#tulsa lawsuit

[thechanelmuse]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Tulsa Race Massacre "Public Nuisance" Lawsuit that is being masked as Reparations

"OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the city would make financial amends for one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history that left as many as 300 people dead and a once-thriving district in smoldering ruins. The nine-member court upheld the decision made by a district court judge in Tulsa last year, ruling that the plaintiff's grievances about the destruction of the Greenwood district, although legitimate, did not fall within the scope of the state's public nuisance statute." Source

I'm just surprised they even put this in the article. But then again people rather read headlines (hence the headline I made this post) and get emotional instead of reading full articles and them case documents that's been sitting online. This was expected when it got dismissed the first time, from a lower court before going to Oklahoma's Supreme Court.

Read the paperwork:

You gotta ask yourself why a lawyer, Damario Solomon-Simmons, for the two remaining survivors — Viola Fletcher & Leslie Benningfield Randle — from the Greenwood district of Tulsa (Black Wall Street) would frame that 1921 government-sanctioned massacre against a single ethnic group there (Black Americans) as a 100-year long "public nuisance" lawsuit and not a reparations case in the form of direct cash payments, return of all land, no programs, and more for those Black American survivors and the descendants of the survivors whose stolen lives and stolen wealth were forever changed.

Domestic terrorism framed as "public nuisance." Like hello....

It's not a reparations case.

[uvmagazine]

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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[nando161mando]

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.

[b3stg0r3b3stg1rl]

19/5/2024

the past few days it hasnt seemed to change much, but it has been hurting more frequently. i go to the doctor tommorow and im so scared. of her not taking me seriously, of her taking me seriously, of not getting answers, of getting answers.

i feel so scared and lost, i know all i can do is see what happens but its so hard. i cant just ignore it, i know theres a lump thats growing to the point where multiple people notice it growing in my dominant arm. you cant just push that down. you cant just ignore a lump once youve had cancer before. i feel so scared.

16/5/2024 beginning of this thread, i’ll be using it to log this lump in my elbow

for some background, a few weeks ago i noticed a small bump in my elbow and didn’t think nothin of it, but over the past few weeks or so it’s been growing a notable amount and yesterday at work my coworker who i hadn’t told about it or even mentioned my previous history of cancer (soft tissue sarcoma in my thigh in 2020) to saw the elbow lump and asked about it, and turns out if i let the light hit it just right and look in a mirror i can see it now, and it does feel bigger than it’s been. i’m gonna be so real, why dying doesn’t scare me, having cancer again does. it’s the loss of control. the feeling like i’m burdening everyone around me. it’s the pain that can come with it. i’m so scared.

i know i’m probably over reacting ik that joints in particular are quite susceptible to cysts! that’s what i’m hoping it is, but i’ve had sarcoma before. i clearly have the genes.

i have a doctors appointment monday (20/5/2024)!!! hopefully she takes me seriously

[mitchipedia]

The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

The legacy of slavery and America’s history of racism is still alive. Structural racism is a pervasive force in American society. Racism is still prevalent.

American Blacks have significantly less generational wealth than whites, simply because of centuries of white people building wealth on Black slave labor. White people in America have a head start of centuries.

America’s response: Too bad, so sad, nothing we can do about it.

Reparations may well be neither practical nor just. But that’s not what this case is about. This case was about actual victims of a specific event suing for damages, and Oklahoma told them to piss off and die. Which is exactly what happened because the plaintiffs were centenarians when they sued.

[odinsblog]

🗣️Judge Caroline Wall is a racist piece of garbage

An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage.

Judge Caroline Wall on Friday dismissed with prejudice the lawsuit trying to force the city and others to make recompense for the destruction of the once-thriving Black district known as Greenwood.

The order comes in a case by three survivors of the attack, who are all now over 100 years old and sued in 2020 with the hope of seeing what their attorney called "justice in their lifetime.”

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[historicity-was-already-taken]

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

[tani-b-art]

We were told that reparations can’t be paid to us as descendants because we were never slaves ourselves.

We were told that reparations can’t be paid to us because no one is no longer alive that actually endured the enslavement.

We were told that reparations can’t be paid to us because those who enslaved is no longer alive.

Yet there are two of the last three remaining Tulsa Massacre survivors who yet again were denied reparations.

I need the judges and whoever to stop being cowards and just say it. We will not give reparations to you because you are Black American. The only deciding factor is they are Black American. [because reparative financial justice has been given out to several other groups who endured incomparable atrocities—can look up pension plan payouts for Civil War descendants, Japanese-Americans, Oklahoma City bombing survivors, Native Americans, Holocaust survivors and their families; some atrocities we as a country didn’t commit against others etc.]

And so what that it was an act of domestic terrorism with the enlistment of city, state and federal officials to participate in the slaughter (city officials equipped civilians with guns to murder), imprisonment and destruction of the residents and entire thriving community (enlisting pilots to drop bombs from airplanes). So what that there were internment camps setup following the atrocity. So what that the insurance companies rejected to honor and denied all the business and personal claims to repair the physical damage to properties to rebuild.

