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Hughes "Uncle Redd" Van Ellis (1921-2023) ❤️🕊
Mr. Hughes was a WWll combat veteran and one of the last three survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, in which jealous European-American mobs went into the thriving, economic, 35-block area of the Greenwood district created by Black Americans (survivors and descendants of American chattel slavery) in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as “Black Wall Street,” and looted, burned & bombed it to the ground and murdered Black Americans through government sanction.
Justice for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors has been intentionally slow-moving for over a century now to insure injustice is given to those who survived it. Even to the point where people try to bury the history or give a revisionist lie of it being a race riot. But just as reparations for US chattel slavery (perpetual ownership passed on through birth as someone's property and form of capital through labor and body), the debt is still owed from the US government.
The stolen generational wealth from forced labor, the stolen wealth from the Freedmen's bank ($93 million today) amongst other things, the stolen land to this day, and the continued remnants of slavery (including, Jim Crow, ethnocide and genocide) that are government sanctioned in our homeland our ancestors built from scratch. The debt will always be owed until it's paid. A debt doesn't die.
Reparations are currently happening at a slow pace across a number of states and municipality levels as of now, but at the same time we have to fight against Pan-African and obstructionist Democrats to ensure it's lineage-based for Black Americans only, direct cash payments to remove any hiccups, and protective policies our ancestors should've always had and we should've inherited.
When you don't have protective policies on the books for the largest ethnic group who descends from America and strip/impede on their potential accumulation of wealth and assets to pass down to their families, what do their descendants inherit?👂🏽
Some survivors and the descendants of Black Wall Street tried to rebuild their district, but when you're stripped of your wealth and "urban renewal" starts intruding I-244 called "Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway" 😒 into your land, you can imagine the results. Mr. Hughes inherited displacement and poverty, passed down poverty to his family, and died in poverty. Mama Viola Fletcher, 109 (who is the sister of Mr. Hughes pictured above) and Mama Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, are the last two survivors and still in the fight. They, too, live in poverty.
The passing of Mr. Hughes and our Black American ancestors will never go in vain as we continue to stand 10 toes down for them and us and see it through.
Rest easy, Uncle Redd (Jan. 11, 1921 - Oct. 9, 2023) ❤️🕊
This was his testimony before Congress in 2021:
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#hughes van ellis#tulsa race massacre#tulsa survivors#black wall street#reparations#american history#black american history
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FREEDOM FIGHTER FROM TULSA, GONE WITHOUT HIS REPARATIONS
The 102 year old Tulsa massacre survivor Hughes Van Ellis dies without #reparations and his history banned. Nevertheless, this history of our forbears demonstrates the story is NOT over. Sir, rest in power.
I was just informed that one of the last living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre has died. Hughes Van Ellis aka “Uncle Red” was 102 years old. This is him on the right. His grand-nephew texted me, “He died waiting on justice.”
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... And Then There Were Only Two
I don’t know how I missed this story nearly two weeks ago, but it flew onto my radar this morning and I have to take a few moments to talk about a man named Hughes Van Ellis who died on Monday, October 9th. The man was one of just three remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, which I have written about in years past. According to the Jon S. Randall Peace Page … He died a few days ago,…
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Hughes Van Ellis, One of the Last Known Tulsa Massacre Survivors, Dies at 102
Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away.
Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away.
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Ellis died in Denver, Colorado, his family said in a statement. He was 102.
Hughes Van Ellis was one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Ellis was an infant when he and his older sister, Viola Fletcher, fled Tulsa’s Greenwood District with their…
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Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Hughes Van Ellis Dead At 102 | Chicago Defender
Rest In Peace and Power, Dear and Beloved Great Uncle Hughes Van Ellis... Your sacrifice, suffering, & survival taught, protected, & nurtured the Culture. Fly free, fly high, forever.
#black excellence#black power#chicago defender#black history#tulsa race massacre#hughes van ellis#tulsa race massacre survivors#rip
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On this day 103 years ago “a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., perished at the hands of a violent white mob.
The mob indiscriminately shot black people in the streets. Members of the mob ransacked homes and stole money and jewelry. They set fires, ‘house by house, block by block,’ according to the commission report.
