The Official Black History Thread

[Trill Clinton]

Grape, strawberry, orange, etc...we love fruit flavored dranks

[The Reckoning]

if you knew your black history, malcolm X was assassinated today.

his autobiography sucked big black balls.

[Trill Clinton]

if you knew your black history, malcolm X was assassinated today.

his autobiography sucked big black balls.

What does him being assassinated today have to do with me not knowing black history? You know what, don't answer that, just shut the up.

[The Reckoning]

What does him being assassinated today have to do with me not knowing black history? You know what, don't answer that, just shut the up.

impersonal pronouns must be a foreign concept. not everything is about "you."

put down the koolaid. .

[Trill Clinton]

impersonal pronouns must be a foreign concept. not everything is about "you."

put down the koolaid. .

hard to tell when people are serious when everyone, outside of a few, are making lame racist jokes, like the one you just did smh.

[Trill Clinton]

One of my favorite fictional black heroes is Babo from Benito Cereno, fwiw

haven't read that, might have to check it out

[The Reckoning]

Grape, strawberry, orange, etc...we love fruit flavored dranks]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

smh. racist s everywhere.

[Trill Clinton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

smh. racist s everywhere.

look man, either drop some appreciation for blacks or get the out.

[DeadlyDynasty]

by posting on an NBA forum we are appreciating black people

[The Reckoning]

look man, either drop some appreciation for blacks or get the out.

alright. im a fan of peanut butter.

[Trill Clinton]

by posting on an NBA forum we are appreciating black people

don't act brand new. you already showed you're capable of providing this thread with some appreciation, minus the obvious troll attempts of pig feets and grape soda.

[Trill Clinton]

alright. im a fan of peanut butter.

that'll work, thanks.

[DeadlyDynasty]

I'll give you the pigs feet, but I genuinely like grape soda...Crush brand though

[Trill Clinton]

I'll give you the pigs feet, but I genuinely like grape soda...Crush brand though

really? something about welch's makes it that much better than the rest, to me.

If you would have posted a picture of chitlin's I would have co-signed that one too. Can't with pigs feet.

[Landon Donofag]

[Trill Clinton]

On February 1, 1960, At 4:30PM, Four Freshmen From North Carolina A&T -- Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil And Franklin McCain, Sat Down At The Lunch Counter Of The Local F. W. Woolworth Store At 132 South Elm Street In Greensboro, North Carolina, And Ordered Coffee And Cherry Pie. This Bold Act Defied The Jim Crow Laws That Permitted Blacks To Shop In The Store But Not Eat A Meal There. After Being Refused Service, The Young Men Began Reading Their Textbooks, Sending The Message That They Were Not Leaving Until They Were Served Or The Store Closed.

The "Greensboro 4," As They Were Called, Returned The Next Morning With More A&T Students. On Wednesday 70 Students Joined The Protest, Including Women From Nearby Bennett College And Some White Students From Other Local Schools. By This Time The Greensboro Sit-In Had Become A National News Story.

On Thursday, 150 A&T Students Moved Down The Street And Staged A Similar Sit-In In The S. H. Kress & Co. Store. Other Demonstrations Began Taking Place Throughout The South.

The Greensboro Sit-In Is Credited With Re-Igniting The Civil Rights Movement In America -- Transforming The Older Generation's "Don't-Rock The-Boat" Tactics To A More Militant, Protest-Based Platform.

[Avante]

Three of my favorite authors

James Baldwin
Richard Wright
Ralph Ellison

Where would we be without them blues, soul, R&B. History has proven country music was inspired by old black blues as was rock & roll.

[Winehole23]

BLACK WALLSTREET:

I'm surprised that a lot of people don't know of Black Wallstreet:

African-American History in Oklahoma as told to Ronald E. Childs. If anyone truly believes that the last April attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was the most tragic bombing ever to take place on United States soil, as the media has been widely reporting, they're wrong-plain and simple. That's because an even deadlier bomb occurred in that same state nearly 75 years ago.

Many people in high places would like to forget that it ever happened. Searching under the heading of "riots," "Oklahoma" and "Tulsa" in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, there is con uously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, and this omission is by no means a surprise, or a rare case. The fact is, one would also be hard-pressed to find do entation of the incident, let alone an accurate accounting of it, in any other "scholarly" reference or American history book.

