Senator Lankford Speaks on the Tulsa Race Riot on the Senate Floor

[@sneakerhead721]

This video needs to be seen now more than ever in the current climate.

[@MyMomo17]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZOZkHV6eduEaLs The True Story with interviews of survivors

[@suprgx472]

The Tulsa massacre, massacre, massacre. It wasn't a riot!! Also what happened to the oil rights?

[@Walkercolt1]

You mean of the Indians? We still have the oil rights.

[@bopmobile]

Wow! What a wonderfully told story that, as an ex-Oklahoman, I never knew. You, sir, are a leader that has powerfully changed what I've thought I knew about Oklahomans and was dead wrong. Thank you for making this speech and for posting it.

[@captain4053]

It wasn't a riot it was home grown terrorist attack interesting he left out the part about airplanes dropping nitroglycerin bombs from the sky on greenwood.

[@queenhill07]

#WZRD

[@td3521]

He cant admit that part because it directly connects the us military

[@suprgx472]

They were turpentine bombs dropped by "private" planes.

[@gemofGod184]

I was waiting for that detail to be mentioned

[@Walkercolt1]

There were no explosives "dropped from airplanes" in 1921. There were only a few dozen aircraft in the State of Oklahoma. It WAS a riot. 180-odd White and Indians (like me!) were killed also. There is a word for aircraft carrying nitroglycerin: DESTROYED.

[@dituck07]

This is a very powerful & informative speech. I hope it is taken farther than just this forum.

[@treborrc1]

I cannot say how long this story has needed to be told in full. As a decedent of Greenwood, my grandmother spoke of this only once to me. Now it is being told. Brovo my man!!

[@ms.bonitaapplebum2120]

He left out ALOT first it wasn't a riot it was a MASSACRE...

[@MyMomo17]

He left out the WW1 Pilots flying over and dropping bombs on the entire neighborhood and how the looters were all White and the Dead were all Black.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZOZkHV6eduEaLs

[@caroltesol1]

America needs to know about this.

[@tacobycolie5576]

And No One Was Accountable still

[@treborrc1]

Thee one time I heard about this does differ slightly differs from your speech, by the way, I do commend you for bringing this travesty to light. I wish you had spoken of the air assault upon the men, women and children of Greenwood and that the national gard was in fact firing on the people of Greenwood. Not much help there I was told.

[@Walkercolt1]

There was no "air assault". In 1921 the CONCEPT didn't exist, and it's not "the people of Greenwood" they were Tulsans all. Greenwood was and is a street running North and South East of Downtown Tulsa. How do I know so well? I LIVE THERE!

[@smangankosi6896]

Massacre, not riot

[@suprgx472]

Reconciliation means to pay the people for what you stole from them. Ensure their kids get free college. Well it wont be free, their ancestors paid for it with their lives.

[@Tallwater67]

Thank god for a real frank honest first step speech! Congrats sir!

[@MyMomo17]

see the movie kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZOZkHV6eduEaLs

[@KayRob9116]

This terrorist attack, looting, beating, killings were not in most history books!!!!

[@h8erism644]

We know why she screamed, she didn't level the elevator and he tripped into her. Catching her off guard she yelled.

[@PatriciaWallaceangel7]

H8ERISM, makes me think it could have been planned????

[@juanrendontorres174]

Speechless.

[@joedirt2862]

It's odd that in Tulsa people don't know about this , but where I went to public school we were taught about this and countless other atrocities.

[@rufusdean-el8336]

If your going to tell the story, tell it correctly. The national guard was called in to BOMB the neighborhood.....AND THEY DID.

[@joedirt2862]

If that happened it wasn't the National guard . The Oklahoma national guard recieved airplanes in 1940.

[@TRACKtoU]

we call them "karens" today, yet these girls/women lay with them if they get a chance...look around

[@blackface703]

Wow. Seriously. Maybe your attitude is why. Unbelievable

[@fancybrooks3156]

This video should have over a million views and a thousand comments!

[@denisceballos9745]

I commend Senator Langford for bringing attention to this horrible event in our past. The Tulsa Massacre was swept under the rug, never taught in school, never even mentioned. We need to lift that rug up and reveal the injustices that were committed.

[@RayyM2]

Only Lankford is now against teaching this in schools, saying that it promotes hate to white people.

