'Let's not tie it to skin color': Oklahoma superintendent says racism not to blame for infamous Tulsa massacre
'Let's not tie it to skin color': Oklahoma superintendent says racism not to blame for infamous Tulsa massacre
Far-right Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters suggested at a public hearing in Norman that lessons about the infamous racial massacre that destroyed the most prosperous Black community in Oklahoma don't have to mention race, reported Fox 25 News."The Cleveland County Republican Party invited ...
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Given the intentions of Ryan Walters for Oklahoma schools, this might be as good of a place as any to mention the Greenwood Rising museum, opened in Tulsa in 2021 for the 100th anniversary of the massacre. It's an absolutely fantastic place.
From talking with people who went through the OK public school system, this history hasn't really been given much attention even prior to the latest shenanigans. It boggles the mind to think that thousands of black residents of Tulsa were rounded up and interned around town, and the incident wasn't even included in the state curriculum for 80 years.
Oklahoma as a state only makes sense if the citizens don't know the history of it. The entire country is built on stealing shit from people of color, but the looting and pillaging of Oklahoma is such recent history.
Greenwood Rising Museum
Thank you for mentioning it, I will have to go check it out sometime