USDOJ Report on Tulsa’s White Government Reveals Racist Massacre

A Great New Intersection for Viewing Systemic Racism

Captured Negroes during Tulsa Race Riot, 1921–06–01 | The University of Tulsa Archival Catalog

Why can’t reporters just say, White? Why can they say Government? And why can’t they say what motivated such wide-scale violence, which looked like a massive warzone where a deliberate massacre of an enemy was intended? Hold on to that last one.

But first, the by-line of this story about the new report the USDOJ just released on the Tulsa Massacre from the Washington Post:

“A new report formally concludes that the 1921 attack in the Greenwood District was the result of racially motivated violence targeting Black residents, refuting an initial federal account from the time.”

I’ve just downloaded the full report from the USDOJ and plan to read it. It is from the Civil Rights Division headed by a highly competent civil rights black female lawyer, Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights Kristen Clarke. I’ve watched many of her and her staff’s recent reviews on their findings of police departments and found them highly professional and captivating in their professional, spot-on presentation and careful language. The attorneys go to the fullest extent that they are allowed to go under the law in implicating the police in Memphis and Alabama, to name two places they reviewed…