when as many as 300 in the thriving black wall street district were slaughtered by a white mob. that s the story. any mitigation of that is not the truth. and at the same time that we condemn this as obscene, as a reminder of what is wrong, we see in realtime today one of the greatest assaults on democracy under way once again targeting minorities. the party of trump intensifying its efforts to strip people of color of their rights to vote. the boldest attempt since the era of jim crow. president biden drew a through line in tulsa today. 100 years ago at this hour on this first day of june, smoke darkened the tulsa sky. this was not a riot. this was a massacre.
i come here to help fill the silence. because in silence, wounds deepen. what happened in greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism. with a through line that exists today still. reporter: a through line, a throughline of hate. a through line means just because there s not another tulsa massacre doesn t mean the efforts are not equally unholy and un-american. those efforts that we ve seen recently. the president referenced charlottesville, neo-nazis brandishing torches. a century later, hate crimes against jewish and asian-americans. a reminder that white supremacism is the threat to our homeland today. what really should scare us all
right them. and so here we are on the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre, the deadliest attack on black americans on u.s. soil, when as many as 300 in the thriving black wall street district were slaughtered by a white mob. that s the story. any mitigation of that is not the truth. and at the same time that we condemn this as obscene, as a reminder of what is wrong, we see in realtime today one of the greatest assaults on democracy under way once again targeting minorities. the party of trump intensifying its efforts to strip people of color of their rights to vote. the boldest attempt since the era of jim crow. president biden drew a through line in tulsa today. 100 years ago at this hour on
this first day of june, smoke darkened the tulsa sky. this was not a riot. this was a massacre. i come here to help fill the silence. because in silence, wounds deepen. what happened in greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism. with a through line that exists today still. reporter: a through line, a throughline of hate. a through line means just because there s not another tulsa massacre doesn t mean the efforts are not equally unholy and un-american. those efforts that we ve seen recently. the president referenced charlottesville, neo-nazis brandishing torches. a century later, hate crimes against jewish and