Tulsa searches for mass graves from 1921 Tulsa race massacre

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Tulsa searches for mass graves from 1921 Tulsa race massacre

By Gabrielle Sorto, CNN
Updated 1934 GMT (0334 HKT) October 8, 2019

(CNN) — The search for evidence that victims of the 1921 race massacre, one of the country's worst episodes of racial violence, were buried in mass graves began this week in Tulsa.

Scientists and forensic anthropologists began scanning Oaklawn Cemetery on Monday for anomalies that might be consistent with mass graves.

Mayor G.T. Bynum announced last year that he would reopen the investigation into mass graves, calling it a murder investigation.

"The only way to move forward in our work to bring about reconciliation in Tulsa is by seeking the truth honestly," Mayor Bynum said in a statement. "As we open this investigation 98 years later, there are both unknowns and truths to uncover."

In Oaklawn Cemetery, there is a grassy portion of the park with no marked graves. There, researchers detected an underground "abnormality" that could be consistent with a mass grave, though the researchers warned it could be a "pauper's grave," the mayor said in 2018. That's the term for burial sites of those who couldn't afford proper funerals.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/us/tulsa-mass-graves-search-race-massacre-trnd/index.html

[tirebiter]

1. The Tulsa massacre is a big secret

Tulsa used to be the center of Black capitalism. It was known as the Black Wall Street

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's really about time the people of the country learned what happened here at the hands of racists.

It couldn't have been more completely buried all these long years until quite recently, and what a filthy shame it is.

Time to start cleaning out these grotesque truths about real mob rule, or rule by the murderous empowered, and it's going to take a vast amount of cleaning, and uncovering what has been deliberately hidden. It was hidden, no doubt whatsoever, because the filthy elites realized at the time they did it how evil it all was, and will always be.

Thank you for your excellent comment. It should be easy for newcomers to the subject to remember long enough to start their own awakenings.