[news] Past Imperfect: Terror in Black and White

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Africana.com By William Jelani Cobb 15 Sep 2004 September 11th was far from the first instance of terrorism on American soil. Terror -- and specifically racial terrorism -- has roots almost as old as this country itself....It would be easy, at this distant remove, to forget that Timothy McVeigh, the homegrown terrorist who orchestrated the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City that claimed 168 lives did so in order to ignite a race war. ...The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, in which bands of armed and deputized whites attacked black residents of the city, resulted in twice as many deaths as the Oklahoma City bombing by the most conservative estimates.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/81423/9584