President Biden went to Oklahoma on Tuesday.
He spoke on the massacre in Tulsa.
President Biden in Tulsa:
"Just because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. And while darkness can hide much, it erases nothing … Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they can't be buried no matter how hard people try." pic.twitter.com/zS5zO4R88U
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 1, 2021
"Hell was unleashed. Literal hell was unleashed," President Biden says in speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. pic.twitter.com/hlHwyF3bJw
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 1, 2021
I was honored to meet two survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Mother Viola Fletcher and Mr. Hughes Van Ellis. They are resilient and resolute, and today, we recommit to rooting out systemic racism.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 1, 2021
Pres Biden in Tulsa: "We can't just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know."
*Crowd applauded*
He added, "We should know the good, the bad, everything. That's what great nation do. They come to terms with their dark sides. And we're a great nation."
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1399830637616320512?s=19
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First of all, we have a false notion that Tulsa was an oasis of exceptional Black people. It wasn't even the MOST POPULAR "Black Wall Street."
Look up the Hayti neighborhood in Durham. Look up Boley, Oklahoma. Look up Richmond's Black Wall Street.https://t.co/Ee2i3H812g
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) May 30, 2021
People are learning about Tulsa for the first time. Don’t stop. Educate yourself about all of this. All of it. That fuse of fury was unleashed all across America and some would rather we forget. We cannot. We must not. pic.twitter.com/1LDDF8D4DS
— Michele Norris (@michele_norris) June 1, 2021
From: Events of the Tulsa Disaster by Mrs. Mary E. Jones Parrish. Tulsa, Oklahoma
MORE 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Resources in the Collections: https://t.co/2Chq9vJKZX pic.twitter.com/YtTkgWxwdM— Beinecke Library (@BeineckeLibrary) May 31, 2021
For the past 17 months, a group of WSJ's Black journalists, along with other journalists of color worked on a series of 9 stories examining the economic ramifications of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
I'm extremely proud to share our work. (outside the paywall) https://t.co/oujuQb1r5i— Kimberly S. Johnson (@KimberlyReports) May 29, 2021
ICYMI yesterday – a very useful primer on the intergenerational wealth implications of the violence // The Tulsa massacre wasn't an isolated event – it was part of a long pattern of racial violence. Here are some of the other incidents that shaped America. https://t.co/XLvWyVlW1r
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) June 1, 2021
@LJLaw (@LarryJa47193568) tweeted at 9:02 AM on Tue, Jun 01, 2021:
It should also be considered in the context of black farmers being excluded from agri capital and lending programs, abuse of the legal system to take land from black families 1900-1975ish, & redlining, restrictive covenants, etc, all denying wealth to black families.
100 Years After The Tulsa Massacre, Here’s Why Hollywood Needs To Invest In Black Storytellers https://t.co/WPQ5z1Bh7k #TulsaRaceMassacreAnniversary
— Forbes (@Forbes) June 1, 2021
#BREAKING: Biden puts Harris in charge of efforts to protect voting rights: "It’s going to take a hell of a lot of work" https://t.co/gZ43H212NE pic.twitter.com/LhpP9LbKJk
— The Hill (@thehill) June 1, 2021
INBOX: In a statement, Harris addresses Biden deputizing her on voting rights pic.twitter.com/aEON3xKrGH
— Errin Haines 🐴🤠🇺🇸🍑 (@errinhaines) June 1, 2021
Obama: "Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job."
"90% of the folks who were there in my admin, they are continuing and building on the policies we talked about, whether it's the Affordable Care Act, or our climate change agenda." https://t.co/koPSkx5Uij
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 1, 2021
Daily Kos (@dailykos) tweeted at 4:07 PM on Thu, Jun 03, 2021:
Kristen Clarke confirmed and either Republicans are eerily quiet or their voices aren’t registering https://t.co/ylhExoDglK
(https://twitter.com/dailykos/status/1400559835897290758?s=02)
May God help black folk..🤔🥴😥😔
Yogi 700 @Y7fyogi700:
Bill Clinton, Barak Obama, Donald Trump, and Myself At Lunch… That’s The Typa Shit I’m On.
https://twitter.com/Y7fyogi700/status/1392936919181324289?s=20
Yogi 700 @Y7fyogi700:
This Man Is The Biggest Boss of All American Presidents… Even Obama Holds Clinton To A High Regard… Tell Me I’m Lying? I’ll Wait.
https://twitter.com/Y7fyogi700/status/1400577335183638532?s=20
Yogi 700 @Y7fyogi700:
Just got a DM telling me that because I support police officers and think they deserve more money for the job they do I’m a turd. Face with tears of joy bitch stfu. POLICE OFFICERS DO DESERVE MORE MONEY. they risk their lives every day just like soldiers. Most cops are actually very friendly.
