Finally, at the age of 107, Viola Fletcher got a national stage on Wednesday to bear witness to America’s deep history of racial violence. But Fletcher and her 100-year-old brother are seeking reparations and, ahead of the massacre’s centenary, appeared before a House of Representatives judiciary subcommittee considering legal remedies. Wearing an aquamarine jacket, floral blouse, glasses and headphones, she read steadily from a prepared statement. “I am here asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921.”Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre appeared before a House Committee on the Judiciary. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street.

Source: The Guardian May 19, 2021 13:22 UTC