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Tulita for the last 100 years than would have meant for all of tulsa including the white community. the people of greenwood rebuilt again in the years after the massacre. it didn't last. eventually neighborhoods were redlined on maps, locking black tulsa out of homeownerships. a highway was built right through the heart of the community. i was talking about our west side what 959 did after we were occupied by the military after dr. king was murdered. the community cutting off black families and hisses from jobs and opportunity. denied access to allow greenwood to be rebuilt. we must change the...

P. you've been listening to president biden joe biden speak in tulsa, oklahoma to mark 100 years since the city's deadly racist massacre against the black population of tulsa. president biden note the he's the first president in the last century to visit the city and acknowledge the horrors of that day when a white mob descend on a prosperous tulsa neighborhood known as black wall street robbing and killing hundreds of black residents, looting and burning down entire city blocks. cnn's abby philip is live in tulsa for cnn. president biden, he said he thinks this is a infliction point for the...

Give respect to mother randall, mother fletcher and mr. va n ellis. [ applause ] and to all those lost so many years ago, to all the descendants of those who suffered, to this community, that's why we're here, to shine a light, to make sure america knows the story in full. may 1921, formally enslaved black people are here in tulsa, a boom town of oil and opportunity and a new frontier.

Exactly what this visit was all about. the highest office in the land acknowledging for the first time what happened here in tulsa, and, you know, it's not just that there were individuals who perpetrated violence and crimes here 100 years ago. one of the things that black tulsans talk about all the time was that there was almost a state sanction of the massacre. the fire departments that didn't come out to take out fires. the national guard that was involved. planes that rained down fire on this community and so to acknowledge that from president biden i think is very, very significant here. ...

Jake, some of these proposals are going to require congressional approval. they are part of his american jobs plan that has not been approved by congress, but it's part of what the white house is trying to -- to talk about today which is not just what happened 100 years ago here in tulsa, but in the 100 years in that time, there were decades and decades of systemic racism, policies that were put in place by governments and cities that made it impossible for black people and black families to own and accumulate wealth, and some of the proposals are designed to rectify that though many people sa...