On Tuesday, Joe Biden became the first American president to visit the ruins of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1921, hundreds of black Americans were massacred there by white mobs. He said that the United States must recover from the most serious incident of racism. Lessons learned in one. Violent incidents in the country’s history.

The Democratic Party stated Centenary of the Holocaust By meeting with the few remaining survivors of violence.

“This is not a riot, this is a massacre,” Biden said in a speech to the survivors and their descendants. “(This is) one of the worst events in our history-but not the only one, and has been forgotten by our history for a long time.

“As soon as this happened, we wanted to erase it from our collective memory… For a long time, the schools in Tulsa didn’t even teach it, let alone schools elsewhere.”

On May 31 and June 1, 1921, white residents of Tulsa shot and killed as many as 300 black people, and burned and looted houses and businesses after a white woman accused a black man of assault. One allegation has never been confirmed.

The rampage destroyed the African-American community in Greenwood, which was very prosperous at the time, and it was called Black Wall Street. Historians say that 10,000 people were homeless in the early days.

But the insurance company does not bear the losses, and no one has been charged for the violence.

Biden said that the legacy of racist violence and white supremacy continues to resonate in the United States.

“We should know the good, the bad, everything. This is what great nations do,” he said. “They accepted their dark side. We are a great country.”

Biden said that the fatal attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and the efforts of some states to restrict voting rights are echoes of the same issue.

Biden said: “What happened in Greenwood was an act of hatred and domestic terrorism. Today there is a straight line.”

Biden said that earlier this year, a far-right supporter of then President Donald Trump reminded a survivor of the attack. Stormed into the parliament building And Congress is proving that Biden will win the 2020 election.

Earlier, the White House announced a series of Policy measures against racial inequality, Including plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in communities suffering from persistent poverty like Greenwood, and efforts to combat housing discrimination.

The families of the affected Oklahoma residents have asked for financial compensation, and Biden only promised to further study this measure.

Biden said that his government will soon announce measures to combat hate crimes and white supremacist violence. He said the intelligence community has concluded that this is “the most deadly threat to the motherland.”

Vote

He also commissioned Vice President Kamala Harris (Kamala Harris) to lead his government’s efforts to oppose Republican Party restrictions on voting rights. Kamala Harris was the first black and Asian American to hold that position.

Several Republican-led states believe that election security needs to be strengthened. Voting restrictions on approved or proposed, Biden and other Democrats said this is designed to make it more difficult for black voters to vote.

Biden said, “There has been an unprecedented attack on our democracy,” and vowed to fight for the rights of voters. “This sacred right has been attacked more strongly than ever before.”

Biden was the victim of Tulsa after meeting with three people Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis and Lacey Benningfield Randall who lived in Greenwood during the Holocaust A moment of silence.

Now, survivors between the ages of 101 and 107 have spoken to Congress earlier this year, demanding “justice” and the country’s recognition of their suffering.They are also parties Prosecution against state and local officials seeking remedies for the Holocaust, including the establishment of a victim compensation fund.

In 2001, a committee specializing in this tragedy concluded that the Tulsa authorities themselves had armed some white thugs and recommended compensation.

The mayor of Tulsa this week formally apologized for the city’s failure to protect the community.

Biden did not answer reporters’ questions about whether the president should formally apologize for the killing.

The president “supports research on compensation, but believes that the first task before us is to eradicate systemic racism,” said spokesman Karin Jean-Pierre.

Racial liquidation

Biden, who is popular among black Americans, went to Tulsa during the racial reconciliation in the United States. Since last year, the momentum of such reconciliation has increased. Murder of George Floyd, A black man choked to death under the knee of a white policeman in Minneapolis, sparking protests across the country and elsewhere in the world.

Biden regards addressing racial inequality as a key platform for his 2020 campaign, and has been doing so since taking office. Last week, on the anniversary of Freud’s death, he met with Freud’s family and is pushing for the passage of the police reform bill named after Freud.

But Biden’s record on race issues is complicated. He came under fire in the 2020 campaign against the school bus program that helped integrate American schools in the 1970s. He also initiated the 1994 Crime Act, which civil rights experts said led to an increase in mass incarceration, and defended his work with two southern segregationist senators during his tenure in the United States Senate.

His visit on Tuesday is in stark contrast to a year ago, when Trump, a Republican who criticized black life issues and other racial justice movements, planned to hold a political rally in Tulsa on June 19.June 15′ 1865 celebrated the anniversary of the end of slavery in the United States. The rally was postponed due to criticism.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, once a stronghold of the slave-owning state and the Ku Klux Klan, racial differences are still obvious.

There is a clear inequality between the north (mostly black) and south (mostly white) of Tulsa.

When US President Joe Biden visited Tulsa to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre in 1921, a girl looked out from the crowd, hoping to see him [Lawrence Bryant/Reuters]

Local activist Christie Williams is a descendant of some Holocaust victims. She told AFP that she hoped Biden would “treat us right”.

“100 years have passed and we have been negatively affected, from housing and economic development to our land being occupied,” she said. “This country, now has the opportunity to correct this mistake.”

In recent years, the public’s awareness of the Tulsa killings has increased. They have not been taught in history classes for decades, and the newspapers have not reported these incidents.

“It is necessary for us to share the major flaws of the past and inequality with each generation,” said Frances Jordan-Rakestraw, executive director of the Greenwood Cultural Center, which is about a visit to Biden Museum of the Holocaust.