From the outset, I told you data from the era sucked, and I'm not digging through microfilm archives to convince you that Greenwoods 200 businesses and 6 paved roads weren't a massive civilization achievement (that they rebuilt in about 4 years).

I never said these people worked in the oil fields. I said Tusla was a boomtown, which brings a criminal element. Grifters, shysters and thugs, trying to get in on some of the wealth that's flowing. It happens everywhere a town booms. This made it a high crime area (again, find your own microfilm), but also a place where people needed and could afford servants and shoeshines. Most of the black population of Greenwood served as menial labor in Tulsa. Those 200 businesses probably didn't even employ 10% of Greenwoods 10,000 inhabitants, but I'm just basing that on the fact that hardly any of the businesses would have likely had more than 2-3 workers. The Stradford is exceptional in that, and I don't see many other exceptions.

If it were just Black British and African Americans, I might be inclined to give it some credence, but violence seems universal to black populations anywhere on the globe. Maybe you actually believe Ghana's reported homicide rate, but that's on you. Same as your belief in a Wakandan Greenwood.

As to the end, they're referencing both the high crime and vigilantism. When a town booms and crime rises, inadequate legal institutions fail, and people tend to take matters into their own hands. That's not really a Tulsa thing, just a pattern that often played out across the US.

E: Let's go back a little bit, here.

It was prosperous by all the data I've seen

What data have you seen that suggested this? I think the only thing I've come across that would even come close to such an appraisal is an Ebony article.

From the outset, I told you data from the era sucked, and I'm not digging through microfilm archives to convince you that Greenwoods 200 businesses and 6 paved roads weren't a massive civilization achievement (that they rebuilt in about 4 years).

I never said these people worked in the oil fields. I said Tusla was a boomtown, which brings a criminal element. Grifters, shysters and thugs, trying to get in on some of the wealth that's flowing. It happens everywhere a town booms. This made it a high crime area (again, find your own microfilm), but also a place where people needed and could afford servants and shoeshines. Most of the black population of Greenwood served as menial labor in Tulsa. Those 200 businesses probably didn't even employ 10% of Greenwoods 10,000 inhabitants, but I'm just basing that on the fact that hardly any of the businesses would have likely had more than 2-3 workers. The Stradford is exceptional in that, and I don't see many other exceptions.

If it were just Black British and African Americans, I might be inclined to give it some credence, but violence seems universal to black populations anywhere on the globe. Maybe you actually believe Ghana's reported homicide rate, but that's on you. Same as your belief in a Wakandan Greenwood.

As to the end, they're referencing both the high crime and vigilantism. When a town booms and crime rises, inadequate legal institutions fail, and people tend to take matters into their own hands. That's not really a Tulsa thing, just a pattern that often played out across the US.