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Question, why is the senator from delaware in tulsa this morning? >> i'm here as part of a congressional delegation. as you know well, faith and politics is an organization that was long lead by our dear departed friend congressman john lewis of georgia. most years we would go on a pilgrim amg to historic sites in alabama. we also went on other pilgrimages to places like tennessee and south carolina and south africa. today we, as a delegation, are here in tulsa, to participate in the commemoration of this centennial, the 100th anniversary of the most brutal race riot, a massacre that happened ...

Grace and dignity and the depth of their pain that they still carry." she talked about how she remembered -- she's talking about mother fletcher talked about she remembers so well hearing the crowds as they were approaching and they lost everything. congresswoman edwards, earlier in the show, i was talking to senator coons there in tulsa and, you know, he talked about how, you know, even right now in that state, there are people who are so afraid of history, our history, that they're legislating against teaching it. how important is it? why is it so important that we talk about tulsa and not f...

Where i grew up or in my state. i'm joining congressman clyburn and others to add an important part about brown v. board of part of our national history. i think the reason, frankly, it's not taught more deeply in tulsa and oklahoma, in my home state, or elsewhere, we're afraid to open up the box of ugly chapters in american history. we can only come to appreciate how far we've come and we know how deeply wrong and badly broken these critical chapters in american history really were. >> the thing about the faith in politics is they are bipartisan. senator james lankford of oklahoma will be wit...

Human being. the fact we dumped bodies of human beings, of patriots, of veterans, teachers, husbands, wives, children in mass graves. >> mr. nelson, we're running out of time. i'll end with you, you were there on the ground in tulsa, umm, are the commemorations and the remembrances 100 years later, are they from you've been able to see, are they healing for tulsa? for greenwood? are they sort of adding to the pain? >> i think, you know, it's a first step in a healing but it's just the first step. you know, i mean, there's very much here aceps of community. a sense of resolution. so i think it'...

Lessons of the tulsa massacre of 1921. >> why are people afraid of history? i mean, we know that after the tulsa race riot in 1921, tulsa worked very hard to completely erase any mention about what happened in tulsa. as you're alluding to in oklahoma, there's now a law that says, well, you can't basically teach history. why are people afraid of history? >> you know, jonathan, it's something i've wrestled with myself in my own state. brown v. board of education is one of the most iconic supreme court cases in american history. yet it's actually a combination of five cases. one of them based on ...