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Gunfire erupted during Tulsa’s Juneteenth celebration, leaving one dead and multiple victims in critical condition. The Black Wall Street Times Jun 23 Today, I was traumatized by having to relive the stories of Saturday’s tragedy. I had to co-author and edit a mass shooting story that hit home—my own family and community were there. It happened Saturday night during Tulsa’s annual Juneteenth celebration in the historic Greenwood District—Black Wall Street. First came the frantic calls and texts from family members: “Where are you?” “Are you okay?” The Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Tulsa police officers lined the streets after a mass shooting left one person dead and several others injured, some critically. Then came the video footage—faces I know, my own family and neighbors, lying flat on the ground as gunshots rang out and people ran for their lives. For hours, I sat with crushing anxiety, praying none of them had been hit. We still don’t know the full list of victims. We still don’t know who pulled the trigger. Our own Black Wall Street Times interns were at the event. I later found out that one of them was just 25 feet from the gunfire. I kept asking myself—what if one of them had been shot? What if it had been our reporter or our photographer? What would I have told their families? That’s a call I pray I never have to make. We have to do better—to protect our communities and report our stories with the urgency they deserve. Click here to read the full article.

how can this happen when you summarily decide to boot Black people from the so-called race because you don’t like their skin color. again, here you go confusing the two words, race and racism are too completely different things. Racism obviously exists. In fact people who think like you perpetuate it. here too, grouping an entire people together based upon their skin color, then assigning them responsibility for the activities of a few is what this whole notion of racism has created. Most white people did not own slaves. Indeed, the standard of living of white people was lowered because of the institution of slavery, wealthy white people who were a minority created the system of white racism to enrich themselves. The white masses brought into the system because they were diluted and were striving to be wealthy. Even Black people brought into this with colorism the brown bag test, skin lightning creams… you said that you do not believe bumping people into different racial buckets does not imply differences in intelligence. So what difference is are inherent to these groups that you’ve created in your mind? So what is the purpose of the racial buckets that you’ve created? What are the distinguishing factors that make the people different? Is it just skin color? Again, America’s definition of black is different than yours because you don’t like to put light skinned people in the black category.

don’t be silly of course you can describe people by their physical characteristics, but that don’t mean they are of different races people who hate your guts solely because of the color of your skin. Are retarded and certainly not the majority. yes, even with the election of Trump the country is far better in 2025, than 1825 not just for brown people of all shades but for everybody. yes, we can agree on that. What we disagree on is that there is already is one race. You just refuse to recognize it. the failure of people to recognize that there is one race is the primary reason racism has not gone away. Racism has been on a steady decline since the enslaved were emancipated.

yes, and many of those people were other white people including European Jews, Italians, Irish, … Intellectually even Pioneer knows these, so-called white people weren’t even considered white When large numbers of them came to this country.

clearly it’s a UFO but what evidence suggests to you that it is intelligent. And by intelligent, I assume you mean navigated by an intelligent being not of this earth.

Pioneer you realize not all Latinos and Arabs are light skinned. All this talk about black men being in love with white people or light skin women with straight hair is anachronistic. Modern people have moved beyond this type of thinking people are free to love whoever the heck they wanna love, and sometimes those women have light skin, but more often they have brown skin because brown skin people dominate the Earth.

many if not most already do. I don’t know we can start by saying “human.” Again, your need to define a people by the color of their skin completely escapes me. I don’t understand it?! You have been so completely brainwashed by the white racist’s doctrine that you can’t see it. I’m confident racism will go away eventually. Great strides have been made here in this country. That’s obvious to you, isn’t it?

this is simply historically, inaccurate, white people and Black people and Asian people were trading with each other long before the concept of race was invented. there are 1 million ways to group people we can do it on religion, geography, family, ethnicity whatever. Why the preoccupation with lumping people into different categories anyway? Do you (anybody) believe that racial differences give rise to differences and characteristics like in intelligence? Who says Black people are on the lowest rung on the social ladder? Where does that come from?

@Milton would this be in the Sword and Soul genre. I'm actually working on getting a Sword and Soul BISAC code. Would you use it and help promote its use if I were able to get it through?

Yeah, but they are the ones who created the racial categories that you hold onto so tightly. You reject some of the absurdity but accept parts of it. These are just your ideas and have nothing to do with race. right, but we support this buy into their scheme by continuing to buy into the unfounded idea.

I have nothing to add @Pioneer1

Dude the faulty concept of "race" is what has created the confusion. No it won't. People will always find a reason to justify their evil. Taking "race" out of the mix will eliminate that justification from their bag of tricks. Generations of people would have lived and died without ever believing that they were inferior (or superior) because of their so-called race.

Hey @harry brown here is a link to some of the Juneteenth books I have on AALBC: https://aalbc.com/books/category.php?name=Juneteenth

I’m surprised no one did it before you did then.

Funny I have used AI pretty much every day for the past year and it never occurred to me to ask it do anything like that There are other tools that you can use that would use MTG in the manner you described, but you might have to spend some money to do it.

You've already let us know you reject science. The dictonary's definition obviously is not a scientific reference. It is curious you never reference any scientific sources for a definition of race.

Here you go again dodging questions @Pioneer1 The fact of the matter is that you would consider Homer a white man. The Federal government considered him a Black man. The ruling of the SCOTUS is not more irrational than yours.

YES! The principle of the one drop rule is based upon the same flawed reasoning that you are anyone else including white racists would apply.

@Pioneer1, is Homer Plessy a white or Black man?

OK since you reject the fact: The science has already shown that race as a result of genetics do not exist.... We can't have a normal conversation on the subject, as on this subject, you are estranged from reality.

That poor child Well maybe times have changed, and kids are no longer clowned for having a jacked-up hair cut

Note the use of the words "perceived to share" and "the idea that people can be divided" Obviously the "idea" of race exists. The point is that just that and idea without basis in science. As a result, it is subject to human whim.

My God! If I were not already bald I'd be pulling my hair out now. It was a question? Which one if any of these statements do you disagree with; The science has already shown that race as a result of genetics do not exist.... Race as a result of a social construct does exist..... In the study you provided they are accepting using and dealing with race as a social construct... The study you link provided proof that the disparities in health outcome are a result of Access to treatment intervention tools and insurance etc.....not biology but racism

Because of rules like the "one drop" rule. We previously discussed Homer Plessy who had one African great-grand parent the other 8 were white. You would say he was white because of his phenotype. However he was booted out of the white card like any other negro. The case went to the Supreme Court who upheld the law that kept Homer out of the white car.

I know. What I was trying to say about "mainstream" media is fu*k dem. They generally don't cover us and when they do they get it wrong. We need to rely on out publications more. I much rather read what the Nation has to say about themselves than what "mainstream media" has to say about them. Does that make sense? Really? I presume this is stuff that is promulgated on more social media. If that is the case, I would be very careful extrapolating that to the general population of young people. The BS you see of social media is simply not representative of the general population. What the hell?! See this is one of those situations where a boy needs his father. A Black man would NEVER consider taking his Black some to a white barber. LOL! Well, your niece was on the marl with that one 'cause you are clearly racist