{"id":32818,"date":"2013-08-14T04:43:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32818"},"modified":"2013-08-14T04:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:44:57","slug":"a-tale-of-two-seminole-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32818","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Seminole Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianvoices.net\/images\/site\/pastissues\/August2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Tale of Two Seminole Counties<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianvoices.net\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Voices<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 2013<br \/>\npage 7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil Fixico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some coincidences can\u2019t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seminole_County,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Florida\u2019s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seminole_County,_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma\u2019s Seminole Counties<\/a>. What does this date and these counties have in common. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon Martin was killed<\/a> on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born on Feb. 5th, 1995, not in Seminole County, but that, is where his young life would tragically be ended.<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather Pompey Bruner Fixico, on Feb. 14th, 1894, a hundred and one years before Trayvon\u2019s birth, was born in Seminole County, Oklahoma. Eighty-seven years before Trayvon Martin\u2019s death at the hands of an armed killer, who felt entitled to take Trayvon\u2019s life, a similar scenario would end Pompey Bruner Fixico\u2019s life on Feb. 26th, 1925, by someone else, who also didn\u2019t hesitate. Pompey was a good deal older than Trayvon, he was 31 yrs. old and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"_blank\">WW1<\/a> Vet who had served his country in France during the War. He left a wife and four children, all younger than Trayvon\u2019s 17 years, who by many, would be considered a child in a young man\u2019s body. Pompey\u2019s death took place, not far from the site of the \u201cworst racial violence in American History\u201d, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tulsa_race_riot\" target=\"_blank\">The Tulsa Race Riot<\/a>\u201d. The Riot had occurred 4 years earlier in 1921. Pompey Bruner\u2019s (his father was Caesar Bruner) Draft Registration Card lists, his place of employment, in 1917, as the Brady Hotel, in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tulsa,_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Tulsa, Ok<\/a>. It was owned by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._Tate_Brady\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Tate Brady<\/a>, the Grand Wizard of Oklahoma\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ku_Klux_Klan\" target=\"_blank\">Ku Klux Klan<\/a>, in that area. Grand Wizard Brady was reported to have had a hand in the, \u201cTulsa Race Riot\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianvoices.net\/images\/site\/pastissues\/August2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tale of Two Seminole Counties Indian Voices August 2013 page 7 Phil Fixico Some coincidences can\u2019t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both Florida\u2019s and Oklahoma\u2019s Seminole Counties. What does this date and these counties have in common. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,3015,20],"tags":[5562,1777,7092,5269,5271],"class_list":["post-32818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-indian-voices","tag-oklahoma","tag-phil-fixico","tag-phil-wilkes-fixico","tag-pompey-bruner-fixico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}