Biden honours victims of ‘forgotten’ Tulsa race massacre

As many as 300 Black Americans were killed in racist violence that devastated the prosperous Tulsa community of Greenwood in 1921.

Joe Biden on Tuesday became the first sitting president of the United States to visit the site in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921, saying the United States must learn from one of the worst episodes of racist violence in the country’s history. The Democrat marked the centenary of the massacre by meeting the few remaining survivors of the violence. “This was not a riot, this was a massacre,” Biden said in a speech to survivors and their descendants. “(It was) among the worst in our history – but not the only one and, for too long, forgotten by our history.