President Joe Biden singled out Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, though not by name, for thwarting their party s efforts to push election and voting reforms through Congress while recalling a race riot during a visit to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
President Biden vowed on Tuesday to close the vast and persistent difference between the assets of Black and white Americans. In all, the racial wealth gap was recently estimated by the Duke economist William Darity Jr. to stand at $11.2 trillion. Biden has offered nowhere near that amount, instead introducing a raft of proposed programs, such as $31 billion for small-business development and $10 billion for infrastructure upgrades in.
Michigan Rep. Brenda Lawrence among those in Tulsa to mark 100 years since massacre
Biden, Lawrence and other lawmakers went to Tulsa and met with survivors
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DETROIT – “It’s one of the darkest chapters of American history,” said Democratic Michigan Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence.
That’s how Lawrence described the Tulsa Race Massacre during a Zoom call with the Congressional Black Caucus.
It happened May 31, 1921. It was during that time, when a well affluent Black community, known as the Black Wall Street or the Greenwood District was burned to the ground.
“The families were on target to create generational wealth. It was snatched from them, from an act of violence and racism,” said Lawrence.