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Klan in the family.
I've always known about my great-grandfather's involvement in the klan...but was speaking to my father last night and learned something very disturbing.
Many people are familiar with Rosewood, but not too many are familiar with the Tulsa "race riot" back in the 20's.
Anyway, my grandfather always denied his father's past but my father was talking to his sister the other night and she finally confirmed things...anyway this is basically what she said..that when my grandfather was a young man his dad told him to get into the pick up one night and they headed to Tulsa..he said that his father and friends proceeded to burn houses down...after that night was over he told his father that he never ever wanted to go along with him again on such trips, to never speak to him about the klan and that he would never speak about the issue with him ever again.
I'm sure he saw some bad things that night.
It's amazing what we find in our own family history sometimes.
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