US President Joe Biden marks 100th anniversary of Tulsa massacre in emotional speech saying he came to 'fill the silence' and that the legacy of racist violence and white supremacy still resonates
"Just because history is silent, it does not mean that it did not take place," says Joe Biden, who became the first sitting US president to visit the site in Oklahoma state where hundreds of Black Americans were killed by a white mob 100 years ago.
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. In 1921 — on May 31 and June 1 — a white mob, including some people hastily deputised by authorities, looted and burned Tulsa's Greenwood district, which was referred to as Black Wall Street.We memorialize what happened in Tulsa 100 years ago so it can’t be erased.As many as 300 Black Tulsans were killed, and thousands of survivors were forced for a time into internment camps overseen by the National Guard.
John Ondiek, another Tulsan in the crowd following Biden's speech on cellphones, said he was encouraged that "There aren’t just Black people here. That tells me there’s an awakening going on in this country."Struggle over race continues to test Biden America's continuing struggle over race will continue to test Biden, whose presidency would have been impossible without overwhelming support from Black voters, both in the Democratic primaries and the general election.
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