Viola Fletcher And Hughes Van Ellis Reflect On Surviving Tulsa Race Massacre
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2021
- 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
107 years old and sounds so vibrant.God sent this lady to get justice.
Yes he did amen
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 !
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.
Amen 🙏 🙏
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.
@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 .. .
Amen
Why would people dislike this? Respect your elders and listen to their stories. Their history, is our history.
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.
I agree those dislikes are disrespectful
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
"Their" elders? "Our" history?
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.
Someone should set up a gofundme account to raise money for her so she could enjoy that trip to Africa ......
I want to cry🥲. She NEEDS to go bless her 💛
That would be awesome!! Thanks!
@@0207s_FINEST what do you mean
She has to go
Good idea, I'll send some
@@tishabinkley6522 Tjey meant she needs to god bless her. the d was missing off god, looking like to go bc no comma
She is so wise and sharp for her age. 107? she seems more like 85. More on her life health plan please!
More like 45 with that memory 😳
@@nonenone9338 TMH has kept her alive for this moment in time🙏
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.
Black don't crack. She is so wise. All of us need to go to Africa. The experience there is great.👍
That’s the most high that’s kept and continue to keep Mother Fletcher
I can’t imagine a 100 years of PTSD 😔 All praises do to the most high for keeping Mother Fletcher
How was she 11? That would make her 111 years old right now.
@@whatabouttheearth she said she was 7 not 11
😔😢😢
THANK GOD THEY ARE STILL ABLE TO TELL THEIR OWN STORY!! AMEN 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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.
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 😢
@@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.
@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. 😂
My heart hurts hearing the stories from the survivors…God bless these two
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 🙏
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.
2014... My unit 1st sergeant spoke with me about talking to my platoon as if I knew them. "They don't know you". 🤔
Vietnam war vets are imperialists unless they got drafted
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.
Black folks were fighting two wars.
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.
Heck yes they deserve compensation
Blks shot dead 10 wht ppl thats what started it. Pay those wht ppl ancestors
@@markwhite8332 BIG FAT white lies.....as always.
@@DB-to4lq lies, jussie smollet, tawana brawley, bubba wallace, air force academy, e michigan university
@@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.
@@DB-to4lq PC are masters of projection and never want to accept accountability for their savage actions.... That is their legacy....
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.
Exactly 😢
They STILL suffer from PTSD‼️ This is so grievous and vexing. 😠😠😠
Absolutely....lawrd ham mercy Praise God 4 them
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!
She was certainly as beautiful as u are....87 years ago
I absolutely love listening to elders speak. They have really lived through a lot of changes in the world 100 years worth
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!
She could have been a teacher or professor instead of a domestic...think about it!
@@lisac6399 I’m not sure if I understand what you’re attempting to communicate here.
@@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...
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!
Yep. There have been tons more of massacres though!!!
@@noreneal7252 Yes, yes, name them all.
I knew this.. just no one talks about it.. it took a anniversary of the massacre for anyone to bring this to light again..
@@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/
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.
They should live the rest of their lives in luxury...
We deserve our reparations.
Jews got theirs meanwhile we’re still being killed.
We /all/ should be living in luxury.
I understand they’re in West Africa these days Nigeria Ghana 🇬🇭
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.
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...
She is right
Maybe the horror stories occur on both sides for those of us not born in a vacuum.
@@philabustahblue5532 Horror stories on both sides?
Have we forgotten Redwood, Florida, The Red Summer-1919, Wilmington, SC? Of course, it has happened more than one time.
@@Imissyoulou that was a Jewish mob then, not white.
The Govt bombed Panther headquarters constantly also, guess bombing is their oldest and most coveted war tactic
oh, another conspiracy theory. give me a break.
@@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.
@@klaiken989 I did research bay of pigs. what you did to those poor pigs is just shameful.
They bombed Philadelphia in 1985 in broad daylight. Burnt down a whole block of apartments and killed over 10 ppl and children
@@joshuaalexander6296 the MOVE bombing. Sadly, I remember it well
And Karen has the audacity to lock her door when she see ME.
Because she’s afraid you’ll seek revenge.
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.
That Part!!
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...
@@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..
