The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. It was also part of a larger pattern of assault, one that targeted communities of color across the country. Learn more in this installment of “History Refocused.”
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"Once upon a time in the West, there were over 200 Chinese communities until the Chinese [people] who lived in them were driven out."
拜登说: "这不是骚乱,这是大屠杀。"
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Biden: "This was not a riot. This was a massacre."
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President Biden said during his speech in Tulsa that there was "no proper accounting of the dead" from the Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred 100 years ago.
"The death toll records by local officials said there were 36 people. That's all. Thirty-six people. Based on studies, records, and accounts, the likelihood — the likely number is much more in the multiple of hundreds," Biden said.
The President said that an untold number of bodies were dumped into mass graves, adding, "the process of exhuming the unmarked graves has started."
He then paused his speech for a moment of silence to honor those who died.
"My fellow Americans, this was not a riot. This was a massacre. Among the worst in our history," Biden said.
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Biden: I'm the first president in 100 years to "acknowledge the truth" of what took place in Tulsa
From CNN's Maureen Chowdhury
President Biden noted how the tragic events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has been "cloaked in darkness" for too long in history during his remarks in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"The events we speak of today took place 100 years ago, and yet I'm the first president in 100 years ever to come to Tulsa," Biden said.
"I say that not as a compliment about me, but to think about it. Hundred years, and the first president to be here during that entire time, and in this place, in this ground to acknowledge the truth of what took place here," he said.
Biden continued, "For much too long the history of what took place here was told in silence. Cloaked in darkness, but just because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. And while darkness can hide much, it erases nothing. It erases nothing. Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous they can't be buried no matter how hard people try. And so it is here, only, only with truth, can come healing and justice and repair, only with truth, facing it, but that isn't enough."