{"id":19494,"date":"2021-05-29T19:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T19:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19494"},"modified":"2021-05-29T19:55:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T19:55:33","slug":"black-activists-plan-armed-demonstration-in-tulsa-ahead-of-race-massacre-centennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/05\/29\/black-activists-plan-armed-demonstration-in-tulsa-ahead-of-race-massacre-centennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Activists plan armed demonstration In Tulsa ahead of Race Massacre Centennial"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Matt Trotter<\/strong>
\nTulsa Public Radio
\nA Texas group that advocates for Black Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights plans to hold an armed demonstration in Tulsa just before the race massacre centennial.
\nElmer “Geronimo” Pratt Gun Club founder Nick Bezzel said he\u2019s hoping for 1,000 legally armed Black people to participate in a May 29 remembrance walk for Greenwood, the prosperous community known as Black Wall Street that a white mob destroyed on May 31 and June 1, 1921.
\nBezzel said their goal is not violence, but to send a message that a similar attack will never happen again.
\n“Stop thinking every time you see a Black person with a gun, something bad is going to happen. I can promise you, from May of last year to today, you\u2019ve never seen an armed demonstration in America \u2014 whether it was Texas, whether it was Louisiana, Georgia, Florida or Kentucky \u2014 there\u2019s never been an act of violence when you\u2019ve seen Black, armed demonstrations in America. So, what makes you think something\u2019s going to happen on our sacred land?” Bezzel said.
\nAccording to CNN reports, members of the group NFAC accidentally discharged weapons at armed demonstrations last year, but no violence was reported.
\nThe demonstration is part of a three-day National Black Power Convention being organized May 28\u201330 in Tulsa by the gun club and other groups, including the New Black Panther Party. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the New Black Panther Party\u202fa hate group.
\nBezzel said the convention is also a chance to build relationships with community leaders and support Black-owned businesses.
\n“Our plan is to come down here and buy these businesses out, spend as much money as we can and to support the people here in Tulsa as much as we can. If they need laws passed, if we have people here that can help them do that, we will, whether it\u2019s on the city level or the state level,” Bezzel said.
\nA permit for the demonstration is pending. Officials said approval has been delayed by the ransomware attack on the city.
\nA new state law cracking down on protesters who block roads and giving immunity to drivers who hit people deemed rioters does not take effect until Nov. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Matt Trotter Tulsa Public Radio A Texas group that advocates for Black Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights plans to hold an armed demonstration in Tulsa just before the race massacre centennial. Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt Gun Club founder Nick Bezzel said he\u2019s hoping for 1,000 legally armed Black people to participate in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,123],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-19494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19494"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}