Biden suggests America hasn’t changed in Tulsa speech

The 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, in which black residents were murdered in bloody riots, was an opportunity for Joe Biden to be the uniter he promised to be. Instead the president gave a speech with more partisan ire than lofty ideas; more condemnation of America than belief in it.

The horror of Tulsa, where at least 39 died and likely many more as whites burned down “Black Wall Street” is a too-often forgotten dark chapter of our history, and it’s right to highlight it. But Biden suggested that the nation hasn’t come very far in the past century, and diminished the tragedy by pretending today’s voting laws are somehow equivalent. He accused Republicans seeking to secure election integrity of being “simply un-American,” and engaging in a “tireless assault on the right to vote,” an “unprecedented assault on our Democracy.”