Commentary If there is one reason why problems associated with race in America persist, it is because we pretend to address problems caused by one sin by exchanging them with other sins. President Biden has just issued a proclamation recognizing 100 years since the race massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. Greenwood was a wealthy black neighborhood, a center of black business, known as Black Wall Street, that was ravaged in two days of rioting by white racists. It resulted in the death of hundreds and the loss of property of thousands. It is indeed another tragic and painful memory of race relations in our nation’s history. The proclamation issued by President Biden states, “The Federal Government must reckon with and acknowledge the role that it has played in stripping wealth and opportunity from black communities.” I totally agree. What offends me is that …
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