POWERFUL: Oldest living survivor of Tulsa race massacre testifies in front of House
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre testified in front of the House committee focused on the event.
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100 years ago and she has yet to have justice, that is disgusting ☹️🙏❤️☹️
No this is America
The truth....
Every 4-5 years, the disparity in racial murders surpasses the entire death-toll from lynching through all US history.
Where's the justice?
Jailing the perpetrator is now an act of systemic racism for which the victims are blamed!
Beyond Sad.
Look up the Balfour declaration.
Wouldn’t have guessed she’s 107! This is definitely a very important testimony.
Glad they are finally calling it a massacre not a “riot “
@@therainbow5562 this happened under Woodrow Wilson and he nor ANY president to come after him has recognized this national atrocity. No legislation, no recognition, no apology.
Should not even be calling it that!
@@therainbow5562 How does the American people fed up with corruption of government have anything to do with a mascare of blacks under Woodrow Willison
@@therainbow5562 Actually we are doing the opposite. When you push a racial devise rhetoric you divide the people. You create racial division you create problems. Trumps not racist neither are his supporters and you know it. Racism isnt dead its kept on life support by people like you. Divide and destroy thats all people like you are do are capable of. Attack your fellow Americans further balkanization. Have you considered who wants us to be divided against ourselves. The political establishment im not merely talking right wing or left wing or tribe vs tribe. Im talking the people who run this circus game. When you fight your common man your distracting from the corrupt men and women in Washington bleeding this country dry. All these people directly benefit from people hating each other and its sick. This Disease either ends with you or spreads with you what will it be.
@@therainbow5562 You still dont see it man I fell sorry for you.
Bless her heart. May she see justice in her lifetime. I remember a time when there was so much skepticism about the events of this massacre, I'm happy to see that it is at least being accepted as a historic fact now. Salve Miss Viola Fletcher.
How could anyone give this a thumbs down? The heartlessness in this country is far beyond appalling. May GOD continue to bless this wonderful woman.
People from other countries can view this video on UA-cam.
@@TheAlphaWolf77 true, but I absolutely believe most thumbs down came from people in the U.S.
Maybe the Thumbs down know things you don’t. Maybe if they told you it could affect your entire life maybe Racism is not what happen in Tulsa, Oklahoma, maybe racism is not what happened to America or exactly by who and how! maybe a man by the name of Malcolm x, who I don’t agree on with everything with was actually trying to warn all of us not just black peoples about “that sly old fox getting the pork chop.”
People from the US click thumbs down. The racist is very strong in America
@@siphesihlethabethe6791 lol
God has kept this woman alive for this moment.
ABSOLUTELY! AMEN 🙏🏾🇧🇧
So true
When people say "that was 100 years ago", I say yeah, "only 100 years ago, people are still alive that lived through that 100 years ago." Even 500 years ago is nothing when talking about humans & time. Both of my great grandmothers lived past 100 & one of my grandmothers lived past 100. That's 200 years of people that lived through parts of slavery, Black Laws, Jim Crow, & 60's civil rights movements. I imagine that at least one of my great great grandparents lived past 100 years. That's 300 years.
And how do you want the world to view 100 years of illegal occupation of Palestine?
No to two state.
No to Jew state.
Free Palestine, river to the sea.
End the illegal occupation and apartheid and convict the war criminals.
@@Anon-xd3cf1948 til now is less than 100 years. Palestine's neighbors need to lend a hand instead of bowing down.
Yep and like those events you just described democrats Aka Dixiecrats were behind this too! Only thing is this was not solely based on race.
@@davidduncan4521 What was it based on, David? And what party do the Dixiecrats belong to today? Asking for a friend....
@@vwilliams8275 I’m afraid to tell you the truth. I will be docked. All I can say is look at the history of Oklahoma. Socialist Revolution (Green corn Rebellion.) 1917, look up what racist Dixiecrats did in Congress in 1910, by giving a seat to socialist Victor L. Berger, read about the ABB, or African blood brotherhood Tulsa, 1921, and then listen to black leader Manning Johnson on what Dixiecrats/Democrats attempted to do with the implementation of socialist/communist views in the black community in attempting to cause a race war you can look up FDR (New deal) policies which caused black people to lose the family farm fast forward to the 60’s and LBJ revamping those same Dixiecrat/Democrat policies then losing the family and themselves, and you can actually look up (the big switch that was not so big) with only one man leaving the Dixiecrat party storm thermond, let me leave you with this, Ideologies do not change people do.
