Viola Fletcher And Hughes Van Ellis Reflect On Surviving Tulsa Race Massacre

Marking the 100th anniversary of one of the worst outbreaks of racist violence in American history, Viola Fletcher, 107, and Hughes Van Ellis, 100, open up to NBC’s Morgan Radford for Sunday TODAY about surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Viola Fletcher And Hughes Van Ellis Reflect On Surviving Tulsa Race Massacre

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  • @oncode4061
    @oncode40613 жыл бұрын

    107 years old and sounds so vibrant.God sent this lady to get justice.

  • @brandonsimpson1617

    @brandonsimpson1617

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes he did amen

  • @yvonneeiland1150
    @yvonneeiland11503 жыл бұрын

    She sounds like she's in her right mind. God blessed her to live this long for a reason. Our time ain't his time but he's always on time !

  • @SisterPlatinum

    @SisterPlatinum

    3 жыл бұрын

    She is in her right mind and she is trying to be polite. People who are not black have a tendency to take our politeness for being weak like we don't know how to be kind and I was taught kindness but they will try to run over us and when we speak up then they want to look at us as being bipolar or out of order when all we're doing is speaking up for the truth but God can and will have the last word in this all.

  • @brendatran1170

    @brendatran1170

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen 🙏 🙏

  • @SisterPlatinum

    @SisterPlatinum

    3 жыл бұрын

    We try to be careful of what we say because there is always the problem of them trying to see if they can catch a spin something they can cause problems for us or our families but she has a Godly heart I know and she's probably wondering what's wrong with that woman the way she's asking those questions see her wisdom tells her what to say because people really don't understand and that's they went through something and if they are not black and never went through something sure there. But the world has them believing that black people are ignorant and that woman is nowhere ignorant she's highly intelligent with an education or not My mom passed away in 2012 she was 97 at the time she did not experience the massacre but she was born in 1915 I'm sure her family at talked about something about it. But my mother always fought for justice for people they had an exhibit in the museum in the city where I was born about the work my mother had done in the sixties. There are people out here fighting for justice.

  • @rozevans2120

    @rozevans2120

    3 жыл бұрын

    @RoseEllenFerrell .. . TRUST & BELIEVE the Heavenly Father will indeed have the last word on this situation & many, many other situations which have happened to our ancestors all the way through current day injustices WE are also God's children & when anyone intentionally mistreats God's children .. . it's never a good thing. Lord have mercy .. .

  • @jacksmith8966

    @jacksmith8966

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen

  • @luckzthesecond1694
    @luckzthesecond16943 жыл бұрын

    Why would people dislike this? Respect your elders and listen to their stories. Their history, is our history.

  • @kilodelta5562

    @kilodelta5562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Those are the same people that denied her story for 100 years. They gained stolen land and money from their evil ancestors. By acknowledging this happened, they know restitution must be paid.

  • @collenjefferson2033

    @collenjefferson2033

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree those dislikes are disrespectful

  • @KM-zb9eg

    @KM-zb9eg

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's because they have damaged are thought process...and then feed us what american freedom is. All blacks should receive reparations as we were strip from who really were all our customs language REAL NAMES. But there still isn't justice for us because they know the price would be to HIGH

  • @blackface703

    @blackface703

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Their" elders? "Our" history?

  • @RainRedMusic

    @RainRedMusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think the only dislikes should come from people who think some of the questions from the interviewer were cringe and disrespectful of someone suffering PTSD. I wish someone else was interviewing them so they could lead the conversation more and not be pigeonholed by the narrative of the interviewer. There were several veins of conversation I wish the interviewer had explored but instead she cut them off with her own list of questions from the network. I understand that’s just television but it sucks in cases like this where these survivors are already 100+ and hearing them unfiltered would be more important than anything, IMO.

  • @raysmith3545
    @raysmith35453 жыл бұрын

    My heart hurts hearing the stories from the survivors…God bless these two

  • @marthawebb6370

    @marthawebb6370

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes my heart ❤️ hurts to I'm glad that they are here to tell the story I'm sad 😢 they went through this God bless they in Jesus name amen 🙏

  • @dino11216
    @dino112163 жыл бұрын

    She is so wise and sharp for her age. 107? she seems more like 85. More on her life health plan please!

  • @nonenone9338

    @nonenone9338

    3 жыл бұрын

    More like 45 with that memory 😳

  • @justinafields4450

    @justinafields4450

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nonenone9338 TMH has kept her alive for this moment in time🙏

  • @zodsinclair8500

    @zodsinclair8500

    3 жыл бұрын

    Notice Early on She Mentioned the 'Sound of Planes' Confirming the 1st Bombing of human Beings with sticks of Dinomite banded together, timed & dropped, on all of their main buildings From an actually Luckily surviving still Eye Witness, Confirming the WATCHMEN's Series re-telling.

  • @terrywilliams792

    @terrywilliams792

    3 жыл бұрын

    Black don't crack. She is so wise. All of us need to go to Africa. The experience there is great.👍

  • @cy109106a

    @cy109106a

    3 жыл бұрын

    That’s the most high that’s kept and continue to keep Mother Fletcher

  • @dmariabeauty
    @dmariabeauty3 жыл бұрын

    They STILL suffer from PTSD‼️ This is so grievous and vexing. 😠😠😠

  • @musicartlover963

    @musicartlover963

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely....lawrd ham mercy Praise God 4 them

  • @anthonyhewitt819

    @anthonyhewitt819

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can you imagine the PTSD blood that runs through the veins of many of us descendants of enslaved Africans. It’s so sad but the universe will correct history and the oppress will reign triumphantly one day!

