Pogroms

A Poem About Memory Posted in Commemoration of the 1921 Assault on Black Wall Street, Tulsa

Photo of The 1921 pogrom in Tulsa. Creative Commons.

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…