this court. let me tell you exactly what s going on. conservatives now reversing one of the only measures for gun safety that was actually passed in the recent era, and again you can put all politics aside. as a measure of how extreme the supreme court is today with this ruling i m going to tell you this was one of the things that got through the broken hyper-partisan washington that we hear so much about that even had centrists and moderate and republican support to try to deal with one part of our gun crisis in america. today the court reversed a ban on something that are called bump stocks, and the opinion was 6-3, meaning the conservatives and all three trump justices are making it easier to get deadly weapon in america. the other three justices from democratic appointees dissented. all you really need to know about the bump stock thing is it takes weapons and makes them deadlier, basically makes a faster semiautomatic with a faster rate of fire. in fact you can go hundre
believed to be a 2024 presidential hopeful. and the issue has also taken hold in oklahoma, which just days ago marked 100 years since one of the deadliest race massacres in american history occurred in tulsa, oklahoma. as governor, i will not stand for publicly funded k through 12 schools training impressionable minds to define themselves by their sex or their race. reporter: the state s republican governor, kevin stitt, was removed from the massacre s centennial commission after he signed a bill banning schools from teaching certain concepts about race. at a time when republicans are raging against cancel culture on social media, there has been no such outrage against bans on teaching history that they believe is un-american. this is cancel culture in reverse. if a teacher is acknowledging that, oh, america does in some ways have a racist past, conservatives are so threatened by this that they are the ones
president biden just released a proclamation for day of remembrance to mark what happened 100 years ago today in the thriving community of greenwood, oklahoma. a prayer wall was just dedicated at an historic church in that area. a corner of north tulsa, also known as black wall street, where black business, art, culture flourished, became the center of one of the deadliest and most destructive race massacres in american history. and now the new film, cnn s dreamland: the burning of black wall street takes a revealing look at what really happened on greenwood on that tragic day a century ago and our abby phillip has a look at what s being done today to compensate the few remaining survivors of the massacre and the descendents.
assaulting a 17-year-old white elevator operator. no actual evidence emerged, but the accusation alone was enough to spark what is believed to be one of the deadliest and most destructive race massacres in american history. all hell broke loose, right? it was either you stay in your house and get burned to death because arsonists were going through or you take the chance, you run out on to the street and die from a bullet wound, from a gunshot. reporter: nobody knows exactly how many black tulsans were killed, but some estimates put the number near 300. greenwood in all its excellence was burned down and most of the bodies have never been found. i think when you ask why today is it not corrected? pretty much you still have racism today and you have a dominant culture that does not want to really own up to the heinous crimes that occurred. reporter: 107-year-old viola
black man was accused of assaulting a 17-year-old white elevator operator. no actual evidence emerged but the accusation alone was enough to spark what is believed to be one of the deadliest and most destructive race massacres in american history. all hell broke loose, right? it was either you stay in your house and get burned to death because arsonists were going through, or you take the chance you run out into the street and die from gunshot. reporter: nobody knows how many black tulsians were culled but some put the number near 300. greenwood in all its excellence, was burned down. and most of the bodies have never been found. i think when you ask why today is it not corrected? pretty much you still have racism today you and you have a dominant culture that does not want to really own up to the heinous crimes that occurred.