Oldest survivor of Tulsa race massacre testifies before House committee: "I have lived through th…
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- Viola Fletcher, who at 107 is the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, testified Wednesday before a House subcommittee studying legal remedies to atone for the damage a violent mob did to a thriving Tulsa neighborhood then known as "Black Wall Street." Watch her testimony.
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107 years and still fighting thank you mother Fletcher.
🙏🏾
@Ghost Of Hyrule don't be so mad it's ok I know this really oppressing you it's like you thinking your world coming to an end relax
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@Ghost Of Hyrule here we have ladies and gentlemen......... another keyboard warrior hiding behind their subtle racism and lack of knowledge of an event ......... but I'm not paying for your internet..... carry on
@@discomadness bow to you sir
The ancestors weren’t going to let her die before making this testimony and statement. Sharpest 107 year old ever. I be got damm.
God**** kept her here to tell her story about what happened to her and others.
@@FaithandNova YAHAWAH is his NAME!!!
Weren't
@@dannykay455 they are intentionally using wasn’t but they know weren’t would be more appropriate.
The Asians didn't need a testimony. They just got a bill passed without all this hoopla so why is testifying to a committee some sort of victory for the ancestors?!
107 years old? My god, she is a living testimony.
God kept her to tell the story.
Rain drops..🤔
She is more then a living testimony! She is my hero!
She didn't need any Prevagen tablets!
Just imagine what her organs were saying when she was say oh...80! Her heart was probably saying...... "Nuttin' happenin here, I'll beat on for another 10, 20......... When the Grim Reaper started to hang around, her organs said, "You better get the f*%# outta here !
She’s the daughter of parents of the late 1800’s. What a special treasure she is.
Wow, that’s amazing 🙏🏽♥️
Yes!!! She is definitely a treasure!! God is good!!!🙏🏼
The U.S. only cares about Chinese Muslims
@@Luci-yl8fx There's still been no coverage.
My 86 year old grand father's father was born in 1884 and am 21 😭
Am I the only one sickened by the fact that this woman is this old and she's STILL fighting for reparations for what was done to her loved ones and her???
No, you're not. Not only am I sickened by the fact that she and her loved ones haven't seen any justice or received reparations, I'm also sickened by the fact that they exclude teaching this part of history in schools.
@@leeolie3728 dam that hurts just thinking about it . As she was just working as a domestic worker with no promise for a better economic future because her school and life was burned down so she has to get money to survive
Why are u shocked if she was 300 she would still have the same fight they dont gives us a break at all...
THANK U VERY MUCH! THIS IS A ABSOLUTE MOCKERY!!!!!!! BLASPHEMOUS!!! Aaand yea EYE GOT DEEP ROOTS N T TOWN!!! 😡🤬😡🤬😡
@Lee Olie: : Please read : Nehemiah 9: 2 and Daniel 9: 16 , in "The Holy Bible ".
She’s been blessed with a long life to expose the devils.
I wept throughout her entire speech.
Matthew 22:36-40
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Amen
Her brother is 100 or more.
And yet, the people rush to get the vaccine, as if the gov isnt capable of poisoning its people.
@@bangryman100. Why has this exchange all of a sudden turned to vaccination?
All the clapping at the end of her presentation without any action are just more slaps in the face of justice.
Yeap. My thoughts exactly
True!!
As long as the demons on the right wing are there, they will try to stop any type of action to be done. Bet they were all sitting there angry that they were forced to listen to this.
Claps ... .Lessons ... like COME ON !!!
@@johntuya5474 ain't no right wing demons. they're all demons
She's 107 years old, sharp mind, smooth skin, still beautiful! God preserved her for such a time as this!! 🙏
Yes, preach!!! That's THE first thing that stood out with me.
Neuromelanin ✌🏾
Well said
All knowing, all loving jesus christ gives children rapist parents. Why.
God laughs while children are kidnapped in haiti
Can we all just take a moment and appreciate how amazing lucid and motivated this woman is at 107?? I mean she's over 100 years old and she's still fighting!
All God.🙄
Let's disregard what she is saying and focus on how lucid and motivated she is....stfu
@@DeaconYomouf no u :)
@@DeaconYomouf He didn't mean it that way.
“While the Axe forgets, the Tree remembers” I love you mama fletcher ❤️🖤❤️🖤
My favorite and most used proverb.
That statement is powerful! I Love it.
GOD BLESSED HER so that she can tell her story. Mother Fletcher has a story.
Amen, Amen 👰
Told the story that was written for her.
