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From The Tulsa Massacre Deepens but Not Widens
How the Government Restrains Black History
The Narrative of Black American history that is allowed to enter the mainstream is limited. After one hundred years, the Tulsa massacre now lies just out of reach for many Americans — or for government white accountability to fix or make reparations for. It finally got investigated as a crime, not as a form of governance. The narrative was allowed to deepen, but it wasn’t allowed to widen.
Although the Biden administration allowed the “new” narrative to be examined in the USDOJ Civil Rights Division under AAG Kristen Clarke, no legal actions of charges occurred or “were allowed.” That’s too bad. Biden did not allow reparations, openly saying so and showing the depth of his spiritual and political philosophy.
Biden himself contains the issue of the limitations of looking at the width and not the depth. He has blocked reparations and not taken up the fight over his 50 years in government. We saw this blocking of justice by him, a white man representing a Jim Crow state, when he dropped the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. He ended his career five-decade career, getting nothing reparative done for Black Americans.
He did far more systemic harm during his career than most politicians. As a brief recap, he instrumentally co-destroyed the 25-year…
