It is the work of the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, a body of prominent state and city politicians and other local notables who have put together the city’s established version of the 100th anniversary of a very special day. Ruins of Greenwood district after the race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 1921. Workers sift through soil in a truck on 17 July 2020 as work continues on an excavation of a potential unmarked mass grave from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre at Oaklawn cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Could a parent say that their child is discomforted by a class on the race massacre, of course they could.”Goodwin also pointed to several other contentious laws passed recently by Oklahoma’s Republican-controlled legislature. “As we talk about the centennial of the Tulsa massacre, let’s remember that Black people are still being massacred.

Source: The Guardian June 01, 2021 06:00 UTC