President Biden traveled to Tulsa to deliver a speech on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. I can t find an official White House version of the speech President Biden delivered in Tulsa yesterday. Rev has posted an unofficial transcript here. I have embedded the C-SPAN video at the bottom. The speech mixed its memorial purpose with low Democratic politics while giving no hint of remarkable progress made by
Joe Biden Condemns Senators in the Ku Klux Klan Ignoring Democrat Leadership
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1 Jun 2021
President Joe Biden condemned United States Senators who were open members of the Ku Klux Klan during a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday, but did not mention the role of the Democrat party in the racist organization.
Citing a book from historian Jon Meacham, Biden said at least five or seven members of the United States Senate were open members of the KKK in the 1920s. (Meacham’s book,
The Soul of America actually cites 16 members of the United States Senate who belonged to the KKK)
mistaken, could have been seven members of the united states senate open members of the klan. multiple governors open members of the klan. most people didn t realize that a century ago the klan was founded just six years before the horrific destruction here in tulsa. and one of the reasons why it was founded was because of guys like me are catholic. it wasn t about african-americans then. it was about making sure that all those polish and irish and italian and eastern european catholics who came to the united states after world war i would not pollute christianity. the flames from those burning crosses torched every region of the country. millions of white americans