NPR Rewriting History Of Tulsa Race Riot
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No doubt mob lynching isn't the fairest system of justice, but it doesn't appear to be racially biased - at least not at the time, in Tulsa.
Mark Twain isn't a good person to get your information from. For much of his life he was ambivalent toward or even approving of slavery, then when he changed his mind he used his wit and rhetoric to vilify slaveowners, even those who were financially stuck in a system they disapproved of.
The statues the violent mobs tore down in Virginia, all but one wrote how they were against slavery, but they didn't care because all southerners were just evil nazis to the mob. End of life Twain would be right there cheering them on, happily spreading lies about Charlottesville and everything else Woke.
I see literally no evidence of that.
While it is possible for lynching not to be racially based, to say that wasn't the case in Tulsa is just false when the media intentionally hyperbolized and racialized a non-event.
He sounds like someone who grew up in the antebellum south and eventually despised slavery.
Go look up the numbers and demographics I talked about, if you want to see evidence yourself.
If you haven't done this then you have presumption and belief, not evidence.
You said: at least not at the time, in Tulsa.
Go look up the incident, and try again. Don't give me this shit about "belief" when you don't know the facts of the case.
As I said: While it is possible for lynching not to be racially based, to say that wasn't the case in Tulsa is just false when the media intentionally hyperbolized and racialized a non-event.
There was no lynching in the incident, but even so one incident out of a large number does not show bias in the whole - you have to look at the whole to show that, and the data shows the opposite to what you want to believe.
I know you won't because you don't want to have your worldview changed, but go look up the crime numbers and demographics in Tulsa. It's exactly as I said.
It seems like you put a lot of faith in a wikipedia article, but the reality is nobody knows exactly how the incident went down and we never will. What you have are beliefs about what happened