@@Freeelyy Are you attempting to minimize her intellect because she's black or because she's a woman? I can't tell which one.
Just when they tried to bury our history! Mother Fletcher lives on to 107!! Amen!!💔💔
It’s not the whole history. That boy was trying to rape that woman on the elevator. They tried to break him out of jail. Funny how this conveniently gets left out.
This is America. Almost one hundred years later, there is still no justice.
It wasn't white Republicans burning up the entire country AND black businesses last summer. Now was it?
How are you going to tell someone who wasn't alive during a crime to apologize for it, and then turn around and do the same thing to YOUR OWN PEOPLE???
@@dab0331 there are still people alive from that attack OBVIOUSLY and why weren’t they given their property back or received any kind of settlement 😨
@@dab0331 dude stfu
It's here they are falling all of their systems are crumbling. You don't see that?
@@dab0331 after asking nicely and singing “we shall overcome” guess people decided to take the next step. Whose fault is that?
I love how we as black People are expected to forgive and forget and be told to “get over it”
It wasn't white Republicans burning up the entire country AND black businesses last summer. Now was it?
How are you going to tell someone who wasn't alive during a crime to apologize for it, and then turn around and do the same thing to YOUR OWN PEOPLE???
There's no "getting over it". Don't forgive and forget!
@@dab0331 you literally are the same problem.. it’s a different time and cause and affect is a real thing ... Im getting vibes that if you were in that time you would’ve participated in the massacre as well .
Yes, get over it. Don’t forget but you can’t hold people accountable for a crime that they didn’t commit or even their parents committed and then attribute it to a race. I’m an Indian from Oklahoma. I actually live in Tulsa. Do you think I believe all white people should be held accountable for what happened before my time, my parents time or even my grandparents time. No, that is ridiculous. The people that I see that want to blame white people for their failures are just that, failures. There is no one to blame but yourself, there is no secret white society trying to hold you back.
Chiefs Fan #1 Black people aren’t begging YOU to apologize. Nor are we looking for an apology to begin with.
"Telling us it didn't happen like we didnt see it with our own eyes". Some things stay the same.....Honour to you Mother Fletcher.
AMEN, AMEN 👰
Yes!
Mother Fletcher is barely making it financially, just think of how financially well she and thousands of other black people in that neighborhood would be doing today had it not been destroyed.
Millions
Very true
Get over your failures. Not our problems.
@@LexTbizEme not likely
Thats why they destroyed them , cause they were definately able to become economically self suffiscient
The crazy part is Tulsa wasn't the only Black community to go through that...That was happening nationwide but the history books don't teach it....
Rose wood
Seneca village aka central park. The black epicenter aka now lake Lanier. Many beach areas in Florida, the first concentration camp aka Natchez Mississippi which still grows peaches no one there will eat because the dead bodies of black men, women and children that fertilizes the land to grow that fruit. There are so many more
There was 8 towns/cities.
Yup literally dozens of cities went through the same thing and the mass graves still being dug up prove it.
Cincinnati Ohio little Africa.
Imagine being 7 years old. Falling asleep feeling safe and waking up feeling terror not knowing if you're going to live or die. Traumatized. Mother Fletcher has defied the odds against her and lives to tell her story. Thank you for being so courageous mother!
Praise to her
@@melodymundy5985 To God be the glory , she is here to tell truth of what happened God bless her.😍
Amen. Praise The Lord!
@@trentladson5668 Amen
Mother Fletcher, God has blessed you with long life, to tell your story!
I applaud you ma'am!
Thanks for allowing me to hear your story.
107 years old, she gave her testimony with clarity, without losing her place.
She did it without getting confused or mumbling nonsense.
May The Most High send his angels to encamp about her after giving this testimony.
And it is so! Amen
@Ghost Face Qam Yasharahla!
All praises to The Most High! We got next!!!
TMH is using her to expose these devils.
All praises!
Only God can make it to where someone lives to 107 yrs old to still have the cognition to expose the wicked
Amen.
AMEN!! He allowed her to live this long to expose. And He WILL vindicate.
Is god playing favorites?
“God” has done NOTHING and never will. The evil that men do is only possible by the power of their gods.
Evil happens because people act in the image and likeness of their gods.
@Corvus Glaive The god of the Bible is the beast that revelation speaks about. The “Curses” have been imposed by the beast.
The beast and ALL gods are ALIENS that created man in THEIR image Genesis 1:26....... every single one of them, including YHWH, are PREDATORS who oppress man into worshipping them and zapping their energies through worship like a BATTERY.