  • @joelperly4746

    @joelperly4746

    3 жыл бұрын

    She was certainly as beautiful as u are....87 years ago

  • @kilodelta5562
    @kilodelta55623 жыл бұрын

    THANK GOD THEY ARE STILL ABLE TO TELL THEIR OWN STORY!! AMEN 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @JamesAllmond

    @JamesAllmond

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank God they recorded a whole bunch of survivors, the Library of Congress has it, it is available. Want to get really mad? I mean really, really mad? Watch them.

  • @marthawebb6370

    @marthawebb6370

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree they don't teach this to us or our children black teacher was not allowed to And alot things that happened to our people was never mention 😢

  • @kilodelta5562

    @kilodelta5562

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@marthawebb6370 Sadly this is just one of many massacres of black people on American soil. It is up to US to tell our stories. No one else will do it. Rosewood did not get made until a black film maker, John Singleton, brought it to life.

  • @kilodelta5562

    @kilodelta5562

    3 жыл бұрын

    @carla beckford Lmao, we can say the same about those people, but we know absolutely they weren't there, so they can sit down and shut up. 😂

  • @cy109106a
    @cy109106a3 жыл бұрын

    I can’t imagine a 100 years of PTSD 😔 All praises do to the most high for keeping Mother Fletcher

  • @whatabouttheearth

    @whatabouttheearth

    3 жыл бұрын

    How was she 11? That would make her 111 years old right now.

  • @cy109106a

    @cy109106a

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@whatabouttheearth she said she was 7 not 11

  • @ms.win_

    @ms.win_

    3 жыл бұрын

    😔😢😢

  • @DJDRESKIfoshizzle
    @DJDRESKIfoshizzle3 жыл бұрын

    Someone should set up a gofundme account to raise money for her so she could enjoy that trip to Africa ......

  • @0207s_FINEST

    @0207s_FINEST

    3 жыл бұрын

    I want to cry🥲. She NEEDS to go bless her 💛

  • @vkitchenletseat4115

    @vkitchenletseat4115

    3 жыл бұрын

    That would be awesome!! Thanks!

  • @tishabinkley6522

    @tishabinkley6522

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@0207s_FINEST what do you mean She has to go

  • @tishabinkley6522

    @tishabinkley6522

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good idea, I'll send some

  • @sheilasandoval2343

    @sheilasandoval2343

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tishabinkley6522 Tjey meant she needs to god bless her. the d was missing off god, looking like to go bc no comma

  • @RealRickR
    @RealRickR3 жыл бұрын

    My dad, a black man, served in the US Navy during Vietnam. He told me about how he was mistreated by his white shipmates and how that still affects him to this day. I can't imagine what that must have been like for him and others like him who had to deal with that type of mistreatment and isolation. I'm so glad the Fletchers are able to tell about their experiences. Glad this story is getting more exposure. May the Lord bless them with many more years.

  • @cavsomecadence6117

    @cavsomecadence6117

    3 жыл бұрын

    2014... My unit 1st sergeant spoke with me about talking to my platoon as if I knew them. "They don't know you". 🤔

  • @terrorgaming459

    @terrorgaming459

    3 жыл бұрын

    Vietnam war vets are imperialists unless they got drafted

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    that would almost be believable if that navy brother who tried to hoax the US Navy with hate symbols to show his superiors was not a hoax, and yet, despite the act to acerbate racism, they didn't dismiss him.

  • @difidon

    @difidon

    3 жыл бұрын

    Black folks were fighting two wars.

  • @dyahawadah

    @dyahawadah

    3 жыл бұрын

    MY UNCLE WAS IN THE MARINES DURING VIETNAM. HE NEVER BREATHE A WORD ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE, THO WE ALL KNOW WHAT IT MUST HAD BEEN LIKE FOR THOSE WHO WERE BLACK.

  • @JQUE94
    @JQUE943 жыл бұрын

    The Govt bombed Panther headquarters constantly also, guess bombing is their oldest and most coveted war tactic

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    oh, another conspiracy theory. give me a break.

  • @klaiken989

    @klaiken989

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@philabustahblue5532 LOL, you think that's a conspiracy theory????? Research Bay of Pigs or MK Ultra... Or is it only conspiracy theories when it happens to Americans that are Black.

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@klaiken989 I did research bay of pigs. what you did to those poor pigs is just shameful.

  • @joshuaalexander6296

    @joshuaalexander6296

    3 жыл бұрын

    They bombed Philadelphia in 1985 in broad daylight. Burnt down a whole block of apartments and killed over 10 ppl and children

  • @brianfergus839

    @brianfergus839

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@joshuaalexander6296 the MOVE bombing. Sadly, I remember it well

  • @mrakennedy
    @mrakennedy3 жыл бұрын

    That must’ve been some top tier 4th grade education that Mother Fletcher was afforded because she’s pretty articulate to have had such a limited “formal” education. She’s far more educated than she’s giving herself credit. God bless their journeys!

  • @lisac6399

    @lisac6399

    3 жыл бұрын

    She could have been a teacher or professor instead of a domestic...think about it!

  • @mrakennedy

    @mrakennedy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lisac6399 I’m not sure if I understand what you’re attempting to communicate here.

  • @lisac6399

    @lisac6399

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mrakennedy Mother Flecter stated, that if she had been given ,the chance to attend college, she could have had a professional career versus being a maid... She stated this in another interview.... the opportunity was taken from her, she began working at the age of ten to help her family...

  • @TrevWILL79
    @TrevWILL793 жыл бұрын

    Even after a hundred years, she still feels like she has to run. 😭 That is mind blowing!! I’m in tears because we can’t even begin to think about the shift of having their own and living life to a day later having to move and start from scratch, but always living with the terror in your mind that anywhere you live, it could happen again.

