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When did you learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre: where white mobs in Oklahoma massacred Black folks, burned their businesses/homes, and then kept it out of the history books for nearly a century?
When did you learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre: where white mobs in Oklahoma massacred Black folks, burned their businesses/homes, and then kept it out of the history books for nearly a century?
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When I watched Watchmen at the age of 37.
I didn’t hear of it until Watchmen on HBO.
I learned about it after the George Floyd murder. I was 49 at the time. Grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina.
I learned about it sometime in the past 10 years while in my 30s. Definitely did not hear about it in school – I got the “Civil War was about states rights” nonsense version of history in school except for one exceptional AP history teacher but he only taught up to 1900.
Last year, when juneteenth became a national holiday.
The US education system is terrible and extremely underfunded.
I learnt about it when I was a Kid, because someone used it as an excuse to show that “Because I’m white, I have the duty to apologies and prevent stuff like that”
I was a fuckin’ kid lol
School in the UK
Just this year from a YouTube video.
I learned about it on the New Day podcast, which is a wrestling podcast with 3 black wrestlers. It’s normally a more humorous podcast but they mentioned this in an episode. I felt ashamed that I didn’t know anything about this until that recently.
Today lol
But I’m neither from Oklahoma or America in general, so I would never bother to care I suppose
Grew up in Oklahoma. Didn’t learn about it in school, not even in “Oklahoma History” class. I didn’t really learn about it all until 4 or 5 years ago, or how big of a deal it was until just a couple of years ago.
never heard of it. nowhere near Tulsa.
in school
Briefly in Jr year of HS
Watchmen. I thought it was an alternate reality. I was really pissed off when I learned it was real but was never taught in our history classes in the south.
From my great grandma who grew up in the Jim crow era. She’s 72.
I love when people make politically charged askreddit questions masqueraded as pretend dumb person questions.