The organizer of a petition to force a referendum on capping the city of Knoxville’s power to raise property taxes is asking supporters to contribute to a political action committee that is tied to conservative causes in Knox County and Middle Tennessee.
Erik Wiatr, a local real estate agent, has asked potential petitioners to make their contributions to Knox Liberty Organization. A review of its financial disclosures over the past two years shows that it contributed $2,000 a year ago to Roving Patriots PAC in Gallatin. Roving Patriots PAC earlier this year sent a series of inflammatory flyers targeting two Knoxville City Council members seeking another term this year.
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As the nation corrects the hidden history of the Tulsa Race Riot on its 100th anniversary, the massacre mirrors the devastating violence and destruction of a deep-rooted Black community in Knoxville s Red Summer of 1919.
Tulsa’s predominately Black Greenwood neighborhood in 1921 suffered the single worst incident of racial violence in American history in what is now called the Black Wall Street Massacre. Dozens were killed and hundreds were injured. But the destruction didn t stop at the decimation of bodies. Thousands were left homeless, property owners saw millions in damage and Black businesses were destroyed.
It s eerily similar to Knoxville’s Red Summer, where white mobs and the National Guard opened fire on Black neighbors with an untold number of deaths.
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