What is Tulsa Race Massacre?

Joe Biden has made a history, the first sitting U.S. President in 100 years to visit the site of a massacre. Tulsa Massacre is where a mob of  a white American slaughtered hundreds of black Americans. 

Joe Biden visited the greenwood cultural center in Tulsa Oklahoma. it was at this site where almost 300 black Americans were brutally murdered by a white mob. This Tulsa race massacre or The Tulsa Race riot happened on 31st of May and the 1st of June 1921. 

What triggered this massacre? How did it spread why was it suppressed in American history? How does it echo in today's America?

In 1921, May 31st until the afternoon of June 1st a violent mob of Tulsa's white residents killed hundreds of black Americans and left their locality in ashes. This happened in greenwood a flourishing black dominated neighborhood that had sprung up at the start of the 20th century. 

It was separated by a railroad track from the city's white dominated part in the south the neighborhood's progress and prosperity stalked grudge among Tulsa's white residents, racial stress began to surface.

On May 30, 1921 it reached a tipping point a black man named "Dick Rowland" was imprisoned for allegedly assaulting a white woman. 

The next day an inflammatory report in the Tulsa Tribune motivated a confrontation between black and white armed mobs by the morning of June 1st the whiter's had looted and burned down the Greenwood area, leaving 300 dead in the violence and  left nearly 10,000 homeless some of the whiter's were assisted by city officials who irrespectively shot black people on the streets and according to the official  report  planes from above dropped dynamite on the neighborhood. 

The black Americans who survived this were imprisoned and sent to confinement camps. For eight decades the massacre was almost mentioned in newspapers, school textbooks and governmental conversations. 

It entered American history books recently after the  2001 report by the Tulsa race commission revealed how the massacre was actively covered up and how Tulsa city officials hide the bloodbath and shifted the narrative by calling it a riot and blame the black community for what went down. 

It's happened  a hundred years ago, still there has been no justice, no responsibility and no compensation to the victims. 

U.S President Joe Biden wants to destroy the decades of this injustice,  he went to Greenwood on Monday to meet the survivors.

Isn't any different in today's America,

• One in every 10 black men in his 30s is in jail.  
• Nearly 72.4 percent of  black students attend a high poverty school.
• An average black worker earns just 62 percent of an average white worker.
• And 28 percent of those killed by the police in 2020 were black Americans.

The Tulsa massacre continues to echo in America in different forms.