  • @RoyalTea70

    @RoyalTea70

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly 😢

  • @lavernechambers3902
    @lavernechambers39023 жыл бұрын

    They should live the rest of their lives in luxury...

  • @captivating-culprit7484

    @captivating-culprit7484

    3 жыл бұрын

    We deserve our reparations. Jews got theirs meanwhile we’re still being killed. We /all/ should be living in luxury.

  • @mzee5533

    @mzee5533

    2 жыл бұрын

    I understand they’re in West Africa these days Nigeria Ghana 🇬🇭

  • @TheAMW
    @TheAMW3 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love listening to elders speak. They have really lived through a lot of changes in the world 100 years worth

  • @doll6_parts
    @doll6_parts3 жыл бұрын

    Heck yes they deserve compensation

  • @markwhite8332

    @markwhite8332

    3 жыл бұрын

    Blks shot dead 10 wht ppl thats what started it. Pay those wht ppl ancestors

  • @DB-to4lq

    @DB-to4lq

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@markwhite8332 BIG FAT white lies.....as always.

  • @markwhite8332

    @markwhite8332

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DB-to4lq lies, jussie smollet, tawana brawley, bubba wallace, air force academy, e michigan university

  • @DB-to4lq

    @DB-to4lq

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@markwhite8332 What a cornball. I guess you told me?..heh. Jussie and Tawana had nothing to do with the testimony. A few instances compared to generations of complete savagery isn't so bad, when looking at the WHOLE picture and telling the truth 100%. Bye white mark.

  • @deejay5102

    @deejay5102

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DB-to4lq PC are masters of projection and never want to accept accountability for their savage actions.... That is their legacy....

  • @deniseday1898
    @deniseday18983 жыл бұрын

    This is so sad and most Americans never knew about this! I take my hat off and I bow down to these heroic individuals! God Help Us! This is devastating!

  • @noreneal7252

    @noreneal7252

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep. There have been tons more of massacres though!!!

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@noreneal7252 Yes, yes, name them all.

  • @TunTheOfficial

    @TunTheOfficial

    3 жыл бұрын

    I knew this.. just no one talks about it.. it took a anniversary of the massacre for anyone to bring this to light again..

  • @UNbowed62

    @UNbowed62

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@philabustahblue5532 , It seems your brain is in denial, as are the brains of any Racist. You could peruse below for just a few of Racist massacres. Better yet, pick any U.S. State or Territory’s & Google it’s List of RACIST MASSACRES, Lazy Tiny man. www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/porvenir-texas-details-massacre-mexican-americans-u-s-soldiers-rangers-n1059146 www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-history-anti-asian-racism-discrimination-us-20210524-xdrwpkkp45hiriwfh5tvklnj44-photogallery.html news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/a-long-history-of-bigotry-against-asian-americans/

  • @bernicecopeland3834

    @bernicecopeland3834

    3 жыл бұрын

    And the reps in the city there and other places think oh let's leave this out of the history books still. And will not realize how first the Indians all taken. Black have done so many great things. But what is more sad is the black people today my own kids and grandkid not knowing not caring doing nothing nothing sad so very say. Why cause black women are tired so very tired but we go on. All the voting keeping Black's from voting I was raised in Ga. Moved away and it makes my heart heavy to know more of what is going on in a state she has lived in longer than my years there.

  • @Charles-rx6zz
    @Charles-rx6zz3 жыл бұрын

    Its disgusting how these united states still won't give us our reparations!!!!

  • @TunTheOfficial

    @TunTheOfficial

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep. They did everything for the asians but not black people

  • @clarenceedwards2866

    @clarenceedwards2866

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is due to pure hatred, but ask them why they hate us; they cannot give you a sensible enough reason. And many of our people make the mistake of loving them back which is absolute stupidity.

  • @raheimspells2606

    @raheimspells2606

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look up mississippi devils punch bowl.

  • @nicolelovett8467

    @nicolelovett8467

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TunTheOfficial honestly the money given to Japanese people after internment was t enough either, if that's what ur referring to.

  • @Jennifer12342

    @Jennifer12342

    3 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @beverlygilbert9553
    @beverlygilbert95533 жыл бұрын

    She is just remarkable and to still remember the tragedy that happened to her and all the blacks living there is nobody but God’s Grace. My heart goes out to her and the black people who lost their lives, homes and businesses. And you know they worked like slaves to achieve their wealth. This makes me so angry 😠 and I pray they get everything that was taken away from them. And shame on all the white descendants who knew about this horrible massacre and kept silent😠😒

  • @emmacollins6956
    @emmacollins69563 жыл бұрын

    When asked if she thought it could happen again, Mother Fletcher said sure. It probably have already happened more than just one time in the past 100 years. There are horror stories that people are holding in silence. But God knows...

  • @deejay5102

    @deejay5102

    3 жыл бұрын

    She is right

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the horror stories occur on both sides for those of us not born in a vacuum.

  • @charleswatts3810

    @charleswatts3810

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@philabustahblue5532 Horror stories on both sides?

  • @Imissyoulou

    @Imissyoulou

    3 жыл бұрын

    Have we forgotten Redwood, Florida, The Red Summer-1919, Wilmington, SC? Of course, it has happened more than one time.

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Imissyoulou that was a Jewish mob then, not white.

  • @nellskay2432
    @nellskay24323 жыл бұрын

    The people that were terrorized by thugs in Tulsa should be paid reparations. REPARATIONS NOW

  • @davey11ify

    @davey11ify

    3 жыл бұрын

    How are the thugs going to pay reparations, they have been dead for years.

