Tulsa massacre a reminder of persistent racism in US
America must come to terms with its dark side, Joe Biden tells survivors of mob attack in Oklahoma a century ago
02 June 2021 - 16:37
Tulsa — Joe Biden on Tuesday became the first US president to visit the site in Tulsa, Oklahoma where hundreds of black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921, and said the legacy of racist violence and white supremacy still resonates.
Biden was in the city to commemorate an event that epitomises the country’s history of racial violence, despite the massacre being largely ignored for years in US classrooms and history books...
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