{"id":547271,"date":"2021-05-31T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547271"},"modified":"2021-05-31T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T21:20:55","slug":"biden-issues-proclamation-on-tulsa-race-massacre-calls-on-americans-to-eradicate-systemic-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-issues-proclamation-on-tulsa-race-massacre-calls-on-americans-to-eradicate-systemic-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Issues Proclamation On Tulsa Race Massacre, Calls On Americans To \u2018Eradicate Systemic Racism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-issues-proclamation-on-tulsa-race-massacre-calls-on-americans-to-eradicate-systemic-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8845972A-E7D0-4A73-B5DD-5F9CA3D999C6_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Monday, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation for the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and declared May 31, 2021, a \u201cDay of Remembrance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/roaring-twenties\/tulsa-race-massacre\"><span class=\"s1\">history.com<\/span><\/a>, the Tulsa Race Massacre took place over 18 hours from May 31 to June 1, 1921 in the mostly black Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe event remains one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, and, for a period, remained one of the least-known: News reports were largely squelched, despite the fact that hundreds of people were killed and thousands left homeless,\u201d the website wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The massacre began after an incident occurred between a black man and a white woman. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tulsahistory.org\/exhibit\/1921-tulsa-race-massacre\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Tulsa Historical Society and Museum<\/span><\/a>, Tulsa police arrested the young man and started an investigation. A report in the Tulsa Tribune, however, initiated \u201ca confrontation between black and white armed mobs around the courthouse where the sheriff and his men had barricaded the top floor to protect Rowland. Shots were fired and the outnumbered African Americans began retreating to the Greenwood District.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The historical society continued, \u201cIn the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, Greenwood was looted and burned by white rioters. Governor Robertson declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa. Guardsmen assisted firemen in putting out fires, took African Americans out of the hands of vigilantes and imprisoned all black Tulsans not already interned. Over 6,000 people were held at the Convention Hall and the Fairgrounds, some for as long as eight days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After the violence ended, \u201c35 city blocks lay in charred ruins, more than 800 people were treated for injuries and contemporary reports of deaths began at 36. Historians now believe as many as 300 people may have died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Biden is scheduled to visit Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday where he will deliver a speech and meet with survivors, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/31\/joe-biden-tulsa-proclamation-491450\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koco.com\/article\/president-joe-biden-coming-to-tulsa-for-tulsa-race-massacre-commemoration\/36533384\"><span class=\"s1\">reportedly<\/span><\/a> putting together the \u201cRemember &#038; Rise\u201d event on May 31 that will include a performance by singer John Legend, and speakers, including Stacey Abrams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koco.com\/article\/president-joe-biden-coming-to-tulsa-for-tulsa-race-massacre-commemoration\/36533384\"><span class=\"s1\">statement<\/span><\/a> on social media about Biden\u2019s visit, saying, \u201cWe are grateful that President Biden will join in the centennial commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. His visit honors our neighbors who were killed in this city\u2019s worst moment and the work being done to build a better Tulsa for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In his proclamation, Biden called on Americans \u201cto reflect on the deep roots of racial terror in our Nation and recommit to the work of rooting out systemic racism across our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c<span class=\"s2\">The Federal Government must reckon with and acknowledge the role that it has played in stripping wealth and opportunity from Black communities,\u201d Biden said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He also <\/span>discussed his own policy proposals, adding, \u201c<span class=\"s2\">The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to acknowledging the role Federal policy played in Greenwood and other Black communities and addressing longstanding racial inequities through historic investments in the economic security of children and families, programs to provide capital for small businesses in economically disadvantaged areas, including minority-owned businesses, and ensuring that infrastructure projects increase opportunity, advance racial equity and environmental justice, and promote affordable access.