  • @dzy3030

    @dzy3030

    10 ай бұрын

    @@davey11ifyanother excuse they should be paid because that was their land and should get compensation for it being taken from them

  • @russells.soehnerii8308
    @russells.soehnerii83083 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Van Ellis said, “I put my life on the line for my country”. As a Marine that really got me. He served despite the brutal injustice he endured. Both of them should be immediately and richly compensated while they are still able to enjoy themselves. THIS is the public service announcement for reparations in many different forms. Let’s get to it NOW.

  • @youngervision9057
    @youngervision90573 жыл бұрын

    And Karen has the audacity to lock her door when she see ME.

  • @sigmasiren777

    @sigmasiren777

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because she’s afraid you’ll seek revenge.

  • @camilia198773

    @camilia198773

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes thats the guilt that was passed down to her that runs through her veins... they dont know when the sins of thier ancestors will come down on them... it's only matter of time... we will be here to see it too.

  • @maceylee1719

    @maceylee1719

    3 жыл бұрын

    That Part!!

  • @lisac6399

    @lisac6399

    3 жыл бұрын

    Give up on expecting most Whites to be empathetic or kind..When, I encounter good Whites, I see it as a miracle....in other words always be ready for some Sh.t to go down...don't expect the best...

  • @Deklectic

    @Deklectic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lisac6399 I agree like some people really act so surprised and shocked when they encounter one acting a fool and its like why are you so shocked when history shows us they are literally the most invasive species on this planet.. And its not an opinion they literally are ALL over the world unfortunately.. We speak english all over the world for a reason that alone is an indication of the invasiveness of them as a collective.. Smfh..

  • @Angela-cd9bj
    @Angela-cd9bj3 жыл бұрын

    What happened in Tulsa historians appear to not want people to know what truly happened in USA. God help us all. 👑🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👑

  • @raphaeljames1810

    @raphaeljames1810

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen...may the peace of the lord be with us In Jesus name

  • @raphaeljames1810

    @raphaeljames1810

    3 жыл бұрын

    How are you doing today?

  • @dbh3139

    @dbh3139

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your god did bless them with death. Not like your god can stop anything. Idiots.

  • @lovegrace3719

    @lovegrace3719

    3 жыл бұрын

    God is faithful! As the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah and Jesus Christ our Savior (the only True Savior and Lord) were passed down through people whom God kept alive to tell others, so the blessed Lord kept those dear people alive to be witnesses. Just as I was in Hurricane Katrina and saw the hand of God in mighty ways, God always preserve witnesses for His glory. In the mighty Name of Jesus Christ. All glory be to God forever 🙌🙃📖🙂🙏🏾❤🤗 Praise Christ Jesus forever🙌🙃📖🙂🙏🏾❤🤗 Hallelujah Holy Spirit forever 🙌🙃📖🙂🙏🏾❤🤗Amen.

  • @dbh3139

    @dbh3139

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lovegrace3719 so dumb.

  • @Goldhammer2023
    @Goldhammer20233 жыл бұрын

    The most high Yah kept her alive even after the vshot praise to the most high YAH!!!!

  • @clarenceedwards2866

    @clarenceedwards2866

    3 жыл бұрын

    All Praises, Glory and Honor to the MOST HIGH YAH.

  • @steveo88gb

    @steveo88gb

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes indeed shalom

  • @miawarren8735
    @miawarren87353 жыл бұрын

    The same thing happened to my family in Louisiana. My family was run off of their property and was told never to return or be killed by white men with guns. My family never returned . Those people took my family’s land and home for themselves.

  • @musicartlover963

    @musicartlover963

    3 жыл бұрын

    So sorry 2 hear that.....so unfair

  • @refineholiesticfinest3280

    @refineholiesticfinest3280

    3 жыл бұрын

    Get a good lawyer and persue it in court and let the state compensate because they fail to protect your family

  • @robinmagee1638

    @robinmagee1638

    2 жыл бұрын

    So sad

  • @iamdeborahltillman
    @iamdeborahltillman3 жыл бұрын

    Mother Fletcher, I would love to take you to Africa. What a beautiful spirit they are to have gone through so much.

  • @flyyceethemilitant2946

    @flyyceethemilitant2946

    3 жыл бұрын

    I want to go to Africa too. I never been family.

  • @dyahawadah

    @dyahawadah

    3 жыл бұрын

    IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT PLEASE DO IT FOR HER.

  • @darthsidious47
    @darthsidious473 жыл бұрын

    I've never heard of this unfortunate event in any of my history classes. Something is wrong with history classes and what is being taught

  • @deejay5102

    @deejay5102

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tulsa wasn't the only Black town that white Americans destroyed....

  • @UNbowed62

    @UNbowed62

    3 жыл бұрын

    This particular god-awful massacre wasn’t wide-spread knowledge bc the Survivors feared the safety of their people. In 1997 the remaining Survivors began telling inquisitive outsiders what happened. When I was growing up in thd 50s & 60s, my father in SC read to us articles (limited) from the Afro News Paper about MLK visiting Tulsa. I remember it said there was a “Race Riot” there yrs ago & asked my dad the meaning. Just pick any U.S. State (or Territory) & Google it’s list of Racist Massacres. As you know~It first started with Native Americans, African Americans, Asians, Mexicans, etc. Historically, the USA has blood all over its Racist hands. And many atrocities were done in the name of their “christian” faith. Yup, the Invading Bible-toting Europeans & Slave masters cast their INHUMANITY, thinking it was “God’s word”, as they’re so doing it today.

