Terrorism Quiz

(in observance of the 38th anniversary of the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

True story.

Terrorists load up a small plane with several boxes of dynamite and fly it over a populated city area. The terrorists then light the sticks of dynamite, and throw them from the plane, at people and at houses below.

The attack is devastating. 77 People are killed. Many more are injured, and more than a thousand houses are destroyed.

Question #1. Where did this happen?

a. Fallujah, Iraq
b. Tulsa, Oklahoma
c. Beirut, Lebanon
d. Washington, DC
e. Omagh, Northern Ireland
f. Karbala, Iraq
g. Bogota, Columbia
h. Jerusalem

Question #2. Why isn't the incident more well known?


ANSWERS: The attack happened in 1921 in Tulsa Oklahoma. The "terrorists" were members of the KKK. The victims were the residents of a middle-class black neighborhood. The incident is not more well known, because we are ashamed of our (recent) history of rampant institutionalized racism. Nearly all of it, of course, has been left out of our history textbooks. ("Lies My Teacher Told Me," by James W. Loewen; p. 165)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.