TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Joe Biden became the first president of the United States to visit the site of the massacre Tulsa, 100 years since that moment of racial violence in America occurred.
Hundreds of black people killed by white mob in Tulsa between May 31 and June 1, 1921.
Tuesday (1/6/2021) local time, Biden observed a moment of silence at Greenwood Cultural Center for the victims of the mass murder, along with the three survivors.
Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis and Lessie Benningfield Randle were living witnesses to the murder in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sky News report.
Biden said, “It’s been too long since the history of what happened here was told in silence.”
“My American colleagues, this is not a riot.”
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“This is a massacre, and one of the worst in our history.”
“But this is not the only one.”
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