This, is why our people suffer more because we worship our oppressor alien god who inflicts curses and siphons our emotional energy sources.
Cannot get any worse . NO SAVIOR but us...... when that alien god returns he will only, once again place A YOKE upon the conned and place Torah beast laws upon them once again.
Please, wake up. Save the next generation of our people from servitude to our oppressor.
She read the most heartfelt statement and I Promise you they don’t give a flying F
Exactly. That's why we shouldn't when the judgement falls on them. When the Most High's Judgement falls on this country Don't cry for most of the white people who will loose their place on this Earth.
True statement
Truest Comment ever..
They see her as an old N word. They don't care. But here's the thing..... Folks ain't running and hiding no more! These young people ain't going for that mess. I appreciate our ancestors but times done changed.
At all
107 years old with 4th grade education and everything taken away from her that night, she speaks/reads clearly and eloquently.
Can you imagine if she had the opportunity to further her education?..Wow she would have been greater than what she is now!
Bless her heart. She is a treasure to be here at the age of 107 and speaking/reading so eloquently.
The gift
Blessing to see this black queen living over a century of life
@@Ddych81 yes indeed
They waited until everyone is damn near dead to now "recognize" the very few if any that are left.
At least God allowed one left behind to tell the story.
Then compensate their descendants!
True
There are plenty of Descendants of American Slavery walking around 3rd World American neighbors across the US with no wealth. Chicago, Mississippi, GA, North Carolina, South Carolina, California, Flint... Need to go on? We are owed trillions in Reparations from the American government
EXACTLY
She was amazing. 107 and still sharp. God has blessed her to be able to tell her story. In her own words and in her right mind. 🙏
It's not her story are you blind she's reading a script .
107 ?😲 dayum
@@adamblack8824 Try again Mr Wood..
I’m Mexican. And honestly the script she’s reading is so fake.
This truly brought tear to my eyes... The crime, the hatred and the social engineering that it took in trying to destroy the African-American race cannot be hidden any longer. This woman is a beautiful person with a sound mind I’m glad she was able to share her narrative of what happened in Tulsa that still haunts her to this day... God bless this beautiful lady!
Amen
agreed and let's not forget the indigenous here too
Makes NO difference how long it takes 100 yrs. or FOREVER-THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYZ BE THE TRUTH !!!
Hi
How are you?
No, no, the U.S. only cares about Chinese Muslims
@@Luci-yl8fx so long as they are far away, in China
The most high said it best, “what happens in the dark will come to the light...”
No lie
Vengeance is mine says the Lord I will repay. Can’t wait for judgement day the tables will finally be turned!
We are in the book of revolations
USA LAND OF WAR CRIMINALS & CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
"SAY ON SISTER, SAY ON"!!!🤨🤨🤨🤨
The fact that this woman still has her working mind at 107 and doesn't have dementia is amazing. "Elderly age" starts at 65 and she has lived 42 years beyond that. Incredible.
The ABSOLUTE power of the MOST HIGH ABBA YAH! APTTMHY HALLOWED be YAHS MIGHTY NAME!
Beautiful amazing
Amazing
Yea I believe society as a whole should rethink how they view age
*doesnt have dementia*
😁
The hate that so many wyt people have towards blaok people is not human.
Are we not treating them like a new species
@Cj Baxter So, so TRUE. What a Pretty Man. 💜💜💜
@tamyah el-amin Human.
It's demonic and devilish
Damn, this dude can't even black right .
She is living history. God bless her. 🙏🏽♥️
GOD PRESERVED HER MIND JUST FOR THIS ONE MOMENT. SHARP AS A TACK, AND BEAUTIFUL.
Wow! I just said the same thing without seeing your comment and right after tdd I posted my comment yours was the very next one I saw. God is great
Agreed! 👏👏👏👏🙏
I believe she has worth far beyond this moment. This reached countless people with speech, but how many countless things have reached countless people through what she has taught those who came after her, or in the ways she’s seen God as she has, as she described, seen the worst and the best of what this nation has been.
God is faithful, we cover you in prayers our dear precious sister, a vessel of honor.❤❤❤🤝🤝🙏🙏
This country owes all Foundational Black Americans a blood debt, and there is no time limit on that!! It will be payed, one way or another!!
All 7 dislikes were people arrested over January 6th. All seven combined don't have half the courage this woman does.
So true! 👍
From the Democrat descendants who showed up that day in Tulsa to begin with
its 9 now , and your probably 100% correct, you know evil when seen! God will finish them!
