You fucking Texans are loons

[F250 28766]

3 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Never heard about the Slocum Massacre

The Slocum massacre. Was that the 50-20 ass kicking we gave to aggy back in 2002?

 

[TexPx 2323]

i first heard of the Osage murders on surly, i think bc it came up in a movie thread that Scorcese and DiCaprio were making Killers of the Flower Moon into a movie.
so i read the book and was like 'holy shit how have i never heard of this before??' i was floored!

Yeah. I think I recommended it on the books forum a while back. Was stoked to learn about the movie. Richest city per capita in the world when this went down. Crazy.

[Beau Vine 54209]

25 minutes ago, F250 said:

The Slocum massacre. Was that the 50-20 ass kicking we gave to aggy back in 2002?

 

Would you do me a favor and save me a seat on the ride to hell?

[mchookem 16325]

22 hours ago, mchookem said:

this can't be true. i mean i literally just bailed on the state yesterday with a big old 🖕 on the way out... but this seems too fucked up.

of course, Brisket has literally been right about everything so far, sooo...

 

 

15 hours ago, Pancho said:

Confirmed as others were doubting that lady’s teeet:

 

well. nevermind then. fuck me for thinking there actually IS a bridge too far anymore.😐

[elfenix 34228]

Had anyone on this board heard of the Tulsa massacre before the Watchmen series a few years ago?  That's where I first learned about it.   

I learned about it somewhere along the way before it got on TV, but it wasn't from formal schooling.

[Underdog 28592]

On 6/30/2022 at 1:36 PM, DixonHur said:

Soon they'll be bragging about the free boat rides Africans were given to the New World.

And want reparations for doing so. 

[CooterBrown 18005]

7 hours ago, Bojack said:

Had anyone on this board heard of the Tulsa massacre before the Watchmen series a few years ago?  That's where I first learned about it.   

I only heard of before then because I was walking down there with a local friend and he told me about it. I thought it was crazy at the time that wasn't taught nationwide in schools. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

3 hours ago, TexPx said:

Yeah. I think I recommended it on the books forum a while back. Was stoked to learn about the movie. Richest city per capita in the world when this went down. Crazy.

 The Dennis McAuliffe book,  The Deaths of Sybil Bolton, (1994) is not as good as the Grann book, but that is the one I read first.

On a related note both to that era and also the Tulsa Race Massacre and how much will likely never be revealed is the mayor of Tulsa during the Race Massacre was T.D. Evans. Prior to becoming mayor he was a judge who presided over the trial of twelve IWW members and the subsequent event called The Tulsa Outrage (wiki article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Outrage )

The IWW had begun to make inroads with recruiting oil field workers, and well that didn't sit too well with the powerful interests in Tulsa, Creek, Pawnee, and Osage Counties.

The papers of the time have some interesting articles that don't sound too different from the modern era, but the one the gun owners ought to enjoy is from the *Chickasha (pronounced Chick-A-Shay) Daily Express in 1917 where a farmer who liked to collect rifles was arrested by none other than a Marshall named Dillon. Apparently the community had decided the farmer was not to be trusted because he "lived in a strong socialist settlement" so he was brought in and then released on $500 bond and then the case was turned over to a grand jury. No idea how it ended as it was a rabbit hole, but the catalog of guns totaled less than a dozen I think. What was it Sinclair Lewis wrote? Oh yeah, It Can't Happen Here. Actually it's always just around the corner and we repeatedly walk blindly into it.

 

*Chickasha is not near Tulsa, it's closer to OKC, just as an FYI. I lived not too far from there for awhile.