That's precisely the point that noted author, publisher and orator Ron Wallace, a Tulsa native, sought to make nearly five years ago when he began researching this riot, one of the worst incidents of violence ever visited upon people of African descent. Ultimately joined on the project by colleague Jay Jay Wilson of Los Angeles, the duo found and compiled indisputable evidence of what they now describe as "A Black Holocaust in America."

The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wallstreet," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering-A model community destroyed, and a major Africa-American economic movement resoundingly defused.

The night's carnage left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half-dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could be expected, the impetus behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials, and many other sympathizers. In their self-published book, Black Wallstreet: A lost Dream, and its companion video do entary, Black Wallstreet: A Black Holocaust in America!, the authors have chronicled for the very first time in the words of area historians and elderly survivors what really happened there on that fateful summer day in 1921 and why it happened. Wallace similarly explained to Black Elegance why this bloody event from the turn of the century seems to have had a recurring effect that is being felt in predominately Black neighborhoods even to this day. The best description of Black Wallstreet, or Little Africa as it was also known, would be to liken it to a mini-Beverly Hills. It was the golden door of the Black community during the early 1900s, and it proved that African Americans had successful infrastructure. That's what Black Wallstreet was about.

The dollar circulated 36 to 1000 times, sometimes taking a year for currency to leave the community. Now in 1995, a dollar leaves the Black community in 15 minutes. As far as resources, there were Ph.D's residing in Little Africa, Black attorneys and doctors. One doctor was Dr. Berry who also owned the bus system. His average income was $500 a day, a hefty pocket of change in 1910. During that era, physicians owned medical schools. There were also pawn shops everywhere, brothels, jewelry stores, 21 churches, 21 restaurants and two movie theaters. It was a time when the entire state of Oklahoma had only two airports, yet six blacks owned their own planes. It was a very fascinating community. The area encompassed over 600 businesses and 36 square blocks with a population of 15,000 African Americans. And when the lower-economic Europeans looked over and saw what the Black community created, many of them were jealous. When the average student went to school on Black Wallstreet, he wore a suit and tie because of the morals and respect they were taught at a young age.

The mainstay of the community was to educate every child. Nepotism was the one word they believed in. And that's what we need to get back to in 1995. The main thoroughfare was Greenwood Avenue, and it was intersected by Archer and Pine Streets. From the first letters in each of those names, you get G.A.P., and that's where the renowned R&B music group The GAP Band got its name. They're from Tulsa. Black Wallstreet was a prime example of the typical Black community in America that did business, but it was in an unusual location. You see, at the time, Oklahoma was set aside to be a Black and Indian state. There were over 28 Black townships there. One third of the people who traveled in the terrifying "Trail of Tears" along side the Indians between 1830 to 1842 were Black people. The citizens of this proposed Indian and Black state chose a Black governor, a treasurer from Kansas named McDade. But the Ku Klux Klan said that if he assumed office that they would kill him within 48 hours. A lot of Blacks owned farmland, and many of them had gone into the oil business. The community was so tight and wealthy because they traded dollars hand-to-hand, and because they were dependent upon one another as a result of the Jim Crow laws.

It was not unusual that if a resident's home accidentally burned down, it could be rebuilt within a few weeks by neighbors. This was the type of scenario that was going on day-to-day on Black Wallstreet. When Blacks intermarried into the Indian culture, some of them received their promised '40 acres and a Mule,' and with that came whatever oil was later found on the properties.

Just to show you how wealthy a lot of Black people were, there was a banker in a neighboring town who had a wife named California Taylor. Her father owned the largest cotton gin west of the Mississippi [River]. When California shopped, she would take a cruise to Paris every three months to have her clothes made. There was also a man named Mason in nearby Wagner County who had the largest potato farm west of the Mississippi. When he harvested, he would fill 100 boxcars a day. Another brother not far away had the same thing with a spinach farm. The typical family then was five children or more, though the typical farm family would have 10 kids or more who made up the nucleus of the labor.