@@franklinadams38 He will.
They probably think invading the Capitol and throwing their crosses and flags at it IS courage...
Mother Fletcher is a beautiful soul. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ I am so glad she was able to tell her truth.
100 years and still no justice. Only in America 🇺🇸.
Pretty ridiculous
My daughter wrote a paper on black Wall Street for school once. Her teacher denied her assignment because she had no knowledge of the subject and stated it was false.
That's a darn shame, but not surprising. I'm still happy you're daughter learned about this atrocity. ❤
Wow, just wow. I really hate the terrorists in this country!
When ignorance ain’t bliss!! That teacher should be ashamed of herself!!
@@bkcarameljbk7174 or go back to school her damn self school's do not like to teach about the real black American history in this country but it's ok what's in the dark come to the light
Wow
107 year's and still haven't seen justice. That's should tell you right there for all the people who always wanted to sugar code racism and Injustice.
AMEN 👍
Nope they won't get it
This type of race massacre happened in many black American towns..,Tulsa,Rosewood, Ocecee ,New york( now Central Park), and many more
Also oscarville aka lake Lanier
West Philadelphia booming
And Wilmington, NC 1898
Detroit. Baltimore
The devils punchbowl in Mississippi
I never heard about this. Don’t remember it in the history books . “I Am So Sorry It Happened”.
❤️💪🏽
Why would it be in history books
@@fernandaldridge2036 Umm, because it's history?
Our country needs to tell the full story. Thank you for being honest about not knowing this occurred.
@@ericaacosta5850 When did YOU know that this occurred?
It really hits to know she's remembering something from a century ago.
Sadly trauma NEVER goes away. Ask any war survivor.
really sad when people say all this was "so long ago" as if dogs being siccked on people weren't just my grandmothers years ago.and those in those positions didn't get fired. those teachers that spit on those kids didn't lose positions. my .manager is about 60yrs old and an old lady comes in a d say she taught her in school..that lady was still around moving and driving and needed no help lol.
you mean it *helps? cuz that's what it's supposed to do
How can you forget such atrocities
Physical, Mental, and Socialigical trauma still shows in Blac people. Its in our DNA. Its striking in our psyche and in our ways and cultures. The fears are in our raising of our generations.
Message to White Conservatives: It's kind of hard for poor Black Americans to "pick themselves up by their bootstraps" when your actions (be it a century ago, a few decades ago, or even today) like burning down their churches and businesses keep them from achieving economic equality/stability.
Yes and it has caused so many problems for us ladies. I have to leave my nation because it’s so evil
@@Boo86473 only ladies? Black Men and black children are fine right?
O shut up.its a 100 years a go.how dam old is this woman to remember this. No money for any one.get over it
I am a white conservative and I have never harmed a person of color in my life. Equating a group of people to the actions of their worst members is ridiculous and dangerous. Justice should be served in this and every instance of wrongdoing but please don’t be so ignorant and divisive
Not only that Jesse, what about the laws that were written to undermine & circumvent anti-discrimination laws. What about the criminalization of drugs in the 80's & 90's when it came to blacks (mass incarceration by the hundreds of thousands), yet the opioid "epidemic"😒 (which MAINLY affects the white community) is treated like a health CRISIS! Do you think Tulsa was the ONLY city that did this? Not soon after the riot did some in the white community steal the displaced blacks lands! So the answer is NO! All kinds of restrictive jim crow laws against blacks were written & brutality enforced to keep blacks under white's foot economically, physically, & mentally! So after the civil rights gains from the 60's, they found other subtle ways to take advantage of black people EVERY way they could!! That's why telling the truth about the TRUE history of this nation is so important.
She's a blessing, and at 107 she was ready to tell this story. Her and her brother deserve their flowers and reparations... NOW!! Let them live the rest of their life as the life they deserve.
She is absolutely amazing. These stories need to be told. They NEED to be heard and remembered. They need to NEVER be repeated ever again. Human beings are capable of terrible things. We need to listen and pay attention. What an amazing woman Mother Fletcher is.
When she mentioned those planes flying overhead I just broke down. It’s sad to know that your own country did this, domestic terrorism. It’s just sad.
Government sanctioned terrorism. Getting killed by the government they fought for in the wars
@@TheAfrican1 exactly! PRIVATE CITIZENS down own WWW1 US bomber planes (with active weapons)
they bomb the hospitals the bomb the bus depots , they bomb any option for escaping, then loot all the stores on mainstreets
yeah, thats what they say happened... Tho ... they be saying a lot happening right now thats not...
