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DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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Since we can't go back in time, there were only two options today: Release it or don't release it. This reads like you think they shouldn't have released it.
Can you point out anywhere that would lead a reasonable person to believe that anyone on this thread says that it shouldn't have been released?
No because he’s just a troll.
2 comments earlier: "Releasing it now is just shameful." - sounds pretty much like the commenter would not be outraged if it was not released at all.
I think the rational approach would be to express outrage for every single year when it was NOT released and to celebrate that this year, finally it is out. The victims deserve the public acknowledgement of what really happened. This is a positive thing and it's worth it even after a 100 years.
Did they have the option to release it last year? I'm pretty sure they did. How about the year before? How about all the years before that?
And you think they should be thanked or praised for finally doing what should have been done years ago? The reasonable response to that should be, "it's about fucking time."
This isn't some shit about who killed Kennedy that will fuel more conspiracy theories, this is direct information about an event where up to 300 people were killed, up to 800 people were injured (we will never know specifically because information like this was never released to the public), and the most successful black neighborhood in the U.S. was destroyed by racist cops and citizens including someone dropping fucking bombs from an airplane.
No, sorry, this is not something to give them any credit for whatsoever. It's about fucking time.