On Black Wallstreet, a lot of global business was conducted. The community flourished from the early 1900s until June 1, 1921. That's when the largest massacre of non-military Americans in the history of this country took place, and it was lead by the Ku Klux Klan. Imagine walking out of your front door and seeing 1,500 homes being burned. It must have been amazing.

Survivors we interviewed think that the whole thing was planned because during the time that all of this was going on, white families with their children stood around on the borders of the community and watched the massacre, the looting and everything---much in the same manner they would watch a lynching.

In my lectures I ask people if they understand where the word "picnic" comes from. It was typical to have a picnic on a Friday evening in Oklahoma. The word was short for "pick a Brotha Man" to lynch. They would lynch a Black male and cut off body parts as souvenirs. This went on every weekend in this country. That's where the term really came from. The riots weren't caused by anything Black or white. It was caused by jealousy. A lot of white folks had come back from World War I and they were poor. When they looked over into the Black communities and realized that Black men who fought in the war had come home heroes that helped trigger the destruction. It cost the Black community everything, and not a single dime of res ution---no insurance claims-has been awarded to the victims to this day.

Nonetheless, they rebuilt. We estimate that 1,500 to 3,000 people were killed, and we know that a lot of them were buried in mass graves all around the city. Some were thrown in the river. As a matter of fact, at 21st Street and Yale Avenue, where there now stands a Sears parking lot, that corner used to be a coal mine. They threw a lot of the bodies into the shafts. Black Americans don't know about this story because we don't apply the word holocaust to our struggle. Jewish people use the word holocaust all the time. White people use the word holocaust. It's politically correct to use it. But when we Black folks use the word, people think we're being cry babies or that we're trying to bring up old issues. No one comes to our support. In 1910, our forefathers and mothers owned 13 million acres of land at the height of racism in this country, so the Black Wallstreet book and videotape prove to the naysayers and revisionists that we had our act together. Our mandate now is to begin to teach our children about our own, ongoing Black holocaust. They have to know when they look at our communities today that we don't come from this.

City of Tulsa is looking for the mass graves:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...1-race-n916401

[Winehole23]

Tulsa still coming to terms with the Greenwood massacre:

http://www.governing.com/topics/publ...ll-street.html

[JohnnyD]

The first nationally acclaimed sprinter from one of those HBCU schools was Mozelle Ellerbe out of Tuskegee Ins ute. He starred in the late 30's/early 40's. But because of the war he had no Olympics to run in, so...............

The first stud NFL RB out of the HBCU was a converted DB J.D.Smith out of NCA&T. He was a Niner and the first HBCUer to gain a 1000 yards in a season.

Florida A&M's Bob Hayes the first HBCUer to win the Olympic 100, and the first HBCUer WR to have a 1000yards for an NFL season.

The first speedy, quick, fast, elusive black RB in pro football was this guy...




He won both the NCAA and AAU 100 yards in the same season, a rarity back then.


DeFord Bailey the first black performer on The Grand Ole Opry.





Ernie Davis the first black to win the Heisman.

[Pavlov]

The first nationally acclaimed sprinter from one of those HBCU schools was Mozelle Ellerbe out of Tuskegee Ins ute. He starred in the late 30's/early 40's. But because of the war he had no Olympics to run in, so...............

The first stud NFL RB out of the HBCU was a converted DB J.D.Smith out of NCA&T. He was a Niner and the first HBCUer to gain a 1000 yards in a season.

Florida A&M's Bob Hayes the first HBCUer to win the Olympic 100, and the first HBCUer WR to have a 1000yards for an NFL season.

The first speedy, quick, fast, elusive black RB in pro football was this guy...




He won both the NCAA and AAU 100 yards in the same season, a rarity back then.


DeFord Bailey the first black performer on The Grand Ole Opry.





Ernie Davis the first black to win the Heisman.

Same ol' Avante.

[JohnnyD]

Same ol' Avante.

Knowing the history of things that interest me is me. Has nothing at all to do with a cartoon character.

[Pavlov]

Knowing the history of things that interest me is me. Has nothing at all to do with a cartoon character.

Of course it does.

[JohnnyD]

Of course it does.

Knowing the history/origins of things is what I like. Not happy if I don't know where it all started.

I go back to Africa long before the slave trade.

[FrostKing]