June 2, 2021
To commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, President Biden toured the Greenwood Cultural Center. Plus, met with the remaining three survivors of the violence and racist mob of whites that attacked a thriving Black community.
“For much too long the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness,” Biden said “Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous they can’t be buried,” said Biden. The massacre, killed at least 300 people, left 10,000 people homeless and created at least $25 million of property damage in today’s dollars. Click Here To Read More.
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Voice of America
03 Jun 2021, 04:05 GMT+10
On Tuesday, Joe Biden became the first sitting American president to commemorate the anniversary of the destruction of a prosperous Black community by a white mob that left up to 300 people dead and 10,000 homeless. Just because history is silent, it doesn t mean that it did not take place, Biden said in remarks to survivors of the massacre and their families at the Greenwood Cultural Center. Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they can t be buried, no matter how hard people try.
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An emotional US President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of a massacre that destroyed a thriving black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, saying on Tuesday that he had “come to fill the silence” about one of the nation’s darkest and long suppressed moments of racial violence.
“Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous; they cannot be buried, no matter how hard people try,” Biden said. “Only with truth can come healing.”
Biden’s commemoration of the deaths of hundreds of black people killed by a white mob a century ago came amid the current national reckoning on racial justice.
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