[@spiritsbeyondthestars3493]

James Lankford, inhofe, Tom Cole, and several other Republican in Oklahoma need to be voted out of office . November 2020 vote blue no matter who. And get the corruption out of the state of Oklahoma once and for all.

[@erichodge567]

This video is 4 years old. It has 9000 views. It has 55 comments. This says everything you need to know about race relations in America.

[@donald9584]

He forgot to mention the bomb droppings done by the national guard.

[@yvesbureau]

Thank you Senator Langford

[@erichodge567]

I do want to thank the senator for giving this speech.

[@malachigross4486]

Good work....

[@endurablelive]

Excellent speech

[@markprater1]

He left out some big details, but overall he gets respect for illuminating his colleagues on this the bloodiest racially motivated massacre in US History.

[@mephistosoa6091]

We meed more people talking about Americas Skeletons in its closet.We can not treat this like a fad.We must see it though to the end

[@denisceballos9745]

Agree Mr. Mephisto, I for one, have been learning more about our past. Events like the Tulsa Massacre, the lynchings, Emmitt Till, what horrible skeletons indeed. The Senator mentioned the Red Summer of 1919 and ticked off a list of U.S. cities where similar events occurred. This is a horrible legacy that we as a nation are going to have to come to terms with.

[@garyoamilda9777]

Wasn’t a movie done about Greenwood? Thank you senator for bring the light to this injustice, and dusting away the cobwebs

[@nevergiveup3198]

Oklahoma Senator is right

[@kalexander5114]

He need to stop. He really do

[@janiceblackmon5936]

When I lived in Tulsa in the 90's Blacks were very reluctant to talk about the massacre.

[@franzludwig7104]

The Tulsa Race Riot happened in 1921; In 1923, Mark Twain released for publication his LYNCHERDOM USA. Mark Twain said HERD MENTALITY prevails among Americans.

[@Walkercolt1]

That would have been pretty darn hard for Mark Twain to have released a book in 1923. He had been DEAD for 20 years...do a goggle search if you can...

[@anug8643]

Where are the other Republicans like him hiding? Why are they quiet?

[@damury7610]

Anu Guda don’t let him fool you. He talks very well, seems even human at times, but rest assured he is not. Hopefully he will be gone soon, along with Inhofe and Cole. They are all know besters. Inhofe will not be getting my vote this go around.

[@clevelandrichardson123]

This has been soften what about the air force .It no honor these people need to be made hold .For the one,s that were murdered you can't bring them back

[@shirleysmith2522]

Tulsa has a massacre! It was NOT a riot!

[@suprgx472]

I was at work one day leaving the break room. I met in the door way a white woman. When I saw her I paused in an attempt to let her enter but before I could do that she jumped out of the way as if she's seen a ghost. Why did that happen. I'm of average height and weight, usually have a smile on my face and pleasant.

[@raymundoorozco7945]

Tell the truth half as story

[@calinewschick2b]

