Walter Francis White of the N.A.A.C.P. traveled to Tulsa from New York and reported that, although officials and undertakers said that the fatalities numbered ten white and 21 colored, he estimated the number of the dead to be 50 whites and between 150 and 200 Negroes; LINK
With an estimated 10,000 persons left homeless.
So it appears that at least a few of them were able to defend themselves.
I wish everyone was as well informed and as capable as yourself.
The only way to gain understanding is through experience. While for some life will throw plentiful hazards at them from which they gain experience when they survive, others have thrust upon them the opportunity to gain understanding from experience they purpose themselves.
Either way, the only way to wisdom is through foolishness, and one can learn from the foolishness of others or their own. Any wisdom I have gained is through my own foolishness and the oft repeated hazards of being a fool.
There is little today of more import than our security, and it is demonstrable that institutions we have come to rely on mean us harm, system wide, and globally. You may not have much concerned yourself with it before, and you live, so you have not needed to. But you do need to now, so you can chastise my foolishness in the future, as I will surely again merit.
I look greatly forward to your criticism going forward, and urge you to ensure you will be available to undertake it even if events like the Tulsa riots impact your personal life and threaten to end it. Be secure enough to be among the living after.
Impressive "Motte and Bailey".
Well, I'm not going to be able to find much fault in "true wisdom is hard won by overcoming adversity".