another event of massive massacre. as brian stevenson said, first you have to tell the truth which is a precondition for reconciliation which is the basis for repair. we have to confront what we have done, andrea, honestly, so that we can finally imagine ourselves differently or we will stay on this hamster wheel for another generation. >> but some of this is that it is wiped out of history books. i grew up in a family very involved and aware of the civil rights movement in the '60s. until i met the pastor from the church in tulsa, until i happened to meet him on an airplane, i did not know about tulsa myself and was deeply engaged in the history of the civil rights movement. in the '60s when i was still in
Memorial Day marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, when the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma — known as "Black Wall Street" — was burned to the ground by a white mob. An est...