So, we're still doing this stuff, huh?
This is all, according to The New York Times, in response to a racist atrocity that took place more than 100 years ago where anywhere from 36 to 300 black people were killed in Tulsa after a black man was accused of assaulting a white woman.
Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Tulsa, unveiled the sweeping project, named Road to Repair. It is intended to chip away at enduring disparities caused by the massacre and its aftermath in the Greenwood neighborhood and the wider North Tulsa area of Tulsa, Okla.
How far back do we go? Do you get reparations for the "enduring disparities" created by the Viking invasions of England? What about the Islamic conquest of Constantinople? The sacking of Rome? The burning of Jerusalem and the Second Temple?
But the point isn't logic or justice. It's Marxism!
The centerpiece of the project is the creation of the Greenwood Trust, a private charitable trust, with the goal of securing $105 million in assets — including private contributions, property transfers and possible public funding — by next spring, the 105th anniversary of the attack.
The New York Times notes that there are only two people still living in Tulsa who survived the attack, both in their 12th decade of life, but this money isn't going to them.
The fund is not in the form of checks made out to individuals. Instead they will be rebuilding the area of the city where the attack occurred a century ago.
In Tulsa, the Greenwood Trust resources will be divided into three general areas: a $24 million housing fund for homeownership and housing assistance; a $60 million cultural preservation fund for building improvements and cleaning up blight; and $21 million for land acquisition and development, small business support, and scholarships
A hundred million dollars doesn't spring from nowhere. What essential services are being cut to fund this pet project, and who will suffer as a result?
The mayor had this to say:
'One hundred and four years is far too long for us to not address the harm of the massacre,' Mr. Nichols said in an interview before the announcement. He added that the effort was really about 'what has been taken from a people, and how do we restore that as best we can in 2025, proving we're much different than we were in 1921.'
(Allotting funds to neighborhoods based on their majority skin color? Yes, so different!)
This was announced this weekend on "Race Massacre Awareness Day," which has to be one of the most bummer names ever.
Tulsans, make sure to thank your mayor for taking $100 million dollars from you for a crime you had absolutely nothing to do with more than a century ago.
Progress!
P.S. Now check out our latest video 👇