Makes me wonder...how much of that stuff is true
It’s not our country
@@ashash2088 they brought us here so YES this is also our country. Our ancestors blood and sweat built this country.
107 years old is a Jewel in itself ,with a lucid mind, amazing too see
She’s one of GOD chosen one... Mind just as strong as a teenager. God Bless her, she reveal the truth after 100 years
didnt really reveal anything i already knew all of this? were you not taught this in school?
We as Black people are always mistreated and/ or ostracized by every other race of people for the mere fact that we are Humans too. The color of my skin brings fear or rejection responses daily. I am so proud that she stated her age because she's seen slavery yesterday as well as modern day slavery today. It's easy for others to say, they always use the race card or go back to Africa. Unfortunately racism dwells there as well.
They will never ever understand how it feels to be Strong and Black, ever. We are a group of people who have endured the worst of many things. We turn dilapidated areas into homes. In hopes that we can build a better tomorrow for our children and grandchildren. It's time for change but education and accepting the change is truly the key.
@@radioblitz1494 No, I wasn't taught this in school. Please allow us the experience of her knowledge and wisdom. Eventhough it's "old hat" to you RadioBlitz, it's new to others and myself.
That chairman guy don't give any care....it's just a list for the day,motions
After the House, it must go to the Senate and to more upper-echelons. Please keep going...and burst the red tape.
"No one cared about us for almost a hundred years" the time had come to care deeply, the injustice will not go on.
Why is it that some people get reparations for genocide that happened in another country and others don’t get reparations for genocide that happened in their own country?
Facts 💯 💯 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯!
Because they feel we don't deserve it and we are nothing but animals that need to be caged.
Because those that DO receive reparations, fight for it!.
Sad truth
@@cherriepreston1717 No they did not fight for reparations. The US government gave it to them without making a ruckus, because they hate black people we will not get reparations. The late Senator Storm Thurmond said in the 1980's black people will never get reparations because his people(white) are going to say they have black in thier families. Its said but true and there are many Tulsa Oklahoma that were in America and was destroyed by evil, jealous white people. These evils of hate have hurt many black families that could have been millionaires and even billionaires. I'm not looking for America to do anything for me, I ask the Lord and he has been and still good to me in all of my needs and wants. Remember Jesus Christ is the truth and provider for all things.
Our living Queen!! You're a legend for black ppl everywhere!
A real living piece of history, a living legend 💜
My Grandmother who deceased already was born in 1908 and grew up in Tulsa, OK. She moved to California in the 60's. When I was little girl sleeping over her house she would wake me up at night yelling out from nightmares.
I'm so sorry 💜
Sorry to hear that
The sad truth the country we live in tries to hide.
Sounds like she did okay....better than victimhood mentally of today.
Poor her,I trust every trauma she had addressed. Same goes to you Erika, your grandma never deserved that..they had been very strong fighting demon inflictions in the very dark Satanic period that has no trace back, but as a everyday normal forward..that's when a very deep question is been asked in minds of pure loving people...why?
She has a very sharp mind, very well spoken. God bless her heart .
She's amazing. Bless her heart. As a young child so terrifying it must have been for her💔
I concur. Reparations Now!
This woman is a hero and inspiration to all of us. God Bless you Mrs. Fletcher!!!!
@Joe Saab Well.. You are insignificant. I'm Puerto Rican, man I feel her pain and broken spirit.
From 1865 to 1964. God I can not believe how much people suffered at the hands of White Fragile Privilege.
@Joe Saab Really you are not cool Joe. Ur a crap filled rude human being.
*woman
@Joe Saab you. this is disgusting. leave
Destiny gave this woman a long life so she could see the death of and outlive all her former tormentors.
@@scottharrison699 Those Democrats were socially/racially conservative and primarily in the South. Which party touts social conservatism now? The Republican Party, which makes up most of the House and Senate Seats in the South.
In other words, look at ideology, not party. By your logic, the South at one point was the most progressive part of the country, and that has never been true.
Reparations now for this lady !
@@zazatv6822 for this Lady yes, she's still alive and can prove the actions of those in 1921 affected her and her family.
@@scottharrison699 Oh give thanks to Scott Harrison, the Great Protector of The Black Race and Armor Bearer for Freedom.🤣
Interesting that reparations for this Tulsa event comes up 100 years later when 100 years ago the first billionaires Getty, Philips, and Gilcrease all lived in Tulsa
I live here in Tulsa... She is our jewel, our hero, our Angel... Honor and pay her what’s long overdue due...Period.
