Pogroms
A Poem About Memory Posted in Commemoration of the 1921 Assault on Black Wall Street, Tulsa
Pogroms
1882, from Yiddish pogrom, from Russian pogromu "devastation, destruction," from po- "by, through, behind, after" (cognate with Latin post-; see post-) + gromu "thunder, roar," from PIE imitative root *ghrem- (see grim).
They call it a riot.
Race riot. As if it were
spontaneous. As if
the coordinat…
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