An emotional President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in Tulsa, declaring Tuesday that he had
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…
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. (AP) â An emotional President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in Tulsa, declaring Tuesday that he had âcome to fill the silenceâ about one of the nationâs darkest â and long suppressed â moments of racial violence.
âSome injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they cannot be buried, no matter how hard people try, Biden said. âOnly with truth can come healing.â
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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By Anna Gallegos
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Joe Biden was in Tulsa on Tuesday, June 1, to remember and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
“For much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. But just because history is silent it doesn’t mean that it did not take place. While darkness can hide much, it erases nothing, Biden said.
“My fellow Americans, this was not a riot, this was a massacre.”
Biden is the first president to visit Tulsa to commemorate the 1921 events that left hundreds of Black residents dead and destroyed the Greenwood neighborhood.