Absolutely
She is such a beautiful spirit!
Thank goodness for her memory.
This dark history must never be forgotten.
@@scottharrison699 it’s not just the Democratic Party. It’s the country as a whole
Why not have a pic of a hero and not a zero? Asking!🤔
@@scottharrison699 democrats as in caucasians
@@scottharrison699 trump.! Enough said .bye now Wilbur
@@scottharrison699 shush
107 yrs old? I praying, Im hoping to get to 40.. God Bless her....How can anyone dislike a 107 woman reading a paper about what she feels?
I’m only 57. She is 50 years older than me!! God is good.
I’m 57 too
You gotta love black people. I’m 24 and definitely wanna look as good as yall when I’m 57 😭
What is experienced 100 yrs ago!
God my people have suffered and still are suffering at the hands of this country
Bless her heart 💜❤️💜 Mother Fletcher literally tears she speaks well 107 years old 😭 REPERATION NOW NEVER FORGET
"Truth has a way of revealing itself...no matter how long."
Indeed. The Tulsa race war was triggered by a black man sexually assaulting a white woman in an elevator. The man was arrested and jailed. A white mob wanted to lynch the black criminal. Local police prevented that. A band of armed blacks showed up to defend the jail, despite being told by local law enforcement to disperse and that the situation was under control. Armed whites showed up in response. Shooting started and by the time it was all over 12 whites and 25 blacks were killed.
This is the reason we need to teach our children actual US History. Not some fake fairy tale of lies. God bless the families who were affected. 900 injured, seriously injured or killed..Businesses and homes burned and bombs dropped on a thriving black community...based on a false allegation against a black person. The allegation was probably just an excuse to brutalize and torment black people. So sad.
@@wu_v First, how do you know the allegation was false?
@@tinman3586 History.
@@tinman3586 because the supposed victim wrote a letter clearing the young man later. And in the US people are innocent until proven guilty but the accused "disappeared" after the bombings.
Just think about it: This woman is 107 YO and she is still witnessing black people being treated the same way by white supremacy. I wouldn't blame her if she harbored a deep set animosity but she sounds like she's learned too forgive but she never forgot.
Forgiving is easy. It's the forgetting that is hard. Bless her heart. 🌹
Ohbyeah, cause its still exactly just like it was almost 100 years ago
@@stevenwoods5787 In a lot of ways, yes.
@@adhyjc8 No it isn't.
We’re you alive then Ricardo. You people think no one has a right to being treated well or to redress their grievances except yourselves
This queen is still sharp as a tack! I am in tears listening to her story. I can't even imagine what she lived through. Grateful that she was able to tell her story. God bless you!
I am in tears 😭!!! Thank you Mother Fletcher! 🥰 We can let the past go bcz it’s known to us the atrocities that were committed against us! Learn and never forget!!!💪🏾
She's been blessed to live this long but angry that she and the other survivor won't get justice.
honestly justice ... would be hard sense both sides caused this to happened if you actually wanna look up what caused this to happened its kinda .... sad honestly just the innocent people got involved because the idiots of both sides wanted to cause issues
@Gabriel Mondragon you have a point, I was just saying. It would be nice if they could get justice
@Gabriel Mondragon exactly, I saw a video of Biden talking about that.
@Gabriel Mondragon true
@Gabriel Mondragon most people on both sides are dead it was 100 year ago
This woman is amazing! A true survivor and A hero! Her family is so blessed to have her😭😭
she has survived 2 pandemic ( the spanish flu) and then the corona virus. but more importantly she survived caucasian massacre , her own parents grand parents were enslaved black people. Let that sink in for a minute.
TEARS.
@@Patty.29 Me too this is so heartbreaking. They are passing bills for Asians and everyone else without putting a committee together and yet when it comes to our people they don’t want us to have anything it’s disgusting how evil they are.
We, African Americans, are blessed to have her.
@baked nachos You continue to let Do Nothing Democrats use you. I voted ADOS for President/VP.
It was disrespectful to call her "Mother Fletcher" he should have addressed her as Mrs. Fletcher.
Maybe Miss Fletcher wants to be called Mother Fletcher.She didnt complain.Not disrepected.
He said her name and said they call her mother fletcher. 🤦🏾♀️
Instead of making an assumption, the official could have asked " how would you like to be addressed." They address each other, as gentlemen and gentleladies.
Finding fault where there’s none!🤦🏾♂️
@@AlfredoHernandez-vr3wc what does “disrepected”.. mean.
