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The Capitol riots and Tulsa massacre have resonances for my Black family


Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences
My grandmother survived the Tulsa massacre. 100 years later, I watched a mostly White mob attack my city.
The Capitol riots showed me how trauma permeates Black families for generations
(María Alconada Brooks for The Lily)
Anneliese M. Bruner
Jan. 9, 2021
It was eerily fitting that the weekend before a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, I sat down to reread the book that my great-grandmother, Mary Jones Parrish, wrote almost 100 years ago. In it, she recounted and reported on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. From May 31 to June 1 of that year, violent mobs of White marauders completely destroyed the Greenwood section of Tulsa, transforming a prosperous African American community into a smoldering pile of rubble. ....

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