When the wounds of a society never heal for neglect, they fester and become evermore harder to heal. This 107 year old lady is stronger and has more moral backbone than most of the politicians in America.
I wonder, in states that have prohibited the teaching of America's history with racism, if the story of the Tulsa massacre will even be taught.
no, it will not
Naw thass something that you no they want us to forgot so just do ya own research.
It’s not as an important event than what everyone is making it out to be. It doesn’t matter. Dead kids are n Chicago streets that should matter
@@jakesmith6011 I don't know what criteria you're using to say that it wasn't as important an event as folk are making it out to be. But a racially motivated attack, including dropping incendiary bombs from airplanes, destruction of 30 square blocks of black-owned businesses and homes, with 800 people injured, nearly 200+ hospitalized, and 60+ people dead, is a pretty unique and gruesome example of racism in America. I also don't understand why you feel that shifting the focus to Chicago's gun violence problem has anything to do with the teaching of America's historic and current racism problem.
@@RuthB51 because there’s still time to fix Chicago if BLM got all their mobs together and stopped the weekly shootings. BLM, as with Tulsa event, only matter because black lives were taken by whites.
I salute you, Mrs. Fletcher. May God bless you & keep you safe. I pray you receive the justice you are seeking.
Whomever gave justice to the Asians community, should be able to see the injustice here.
what justice are you talking about? We’re being brutalized because we are wrongfully blamed for causing the pandemic. Our struggles are not equal in weight, but please know that they exist.
@@shadowspark how dare you? Black people have been terrorized for hundreds of years. You think you deserve a bill over black people because a virus came from China?
Thank god there’s someone alive to tell the story, hopefully more hear about it
There are still survivors of the Holocaust alive and witnessing to the horror for decades. Nothing can undo what happened. Tulsa has denied this happened, or it wasn’t as bad as witnesses say was. Houston had a similar riot in 1917 against black soldiers called the Camp Logan Mutiny. How many other cities are hiding similar atrocities? Just before this, there was an explosion of monuments erected to the Confederacy and its heroes. Coincidence? Or inspiration?
@@enid0momThey taught us about the Holocaust in school, not once did I ever hear about Tulsa. I first heard about the Tulsa Massacre from a television show.
@@Albatross88-1 Well, we know who has control over what goes into History textbooks, don’t we. I am not referring to the particular case of the Holocaust, but anything that actually gets published in textbooks. I am sad to say it has become almost a custom around the country for the people responsible for textbooks in the classroom to wait until the Texas Board approves a textbook, regardless of subject matter. I don’t know how long that has been going on, but it is a while. I went to school in the 1950s-1960s and have no idea how those decisions were made where I lived at the time.
@YupIt'sMe💕 Are the words “riot” and “massacre” mutually exclusive? I wouldn’t be posting about the events in Houston in 1917 if I didn’t appreciate the significance of all these riots/massacres. I also appreciate the seriousness of all this being omitted from US history textbooks. This was omitted even in my college US history textbooks. As a white person, it helps me appreciate the unrelenting persecution African Americans have experienced even after their chattel inslavement ended.
Praise God for this beautiful Queen Mother...
AMEN 🙏🏾🇧🇧
When it takes a hundred years to get justice.
Those powerful words by that beautiful soul just went in one ear and out the other of so many of those "Officials" 🙄
I lived in Tulsa a long time ago, yet I never heard about it until this year.
I lived in Okmulgee, Guthrie, Shawnee and Yukon. Stayed in these towns during College and Job Corps. I am from Alaska and had no idea what I would see and feel when I moved there. I had never met a black person til moving to Oklahoma and the pain of the race war hit me like a tsunami. I FELT it! Very similar to the massacres of The tribes in Alaska and the Catholic control of native lands. I hope humans become better
Funny, I live in NJ and knew about it almost 30 years ago. Seeking information yourself is invaluable and doesnt compare to "being told" or "hearing about" things.
Wow
It's been a painful and hidden piece of history for a long time..those who lived through it found it difficult to talk about. There were also very many attempts to cover it up and to erase it from the history and from the school syllabi.
@Boo ! Hoo ! yep
What conservatives don't get is that a people will only get over an injustice once its been righted.
What liberals don't get is that not everything that offends you personally is an injustice.
She’s 107 years old still no justice.
there was 56 year gap between the 1921 tulsa massacre and the end of slavery.
there is a 100 year between that massacre and today.
only a 57 year gap between today and segregation.
@Boo ! Hoo ! this is all very recent in the grand scheme of things
@Boo ! Hoo ! Nancy and Chuck weren't even born in 1921, what are you talking about?