The things my ancestors went through for basic human rights and trying to live in a world they were generations stolen to that once they lost the right to own them like they were not even people then treated generations still like we aren't wanted here...just astounds me
Praise God for the testimony she's providing
A thriving community cut doe
They always say "JUST PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS", then they burn your boots. THIS IS THE REAL AMERICA.
🤣🤣. Its really a f*coked up place to live.
How can a bootless man pull himself up by the bootstraps -M.L.K.
@@CANTONMENT_FL the quotes that they leave out....
@@DeaconYomouf Thumbs up from me I agree
Amazing cognitive skills when you think about age and what she's experienced.
And only schooling to the 4th grade! Such a strong incredible woman!!
Children back then were built different
Its called faith. God kept her and is keeping her 🙏🏼
Huh she human what was she supposed to speak? Lol clear English from her times.. Ugh
@@prizesaydee1087 I agree. They suffered deeply but kept pushing forward. Nowadays, people just play the victim.
First of all, I'm so thankful God allowed her to live through her 100s. It's such a milestone!
So sad and horrifying. Their families deserve reparations. I acknowledge you.
I live in Tulsa and it's crazy because I only recently learned about this, around here people have been trying to pretend it didn't happen until very recently
Although it’s incredible that she can tell this story today. This felt extremely performative. Where is the action or resolution? She didn’t leave her home at 107yrs old for story time. She left her house for reparations and restorative justice for her community
The story is to help those understand that the rhetoric that most people fight for is no different than it was 100 years ago
RIGHT!! DON'T BE PARADING MISS FLETCHER FOR SHOW!! I HOPE SOMETHING COMES FRM THIS MORE THAN A HISTORY LESSON!! I LOVE HER STILL-SHARP MIND!! ALLAH, PLEASE KEEP HER ♥️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
i agree
Justice from The Most High
I’m filled with such sorrow. Thank you for being so strong and brave to share your story. We need to provide true justice and provide funds for the families and the descendants who have been robbed.
This lady made me proud! ❤️💯
Imagine the horror of what she lived through and to be told it never happened! How disgracefull!!!
I love this woman , she lived this long for this very day. wow
It’s sad that it took so long. Like the government is waiting for every black victim to pass away to avoid REPARATIONS. It seems to be their only strategy with us. Smh
Amazing woman. So sad : (
@Jon Doe according to nothing other than your opinion
I wish this survivor of that will actually just confirm if she believes that what happen was the result of racism and the story that a black man touching a white women that sparked Black Wall Street and not the rumors that the town itself was attempting to run itself outside what was the norm, furthermore maybe elaborate on the organized crime that may have been going on in the town.
I’d like to hear if she was going off what tabloids and others who may have been ignorant to what was actually happening in the town have told her! I think it’s also just as important that people who lived in Oklahoma at that time or who are ignorant to history learn about the (Green corn rebellion) that happened just 3 years before in 1917, Tulsa riots! 1921, because it was an attempt at a socialist revolution in our country and many are clueless.
I’d like to ask her about the African blood brotherhood a communist organization out of New York that was thought to be running the town of Tulsa.
Then I would encourage black people everywhere to look up Victor L Berger, who Dixiecrats gave a seat in Congress too in 1910, also look up Manning Johnson a black leader many are not familiar with; understand FDR policies like the (NEW Deal) and those same policies revamped under LBJ, (New Deal policies and just understand that communism/Socialism is collectivism! Which is a monolith! Absent of individual thoughts and freedoms. You do more research with president Woodrow Wilson see what his (espionage act) entailed. Look up The greatest black man to ever live Fredrick Douglas and w d bois but come to understand if your a democrat or republican ideologies do (not) change people do! Wake up! America is not an inherently racist country like the left wants you to believe. I wish someone would just ask!
For being 107 years old, she is pretty sharp! That's a blessing!
Thank you, ma'am. You are a part of history, a testament to the beauty of the human spirit, and certainly deserving of more than the handful of people who came to hear you.
I thank THE ALMIGHTY for guarding your life, and preserving your beautiful mind. Thank you for speaking for our Nation. Much love and respect.
huh?
Amen
Beautifully said sister 💚
When I like to know when does the Almighty finally for once and for all show his hand against this Injustice when I'd like to know when ... when.. When?... are young people's faith is at stake
@@kennethmassey534 You are saying exactly what the Bible says we will say.
We will say, How long oh GOD? I find myself saying it everyday, when looking at the news, and finding out about the truth of history.
