The president arrives in Tulsa on Saturday for his first campaign rally since much of the nation locked down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Civil rights activists say vestiges of the attack on Greenwood — where white mobs targeted a wealthy, black community nicknamed Black Wall Street — have not been dealt with. ADAD“I commend him for listening to his African American friends,” Turner said of Trump’s decision to change the date of the rally. ADIn Tulsa County, 7.2 percent of covid deaths are black patients, while 35.5 percent are white, according to the Tulsa County Health Department. “He saw the man fall off the highway.”Williams said Trump’s rally is a diversion from activists’ work in Tulsa toward justice.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2020 21:30 UTC