So what that there are survivors at 100+ years of age still alive today with firsthand accounts to testify of their traumatic experience. They dismissed the lawsuit and appeal from each survivor…again.

[ptseti]

The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed the reparations lawsuit filed by Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, Viola Fletcher, 110, and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis, who died last year at 102, the last three known survivors of the Tulsa race massacre, when white supremacists murdered 300 Black people and burned the Greenwood section of Tulsa to the ground.

America has $61 Billion for Ukraine’s conflict with Russia, $26 Billion for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, but $0 for Black people murdered, brutalized, and dehumanized by white Americans.

SMH..Those fvcking Racist Mfers

[uvmagazine]

Attorneys to appeal dismissal of Tulsa massacre lawsuit

Justice for Greenwood and attorneys representing the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, said they will appeal Judge Caroline Wall’s dismissal of a lawsuit seeking reparations for the racial violence in Oklahoma.

During a press conference held at the Historic Vernon AME Church in Tulsa, Damario Salmon-Simmons Esq. read a statement by survivors sharing their…

Photo: United States Library of Congress

[cmesinic]

Disgusting! No justice from another self-serving supreme court.

[ausetkmt]

CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN RACE RIOTS AND RACIAL VIOLENCE p.3

1911

National Urban League founded. 1914 Marcus Garvey establishes the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). November William Monroe Trotter confronts Woodrow Wilson in the White House over the president’s support for segregation in federal offices. 1915 Debut of the D.W. Griffith film, The Birth of a Nation. Failure of African American lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department for compensation for labor rendered under slavery. CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN RACE RIOTS AND RACIAL VIOLENCE lvii November William J. Simmons refounds the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain in Georgia. 1916 Madison Grant publishes The Passing of the Great Race, detailing his drastic prescription—including eugenics—to save the white race from being overwhelmed by ‘‘darker races.’’ May Jesse Washington, a seventeen-year-old illiterate black farm hand, is lynched in Waco, Texas. 1917 May–July East St. Louis, Illinois, riots. August Houston, Texas, mutiny of black soldiers at Camp Logan. 1918 After protesting the lynching of her husband, Mary Turner, then eight months pregnant, is herself brutally lynched in Valdosta, Georgia. April Congressman Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri introduces an anti-lynching bill into Congress (the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill is defeated in 1922). July Chester and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, riots. 1919 NAACP publishes Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889–1918 by Martha Gruening and Helen Boardman. May Charleston, South Carolina, riot. Summer Known as ‘‘Red Summer’’ because of the great number of people killed in various race riots around the country. July Longview, Texas, riot. Publication of Claude McKay’s sonnet, ‘‘If We Must Die.’’ Chicago, Illinois, riot. Washington, D.C., riot. August Knoxville, Tennessee, riot. September Omaha, Nebraska, riot. September– October Elaine, Arkansas, riot. 1920 Founding of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, a major interracial reform organization in the South. 1921 April Tulsa, Oklahoma, riot. 1922 Anti-Lynching Crusaders are formed to educate Americans about lynching and work for its elimination.

Chicago Commission on Race Relations issues its influential report on the 1919 Chicago riots. lviii CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN RACE RIOTS AND RACIAL VIOLENCE 1923 January Rosewood, Florida, riot. February U.S. Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Dempsey leads to eventual release of twelve African Americans in Arkansas who were convicted in perfunctory mobdominated trials of killing five whites during the Elaine, Arkansas, riots of 1919. 1929 Publication of Walter White’s Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch. 1930 Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) is founded in Detroit, Michigan, by W.D. Fard.

Formation of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, the first organization of white women opposed to lynching. October Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, riot. 1931 Scottsboro Case occurs in Alabama; the case comprises a series of trials arising outof allegations that nine African American youths raped two white girls in Scottsboro, Alabama. 1932 Supreme Court renders a decision in Powell v. Alabama, a case related to the Scottsboro, Alabama, incident of 1931. 1934 Elijah Muhammad assumes leadership of the Nation of Islam. 1935 March Harlem, New York, riot. 1936 First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt addresses the annual conventions of both the NAACP and National Urban League. 1939 Billie Holiday’s first performance of the anti-lynching song Strange Fruit occurs at Cafe´ Society, New York’s only integrated nightclub. 1941 Supreme Court decision in Mitchell v. United States spurs integration of first-class railway carriages. 1942 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is founded as the Committee of Racial Equality. February Double V Campaign is launched to popularize the idea that blacks should fight for freedom abroad to win freedom at home. 1943 May Mobile, Alabama, riot. June Beaumont, Texas, riot. June ‘‘Zoot Suit’’ riots in Los Angeles, California. July Detroit, Michigan, riot. August New York City (Harlem) riot. 1944 Publication of Karl Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.