  • @duchessdoolittle366

    @duchessdoolittle366

    3 жыл бұрын

    That’s because they try their hardest to erase black history

  • @duchessdoolittle366

    @duchessdoolittle366

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@deejay5102 exactly

  • @tarafrazer8133

    @tarafrazer8133

    3 жыл бұрын

    Black people are so resilient people. This is not the only City where this type of travesty happened. I’m 46 an I found this out when I was 30. Still finding out something new almost every week. My mother side are Gullah Geechee and my father side are native to Florida.

  • @robinbates9945
    @robinbates99453 жыл бұрын

    This is gut-wrenching. Award them their recompense while they're still alive to enjoy their long - awaited due.

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    Be a good girl, believe it without doing your own research.

  • @charleswatts3810

    @charleswatts3810

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@philabustahblue5532 What is there not to believe?

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    The MSM silences every which way they can. They hate the truth. In courts, both sides present their case. Communist MSM only wants their side. They hate the truth. Whites were killed first, blacks all ganged up for a fight based on false evidence given by one of their own newspapers. An unarmed protestor was shot dead by a black man. MSM manage to tell this? Why do they leave stuff like that out? You know they do it a lot, right?

  • @sherrisolomon2843

    @sherrisolomon2843

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@philabustahblue5532What was the lie?

  • @wildonstokes3062

    @wildonstokes3062

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@philabustahblue5532 where’s your evidence? You’re under a lot of comments with no evidence

  • @toddcoleman4077
    @toddcoleman40773 жыл бұрын

    Goals of being able to communicate that effectively at 100+ years old. Hearing that recollection was necessary.

  • @JQUE94
    @JQUE943 жыл бұрын

    Respect to all the Veterans, but I just couldn't pledge my life and loyalty to a country that lied and took the life and knowledge of self from my people just for their own gain. Doesn't make sense at all

  • @southern4835

    @southern4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    That doesn't make sense at all.

  • @ogskullomania3119

    @ogskullomania3119

    3 жыл бұрын

    I regret taking that oath everyday

  • @Amber-db9cz

    @Amber-db9cz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ogskullomania3119 if you don’t mind me asking, why did you join in the first place?

  • @kilodelta5562

    @kilodelta5562

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is the government, I feel as this country was built off the blood of our ancestors and it belongs to us. The payment in money would be too great! This land belongs to us as payment.

  • @ms.ebbiel.3550

    @ms.ebbiel.3550

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ginimuse … Yes. My grandfather always told us stories about his time in the army and how one of his friend’s was lynched in his uniform after fighting in WW2, when he came back home. He told us about how Black folks were denied home loans and business grants. He would’ve been 101 this year. RIP Poppie 😭🙏🏾

  • @Villagenanny
    @Villagenanny3 жыл бұрын

    Ha! She made me smile with her cute little facial expression when she said "...a nice big trip like going to Africa!?" Oh somebody please send her to Africa!!!!

  • @aquarius4life

    @aquarius4life

    3 жыл бұрын

    Go fund me 🐱

  • @jasonhenderson863
    @jasonhenderson8633 жыл бұрын

    These people deserve checks now. REPARATIONS!!!!!!

  • @atarabat-yah2437

    @atarabat-yah2437

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Jackie Sisk Deut 32:35 Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their disaster is at hand, And their doom hurries to meet them.’

  • @55sharonda

    @55sharonda

    3 жыл бұрын

    REPERATION NOW 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

  • @55sharonda

    @55sharonda

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @lisac6399

    @lisac6399

    3 жыл бұрын

    Reparations for the survivors and all descendants of those whose lives had been destroyed..

  • @macewbee
    @macewbee3 жыл бұрын

    Pay these family asap in cash 💸also teach this in school especially for black history month.

  • @raheimspells2606

    @raheimspells2606

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look up mississippi devils punch bowl

  • @MrFrancggetsbux
    @MrFrancggetsbux3 жыл бұрын

    On 05/29/2021 there were 100's Black militia members were armed marching w/ Black women, men, and children through Greenwood. There were sniper teams spotted in tall half built buildings by militia members and a couple tense scenes with police. Then they FINALLY honored the previously submitted petition to an open carry march. The ancestral vibrations were intoxicating 🤜🏽🤛🏽💯🪲🌕⚫

  • @herbsaint636
    @herbsaint6363 жыл бұрын

    This woman was born to tell this story!

  • @crystalclearaswater7198
    @crystalclearaswater71983 жыл бұрын

    His-story that is swept under the rug to cover their SHAME!

  • @laurentozzi3644
    @laurentozzi36443 жыл бұрын

    WE NEED A MEMORIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER FORGET! REPARATIONS!!!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @clarenceedwards2866

    @clarenceedwards2866

    3 жыл бұрын

    To think that the US government can pay reparations to the Japanese, the Jews, to everyone else, but cannot pay reparations to the people they robbed and slaughtered for centuries and then on the back of it criticize other countries for human rights violations, whose track records when compared with theirs, pale by comparison; is nothing but hypocrisy on steroids.

  • @UNbowed62

    @UNbowed62

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clarenceedwards2866 Well said, Brother. You speak the Absolute Truth!🙏🏽

  • @southern4835

    @southern4835

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clarenceedwards2866 really when did that ever happen.

  • @jdm6613

    @jdm6613

    3 жыл бұрын

    There will be no mass reparations extended. I believe it will come from the LORD.

  • @MaLiArtworks186

    @MaLiArtworks186

    3 жыл бұрын

    #CutTheCheck!

  • @1bunnsinger
    @1bunnsinger3 жыл бұрын

    May God bless them. We are fortunate to be able hear this history from the survivors. I pray that God delivers us all from racism and hatred.

  • @rhenaedavis1956

    @rhenaedavis1956

    3 жыл бұрын

    Only when God return's then the trouble's of this world will end...

