The last three known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre – one of the country’s deadliest acts of racial violence – will appeal a judge’s recent decision to dismiss their lawsuit seeking reparations to the state Supreme Court, their attorneys announced Monday.
I found it absolutely baffling that there was a push to get it taught in a way that doesn’t suggest it occurred based on race. It’s not just ludicrous, but rather malicious. Once you edit out that key fact, what else gets edited out?
I agree, but this isn’t even about education. Even if they never taught it in any school, these people were still directly affected by it and deserve restitution.
Good. Denying it to them is unconscionable. They were clearly wronged and to suggest that it wasn’t due to systemic racism is ludicrous.
I found it absolutely baffling that there was a push to get it taught in a way that doesn’t suggest it occurred based on race. It’s not just ludicrous, but rather malicious. Once you edit out that key fact, what else gets edited out?
I agree, but this isn’t even about education. Even if they never taught it in any school, these people were still directly affected by it and deserve restitution.