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EPISODE 68: The Tulsa Massacre

A bathroom trip. A scream. Then an entire neighborhood set on fire. We take you through the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—how Greenwood, called Black Wall Street for its thriving Black-owned businesses, became a target and how a lie in print turned into a night of terror. We start with the moment in the elevator, follow the swelling mob at the courthouse, and track the split-second when a standoff became a gunfight. From there, we map the looting of shops, the torching of homes, and the chilling reports of private planes dropping incendiaries over a U.S. city. The numbers are staggering: thousands displaced, hundreds injured, and a death toll that history tried to blur. Along the way, we talk about the systems that enabled it—Jim Crow, a complicit press, and a civic response that detained victims rather than protected them. We look at the Red Cross records that kept human details alive when official channels went quiet, and we examine how Greenwood was rezoned and diminished even as residents fought to rebuild. This isn’t just a timeline; it’s a study of wealth destroyed, memory suppressed, and the long arc of denial that delayed any conversation about reparations for generations. We also share why this history wasn’t taught to many of us, how commissions in the 1990s and 2000s reframed “riot” as “massacre,” and what meaningful remembrance can look like now: accurate curricula, support for descendant communities, and refusal to sanitize the past. Stick around for our music feature—Septarian’s Threshold—adding cathartic weight to the story we just walked through. If this episode taught you something new, help us keep these truths in the light: follow, share with a friend, and leave a review with the one moment that hit you hardest. Your voice helps this history stay visible. HEY CHECK OUT THE BAND THIS WEEK!    • (Official music video) for THRESHOLD by Se...   LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!!! (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/tex...) Ready to explore more shocking true crime cases with us? Subscribe to Drink About Something for new episodes every Friday, and visit drinkaboutsomething.site with links to see all our content, including visual evidence from the cases we cover. AS ALWAYS D-A-S