  • @scoobydooo5364
    @scoobydooo53643 жыл бұрын

    The most beautiful older woman in the world. Nobody should have to go through what she been through

  • @deloresthompson8845
    @deloresthompson88453 жыл бұрын

    I first heard of the massacre when watching Tony Brown's Journal in the '80s. Mother Fletcher was on that show.

  • @MaLiArtworks186

    @MaLiArtworks186

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tony Brown told the truth. He has a book "Black Lies. White Lies"

  • @yvettecabey5071

    @yvettecabey5071

    3 жыл бұрын

    I loved watching Tony Brown’s journal 🙌

  • @MaLiArtworks186

    @MaLiArtworks186

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yvettecabey5071 Me too! I learned from his show.

  • @texasrider8530

    @texasrider8530

    3 жыл бұрын

    @ Dolores Thompson Mrs. Fletcher was on Tony Brown's journal in the 1980s and she and other survivors and their descendants still haven't gotten paid. That is outrageous! Black America we can look to the Tulsa massacre to as an clear indicator as to what this government is going to do for black America. It looks like they are going to knuckle drag for as long as possible. When it comes down to it the government itself is behind all of the racial violence a.k.a. white violence. Well it is said that the government is the people and the people as the government they're talking about white people. It is like hand and glove. The government has been complicit in everything. Like I said they will knuckle drag until the end of time. The longer they take the pay reparations the longer it's going to be so they will always use time as an excuse. They are deliberately stalling. Oh, it was so long ago… But ultimately we're not talking about just slavery. If you add up all of these documented cases of white violence against the so-called black Americans on top of slavery, they owe us beyond imagination and white america knows it. They probably tell bedtimes tales of this to their children.

  • @annoshakb
    @annoshakb3 жыл бұрын

    I have to first say that Mother Fletcher's voice is so soothing and enriching. And I am so grateful for the elders, the wisdom keepers of our history. On another note, I am sad about this reality: that the undertone of life as an African-American is one of post traumatic stress and fear. Passed down generations, and still, we live in hope

  • @Starboy-mp2ci
    @Starboy-mp2ci3 жыл бұрын

    The man have interesting stories. I could listen to him all night long talk about his experience in the military.

  • @bubblybubbles4023

    @bubblybubbles4023

    3 жыл бұрын

    I could too, but I think it's sad that he believes Biden is going to help black ppl.

  • @MM-nn4vz

    @MM-nn4vz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bubblybubbles4023 I so agree with you Biden is so racists it’s so people don’t want to believe that And people voted for him so now watch out what for going may god have mercy on us

  • @joharisheared6405
    @joharisheared64053 жыл бұрын

    Mother Fletcher looks great for her age. Even the gentleman beside her looks good for his age.

  • @triplea2443

    @triplea2443

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thats her brother

  • @katyarnold6757
    @katyarnold67573 жыл бұрын

    God bless Mrs. Fletcher and Mr. Hughes Van Ellis. God has blessed them. May God continue to keep them.

  • @sherrancehenderson5915
    @sherrancehenderson59153 жыл бұрын

    God kept these people alive to tell this horrible evil action of the white mob! These senior citizens are intelligent, alert and resilient. It was such an honor to be alive to see them speak and hear their story.

  • @peedubs1623
    @peedubs16233 жыл бұрын

    I love that question about “how did it effect your life?”; To me it she’s describing the effect that racism/white supremacy had on not only all non whites in Tulsa, America, but also the world.😔

  • @terrywilliams792

    @terrywilliams792

    3 жыл бұрын

    Show them the MONEY 💰🤑

  • @jaycensangel.304

    @jaycensangel.304

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@terrywilliams792 lol

  • @philabustahblue5532

    @philabustahblue5532

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because they believe NBC?

  • @atarabat-yah2437

    @atarabat-yah2437

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Jackie Sisk Deut 32:35 Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their disaster is at hand, And their doom hurries to meet them.’

  • @kendrabrownpersistence2178
    @kendrabrownpersistence21783 жыл бұрын

    Awesome interview! She was respectful and patient, as if they were her own grandparents. They and the families that were effected should be compensated. USA has a history and a present of deep rooted racist ideals, behaviors ,and systems put in place to oppress black people. It's not going anywhere because you have people fighting to keep it alive. They should be made WHOLE, whatever that looks like.

  • @carolgreenfield5251
    @carolgreenfield52513 жыл бұрын

    Just sooo so😔 My utmost RESPECT to this beautiful lady and gentleman🙏🏾 May God lead the charge to make it right!❤ OMG people!!

  • @luntershaptopfukinov6413
    @luntershaptopfukinov64133 жыл бұрын

    He served in the military! 👍This is a TRUE civil rights leader who made REAL change.

  • @viviancrayton8441
    @viviancrayton84413 жыл бұрын

    Mother fletcher looks good for her age. Smooth skin. Well preserved by God. Pops looks good also. What a blessing

  • @Angela-cd9bj
    @Angela-cd9bj3 жыл бұрын

    The historians that publish text books for K - 12 and universities appear not to mention or detail what happened in Tulsa. Thankfully there a few survivors remaining today to share the experience and it sounds very traumatic, sad, horrible. God bless Us.

  • @braelynnblue

    @braelynnblue

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have never taught to a textbook. I have been teaching for 18 years. The information is out there, some teachers are just too lazy to find it. I put my own spend on the curriculum. I have taught this to my fifth graders and tied it to economics as well as race.

  • @richardpeterson4955

    @richardpeterson4955

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you just finding out they lie about our history ? This isn't some shocker , it"s amazing to me that people are shocked schools and textbooks are full nothing but bs !