Terror came from the sky, too. White pilots flew airplanes that dropped dynamite over the neighborhood, the report stated, making the Tulsa aerial attack what historians call among the first of an American city.
The numbers presented a staggering portrait of loss: 35 blocks burned to the ground; as many as 300 dead; hundreds injured; 8,000 to 10,000 left homeless; more than 1,70 homes burned or looted; and eventually, 6,000 detained in internment camps.” Via The New York Times circa 2021.
The losses recounted represent black victims. Over time the event, initially called the Tulsa Race Riot has been accurately renamed the Tulsa Race Massacre. A riot, by definition, is a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets. A massacre is the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
More than one hundred years after this act of terrorism, the last three survivors continue fighting to have their case for reparations heard by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. In October of 2023, one of them, Hughes Van “Uncle Redd” Ellis, Sr., passed away.
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TOP COURT RULES NO REPARATIONS FOR TULSA SURVIVORS
You don’t deserve reparations just because you survived a racist atrocity, even if it was facilitated by the authorities - that’s the message of Oklahoma’s top court.
On 12th June, it ruled against three people - all in their hundreds - who lived to tell the tale of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Viola Ford Fletcher (109), Lessie Benningfield Randle (110) and now-deceased Hughes Van Ellis (102) filed for compensation in 2020, but had their case thrown out by a lower court, which argued that “simply being connected to a historical event” confers no right to reparations.
And Oklahoma’s Supreme Court agrees - agrees that White-supremacist mobs rampaging with police help though your neighbourhood, killing your friends and neighbours, destroying their property and businesses and leaving some 10,000 of you homeless, is not a good reason to compensate the trauma you went through as a child.
Has America really moved forward in the last 103 years?
Reparations #Survivors #Racism #Atrocities #Tulsa #TulsaOklahoma #Destruction #TulsaMassacre #Trauma
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Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108; Viola Fletcher, 109; and Hughes Van Ellis, 102 are HEROES. No group has ever won justice from their oppressors without demanding it, loudly and consistently, and these three aren't done fighting.
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and some background, for those of you unfamiliar with this event
ETA: Justice for Greenwood Foundation
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Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations
The suit was an attempt to force the city of Tulsa and others to make recompense for the destruction of the once-thriving Black district by a white mob. In 1921 — on May 31 and June 1 — the white mob, including some people hastily deputized by authorities, looted and burned the district, which was referred to as Black Wall Street.
As many as 300 Black Tulsans were killed, and thousands of survivors were forced for a time into internment camps overseen by the National Guard. Burned bricks and a fragment of a church basement are about all that survive today of the more than 30-block historically Black district.
The two survivors of the attack, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are both now over 100 years old, sued in 2020 with the hope of seeing what their attorney called “justice in their lifetime.” A third plaintiff, Hughes Van Ellis, died last year at age 102.
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The city and insurance companies never compensated victims for their losses, and the massacre ultimately resulted in racial and economic disparities that still exist today, the lawsuit argued. It sought a detailed accounting of the property and wealth lost or stolen in the massacre, the construction of a hospital in north Tulsa and the creation of a victims compensation fund, among other things.
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An Oklahoma judge has dismissed the reparations lawsuit filed by the last three known survivors of the Tulsa race massacre on Friday, court records show.
The three had sued the City of Tulsa, other groups, and officials over the opportunities taken from them when the city’s Greenwood neighborhood was burned to the ground in 1921.
Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109, and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis, 102, were among the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs maintaned that the damage inflicted during the massacre was a “public nuisance” from the start and were seeking relief from that nuisance as well as to “recover for unjust enrichment” others have gained from the “exploitation of the massacre.
The family attorneys are expected to address the possibility of an appeal.
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#Tulsa #TulsaRaceMassacre #TulsaRaceRiots #reparations #lawsuit #unheardvoicesmag
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Under the cut is a list of muses I have for those who can’t open the google doc. Note: the google doc has detailed information about them so if you can, please open it up.
Bold is primary, italic is secondary, regular is by request.