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/05\/31\/a-proclamation-on-day-of-remembrance-100-years-after-the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre\/\"><span class=\"s1\">proclamation<\/span><\/a> below:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"122\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>One hundred years ago, a violent white supremacist mob raided, firebombed, and destroyed approximately 35 square blocks of the thriving Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Families and children were murdered in cold blood. Homes, businesses, and churches were burned. In all, as many as 300 Black Americans were killed, and nearly 10,000 were left destitute and homeless. Today, on this solemn centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, I call on the American people to reflect on the deep roots of racial terror in our Nation and recommit to the work of rooting out systemic racism across our country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Before the Tulsa Race Massacre, Greenwood was a thriving Black community that had grown into a proud economic and cultural hub. At its center was Greenwood Avenue, commonly known as Black Wall Street. Many of Greenwood\u2019s 10,000 residents were Black sharecroppers who fled racial violence after the Civil War.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>In the decades following the Civil War and Reconstruction, Greenwood became a place where Black Americans were able to make a new start and secure economic progress despite the continued pain of institutional and overt racism. The community was home to a growing number of prominent Black entrepreneurs as well as working-class Black families who shared a commitment to social activism and economic opportunity. As Greenwood grew, Greenwood Avenue teemed with successful Black-owned businesses, including restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, and offices for doctors, lawyers, and dentists. The community also maintained its own school system, post office, a savings and loan institution, hospital, and bus and taxi service.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>Despite rising Jim Crow systems and the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan, Greenwood\u2019s economic prosperity grew, as did its citizens\u2019 demands for equal rights. This made the community a source of pride for many Black Americans. It also made the neighborhood and its families a target of white supremacists. In 2 days, a violent mob tore down the hard-fought success of Black Wall Street that had taken more than a decade to build.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>In the years that followed, the destruction caused by the mob was followed by laws and policies that made recovery nearly impossible. In the aftermath of the attack, local ordinances were passed requiring new construction standards that were prohibitively expensive, meaning many Black families could not rebuild. Later, Greenwood was redlined by mortgage companies and deemed \u201chazardous\u201d by the Federal Government so that Black homeowners could not access home loans or credit on equal terms. And in later decades, Federal investment, including Federal highway construction, tore down and cut off parts of the community. The attack on Black families and Black wealth in Greenwood persisted across generations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>The Federal Government must reckon with and acknowledge the role that it has played in stripping wealth and opportunity from Black communities. The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to acknowledging the role Federal policy played in Greenwood and other Black communities and addressing longstanding racial inequities through historic investments in the economic security of children and families, programs to provide capital for small businesses in economically disadvantaged areas, including minority-owned businesses, and ensuring that infrastructure projects increase opportunity, advance racial equity and environmental justice, and promote affordable access.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>A century later, the fear and pain from the devastation of Greenwood is still felt. As Viola Fletcher, a 107-year-old survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre courageously testified before the Congress recently, \u201cI will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>With this proclamation, I commit to the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, including Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, the descendants of victims, and to this Nation that we will never forget. \u00a0We honor the legacy of the Greenwood community, and of Black Wall Street, by reaffirming our commitment to advance racial justice through the whole of our government, and working to root out systemic racism from our laws, our policies, and our hearts.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 31, 2021, a Day of Remembrance: 100 Years After The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. I call upon the people of the United\u00a0States to commemorate the tremendous loss of life and security that occurred over those 2 days in 1921, to celebrate the bravery and resilience of those who survived and sought to rebuild their lives again, and commit together to eradicate systemic racism and help to rebuild communities and lives that have been destroyed by it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two\u00a0thousand\u00a0twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United\u00a0States of\u00a0America the two\u00a0hundred and forty-fifth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation for the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and declared May 31, 2021, a \u201cDay of Remembrance.\u201dAccording to history.com, the Tulsa &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278704,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8845972A-E7D0-4A73-B5DD-5F9CA3D999C6_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Issues Proclamation On Tulsa Race Massacre, Calls On Americans To \u2018Eradicate Systemic Racism\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8845972A-E7D0-4A73-B5DD-5F9CA3D999C6_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Issues Proclamation On Tulsa Race Massacre, Calls On Americans To \u2018Eradicate Systemic Racism\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}