@Boo ! Hoo ! why do you feel like they're trying to blame it on someone? They just want acknowledgement that it happened.
@Boo ! Hoo ! im not covering up anything for anybody. You seem really uncomfortable with racism being called out and need to pin it to the other side, im guessing because you're racist.
Lord let Justice be served AMEN...
How do you repair such atrocious behavior?
Step one: admit that it happened.
Whatever made those evil people think that they could massacre a whole town and not face equal wrath needs to be identified and dealt with.
Pass laws to make the actions disappear and never speak on it again.
@@justanotherti4790 have you seen our government?
Sadly wasn't the last time. Happened to the MOVE people also. The dropped actual military bombs on US citizens own people.
She’s still alive and white folks still talking about this “happened so long ago”
Tell'em.
For most people who don’t live as long it’s 2 lifetimes ago. So yeah it happened long ago...
@@1secondago302 time is relative you goose. The U.S. is still a "new" country compared to the rest of Europe. So...yeah, pretty recent.
@@1secondago302
The 4th of July is too
They need to understand there is no expiration date on the truth.
"If we don't learn from history, we're doomed to repeat it". - First thing to do to avoid this would be to start teaching american history instead of american mythology...
She is so very sweet and precious. Her mind is sharp and clear! MAY GOD BLESS HER!! 🙏🏾🇧🇧
God Bless this beautiful woman
Gym Jordan's hateful glare says everything.
The al.mighty has kept you for this moment in time mama Flecher a living testimony a witness that cannot be refuted her prayers will be answered she may not live to see it but they will be answered
She is a powerful witness.
107 , god bless!!
My last name is Fletcher and it's been in our family for over 200 years (I'm black and my ancestors escaped slavery to come to Canada) I wonder if anyway I'm related to this woman lol would be cool if so
You should get on Ancestry I think it is or My Heritage .
I know they are very similarities those names. It’s been a while since I’ve been on either of them but I know one of them I did the for a 30 day trial from my sister urging me to get on there and you know just to see what it was about.
My sister was actually is on one of them for quite a few years now and even though she has found a lot of info on our family history, she’s still researching. But also like you can invite family members so you know line cousins and whoever and then they get on there and then sometimes it leads out to the branches , it’s just keeps branching out.
I think lright now on my fathers side I believe my sister was researching and there’s already 20 of our relatives that are signed up also and it’s really weird to see or interesting to see, how it branches out and everything connects.
I can’t remember which one but she still on there and she’s done tons of research into our family and you would be surprised at all the documentation that people put on there and the resources they have on there to be able to find everything about your history .
There’s a census on our family that dated back to the 20’s or 30’s saying who lived in what household , all their names and when they were born and it is really very interesting.
I did the 30 day free trial run at that time because I was just really really busy and just really wasn’t sure if I would utilize it and didn’t want to pay the monthly fee.
I’m currently thinking about getting back on there and paying a monthly fee now that I have enough time to research. But my sister she’s she’s been on it for I think like three or four years now.
I was using my mic the first time I commented I was trying to multitask. But I went back and corrected my atrocious errors so you may want to re-read it and know that I did come from someone who can read and write in a at least , half way decent enough manner that you can understand it. Lol
God bless Ma'am.
Tears in my eyes.❤️
I am from India, just read about Tulsa massacre. Totally terrorism.
Long live mother viola.❤️🙏
What is courage-Suffering throughout one's life and having smile on the face.
Touched ❤️
Thank you
Forget about "learning and doing better" Mr. Cohen... That's all politicians say to keep us going in circles. It's ridiculous that this woman and her brother have to make an appearance to testify such horrific acts that have scarred their lives for 100 years now. Acknowledge and pay reparations to these families. Wouldn't hurt to take proper account of what was taken and by whom and return to the rightful owners and their families.
For the people love to tell others get over it. These people still living. So what you tell them?. What you tell my mom dad and aunts who was born in the 40's? To the get over it crowd.
Proof that people care nothing about certain people. Horrible!
RIGHT ON
Tulsa 1921. Gaza 2021.
Nice try Art, but "Tulsa" didn't fire 3,000 rockets into surrounding Oklahoma cities.
@@Jorge-mg7or They did fight back, with their limited abilities to do so. And if they had rockets, they would have and should have used them.
@@artwillvideos Oh Art please, Tulsa was an unproved attack. Gaza was a provoked attack. Stop comparing apples to oranges. (I know you know the difference).