  • @richardpeterson4955

    @richardpeterson4955

    3 жыл бұрын

    These questions are ridiculously silly ! She's telling you about people being murdered in the streets like animals , people dragging you out of their homes and she's asking if you grabbed your dolls !!

  • @richardpeterson4955

    @richardpeterson4955

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@braelynnblue Keep shining and giving children our horrifying yet true history !

  • @JQUE94

    @JQUE94

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well of course the person writing the books qont tell their true history of genocide, destruction, murder and deceit. Classes would be in a uproar if the truth was told.

  • @adventpotatoes1118
    @adventpotatoes11183 жыл бұрын

    Wow our people are owed so much for what has been suffered and for what we have contributed to this nation (and world). Listening to these elders speak was both sobering and inspiring. The interviewer was AMAZING!

  • @jeannetteanthony8344
    @jeannetteanthony83443 жыл бұрын

    While listening to the flechters true life experince and the pain and suffering they have endured my god it is a blessing upon them they still have each other and they both still have there right mind to educate those of us who never heard about it.

  • @e-w-n-s7647
    @e-w-n-s76473 жыл бұрын

    It is sad to know that nothing has changed. This a GREAT LESSON to know that you are never to depend on, or wait on anyone to provide CHANGE to you.

  • @raphaeljames1810

    @raphaeljames1810

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah you're all what we need is change and all of us need someone to change

  • @raphaeljames1810

    @raphaeljames1810

    3 жыл бұрын

    How are you doing today?

  • @deejay5102

    @deejay5102

    3 жыл бұрын

    Total B.s... no one would dare say that to the few Holocaust survivors still alive getting paid off of their trauma....smh.... People only feel this way when the victims are Black....smh....

  • @jdm6613

    @jdm6613

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@deejay5102 it's punishment from the LORD.

  • @Capn_Jack

    @Capn_Jack

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nothing has changed? Yeah I think a lot has changed since the 20s 🤔

  • @cme4hueiam685
    @cme4hueiam6853 жыл бұрын

    This conversation tells us a lot about the pulse of this land! My prayer would be that they see justice before they go home to glory and they can go all out to do whatever they desire for the rest of their days!! Two Sweet Sweet Spirits! If any of their children are watching I would love to be a blessing to them.

  • @torlantriplett2662
    @torlantriplett26623 жыл бұрын

    The reporter did a fantastic job, thank you for being so respectful to those lovely elders.

  • @renees2jewels631
    @renees2jewels6313 жыл бұрын

    What do the powers that be think Justice should be for these victims/survivors and their descendants. Americans very well know the injustice no more rhetorical questions. Just do these people right in all areas REPLACE RESTORE REPARATIONS.

  • @sylviastanback4067
    @sylviastanback40673 жыл бұрын

    How alert and intelligent this Sistar is for her age! She is awesome in her clear way of answering questions.

  • @shondellbutler5055
    @shondellbutler50553 жыл бұрын

    GOD BLESS HER AND HIM! All those who went through that.

  • @antia88ful
    @antia88ful3 жыл бұрын

    It’s side that 100 years later this is being considered, not many are still living to receive compensation

  • @ras4782

    @ras4782

    3 жыл бұрын

    All of us neer it because thats the type of destruction that changed the outcome of alot of us today

  • @gloriariggs8338

    @gloriariggs8338

    3 жыл бұрын

    But their descendants can receive compensation. This tragedy put their children and grandchildren into poverty!

  • @Yahlollol
    @Yahlollol3 жыл бұрын

    SMH that’s messed up that they went through that but I’m glad they survived

  • @Yahlollol

    @Yahlollol

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Zack Walton ASAP

  • @Yahlollol

    @Yahlollol

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Zack Walton immediately!!!

  • @mgmassey174

    @mgmassey174

    3 жыл бұрын

    @CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH Aho Miyutake Oyasin Osiyo your Tsalagi cousin respects your words.wado Prayers

  • @chinnjk

    @chinnjk

    3 жыл бұрын

    @CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH Native American people who are a certain percentage get funds. Depending on the tribe, some get way more money than others. Plus they are not taxed.

  • @Yahlollol

    @Yahlollol

    3 жыл бұрын

    @CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH smh stop piggy bagging off black ppl

  • @charmaineyates9674
    @charmaineyates96743 жыл бұрын

    So eloquent and elegant.

  • @vw9079
    @vw90793 жыл бұрын

    The reporter keeps asking the same redundant questions. 🙄

  • @Nyatsimba_Mutota
    @Nyatsimba_Mutota3 жыл бұрын

    Mama Fletcher, she's still so beautiful. She's a sweet soul

  • @Artist835
    @Artist8353 жыл бұрын

    Bless their hearts. I’m sorry that it happened to them. I can’t image the terror.

  • @glendoc8927
    @glendoc89273 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Speech !!!! 💛💛💛💛

  • @chilvari
    @chilvari3 жыл бұрын

    100 years ago today 😢

  • @marieperez3796
    @marieperez37963 жыл бұрын

    Such a crime and disrespect to the gentleman that serve in the army to be treated so horrifically . America should be a shame, reparations for these folks and grand and great grand children. Heart breaking. 😢.

  • @raheimspells2606

    @raheimspells2606

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look up mississippi devils punch bowl

  • @gabriellemccullough-hanks9644

    @gabriellemccullough-hanks9644

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yesss!!! The Devils Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi.

  • @AnyahEMB
    @AnyahEMB3 жыл бұрын

    Compensation is long overdue.

  • @ED-ie3et
    @ED-ie3et3 жыл бұрын

    The revenue from the ads better go to Mother Fletcher and Mr. E.

