If you think laws/policies that block progress towards shrinking THE WEALTH GAP achievements made by US isn't purposeful, pervasive and punitive, think again. Challenges to THE FEARLESS FUND, TULSA, and EVANSTON are discussed in this podcast. https://youtu.be/fPAncju3VWM?si=FvMUNM3D9QIk4Vny

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In 15 days (June 30/July 1) a petition to re-hear this case will be filed with Oklahoma Supreme Ct. Listen as Rev. Al Sharpton discusses with Damario Solomon Simmons https://www.justiceforgreenwood.org/team/damario-solomon-simmons/ https://youtu.be/rjEb6wtJ-Sc?si=9ER0PqesIXClNRDD

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed the lawsuit of the last two living survivors of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. 😡 When I reached out to the legal team representing plaintiffs for Justice for Greenwood and the lawsuit for reparations for the victims and survivors of the Tulsa Massacre, I was so grateful to Damario Solomon-Simmons for agreeing to allow my father @Stephen Williams (grandson of BWS Co-founder A.J. Smitherman) to be added to the case as a plaintiff. It was a blow when they dropped anyone as a plaintiff who was not a living survivor including my Daddy. This was just one of many injustices our family has faced since the Massacre. As you will hear me describe in the attached video, we have fought for reparations for decades on behalf of our family of survivors WHILE THEY WERE STILL ALIVE...just to be denied any rights or recompense. Today was a blow yet once again. But still, we rise!! It’s absolutely heartbreaking that even in 2024 the more things change the more they stay the same. This is the email I received today from the legal team: Statement from the Legal Team for the Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: OKLAHOMA, TULSA— Our clients, Viola “Mother” Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield “Mother” Randle, will file a petition for rehearing with the Oklahoma Supreme Court asking the Court to reconsider its decision. The destruction of forty-square blocks of property on the night of May 31, 1921 through murder and arson clearly meets the definition of a public nuisance under Oklahoma law. Faithful application of the law compels the conclusion that Mother Randle and Mother Fletcher have stated a claim for relief. They are entitled to a trial. Yet the Court held that Mother Randle and Mother Fletcher have asked the Court to decide a “political” question that is beyond the purview of the Court. Incredibly, during the extensive oral argument the Supreme Court held on the appeal, not a single member of the nine-member Court asked a question about this political question theory. It is not a political question simply because the suit seeks to remedy wrongful acts perpetrated by a white mob against Black people – the court system is the very place where such harms are meant to be remedied.