Unspeakable

This book opened some wounds. I knew it would. We all need to know the history good and bad in order to proceed in this world. Hate is something I will never understand. There is room for us all. The US needs to stop hiding it and keep it 100 with the public. As a result of this book I am in a rabbit hole about this horrible moment in American History.

The Tulsa Race Massacre occurred in 1921 in the highly affluent suburb of Tulsa, Greenwood. A black teen was accused by a white elevator operator of assault, and the teen was jailed. A mob came to try to lynch the boy, but the sheriff refused to release him. A white mob sought vengeance that night by burning down homes, and looting and destroying businesses in Greenwood. Up to three hundred black people may have been killed, and 8,000 black people were left homeless. No charges were ever drawn up against the white perpetrators; instead, the incident was hushed up.

This is a story that shares the beauty and prosperity of Greenwood before the massacre as well as the horror of the incident itself.