Tulsa Massacre 100 Years Later: Tulsa Native on What Justice Looks like for Black Wall Street

Award-winning writer and New America Fellows Caleb Gayle joins BNC host Del Walters to discuss the impact of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The massacre took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Gayle, who is from Tulsa, recently wrote a prolific piece for The New York Times titled, “100 Year After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like?,” which examines what the town embroiled with social and economic struggles looked like before the massacre.

Ironically, the writer tells Walters his first time learning about the destruction of Black Wall Street was at 17 years old, and while in church hearing the sermon of a guest preacher. Most people who live in the area never spoke about the bombing of the prosperous Black neighborhood.

“If you were too loud about the injustice done that injustice could be visited upon you again,” Caleb says about many people not knowing the massacre happened.

A century later, more people are speaking about the racist violence and what justice looks like not only in the Midwest town, which was once a flourishing hub for Black-owned businesses, but for America at large.

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