week was beset by a white mob. as the president said today it was not a riot. it was a massacre. thousands of homes and businesses not only looted but burned to the ground. whole blocks of homes and businesses and churches and newspapers and restaurants destroyed by a white mob that not only shot black tulsans in the street, killing innumerable people, literally unnumbered people, the total death toll not known to this day from the tulsa race massacre, but they not only shot people in the street but they literally dropped home made fire bombs on the greenwood neighborhood from private aircraft. it was basically a war on that prosperous, black, american neighborhood. incredibly, there are three elderly survivors of the tulsa race massacre who are alive to tell the tale today. they are all obviously over 100 years old. the three of them each met with president biden today in oklahoma. we ll be talking about that more tonight, including speaking with a descendent of survivors from
dropped bombs on other americans, dropped fire bombs and shot from the sky, between 100 and 300 people dead. this weekend, remembering all that was lost, the violence of the day. then also everything that came after. folks here are unpacking the past, reckoning with the past. the narratives are being centered. voices are being lifted. jesse jackson here for this commemoration. the mayor of tulsa is here. a small congressional delegation. also folks from all across the country and across town coming here to commune in fellowship here on historic greenwood avenue. you mentioned some of this, that 12 miles of greenwood had hundreds of black-owned businesses. today, that s less than two dozen. it s a tough reckoning. slowly, this community is getting there. the divide remains. we have yet to fully bring to bear the full truth of what happened. folks here are remembering this day. trymaine lee there in tulsa.
years ago today a vie leapt attack left greenwood like this leveled in ashes. an angry mob set fire to the town, dropped fire bombs from planes, destroyed and looted more than 1,200 homes killing as many as 300 black residents. the mob reacting to false allegations that a black teenager assaulted a white girl in an elevator. when black world war i veterans assembled to protect the accused teen from a white lynch mob the attack began. it went on for hours stretching through the night into the following day. no city officials, firefighters or police officers came to help. the mob destroyed 35 blocks of homes and businesses, even the hospital. the value of the property lost totalled at least $27 million in today s dollars. those that survived were displaced. law enforcement took more than
so this is nonsense to say that somehow it s a failure. congressman, what does that work get you in terms of policy? ultimately, stephanie, if the united states of america and american voters believe that the path to prosperity and peace and security is through two sides further retreating to corners, throwing political fire bombs at one another and franth on each side essentially being the voices of the entire republican and democratic party, if that s what america wants, well, we re getting that right now. i would ask and i would implore and i would invite people who are watching right now to take a breath and really reflect on where we want to go and what types of dispositions we want to see in our united states congress and statehouses around the country. i m not condemning my own party. i m not condemning the republican party. but i m encouraging thoughtful, like-minded americans, no matter your politics, to recognize we ve got to start breaking
claim leadership of the palestinian cause. and on the israeli side, there are reasons why israel wouldn t want to continue this. one, the idea that 20% of its population, the palestinian citizens were getting more and more involved in this. that was something that israel was very uncomfortable with. we saw inter-israeli mop violence start to emerge during this. that never happened in the past where you had israeli-arabs and israeli-jews fighting each other on the streets. throwing fire bombs at each other s homes. that is a very unsettling and dangerous dynamic that prime minister netanyahu repeatedly addressed and seemed to have been bothered and worried by. so there are reasons on the israeli side for not continuing as well. also prime minister netanyahu is in a stronger position politically than he was before. and if this dragged on and became a full-on land assault right now, he could see his