Trump in Tulsa: Black residents fear president wants a 'charged atmosphere'
A black-owned Oklahoma newspaper would not let the state forget the day white mobs murdered hundreds of African Americans in Tulsa., foreboding was spreading about Trump. The Rev. Robert Turner, at Vernon AME Church, called it “a very high-octane time.” The neighborhood’s annual weekend-long Juneteenth festival was set to start Friday afternoon, a celebration of the day enslaved Black people in Texas received word of emancipation.
Turner said he was encouraged by how many “white allies” had joined protests last month, and that if they appeared again alongside Trump counter-protesters this week, police would be less likely to target the crowds with tear gas and other “less lethal” weapons. “Tulsa is not prepared,” said Hall-Harper, whose husband is president of the city’s Black Police Officers Coalition. “This is just the perfect storm for something very bad to happen in this community. I wish that leadership in this state and in this city would have done something to stop it from coming here at this time.”
The couple, who are white, said they had never been to Greenwood. They said they had learned about the 1921 “race riot” only recently on the news and said it should have been taught in public school when they were growing up. But they did not believe racism was systemic in the city or its Police Department, which they trusted to protect them.“You don’t want to see anything bad happen to anybody,” said Bill Rhodes, 50, who works on industrial tires. “We all bleed the same.
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