And there’s a mini doc coming soon this next year to prove it and much more. He said “no one knows why she screamed” and you know better than to only give examples that state she screamed because of something he might have of done instead of mixing that with examples of her screaming because she was setting him up too. But a mini doc is going to clear up all these mysterious situations this post comments about, so I guess no worries. They had no reason to arrest that young man and this post missed every detail that makes up this mini documentary and now I know why. Wow this watch party I’m definitely watching now just because the special science sleuth and techie Sundance worthy documentarian who is a massive fan of the ID channel was right. It’s going to fill in the blanks and tell the whole unpublished story left on the cutting room floor. Nice try but when you leave very important details including the false arrest and a possible set up???? I’m definitely watching for this Zoom watch party. This post proves that many including this senator do not have a clue about a very specific unpublished part of this incident that it seems even some people have known but kept quiet about till now. All I know is the cutting room floor tells it all and I’m guessing the edited version leaves out so much it’s sad. Whatever mini-doc labor of love this documentarian has put together I am waiting and will be watching at the quarantine watch party, especially when a pilot is involved and knows more than a senator. Wow. Not to mention how Black Wall Street as a whole was targeted through “unpublished literature” before the incident on top of it all🤯 I am so fracking curious and can’t wait to see this mini-doc trailer at least. Even I know it sounds like the blindsided innocent massacred victims of this orchestrated terrorist-attack slash headlined riot are rolling back and forth and speaking from the grave. I mean it’s like they are yelling “that innocent boy going to that colored only bathroom for the umpteenth time that day was set up” and that’s just from me reading the title of the mini-doc. But it also screams the question if she just screamed but was never hurt or harmed why would you arrest him unless it was a set up because there were no charges or accusations only gossip and a news headline of said gossip. Not proof of anything even the senator shared as examples???? Huh. No I’m guessing this sleuthing documentarian has definitely solved this mysterious elevator encounter and every uncalled for and excessive thing that took place seconds after. How can this senator know how deep and seething the separatism was embedded in that community and its american unconstitutional laws but could not add an example or two of the girl on the elevator possibly setting up this black gentleman also??? Seeing countless innocent black men and women and children were being set up and falsely accused out of pure racial-harassment??? Or he couldn’t at least fathom that she was doing something cringeworthy, devious, and outright calculating??? The way this post was talking was eerily familiar to those horrid times too, just at the beginning. Like this post says the color of the girl and boy and the senator talking just assumes we all are going to think because he said the girl was a white lady that it automatically makes it that the only examples he should give of what could have happened should only deal with what the innocent black boy going to the bathroom could have done and not that the girl who obviously has taken him up to the bathroom countless times could have ever been involved in a setting him up and screamed just to get the accusatory ball rolling. Really??? Come on. The endless possibilities in that time beyond include that it’s more than possible it was a set up just as much as it’s possible he stepped on her toe, or bumped into her... or any other frivolous things that never constitutes an all out terrorist attack / white riot after you already arrest the guy black or white. Nope Nope Nope Try Again. That’s what I think this artist-techie of a documentarian is saying with this upcoming look at the cutting room floor. I think the artist fellow and documentary group are saying is Try Again. I’m so fracking watching all of anything this has to offer and whatever was uncovered because even I’m starting to say even if they wanted to send a angry message to that guy on the form of an attack on his home why didn’t they just arrest him and attack JUST HIS HOME, not destroy and burn down and murder other innocent citizens and all of Black Wall Street???? They didn’t do anything. Nope I think I’m watching this mini doc trailer and more of whatever comes out from this artist. Mostly because of military contributions of sorts because I definitely want to know just how much no one paid attention to little details that came way before that involved targeting only thriving black communities using homegrown aspiring terrorism and poorer black communities using the usual police brutality. It’s intriguing.

[@gmanon1181]

See, all most Americans need is reeducation in American history. America as a continent or set of continents share the most beautiful history of superation, unquenchable thirst for freedom. And United States has been with no discussion, the leader in our history of freedom and independence. What changed this? We need to turn back to the origen of freedom for all.

[@gmason5614]

Race massacre sir

[@eorlundandromeda7442]

OK. so he spent 15 min talking and 4 years later we still here. PPP loans are not getting to minority owned business. Same old same old. Only way some people can get ahead is to stand in the way of others.

[@kw6143]

Watchmen

[@felixr6307]

Massacre not riot.

[@joyceboyd7380]

But will say we have different meaning for terrors. I guess this has to do the skin color.

[@calinewschick2b]