I'm so glad she is here to tell this heartbreaking story. I was never taught this in school. Now my children know. It is so important that this history not be lost.
Just a beautiful strong courageous woman! An honor seeing her and hearing her speak
She has live beyond her Blissful years, for a reason. And to have opportunity to hear from someone who survived during that horrid time, is outstanding.
She shares my maternal grandmother’s first and last name. Viola Ford. God Bless.
" A people without the knowledge of their past history,origin and culture is like tree without roots" Mr MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY
USA LAND OF WAR CRIMINALS & CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Tell the children the truth
That applies to our current COVID police state as well. We're going down the same road as Venezuela did.
So if truth be told then let's tell the truth. We are the Children of The Most High. We are not the color of a crayon box, we are the descendants of Eber, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Knowledge is given from on High, who can challenge?
Tell that to BLM and antifa who want to erase any parts parts of history they don't like.
You are the truth speaking better than all of us
It's amazing to see this beautiful woman be able to read fluently in her right mind God is so faithful
An outrage this hasn't been recognized and taught about earlier.
exactly, they wait until pretty much everybody is dead and can’t hear different sides of the story
It has been covered in history books. Maybe you were asleep, playing with your phone, or too old before it was covered in more recent textbooks.
@@jerrycrawford7688 it should be in public school textbooks. Maybe it was in yours but it wasn't in mine. High school history. Also, it was actively covered up for years. What a fool you are. But the world is full of them, doesn't bother me as much anymore.
Because the race war was triggered by a black man sexually assaulting a white woman in an elevator and armed black men who showed up to defend him from a white lynch mob.
@@tinman3586 i wouldn’t doubt that’s true, but we’ll never truly know because they lie about everything
i like how they all cheered after her speech. that's probably all she's going to get.
Empty, empty cheers
🤣
Wow that cut.
I know it is
Yeah like that’s helpful, she looked around like well what y’all plan to do to make it right?
Power to the survivors, God bless them and I’m so thankful that they have lived to see this day🙏🏾🌹
This truly breaks my heart.
This woman lived with these horrible images of people being slaughtered for over 100 years.
Thank God she lived to tell her story.
So glad for the living witness
The injustices this woman has had to face and yet she has survived and thrived! GOD BLESS!
She didnt thrive still exist. she said it in her speech that they use the names of her lost loved ones for museums and Grant's and she doesnt have money to pay monthly expenses. #ReparationsNow
Truth will alway prevail. She has survived because of her open and forgiving heart, but never forgetting this unjust act. She is doing this with dignity and grace. There is a spiritual confidence that exudes from her. Such a solid connection to Source vibrates within every word she speaks. This is how we fight, and this is how we win! Thank you, Mother Fletcher...Thank you!🙏🏿❤️
If it weren't for Watchmen on HBO I would not have even known about the Tulsa massacre. It never came up in school, nobody ever brought it up as a historical fact. It's almost like there was an active effort to pretend it never happened. In a country that prides itself on moral superiority and first amendment rights this is inexcusable.
Her long life is a blessing to all of us.
Goodness....
I wish more light would be shed on the 1908 Springfield, IL Massacre, the event that began the NAACP. It would just be hard to because 2008 is passed and so there's no centennial (we were kind of busy electing a black president from that state at least). I just remember during the Illinois Centennial I was working at a museum and learned about it, basically a neighborhood just like the one in Tulsa was destroyed for exactly the same reasons, by a mob, and burned to the ground over trumped up rape charges. It drove blacks from that city basically forever, if I remember right, but they established the NAACP to make sure it never happened again.
There are alot of Massacres just like this Arkansas, Chicago, Omaha the list goes on. Look up Red Summer 1919
Erasing and lying about history right now.
“Almost like”. There definitely was and Tulsa was one of dozens that had the same fate. There are literal mass graves of slaughtered black and indigenous people, destroyed out of racist jealousy and hatred. Covered up by revisionist history, just like they’re doing today
Justice is slow for the African American in the USA.
Bernardo Rangel, and even when a case makes global news its still difficult to get clear cut justice
Spiritual warfare.
I’m not sure if we black people are cursed
THEY BOMB THEIR OWN PEOPLE then want to talk crap about countries!. private citizens down own planes with active bombs on it. (this was not a mob)
It's faster when you have a video. And maybe there will be justice.
This woman has lived to be 107 years old for THIS moment...to share the true history that needs to be acknowledged. May God continue to bless her and may this country FINALLY begin to right its wrongdoings.