TVD/TO/LEGACIES:
ELENA GILBERT
KATHERINE PEIRCE
DAMON SALVATORE
ALARIC SALTZMAN
LIZZIE SALTZMAN
josie saltzman
caroline forbes
bonnie bennett
Klaus Mikaelson
FINAL FANTASY:
CLOUD STRIFE (ff7r)
aeirth (ff7 remake)
tifa (ff7 remake)
Jill Warrick (ff16)
Clive Rosfield (ff16)
snow villiers
THIRTEEN REASON’S WHY:
Justin Foley
Bryce Walker
Jessica Davis
Clay Jenson
911/911 LONE STAR:
ATHENA GRANT
MADDIE BUCKLEY
OWEN STRAND
TK STRAND
GRACE RYDER
AHS:
Brooke Thompson
Montanna Duke
donovan
BBC SHERLOCK:
SHERLOCK HOLMES
BRIDGERTON:
Simon Bassett
Daphne Bridgerton
kate sharma/bridgerton
Penelope Featherington
BTVS/ATS
Buffy Summers
CORDELIA CHASE
CAOS:
SABRINA SPELLMAN
ONE CHICAGO:
natalie manning
JAY HALSTEAD
ADAM RUZEK
KIM BURGESS
Hank Voight
CRIMINAL MINDS:
Spencer Reid
Emily Prentiss
DAREDEVIL:
MATT MURDOCK
DEXTER:
DEXTER MORGAN
DCTV:
SARA LANCE
JOHN CONSTANTINE
SPOONER
EUPHORIA:
JULES VAUGHN
RUE BENNETT
FROM DUSK TIL DAWN:
Seth Gecko
Kate Fuller
GOOD GIRLS:
BETH BOLAND
Greys’ Anatomy:
meredith grey
JO WILSON
CARINA DELUCA
Ameila Shepard
GAME OF THRONES:
DANY
Jon Snow
Sansa Stark
NCB HANNIBAL:
WILL GRAHAM
HAUNTING OF BLY MANNER:
DANI CLAYTON
PETER QUINT
HEMLOCK GROVE
PETER RUMANCEK
HTGAWM:
CONNOR WALSH
LAW AND ORDER SVU:
OLIVIA BENSON
Elliot Stabler
kathleen stabler
alex cabot
casey novak
LOST GIRL:
BO DENNIS
LUCIFER:
CHLOE DECKER
lucifer morningstar
mazikeen
MINDHUNTER:
Holden Ford
POSE:
ANGEL EVANGALISTA
BLANCA EVANGALISTA
PRODIGAL SON:
MALCOLM BRIGHT
RIVERDALE:
ARCHIE ANDREWS
BETTY COOPER
TONI TOPAZ
CHERYL BLOSSOM
FP Jones
JUGHEAD JONES
ROSWELL NEW MEXICO:
MAX EVANS
LIZ ORTECHO
STRANGER THINGS:
NANCY WHEELER
BILLY HARGROVE (BILLY’S TATTOOS POST SEASON THREE HERE )
STATION 19:
Vic Hughes
SUPERNATURAL:
Dean Winchester
THE MAGICIANS:
ELIOT WAUGH
MARGO HANSON
THE WITCHER (GAME, TV SHOW, AND BOOK MIXED MEDIA):
GERALT (please note, geralt has cat-eyes. not the eyes we see in the show. if you need a visual, think game geralt)
CIRI
TRUE BLOOD:
SOOKIE STACKHOUSE
TARA THORTON
jessica hamby
JASON STACKHOUSE
SAM MERLOTTE
WYNONNA EARP:
WYNONNA EARP
WAVERLY EARP
NICOLE HAUGHT
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY:
KLAUS HARGREEVES
ALLISON HARGREEVES
VAN HELSING:
Vanessa Van Helsing
YOU:
BECK
JOE GOLDBERG
LOVE QUINN
THEO
FORTY QUINN
DCU:
WONDER WOMAN/DIANA PRINCE
HARLEY QUINN (au verse 1 here)
DESCENDANTS:
HARRY HOOK
MAL BERTHA
EVIE GRIMHILDE
MCU:
DEADPOOL/WADE WILSON
EDDIE BROCK/VENOM