https://twitter.com/Y7fyogi700/status/1399290239793852421?s=20
Ari Berman (@AriBerman) tweeted at 5:46 PM on Thu, Jun 03, 2021:
It’s just incredible to hear Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema say voting rights legislation needs bipartisan supermajority in Senate when GOP is unilaterally changing the rules in the states to prevent Dems from ever winning another fair election. Total asymmetric warfare
(https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1400584754324455427?s=03)
BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) tweeted at 9:36 PM on Wed, Jun 02, 2021:
Krysten Sinema is a ⚪ supremacist. The sooner people look beyond her goofy ass wigs and knee high boots, they will understand she isn’t merely a flakey ditzy conservative Democrat. Like Manchin her loyalty is to ⚪ Nationalism. Unlike him, she needs votes of BIPOC to win again.
(https://twitter.com/blackwomenviews/status/1400280229243985921?s=03)
Happy Birthday Dr FLOTUS 😍🤗🎉🎊
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💛🐝 Lauren-Ashley Howard (@LaurenAshley087) tweeted at 11:18 PM on Wed, Jun 02, 2021:
So, I’m on the phone with my mom, and she tells me that some RANDOM Karen came to the house the other day and started SHRIEKING at my stepfather that it was really *her* house because of some letter she got in the mail (don’t ask, idek), and then called the cops on him.
(https://twitter.com/LaurenAshley087/status/1400305772106588166?s=03)
Wish there was video. Would play on a loop 🤣🤣🤣
💛🐝 Lauren-Ashley Howard (@LaurenAshley087) tweeted at 11:18 PM on Wed, Jun 02, 2021:
My mom bought that house when I was in elementary school, and is, as many of you know…a judge.
Our neighborhood officers rolled up and were like “Hi, Your Honor.”
Idk what Karen THOUGHT was gonna happen, but long story short, she was escorted off our property. 🤷🏾♀️
(https://twitter.com/LaurenAshley087/status/1400305774249795588?s=03)
Modern day Schoolhouse Rock 🤗
Barack Obama (@BarackObama) tweeted at 0:23 PM on Wed, Jun 02, 2021:
Michelle and I are excited to share our latest show from Higher Ground: We The People. Some of our favorite artists got together with amazing animators to remix civics—and the result is a lot better than what we had in school. Check it out on @Netflix this July 4. https://t.co/PlsSyq5pgk
(https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1400140945975386113?s=03)
TV Fanatic👑⚜️ (@TvKhaleesi) tweeted at 3:59 PM on Wed, Jun 02, 2021:
No wonder the British Royals were so concerned about Archie’s skin color and wanted to change a law so he wouldn’t be a Prince. That family and their staff have been racist since forever. I am glad Meghan Markle and Prince Harry left when they did. https://t.co/dOxk9SKGlP
(https://twitter.com/TvKhaleesi/status/1400195445402517505?s=03)
Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) tweeted at 4:21 PM on Wed, Jun 02, 2021:
“Kemter said he was emailed by an event organizer (whom he declined to name) asking him to remove a part of his speech dealing with Black Americans’ role in an early Memorial Day-type of ceremony.” https://t.co/XRy8BJSQZ3
(https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1400201034971193350?s=03)
BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) tweeted at 10:44 PM on Tue, Jun 01, 2021:
In Tulsa and beyond, Biden tasks Black women with fighting the legacy of inequity <–Let's make sure we rally behind the efforts of #MVPHarris, Sec Fudge & all the powerhouses in the #BidenHarris admin; & for those who obstruct hold their feet to the flame https://t.co/eWfdcweL7d
(https://twitter.com/blackwomenviews/status/1399934911914680321?s=03)
LOL.. As if..
And the Orwellian snookering continues.. paid 2-bit fluffer, the Dem edition, ensues..
And just like that.. we’ve gone from a dangerously corrupt, insane Orwellian set-up complete with shameless, grifting fluffers, to whatever this desperately laughable farce of a movie is… couched and cheaply dripping in that now sadly bastardized, heavily trafficked, seriously misused, glaringly exploitative/manipulative, forced, ‘black women’ narrative.. that’s only served to hijack, force-feed, distort, deceive, strangle, dissemble, grift, trivialize, cheapen..
Selective amnesia galore.. shuffling the proletariat from one cheap Tupperware party from hell, to the next.. albeit, with some modicum of ‘normality’ and semblance of return to, resumption of conventional governance after 4 nightmarish years of whatever that bloody insanity was..
