Black Lives Matter
Let’s be better white allies
Yesterday, I attended a large protest (estimated 100s to 1000s of people) in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma on the 99th anniversary of The Tulsa Race Massacre:
The massacre — one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history — began on May 31, 1921, when a white mob descended on Greenwood, an African American community so prosperous it was called Black Wall Street. Over the next 48 hours, historians believe as many as 300 black people were killed and more than 10,000 were left homeless, after businesses and homes were burned to the ground. There were reports of airplanes flying above Greenwood and dropping kerosene bombs.- the Washington Post
When I arrived to the peaceful protest, I saw BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People of Color) of the Tulsa community peacefully and powerfully unifying the crowd and then transitioning us into the march through downtown Tulsa. We began our peaceful protest in the Greenwood District where the Tulsa Race Massacre occurred. This district has recently been revitalized, with businesses like Silhouette, The Black…
