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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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President Joe Biden tours the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 1, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden spent much of Tuesday urging the nation to focus on hatred, especially white-on-black hatred, or what he called the stain on the soul of America.
Biden was speaking in Tulsa, Oklahoma, commemorating a violent attack by a white mob on the black community of Greenwood 100 years ago.
He drew a line from what happened in Tulsa way back then to hatred that exists today still.
He also asserted that terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today not ISIS, not al Qaeda white supremacists.