Now your story will be known in full view.”02:25 ‘This was a massacre’: Biden honours Tulsa race massacre survivors 100 years on – videoBiden presides over a bitterly divided country in which protests against racism and police brutality and an attendant push for reform have stoked fury on the political right. “Many of those works and those textbooks were about white people and white history,” he wrote. He said he learned of the Tulsa race massacre from a Times piece published in July last year, as protests inspired by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer flowed through a fraught and violent summer. In a historical education touching such keystones as the Boston Tea Party, the rise of Teddy Roosevelt and the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti, Hanks wrote: “Tulsa was never more than a city on the prairie. “The truth about Tulsa, and the repeated violence by some white Americans against Black Americans, was systematically ignored, perhaps because it was regarded as too honest, too painful a lesson for our young white ears.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2021 14:03 UTC