'My fellow Americans, this was not a riot. This was a massacre, and among the worst in our history. But not the only one,' President Joe Biden said as he visited the site in Tulsa where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921
"We should know the good, the bad, everything. That’s what great nations do," he said in a speech to the few survivors of the attack on Tulsa's Greenwood district and their descendants. "They come to terms with their dark sides. And we’re a great nation."
The White House announced a set of policy initiatives to counter racial inequality, including plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in communities like Greenwood that suffer from persistent poverty and efforts to combat housing discrimination. But Biden nodded to a political reality he believes has stymied his efforts, including "a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends," an apparent reference to Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
Biden did not answer a reporter's question about whether there should be an official U.S. presidential apology for the killings.
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