107-year-old survivor of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Testifies in front of Congress 😳

[Caliman73]

8. The worst thing about this is that SO FEW people even know this occurred...

And that this was actually one of the worst, of several incidents like this, where angry White people destroyed communities of color that had been built up successfully through the hard work of those communities, for nothing more than racial hatred.

When people say that we have moved on from racism, or are against the teaching of Critical Theory, I always point out that we are only about 150 years removed from when people owned slaves, only 100 years removed from when Black people, Latinos, and Asian people were lynched just for being who they are, less than 60 years from when segregation was still legal, and just two years before I was born, anti-Miscegenation laws were finally struck down nationwide. I am not yet 50 and there were laws that prohibited people with different skin color from marrying still on the books just before I was born, my sister was already born at that time.

We are progressing slowly and painfully, but we will NEVER move through this until everything is brought out into the open and dealt with honestly.