@@Jorge-mg7or Oh stop with the “oh...” dramatics! We can trace provocations all the way to 1948. You can continue to punch down and blame the people of the tiny, walled off, surrounded, open-air prison that is Gaza. I’ll blame the people in charge and fully in power who are daily committing war crimes and violations of international law.
@@Jorge-mg7or The Zionist state of Israel has been provoking the Palestinians since it was CREATED in 1948. The Palestinians have been under perpetual Israeli occupation for decades, their houses are demolished and lands stolen for settlers from Europe and the US. The problem is with people like you who are ignorant of history. Instead of pointing at the Palestinians, who are the victims of Israeli oppression, join the dots and use your brain to point to the root cause of the problem...Israel!
Jim Jordan’s brain: she must be funded by soros!
The Justice was slow, but it's better late than never. Thank you all who all were involved and thank you Madam Viola Fletcher.
Bless
How dare this country not make it right and say we should get over it.
Wow we all need to share this
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!! THANK YOU !! 💯💯👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
100 years she carried this pain. please vote.
Who would dislike this video?
@@lololee24 Don't forget Ben Carson and Tim Scott
I am going to cover this on an upcoming episode of my podcast, “Authentically Us.”
God Bless this beautiful Woman...and may justice one day become a reality
💔🥺😖🥺💔 ...thats all I can "say" .
Very happy this is getting out
God bless you Mrs. Fletcher🙏🏽☺😍😘!! God chose you, to tell the horror of the Tulsa Oakland Massacre😪😓!!! I admire your courage, bravery, dignity, stamina, and willingness to tell the truth about this awful and painful Massacre, that you HAD to endure!! I think, you speak for all of the ones who are no longer with us, and the ones who are still with us!!! I am so sorry, you HAD to suffer the way you did!! I am so happy to know you, and God please help Mrs. Fletcher to continue to tell her story/truth💞💜💪🏽💕💚🧡👀💪🏽🤗😍🤩!!!
I’m glad that she is able to come give her testimony at her increased age. I heard very well articulated words for a 107 year old woman that lived through such an event. That 89 year wait time to speak her conscience must have been a burden lifted. Just imagine waiting 89 years to have your voice heard from a democratic system that is supposed to be centralized around the citizens, can you?
Democrats and Republicans should both be ashamed that people like her that have been marginalized to feel like only a tool for labor that’s needed for their country during times of strife get suppressed and have to wait so long to be heard.
``What does BLM have to say about this courageous woman’s testimony? ``
Much Respect n Love Queen👑💕🙏🙏🙌🙌🙌
They will not acknowledge. They would have to make people whole. They won't make descendants whole!
Now I can see people that are still alive like this lady, that actually has proof that they personally went through the Tulsa Race Riot, and only them, get a big check. I'm sorry this Tulsa riot happened because it was wrong and a terrible tragedy.
I would include the descendants of the Tulsa victims as well. The losses her generation suffered took away from what they could have provided for their children and grandchildren.
Something is really wrong with you. Why don't you tell Jewish people that? Go ahead racist pos. Lisa Romono? You are the narcissist. You are the beast. Who are you to say who should get what? May God bless you seven fold.
LOOK AT GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Exactly
Yes, Mother Fletcher! You are the shining light we all can look up to. JUSTICE AND REPARATIONS FOR TULSA!
And she still don't look her age!
She look like she is in her 80s. I love the black skin I am in.
Black queen
1 John 2:15-17;Matt 24:14,42,44;Isaiah 65:17,25;Rev 21:4;Psalms 37:10,11,29;Matt 6:9,10;Psalm 83:18
Learn about real history. Heal from it. Move forward
RIGHT!!
Yes, I agree! Sadly, we’re still at the first step because many want to suppress the truth of American history.
@@kgreen4411 which means you teach it at home
@@justanotherti4790 yes, that’s happening, but if a lot of the population doesn’t know this history, how are they going to teach it at home? There shouldn’t be a question about it being taught in schools. It’s an attempt to whitewash history.
@@kgreen4411 yeah.. FACTS. But there is hope. Parents can teach our history to our young. We are a lot smarter than we know. They are going to have to dig around for it.
Bless the granny! 🙏
The Osage were able to get their help in 2011. had no Idea nothing was done until now about the Massacre. God bless her
Why isn't the real story being told?
It wasn't about race, but crimes.
Good thing her eyesight is still good enough to read...otherwise, she might not recall the facts so clearly.
Mother Fletcher we love You!!!
They let these survivors due out so they could erase history and act like it never happened and avoid paying what these people are owed.
What's the next step? Where's the repair?
Where's the apology?
