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many of you know this story by now, 100 years ago a mob of white people bombs, burned and looted the greenwood neighborhood in tulsa, oklahoma known as black wall street. greenwood was burned to the ground with as many as 300 people slaughtered. survivors reported seeing boies tossed into mass graves into the arkansas river or loaded on to trucks or trains making a true tally of the death toll difficult. and the tulsa massacre others like it remain largely unknown because it was covered up and not a single person was held accountable. the quest for justice for the three known survivors and he's
that's the belief that justifies to them. republicans believe they can identify by race. we'll begin tonight with a discussion of what president biden called the truly unprecedented assault on our democracy of the republicans have launched this year and later in the hour, the professor cobb and caleb gayle, we'll consider in great details the assault on life itself that occurred in tulsa, oklahoma, 100 years ago. the democratic legislatures in texas and other states calling for help in washington now to defeat the assault on our democracy. today president biden said this. >> june should be a month of action on capitol hill. i hear all the folks on tv saying why don't biden get it done? well, biden only has the majority of four votes in the
professor, i want to begin with you. i want to get your reaction of what the president said in tulsa today. >> thank you, lawrence, i found it to be a fascinating speech. on the one hand there is this attempt to renarrate and tell a different kind of story about america's past, to reveal the truth. the number of clansmen and the way of details around the tulsa moment. it was almost as if it was a kind of explicit counter narrative to the cultural wars that's being waged by the republicans. there is a sense which president biden's speech put forth this kind of claim to be quick about
greenwood, home to what was then called black wall street. many american history classes in high school still did not include that story. today in the greenwood neighborhood in tulsa,oklahoma, the president of the united states told that story. >> through the night and in to the morning, the mob terrorized greenwood and tortured with guns and a mob tied a black man by a waist with his head banging along the pavement as they drove off. a murder black family drove over the fence of their homes outside. couples knelt by the beds and
that's what great nations do. they come to terms with their dark sides. we are a great nation. >> joining us now from tulsa is caleb gayle. a fellow at new america. he wrote the story "100 years after tulsa massacre" and mr. cobb at columbia university. he's an msnbc political analyst who just returned from reporting in tulsa. let me both, let me give both of you this, caleb gayle, beginning with you, you heard what the president said today. i want to give you an opportunity to react to the president's speech or any other aspect of this 100 years marking
today marking the massacre of black americans that occurred 100 years ago in tulsa,oklahoma. the vibrant business community called black wall street. president biden said this. >> let's unlock more than the incredible in innovations that'll come from historic universities. i have a $5 billion program, give me research to invest in high demand fields to compete in jobs. the reason students are equally able to learn as well and get the good paying jobs starting 90 or 100,000 bucks. they don't have the money to
describe what happened 100 years ago today. and so that's part of it. he's kind of settled that debate. in a bigger sense though, one of the things that disturbed me was conversations i had with people around tulsa, not all the people said this were white but people said well, you know, i'm not quite sure if things were as bad as they're saying they were. or -- did they really kill 300 people? that's a little hard to believe. and it is really not about what president biden said, but look at ugliness in the past, but we have to actually be willing to believe these things happen or else we leave ourselves open to them being recommitted in the present and future. >> that's exactly why i chose that particular piece of the video of the president's speech, he was going into those real
are very used to that pant he wears. but, it is a remarkable -- not so remarkable. semipredictable results in new mexico tonight. so far a stronger than expected showing for democrats. at the end of our hour we'll see exactly where the votes stand and we'll do it without steve cornacki which means i may have to take my jacket off. i am not sure. we'll see how it goes. >> okay. if you stand up and take your jacket off, i don't even want to be for the ratings coming in tomorrow. it will be overwhelming. >> yeah, you may reconsider the whole thing. thank you, rachel. >> thank you, lawrence. in tulsa, oklahoma, today, president biden describes "an assault on our democracy." he was talking about voting rights when he said that. he went to tulsa today to mark
an assault that happened there 100 years ago. these two assaults 100 years apart are both driven by white supremacists. that's what's behind both of the assaults that president biden talked about today. the one that happened 100 years ago was a violent, murderous attack that became a massacre of black people. so huge that no official accomplice accounted of the number of dead bodies after the white supremacist attack. the people of tulsa massacred their black neighbors and not only not want the black people to vote, they did not want them to breathe or live. the white supremacists of tulsa, did not just take away black people's rights to vote, they took away black people's rights to life.
piece about this 100-year-old event, it's amazing to consider there are still some living witnesses to it. >> without a doubt. i mean not only did she -- did mother fletcher mention that america has a tendency of forgetting this sort of event, it's that that forgetting was rather intentional. it was the goal of the city of tulsa to ensure that the stories that mother fletcher would tell would never reach outside the bounds of tulsa. the goal was ensure that people still wanted to flood into this booming city, as president biden mentioned earlier today. the goal was to ensure they made promises of restitution without spelling out what it would look like. reason that mother fletcher and her brother and mother randall are advocating in the way they are is because for so long their stories were silenced on purpose