Robert R.A. Turner (center) draws attention to the 1921 Tulsa massacre every week in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Courtesy photo)
On the first Wednesday in May, as the centennial of the Tulsa massacre approached, Robert R. A. Turner stood outside Tulsa City Hall with his megaphone, as he does every week.
“Tulsa, you will reap what you sow, and that which you have done unto the least of these my children, Jesus said, you have done also unto me,” said Turner, 38, the pastor of Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. “We come here to say, for your own benefit, you ought to do reparations not tomorrow, not even next week, not next month, not next year, but we demand reparations now!”
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The Rev. Robert R.A. Turner, center, draws attention to the 1921 Tulsa massacre every week in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Courtesy photo
[Religion News Service] On the first Wednesday in May, as the centennial of the Tulsa massacre approached, the Rev. Robert R.A. Turner stood outside Tulsa City Hall with his megaphone, as he does every week.
“Tulsa, you will reap what you sow and that which you have done unto the least of these my children, Jesus said, you have done also unto me,” said Turner, 38, the pastor of Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, captured on a video posted on Facebook.
100 years later, Black church leaders seek reparations for Tulsa massacre
An African Methodist Episcopal pastor and other Black people of faith say the time has come to repay as well as to remember. The Rev. Robert R.A. Turner, center, draws attention to the 1921 Tulsa massacre every week in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Courtesy photo
May 19, 2021
(RNS) On the first Wednesday in May, as the centennial of the Tulsa massacre approached, the Rev. Robert R.A. Turner stood outside Tulsa City Hall with his megaphone, as he does every week.
“Tulsa, you will reap what you sow and that which you have done unto the least of these my children, Jesus said, you have done also unto me,” said Turner, 38, the pastor of Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, captured on a video posted on Facebook.