many of you know this story by now, 100 years ago a mob of white people bombs, burned and looted the greenwood neighborhood in tulsa, oklahoma known as black wall street. greenwood was burned to the ground with as many as 300 people slaughtered. survivors reported seeing boies tossed into mass graves into the arkansas river or loaded on to trucks or trains making a true tally of the death toll difficult. and the tulsa massacre others like it remain largely unknown because it was covered up and not a single person was held accountable. the quest for justice for the three known survivors and he s
that s the belief that justifies to them. republicans believe they can identify by race. we ll begin tonight with a discussion of what president biden called the truly unprecedented assault on our democracy of the republicans have launched this year and later in the hour, the professor cobb and caleb gayle, we ll consider in great details the assault on life itself that occurred in tulsa, oklahoma, 100 years ago. the democratic legislatures in texas and other states calling for help in washington now to defeat the assault on our democracy. today president biden said this. june should be a month of action on capitol hill. i hear all the folks on tv saying why don t biden get it done? well, biden only has the majority of four votes in the
professor, i want to begin with you. i want to get your reaction of what the president said in tulsa today. thank you, lawrence, i found it to be a fascinating speech. on the one hand there is this attempt to renarrate and tell a different kind of story about america s past, to reveal the truth. the number of clansmen and the way of details around the tulsa moment. it was almost as if it was a kind of explicit counter narrative to the cultural wars that s being waged by the republicans. there is a sense which president biden s speech put forth this kind of claim to be quick about
greenwood, home to what was then called black wall street. many american history classes in high school still did not include that story. today in the greenwood neighborhood in tulsa,oklahoma, the president of the united states told that story. through the night and in to the morning, the mob terrorized greenwood and tortured with guns and a mob tied a black man by a waist with his head banging along the pavement as they drove off. a murder black family drove over the fence of their homes outside. couples knelt by the beds and
that s what great nations do. they come to terms with their dark sides. we are a great nation. joining us now from tulsa is caleb gayle. a fellow at new america. he wrote the story 100 years after tulsa massacre and mr. cobb at columbia university. he s an msnbc political analyst who just returned from reporting in tulsa. let me both, let me give both of you this, caleb gayle, beginning with you, you heard what the president said today. i want to give you an opportunity to react to the president s speech or any other aspect of this 100 years marking