STEVE ROGERS/CAPTAIN AMERICA
WANDA MAXIMOFF
BUCKY BARNES
NATASHA ROMANOFF
YELENA BELOVA
THOR
LOKI
MICHAEL MORBIUS
Peter Parker (the amazing spiderman)
POTC:
CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW
ASSASSIN’S CREED SERIES:
JACOB FRYE
EVIE FRYE
EIVOR
KASSANDRA
DETRIOT BECOME HUMAN:
Connor
DRAGON AGE:
MORRIGAN
FENRIS
GARRETT HAWKE
MARIAN HAWKE
CYBERPUNK:
V (both male and v, both streetkid and corpo)
JOHNNY SILVERHAND
JUDY ALVAREZ
LAST OF US:
joel miller
ELLIE
LEGEND OF ZELDA:
LINK
RESIDENT EVIL:
ADA WONG
LEON KENNEDY (previously traumamade)
ETHAN WINTERS
LADY DIMITRESCU
Claire Redfield
dimitrescu daughters
TOMB RAIDER:
LARA CROFT
UNCHARTED:
NATHAN DRAKE
BLEACH:
ichigo kurosaki
GRIMMJOW JAEGERJAQUEZ
VAMPYR:
JOHNATHAN REID
BLACK BUTLER:
SEBASTIAN MICHAELIS
BLUE EXORCIST
RIN OKAMARU
HELLSING:
SERAS VICTORIA
INTEGRA HELLSING
NARUTO:
NARUTO UZUMAKI
TSUNADE
SEVEN DEADLY SINS:
BAN
VAMPIRE KNIGHT:
yuuki cross/kuran
ZERO KIYRUU
OUAT:
Regina Mills
Emma Swan
SOA:
JAX TELLER
VENUS
GEMMA TELLER
WHITE COLLAR:
Neal Caffrey
FAR CRY:
FAITH SEED
NEW AMSTERDAM:
MAX GOODWIN
CRUELLA:
CRUELLA DE VILLE
MASS EFFECT:
JOHN SHEPARD
JANE SHEPARD
KAIDAN
SAMARA
KASUMI
MIRANDA
DOCTOR WHO:
rose tyler
GOSSIP GIRL REBOOT:
ZOYA LOTT
MAX WOLFE
DOOM PATROL:
JANE
LARRY TRAINOR
A WAY OUT:
LEO CARUSO
CASTLE:
RICHARD CASTLE
BITTEN:
ELENA MICHAELS
TEEN WOLF:
CHRIS ARGENT
ALLISON ARGENT
SCOTT MCCALL
LYDIA MARTIN
STILES STILINSKI
THE FLASH:
BARRY ALLEN
NORA WEST ALLEN
BART WEST ALLEN
IRIS WEST
CAITLYN SNOW
KILLER FROST
SUCKERPUNCH
BABY DOLL
SHADOW HUNTERS
ISABELLE
ALEC
HOUSE OF ASHES
JASON
THE MEDIUM
MARIANNE
THE LAST KINGDOM
UHTRED RAGNARSON
Iseult
MOON KNIGHT
STEVEN GRANT/MARC
FIRST KILL
Calliope Burns
Juliette Fairmont.
THE QUARRY
Kaityln Ka
Dylan Lenivy
Laura Kearny
THE SANDMAN
Dream/Morpheus
INTEVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Louis De Pointe
Claudia
HORIZON SERIES
Aloy
THE VAMPIRE ACADEMY (TV SERIES)
Rose Hathaway
NETFLIX’S WEDNESDAY
Wednesday Addams
Morticia Addams
Enid Sincliar
DAYS GONE
Deacon St. John
QUEEN CHARLOTTE - A BRIDGERTON STORY
Queen Charlotte
MAYFAIR WITCHES
Rowan Fielding
Critical Role (currently caught up to episode 97 and both seasons of the animated show)
Vax
Vex
Keylith
THE EVIL WITHIN
Sebastian
Baldur's Gate 3:
Astarion
Karlach
Orin
Hazbin Hotel:
Angel Dust
Charlie Morningstar
Niffty
Alastor
Outlander:
Claire Fraser
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