I appreciate this post and I question some items presented in it at the same time. I appreciate the positive hopeful message of the future and the mindfulness the senator is displaying from the middle to the end of his speech. It’s the beginning that has me like ????? What is this post talking about “taking jobs” The census job records and state constitution’s separatists laws of that time and decades after that as of late have been shared in detail on web content in every place he mentioned wouldn’t have even allowed for a person of color from WW1 or just a plain citizen to take any job that was “held for whites” so what the heck is this post...??? Try Again that first statement was not why those white riots went on sprinkled all over America as you stated and victims and victimizers of all those different riots even know that and the presence of harassment and sneaky terrorist activity that spiked and followed each area. Why doesn’t this senator know that this stuff was outed that jobs had nothing to do with any of those riots, using that excuse was a lynchpin for the founding of an aspiring terrorist organization, they uncovered that a decade ago when rehabilitated separatist fellowship members told on the KKK and much more. Instead of seemingly saying it was one of the reasons he could have said it was frequently used to excuse over obsessive unfounded anger and overtly cringeworthy recorded timelined terrorist activity towards any thriving black community ??? Yeah...Even though to those who used and repeated these reasons were often complete and utter strangers to any black individual let alone a black citizens in a community. And there’s a mini doc coming soon this next year to prove it and much more. He said “no one knows why she screamed” and you know better than to only give examples that state she screamed because of something he might have of done instead of mixing that with examples of her screaming because she was setting him up too. But a mini doc is going to clear up all these mysterious situations this post comments about, so I guess no worries. They had no reason to arrest that young man and this post missed every detail that makes up this mini documentary and now I know why. Wow this watch party I’m definitely watching now just because the special science sleuth and techie Sundance worthy documentarian who is a massive fan of the ID channel was right. It’s going to fill in the blanks and tell the whole unpublished story left on the cutting room floor. Nice try but when you leave very important details including the false arrest and a possible set up???? I’m definitely watching for this Zoom watch party. This post proves that many including this senator do not have a clue about a very specific unpublished part of this incident that it seems even some people have known but kept quiet about till now. All I know is the cutting room floor tells it all and I’m guessing the edited version leaves out so much it’s sad. Whatever mini-doc labor of love this documentarian has put together I am waiting and will be watching at the quarantine watch party, especially when a pilot is involved and knows more than a senator. Wow. Not to mention how Black Wall Street as a whole was targeted through “unpublished literature” before the incident on top of it all🤯 I am so fracking curious and can’t wait to see this mini-doc trailer at least. Even I know it sounds like the blindsided innocent massacred victims of this orchestrated terrorist-attack slash headlined riot are rolling back and forth and speaking from the grave. I mean it’s like they are yelling “that innocent boy going to that colored only bathroom for the umpteenth time that day was set up” and that’s just from me reading the title of the mini-doc. But it also screams the question if she just screamed but was never hurt or harmed why would you arrest him unless it was a set up because there were no charges or accusations only gossip and a news headline of said gossip. Not proof of anything even the senator shared as examples???? Huh. No I’m guessing this sleuthing documentarian has definitely solved this mysterious elevator encounter and every uncalled for and excessive thing that took place seconds after. How can this senator know how deep and seething the separatism was embedded in that community and its american unconstitutional laws but could not add an example or two of the girl on the elevator possibly setting up this black gentleman also??? Seeing countless innocent black men and women and children were being set up and falsely accused out of pure racial-harassment??? Or he couldn’t at least fathom that she was doing something cringeworthy, devious, and outright calculating??? The way this post was talking was eerily familiar to those horrid times too, just at the beginning. Like this post says the color of the girl and boy and the senator talking just assumes we all are going to think because he said the girl was a white lady that it automatically makes it that the only examples he should give of what could have happened should only deal with what the innocent black boy going to the bathroom could have done and not that the girl who obviously has taken him up to the bathroom countless times could have ever been involved or forced in a plan to set him up and screamed on cue the very second the elevator door opened just to get the accusatory ball rolling. Really??? Come on. We the public are not dumb we know the endless possibilities in that time beyond include that it’s more than possible it was a set up just as much as it’s possible he stepped on her toe, or bumped into her... or any other frivolous things that never constitutes an all out terrorist attack / white riot after you already arrest the guy black or white. Nope Nope Nope Try Again. Even the innocent project lawyers would side-eye this present of historic accounts on their blogs. Yeesh. But ya know that’s what I think this artist-techie of a documentarian is saying with this upcoming look at the cutting room floor I also think something speaking to this particular artist from beyond the grave. I’m just sayin. I think the artist fellow and documentary group are saying is Try Again. I’m so fracking watching all of anything this has to offer and whatever was uncovered because even I’m starting to say even if they wanted to send a angry message to that guy on the form of an attack on his home why didn’t they just arrest him and attack JUST HIS HOME, not destroy and burn down and murder other innocent citizens and all of Black Wall Street???? They didn’t do anything. Nope I think I’m watching this mini doc trailer and more of whatever comes out from this artist. Mostly because of military contributions of sorts because I definitely want to know just how much no one paid attention to little details that came way before that involved targeting only thriving black communities not one single ghetto. It’s intriguing. ????? What is this post talking about “taking jobs” The job records and state constitution’s separatists laws in every place he mentioned wouldn’t have even allowed for a person of color from WW1 or just a plain a citizen to take any job that was “held for whites” so what the heck is this post...??? Try Again that first statement was not why those white riots went on sprinkled all over America as he stated and a lot of people who were surviving victims of them and victimizers even know that. ???? Why doesn’t the senator in the post know what they’ve known for decades, everything historically traumatizing is not only recorded by news headlines and summed up statements in newsletters???? Thank God.

[@olyokie]

He's another pos.

[@deeboy4538]

Reparations

[@casey8836]

What a smug face. This isn't a funny subject or event.