  • @grovergirl26
    @grovergirl263 жыл бұрын

    God kept her here to tell the history of this awful day. God bless her for sharing her experiences.

  • @joy2theworld488
    @joy2theworld4883 жыл бұрын

    God Bless this brother & sister they are just adorable!!🙏❤💙

  • @AmaliaWebberStudio
    @AmaliaWebberStudio3 жыл бұрын

    What’s scary is just like there still living I’m sure some of the people who committed these crimes are still living as well

  • @gloriariggs8338

    @gloriariggs8338

    3 жыл бұрын

    I bet the children and grandchildren of those who committed these crimes don't know their grandparents killed Black people.

  • @maxinestewart1922
    @maxinestewart19223 жыл бұрын

    God Bless Mothrr Fletcher and Brother... America...based on so much wickedness

  • @maxinestewart1922

    @maxinestewart1922

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mother

  • @marieperez3796
    @marieperez37963 жыл бұрын

    Yes I did not know about it . Great interview. Beautiful family.

  • @raheimspells2606

    @raheimspells2606

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look up mississippi devils punch bowl.

  • @MaLiArtworks186
    @MaLiArtworks1863 жыл бұрын

    These are my people! We are resilient and strong. Thank you sister, for interviewing them!.

  • @legacydriven1490
    @legacydriven14903 жыл бұрын

    God kept them for this moment!

  • @Twinytwin22

    @Twinytwin22

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is Ssooo True

  • @lt3074
    @lt30743 жыл бұрын

    as a african-american it's amazing how we survived as a people from the past trauma and present trauma that we continue deal with.

  • @jerryrainey6792
    @jerryrainey67923 жыл бұрын

    GOD bless you both

  • @theresewheeler1498
    @theresewheeler14983 жыл бұрын

    Wow so Sad and brutal what these mobs have done

  • @duchessdoolittle366

    @duchessdoolittle366

    3 жыл бұрын

    That was the norm in those days

  • @living4christistheonlyway403
    @living4christistheonlyway4033 жыл бұрын

    God has really kept them. Its an amazing to see. Thank God . Im praying for you all.🙏🏽🙏❤🙌🏾

  • @gabriellemccullough-hanks9644
    @gabriellemccullough-hanks96443 жыл бұрын

    “Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze” Billie Holiday-

  • @gerdaremy1088
    @gerdaremy10883 жыл бұрын

    My heart aches listening to their stories. On top of everything, he served in the military. He was treated like” dirt”. Thank GOD he’s still alive and able to talk about it. What happened in Tulsa Oklahoma wasn’t taught in U.S. history. If it was taught, I missed it.100 years later, BLACK people are murdered, brutalized, even lynched in the U.S.

  • @shirleyanthony9581

    @shirleyanthony9581

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know right wasn’t taught in school

  • @makeracistsafraidagain
    @makeracistsafraidagain3 жыл бұрын

    Thank goodness for these voices.

  • @teresabrown8400
    @teresabrown84003 жыл бұрын

    Jesus thank you for keeping them safe in your arms. This is living proof why some of us think & move like we do. My grandma & grandpa was from Tulsa Oklahoma she would say girl everybody laughing ain’t tickle worth a dam!!!!

  • @itachi-kun7736
    @itachi-kun77363 жыл бұрын

    Im glad im hearing some survivors that are still alive 100 years ago!

  • @jasonhenderson863
    @jasonhenderson8633 жыл бұрын

    Reparations now!!!

  • @sandyl.143
    @sandyl.1433 жыл бұрын

    This man reminds me of my late Father ❤️🙏🏽❤️

  • @navyseal22850
    @navyseal228503 жыл бұрын

    If you hit the thumbs down, you’re the problem.

  • @marwilliamson6996

    @marwilliamson6996

    3 жыл бұрын

    Correct they hid it from Us but it has come to light

  • @lynnw2041

    @lynnw2041

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen

  • @gerdaremy1088
    @gerdaremy10883 жыл бұрын

    The Entire town was wiped out. What’s taking them so long to settle.

  • @nonayobiz8511
    @nonayobiz85113 жыл бұрын

    Wise lady

  • @johnettaabdullah8426
    @johnettaabdullah84263 жыл бұрын

    Yes all people have to do is stand up against

  • @glendoc8927
    @glendoc89273 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Speech !!! 💛💛💛

  • @summerwinters228
    @summerwinters2283 жыл бұрын

    You mean after all these years there’s a survivor? And we didn’t know?

  • @aksm9631

    @aksm9631

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes Three of them

  • @maniacmannie
    @maniacmannie2 жыл бұрын

    that's my step great grandmother. its more than an honor

  • @teflondonna139
    @teflondonna1393 жыл бұрын

    This was a challenging interview and the interviewer did an excellent job with clarity of questions, pace, listening, acknowledgment, tone and respect. Every profession can take a page from this woman’s book. 👏🏾👏🏾

  • @glendoc8927
    @glendoc89273 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Speech !!!! 💛💛💛💛💛

  • @mede6195
    @mede61953 жыл бұрын

    And they only got a medal. Ugh

  • @prettycoyote

    @prettycoyote

    3 жыл бұрын

    what do you expect them to get?

  • @dianadowie3985

    @dianadowie3985

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@prettycoyote ,we want the Tulsa Massacre Survivors to receive the money (30 million dollars)the Tulsa Oklahoma officials made on their pain and suffering without their permission to do so.

  • @atarabat-yah2437

    @atarabat-yah2437

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@prettycoyote Deut 32:35 Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their disaster is at hand, And their doom hurries to meet them.’

  • @glendoc8927
    @glendoc89273 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Speech !!!! 💛💛💛

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