About US: A Tulsa survivor says the country 'may forget this history, but I cannot. I will not.’

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online Candid conversations about identity in 21st-century America. Presented by Morgan Stanley       By Vanessa Williams  Email One of the conversations that has emerged during coverage of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race riot is the fact that many residents of the city had never heard about how Whites massacred Black residents and burned their homes and businesses to the ground. It wasn't taught in schools nor was there much public acknowledgment of the violence that took place from May 31 to June 1, 1921. The incident drew national interest after it was dramatized in the opening scene of the 2019 HBO miniseries, "Watchmen." Tulsa was further amplified last year after the murder of George Floyd heightened calls for confronting historical systemic racism and violence against Black Americans. The Tulsa race riots was one of dozens of such attacks on Black Americans in cities and towns around the country during the early decades of the 1900s. I grew up in Florida, where in 1923 racists attacked the predominantly Black town of Rosewood, murdering residents and burning their homes and businesses. I didn't learn about Rosewood in school, but from a 1982 story in the Tampa Bay Times. In the vast majority of these incidents, no White people were held accountable for the loss of Black lives and property. At a time when Black Americans are demanding the country not only acknowledge these atrocities, but begin to take steps to make amends, conservatives across the country are railing against setting the historical record straight by condemning "critical race theory." Beyond rhetorical attacks, some local and state lawmakers are passing laws forbidding its use. In doing so their actions could be interpreted as proving a central argument of critical race theory scholars: that White people in power have used the law to discriminate against people of color and perpetuate racial inequality. 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