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 Biden on Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history by touring the part of Tulsa once known as "Black Wall Street," condemning White supremacy and outlining steps to promote minority-owned businesses, saying too many hurdles remain a century after the tragedy.