Pres. Biden delivers remarks on Tulsa Race Massacre: 'We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know, and not what we should know.'
of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, becoming the first sitting president to visit the historic Greenwood neighborhood to acknowledge the atrocities that took place there.ahead of remarks in which he announced new actions his administration is taking to narrow the racial wealth gap between Black and white Americans.
Repeating a line he said on an earlier tour of the center, Biden told the audience of roughly 200,"It wasn't a riot, it was a massacre." In his remarks, Biden detailed the events which sparked the white mob to descend on Greenwood. Gunshots were fired outside a courthouse after a young, Black man was accused of assaulting a white, female elevator operator and arrested.
Painting the picture that Mother Fletcher says she lives with each day, Biden said,"100 years ago, at this hour on this first day of June, smoke darkened the Tulsa sky, rising from 35 blocks of Greenwood that were left in ash and ember, razed, in rubble." In an attempt to begin to make amends, the president proposed a broader agenda to address racial inequities beyond Tulsa in his remarks -- starting with atoning for the federal government.New steps the administration wants to take include directing more federal contracts to small and minority-owned businesses, expanding access to homeownership and launching infrastructure programs intended to repair neighborhoods like Greenwood.
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