history books for us. i see black bodies in the street, i smell smoke and see fire. i still see black businesses being burned. i still hear airplanes flying overhead. i hear the screams. i have lived through the massacre every day. our country may forget this history, but i cannot. that s mother fletcher. welcome back to the sunday show. it s been 100 years since the prosperous black community was destroyed by a white mob in tulsa, oklahoma. they killed up to 300 people, destroyed hundreds of businesses and left 10,000 people homeless. this weekend, residents are ensuring this dark history is never forgotten with parades, prayer and activism. chris koonz joined me from tulsa where he is participating in the remembrance activities as part
measures. both are un-american. you have to be consistent. the republicans right now are anti-democratic in every sense of the word. lower case d. to the extent she s part of it. she s part of the problem. as i ve mentioned several times in the show, i interviewed vice president kamala harrison friday. we talked a lot about a lot of things. the george floyd justice and policing act. we talked about tulsa. the fact that has not been previously known, she met with two of the survivors of the tulsa race massacre, as she described it. viola mother fletcher and 107 years old, and the vice president said, her younger brother, hugh van ellis who is 100 years old. you see the picture of the vice president meeting with mother fletcher. the vice president said to me, quote, they were so extraordinary in terms of their
overhead. i hear the screams and i have lived through the massacre every day. our country made forget the history but i cannot. that s mother fletcher. welcome back to the sunday show. i m jonathan capehart. it s been 100 years since the prosperous black community was destroyed by a white mob. they left 10,000 people homeless. this weekend residents are ensuring the dark history is never forgotten with parades, prayer, and activism. senate chris koons joined me earlier. senator chris koons, thank you very much for coming back to the sunday show. thank you, jonathan. let me ask the obvious first
grace and dignity and the depth of their pain that they still carry. she talked about how she remembered she s talking about mother fletcher talked about she remembers so well hearing the crowds as they were approaching and they lost everything. congresswoman edwards, earlier in the show, i was talking to senator coons there in tulsa and, you know, he talked about how, you know, even right now in that state, there are people who are so afraid of history, our history, that they re legislating against teaching it. how important is it? why is it so important that we talk about tulsa and not forget tulsa? well, i think it s important that we not forget tulsa because tulsa was not an isolated incident. i m from north carolina and so i remember the history of rosewood and the massacre that occurred there. this is a strategy to, you know, eat at black people and black
panel and we ll be right back with more from tulsa, but first, we ll take another look at a tulsa survivor, mother fletcher. she revealed to me her secret to looking so great at 107. you ll never guess what it is. onions. the onion. raw i can eat them cooked, but i like them better raw. and just like an apple. sure oh, i can take the outside off of a raw onion and eat it like an apple and bite the onion. yes. wow!