Mother Fletcher, I would love to take you to Africa. What a beautiful spirit they are to have gone through so much.
I want to go to Africa too. I never been family.
IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT PLEASE DO IT FOR HER.
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😠😒
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
Tulsa wasn't the only Black town that white Americans destroyed....
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.
That’s because they try their hardest to erase black history
@@deejay5102 exactly
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.
Goals of being able to communicate that effectively at 100+ years old. Hearing that recollection was necessary.
What happened in Tulsa historians appear to not want people to know what truly happened in USA. God help us all. 👑🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👑
Amen...may the peace of the lord be with us In Jesus name
How are you doing today?
Your god did bless them with death. Not like your god can stop anything. Idiots.
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.
@@lovegrace3719 so dumb.
The most high Yah kept her alive even after the vshot praise to the most high YAH!!!!
All Praises, Glory and Honor to the MOST HIGH YAH.
Yes indeed shalom
Its disgusting how these united states still won't give us our reparations!!!!
Yep. They did everything for the asians but not black people
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.
Look up mississippi devils punch bowl.
@@TunTheOfficial honestly the money given to Japanese people after internment was t enough either, if that's what ur referring to.
LOL
This is gut-wrenching. Award them their recompense while they're still alive to enjoy their long - awaited due.
Be a good girl, believe it without doing your own research.
@@philabustahblue5532 What is there not to believe?
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?
@@philabustahblue5532What was the lie?
@@philabustahblue5532 where’s your evidence? You’re under a lot of comments with no evidence
The people that were terrorized by thugs in Tulsa should be paid reparations. REPARATIONS NOW
How are the thugs going to pay reparations, they have been dead for years.
@@davey11ifyanother excuse they should be paid because that was their land and should get compensation for it being taken from them
This woman was born to tell this story!
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.
So sorry 2 hear that.....so unfair
Get a good lawyer and persue it in court and let the state compensate because they fail to protect your family
So sad
WE NEED A MEMORIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER FORGET! REPARATIONS!!!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
@@clarenceedwards2866 Well said, Brother. You speak the Absolute Truth!🙏🏽
@@clarenceedwards2866 really when did that ever happen.
There will be no mass reparations extended. I believe it will come from the LORD.
#CutTheCheck!
The most beautiful older woman in the world. Nobody should have to go through what she been through
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
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.
Only when God return's then the trouble's of this world will end...
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 🤜🏽🤛🏽💯🪲🌕⚫
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!!!!
Go fund me 🐱
The man have interesting stories. I could listen to him all night long talk about his experience in the military.
I could too, but I think it's sad that he believes Biden is going to help black ppl.
@@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
These people deserve checks now. REPARATIONS!!!!!!
@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.’
REPERATION NOW 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Yes
Reparations for the survivors and all descendants of those whose lives had been destroyed..
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!
God bless Mrs. Fletcher and Mr. Hughes Van Ellis. God has blessed them. May God continue to keep them.
His-story that is swept under the rug to cover their SHAME!
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
That doesn't make sense at all.
I regret taking that oath everyday
@@ogskullomania3119 if you don’t mind me asking, why did you join in the first place?
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.
@@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 😭🙏🏾
I first heard of the massacre when watching Tony Brown's Journal in the '80s. Mother Fletcher was on that show.
Tony Brown told the truth. He has a book "Black Lies. White Lies"
I loved watching Tony Brown’s journal 🙌
@@yvettecabey5071 Me too! I learned from his show.
@ 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.
The reporter did a fantastic job, thank you for being so respectful to those lovely elders.
Pay these family asap in cash 💸also teach this in school especially for black history month.
Look up mississippi devils punch bowl
Just sooo so😔 My utmost RESPECT to this beautiful lady and gentleman🙏🏾 May God lead the charge to make it right!❤ OMG people!!
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.
How alert and intelligent this Sistar is for her age! She is awesome in her clear way of answering questions.
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.😔
Show them the MONEY 💰🤑
@@terrywilliams792 lol
Because they believe NBC?
@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.’
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.
Mother Fletcher looks great for her age. Even the gentleman beside her looks good for his age.
Thats her brother
He served in the military! 👍This is a TRUE civil rights leader who made REAL change.
