Yesterday was the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. There are two survivors left. Ages 109. I think a lot about the failure of this nation to address this atrocity and many others. Not from the 17th, 18th or 19th century, but the 20th. And the determination of those survivors to live so long.
So many deserve acknowledgment and reparations. According to this article, they're waiting on a court verdict. www.essence.com/news/tulsa-r...
The two remaining survivors of this country’s worst instance of racial violence are awaiting the decision in their case for reparations currently before the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Sadly, His/story is subjective.
This is why teaching history is important. Our nation's original sin is with us still - and it has shown itself brutally time and again.
One of the living survivors, Viola Fletcher, published a memoir last year, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story.”
I was raised a couple of hours from there and had no idea it had occurred at all until it was depicted on HBO's Watchmen.