South of tulsa about 60 miles south. My father and mother moved there about 1911 or 12 because he had had experiences in shreveport, louisiana. These are as red experiences that were not present. He was ready to give up on the white people because the way they treated him. He had been thrown out of court in shreveport, louisiana. So he retreated from shreveport and where he was practicing and went to an allblack town. Due to the humiliation he experienced in shreveport. They moved to in about 1912. What was that experience like . It was not all that much better because although the strife that was going on separated the methodist from the baptists and the baptists were hard on my mother and father because they were methodist. And the result was, the strife was not racial, but religions. Not at all convenient or comfortable. I was born there. They lived there for several years after i was born. But they were not happy there. Not nearly because of the hostility but because it was such a
The entire black community was burned to the ground so the only what sparked that riot . A young black man who was accused of assaulting, a sexually assaulting a white woman in an elevator. He had been acquitted. But the White Community felt justice had not been served. And that most of the white people felt all the blocks should be taught a lesson. Although he had been in jail and was being accused of this crime. The white people said they would get him out of jail and commit the kind of harm to him that would teach all the black people in the community a lesson. So the black Community Felt he would be seized and lynched. Large numbers of black people went back to the courthouse, armed. They were about to take him and give him protection when they were assured nothing would happen to him. And that they should go back to that part of town. Which they were willing to do but as they retreated from the courthouse. Someone fire the gun and the rest is history. Good afternoon and welcome to
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Crosshairs of this as well but as a general rule this is something that amateur rappers are facing and there are a number of reasons for that but one of them is i mean above and beyond the fact that they lack the name recognition that well known artists like tupac or have its that theyll select the resources to mount anything like a vigorous defense and so they become more vulnerable its easy for prosecutors to use rap lyrics against these young amateurs either to get convictions or more often to scare them into taking a plea bargain when we dont have the help in the pony you say we dont really know the extent. To which people have been incarcerated for in essence rob because most of our forces are a lot of them are forced to play out thats exactly it we dont have a sense of the true numbers the truce scale of any of this i mean we know that the 5 or so 100 cases that weve identified are just scratching the surface but thats exactly right were certain that the majority of these cases w
What you make a distinction in the book but tween the high profile rap artists that we know to bach and you know. Who are pretty much left alone not completely right but but theyre the judicial system has really gone after amateur or local explained whats happened well thats right i mean there are some isolated digs the samples of more high profile well known artists who have been caught in the crosshairs of this as well but as a general rule this is something that amateur rappers are facing and there are a number of reasons for that but one of them is i mean above and beyond the fact that they lack the name recognition that well known artists like tupac or have its that theyll select the resources to mount anything like a vigorous defense and so they become more vulnerable its. Easy for prosecutors to use rap lyrics against these young amateurs either to get convictions or more often to scare them into taking a plea bargain well we dont have the help in the pony you say we dont really