We need more than that
@@tcaponeoone1937 you know that but “baby steps” and i mean that in the most sarcastic tone possible (rolling my eyes). No disrespect to u.
from who? Those who did that are dead and most who live now don’t even know it happened!
@@mylaporter5232 sorry excuses and the same ones from the same playbook…yawning
GENESIS 15:13-14, WE WILL GET JUSTICE!
👑🙏🙏🙏🙏
she looks good for her age amazing it is a shame what happened to her and family
I think my grandpa was there
BEAUTIFUL QUEEN. BLESSINGS TO YOU.😍😀😇
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life... Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand repent of your sins .Jesus died and rose on the third day in victory against death follow him🙏
Justice will be served. People will pay for the crimes their parents and grand parents committed against humanity. Like it or not
Then you and your race can pay for the riots last summer. Your responsible. I am not responsible for anything other than what I have done. Sorry, but you are creating problems where there shouldn't be any.
@@nanaphyl5142 no. Your people have created those problems for centuries and everywhere you go. High time for your people to acknowledge the violence you inflicted in non - whites. Denial won't change anything. Deal with it.
Steve Cohen is going to be in trouble for using that word 'mother'. That is not allowed by his party!
So disrespectful.
INCREDIBLE... Reparations NOW🙏🏾💰💱✊🏾🖤
this was so sad..but the history of doing us black people wrong for over 400 hundered years in America is nothing new.But will it ever be true forgivness..Today its done but silently and economically..But in the end, it all will be taken care of...Stay strong black African-americans
She said she thought it was another page and it probably was and did she really say all of this herself Tulsa wasn't the only war on black communities that took place during this time it was plenty more plenty more same thing happened in Florida around the same time and countless more sick man and it does something mentally to us and have done something mentally to our people
G☺️D love her 💕
Reparations now
God is still watching.
Cut the check.
America is a disgrace.
Be a patriot elsewhere
Why is she reading about how she still lives with X?
She wrote it out so she would get the words right...jeeze..she's 107
What was the purpose of this hearing? Any help will be appreciated.
Seeking justice for the survivors and immediate descendants of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 I believe? I’m not aware of there having been any other topics discussed in this, but I’m only partially informed
She got more sense than biden
Which means 10X as much as Trump.
So why everyone talks about you hate black people or we thugs and etc go back in history and see for yourself that your great great grandfather and mother was either rasicist or you help blacks and other folks. Then you know what family you are really in.
Lets never forget what raciest can do . Remember raciest have zero shame . Just look at the trumps.
And who exactly is going to be punished for something that happened 100 years ago?
Don't you know? The privileged white will be made to make reparations for things we did not do. Im not paying anything for something I didn't do.
@@nanaphyl5142 I hear you everybody but the old lady is dead. I will not pay anything.
I don't think anyone is meant to be punished, since there is nobody alive that was responsible. Perhaps the city of Tulsa or whichever institution was initially responsible for protecting the victims should pay some restitution, and the Congress should make a declaration acknowledging what happened. I think they primarily want acknowledgment from some authority.
Justice doesn’t require someone be punished.
@@MiloshFitzroy doesn't require anyone to pay either.
Now shes a soul surviver y.jeezy peace.
CAMAGU.
I don’t see how anybody is entitled to anything from this. The reality is we cannot right every injustice to everybody that has been through it along with their ancestors. I’m sure she is a great person and god bless her though
EITHER DO I.NEVER ENDS!
Then we need to stop ALL foreign aid......they are not entitled to our tax money. We are constantly bailing out other countries or coming to the rescue of other nations in plight. There is much to atone for in our own country. This happened here! In the United States. Not the Middle East, Korea, or Vietnam. She abs her family are owed. Listen to her and read what happened. An entire community of American citizens were destroyed.
"We can't right every injustice" is a poor excuse for not righting the ones we can to the best of our ability.
@@Tim3.14 Agreed. Especially for our own people. What is that statement....."charity begins at home." These were our fellow citizens who's homes and businesses were destroyed and several people were murdererd.
Way to completely miss the entire point
Give us our land, our mules, our freedom, & reparations!!!! Enough is enough & give us our history that y’all have stolen
Thank the Democrats for all the racism… past and present.
Riots ? We have learned it from you
This person is literally reading what is put in front of her. What a joke. Someone should tell her she is the queen of England and maybe she will be able to spend the rest of her time feeling like she got her “repRATIONS!!”. Sick
WHAT DOES THIS DO? WHY PUT THIS OLD WOMAN THROUGH THIS? FORGIVE N MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE!!!
Riots ? We have learned it from you