Tulsa Race Massacre?

i think a lot of the stuff that i've read about the tulsa race massacre has, and thisll maybe prick people's ears up, actually gone in the other way. People take the worst possible, you know, body counts and exexcising other things that complicate the story a little bit. There is an aggressive campaign to recast the entire history as one that started only as a negative. Even the revolution itself was a trying to preserve one of the most shameful aspects and and things in american life. I'm not saying these things don't get taught, or they shouldn't be taught. But it's a matter of what you stress. The point is not that there

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