But it’s still revisionism…still gaslighting… and it’s all just so unbelievably blatant.. LOL..
And courtesy of pay-to-play, 2-bit social media ‘influencers’, no less.. hired to ‘cheerlead’, and paid for their ‘enthusiasm’, agenda-driven selective faux ‘outrage’, endless attempts at embellishing, glossing over.. justifying and pushing all manner of bullsh*t entirely in service to their person and ‘adjacents’.. so brazenly repackaging and selling all manner of un-kosher folk and un-kosher stuff as suddenly now ‘good’, ‘cool’, competent, and even, ‘aspirational’.. LOL..
And there’s the other more ‘established’ straddling clout chasers …the usual suspects. the pen/mouth for-hire suspects forever chasing access and validation.. and grateful to be ‘cultivated’ and perennially featured in installed politicians’ cocktail circuits.. all jumping from one bandwagon to the next..singing for their supper.. And trying their darnedest to help the politician in exchange for access .. and shaping, pushing, specific narratives on their behalf..
All desperately self-serving, fork-tongued, disingenuous, flip-flopping, wagon-hopping, slithering their way into marginal ‘relevance’, paid gigs, by hitching their for-hire bargain-basement fluffer wagons to the contrived mediocre politico creation who still can’t cut it organically.. so that an ‘online army’ has to be hired, paid, to “amplify”.. fluff up, force-feed the silly masses, literal tripe heavily marinated in now yawn-inducing, terribly overused and mostly worn-out, ‘black women’ isms.. to hoodwink, shamelessly gaslight, mask the rot..
It’d all be quite hilarious, if it weren’t so embarrassingly obvious.. desperate ..and so damagingly shortsighted in the long-term …fleeting and dubiously ‘provisional’ in that way these transactional antics and their purveyors usually end up …imploding, splintering, turning on each other.. and in the end, and when push really comes to shove.. entirely in it for the grift..
One minute you’re the racist scum of the earth.. next thing, they’re declaring you better than Jesus.. wink-wink… as they maneuver …scheme …dupe.. scam..
Secretary Deb Haaland (@SecDebHaaland) tweeted at 5:33 PM on Tue, Jun 01, 2021:
Equality for LGBTQ+ people is more than just a policy issue for me. As the mom of a child who, very early on in life asserted their individuality, I am fully committed to enacting policies that ensure everyone is treated with respect and dignity. #Pride2021
(https://twitter.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1399856695480827904?s=03)
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) tweeted at 6:00 AM on Wed, Jun 02, 2021:
Nikki Fried, Florida’s highest-ranking Democrat, is running for governor, hoping to unseat Ron DeSantis.
https://t.co/lR7CIGDPut
(https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1400044530427215876?s=03)
Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) tweeted at 6:44 AM on Wed, Jun 02, 2021:
Biden’s sweeping agenda is designed to promote job growth, so a report that doesn’t show robust job growth would seem to argue for Biden’s sweeping agenda.
(https://twitter.com/jkfecke/status/1400055711757791232?s=03)
Candidly Tiff: Realistic 🧚🏽 (@tify330) tweeted at 10:09 PM on Tue, Jun 01, 2021:
If you think Chuck didn’t ask for this you are a fool. It’s a team effort. He just brought Marc Elias in to talk to Manchin and his caucus. Did you know Marc Elias worked as General Counsel for Candidate Kamala Harris. It’s all interconnected.
(https://twitter.com/tify330/status/1399926091557621763?s=03)
Qondi 💛 🐝 🇺🇸🇿🇦🇿🇼 (@QondiNtini) tweeted at 2:54 PM on Tue, Jun 01, 2021:
This environment is awful for introverts, women and Black people. We are often penalized on “intangibles” that are not job related. Not participating in “office culture” like gossip, happy hours and after hours work events is often used against us. Not now because no one can. 😂
(https://twitter.com/QondiNtini/status/1399816674933710848?s=03)
Qondi 💛 🐝 🇺🇸🇿🇦🇿🇼 (@QondiNtini) tweeted at 0:40 PM on Tue, Jun 01, 2021:
CEOs hate remote work because “corporate culture” has collapsed. The support structure made work bearable. Now people realize they’re unfulfilled and overworked. Also management doesn’t have fake reasons to promote their white bros like “team player” or “go getter” or “presence”
(https://twitter.com/QondiNtini/status/1399782831191166979?s=03)
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Lynn V (@lynnv378) tweeted at 7:10 PM on Tue, Jun 01, 2021:
DeSantis is going to enact every one of Trump’s executive orders in Florida. Who is keeping track?
(https://twitter.com/lynnv378/status/1399881176924540928?s=03)
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