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.
Mother fletcher looks good for her age. Smooth skin. Well preserved by God. Pops looks good also. What a blessing
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.
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.
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 !
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 !!
@@braelynnblue Keep shining and giving children our horrifying yet true history !
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.
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.
Yeah you're all what we need is change and all of us need someone to change
How are you doing today?
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....
@@deejay5102 it's punishment from the LORD.
Nothing has changed?
Yeah I think a lot has changed since the 20s 🤔
GOD BLESS HER AND HIM! All those who went through that.
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.
So eloquent and elegant.
It’s side that 100 years later this is being considered, not many are still living to receive compensation
All of us neer it because thats the type of destruction that changed the outcome of alot of us today
But their descendants can receive compensation. This tragedy put their children and grandchildren into poverty!
SMH that’s messed up that they went through that but I’m glad they survived
@Zack Walton ASAP
@Zack Walton immediately!!!
@CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH Aho
Miyutake Oyasin
Osiyo your Tsalagi cousin respects your words.wado
Prayers
@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.
@CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH smh stop piggy bagging off black ppl
100 years ago today 😢
Yes I did not know about it . Great interview. Beautiful family.
Look up mississippi devils punch bowl.
Mama Fletcher, she's still so beautiful. She's a sweet soul
Excellent Speech !!!! 💛💛💛💛
God kept her here to tell the history of this awful day. God bless her for sharing her experiences.
These are my people! We are resilient and strong. Thank you sister, for interviewing them!.
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.
God Bless this brother & sister they are just adorable!!🙏❤💙
Bless their hearts. I’m sorry that it happened to them. I can’t image the terror.
The reporter keeps asking the same redundant questions. 🙄
Compensation is long overdue.
God has really kept them. Its an amazing to see. Thank God . Im praying for you all.🙏🏽🙏❤🙌🏾
The revenue from the ads better go to Mother Fletcher and Mr. E.
This man reminds me of my late Father ❤️🙏🏽❤️
Thank goodness for these voices.
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. 👏🏾👏🏾
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. 😢.
Look up mississippi devils punch bowl
Yesss!!! The Devils Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi.
GOD bless you both
Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis, thank you so much for your willingness to speak. The interviewer must have limited personal experience with trauma. Her shock about the post traumatic stress they are experiencing and absence of emotional intelligence is troubling.
I’m 36, but listening to these two extraordinary ppl, both over 100yrs old, I feel like their brains are sharper than mine! This is a most awesome video, concerning a most horrific time in history…very well done
Im glad im hearing some survivors that are still alive 100 years ago!
God kept them for this moment!
This is Ssooo True
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.
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
I bet the children and grandchildren of those who committed these crimes don't know their grandparents killed Black people.
Excellent Speech !!! 💛💛💛
God Bless Mothrr Fletcher and Brother...
America...based on so much wickedness
Mother
I'm glad the comments are open on this. I was just watching the hearings where you two fine Americans testified to the atrocities against you . Just can't fathom how people could do those things to other humans . So glad you are alive to be heard . Im 46 years old and your stories just break my heart. If someone deserves this wrong recognized permanently its you guys and all affected. You deserve compensation for sure
that's my step great grandmother. its more than an honor
If you hit the thumbs down, you’re the problem.
Correct they hid it from Us but it has come to light
Amen
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!!!!
Excellent Speech !!!! 💛💛💛💛💛
Wise lady
Excellent Speech !!!! 💛💛💛
They are such a inspiration for today’s generation on what it means to stand up for justice and have someone tell their story for the world to hear. God blessed them with abundance of favor in their golden years.
I'm in tears rn
I learned about it from the internet researching many topics and was applauded during lockdown 🥰
I so appreciate this interview! So many things I observed. Too many to name. Just thinking about some of the things the two of them said, and obviously went through (and still dealing with), brought me to tears! These are some strong souls! It's hard to believe that Mrs. Viola had a "lesser" education from how articulate she speaks...and her voice...just wow! From most of the things she talks about, I can tell that she's big on education, though. They, and I'm sure many other people like them, are people that we can gain wisdom and strength from today! You can't tell that either one of them are 100+ years old!
“Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze”
Billie Holiday-