younger brother, hugh, who is 100 years old. you see the picture there. the vice president said, they were extraordinary in terms of their grace and dignity and the depth of their pain that they carry. she talked about how she remembers she s talking about mother fletcher, talked about lou she remembers so well hearing the crowds as they were approaching and they lost everything. congresswoman edwards, earlier in the show i was talking to senator coons who is there in tulsa. he talked about how even right now in that state, there are people who are so afraid of history, our history, that they are legislating against teaching it. how important is it? why is it so important that we talk about tulsa and not forget tulsa? i think it s important that we not forget tulsa because pull is a was not an isolated incident. i m from north carolina.
liz cheney needs to understand that you don t support one form of anti-democratic behavior that is voting restriction at the same time that you are opposing violent insurrection. both are anti-democratic measures. both are unamerican. you do have to be consistent. the republicans right now are anti-democratic in every sense of the word. lower case d. to the extent she s part of it, she s part of the problem. as i have mentioned several times on the show, i interviewed vice president kamala harris friday. we talked about a lot of things, george floyd justice in pleading act. we also talked about tulsa. the fact that she met with two of the survivors of the tulsa race massacre, as she described it, viola mother fletcher, who is 107 years old, and and the vice president said, and her
in u.s. history. the tulsa race massacre. a thriving black community destroyed, set on fire by a white mob, killing an estimated 300 back americans, burning more than 1,000 homes and businesses to the ground. late today, president biden saying he was there to, quote, sche shine a light. saying what happened was not a riot, but a massacre. and promising policies on housing, on schooling and promising help for small business owners. and this powerful animation tonight from the new york times of the 100 block on greenwood avenue, what was destroyed. the dentist office, the newspaper, the insurance company, the taylor on the right. down the street here on the left, you ll see the famous dixie theater, the parlor, the billiards, the law firm, the barbershop all burned down and destroyed. late today, we learned the president met privately with the three noun survivors, from 101 to 107 years old. viola mother fletcher, she was