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USDOJ New Report on Tulsa’s “Racially Motivated Violence”

Bren Kelly
10 min readJan 13, 2025

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AG Clarke Re-Designs Massacre to Clarify State Systemic Racism

Here’s what “a coordinated, military-style attack looks like today under the military [courtesy of the taxpayers who fund the government on their military websites]

Why can’t reporters just say White? Why can they say Government? And why can’t they say what motivated such wide-scale violence, which looked like a massive war zone where a deliberate massacre of an enemy was intended? Hold on to that last one.

But first, the by-line of this story about the new report the USDOJ just released on the Tulsa Massacre from the Washington Post:

“A new report formally concludes that the 1921 attack in the Greenwood District was the result of racially motivated violence targeting Black residents, refuting an initial federal account from the time.”

I’ve just downloaded the full report from the USDOJ and plan to read it. It is from the Civil Rights Division headed by a highly competent civil rights black female lawyer, Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights Kristen Clarke. I’ve watched many of her and her staff’s recent reviews on their findings of police departments and found them highly professional and captivating in their professional, spot-on presentation and careful language. The attorneys go to the fullest extent that they are allowed to go under the law in implicating the police in Memphis and Alabama, to name two places they reviewed. The division investigated the…

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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