{"id":19501,"date":"2021-05-29T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19501"},"modified":"2021-05-29T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T20:10:57","slug":"black-caucus-member-critical-of-senates-resolution-commemorating-tulsa-race-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/05\/29\/black-caucus-member-critical-of-senates-resolution-commemorating-tulsa-race-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caucus member critical of Senate&#8217;s Resolution commemorating Tulsa Race Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Matt Trotter <\/strong><br \/>\nTulsa Public Radio<br \/>\nThe Oklahoma Senate adopted on Wednesday a four-page resolution commemorating the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.<br \/>\nSenate Resolution 24\u202fwas introduced by Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think it\u2019s an important truth that we as Oklahoma leaders need to acknowledge and teach so we don\u2019t repeat history,&#8221; Treat said.<br \/>\nThe resolution also applauds the race massacre centennial commission for demonstrating unity and encourages Oklahomans to visit the Greenwood District.<br \/>\nSen. George Young (D-Oklahoma City) was critical of the resolution, however, saying it is very different from an eight-page version offered in the House by the Legislative Black Caucus, which he is a member of.<br \/>\n&#8220;The 1997 Tulsa Race Riot Commission did a 200-page report that I think accurately looks at a lot of the things that happened that we\u2019re missing in this particular document,&#8221; Young said.<br \/>\nHouse Concurrent Resolution 1012\u202fcites the race riot commission\u2019s recommendation of reparations for survivors and their descendants through direct payments, a scholarship fund, economic development assistance and a memorial. It also goes into detail about events leading to the attack on Greenwood and notes it was termed a &#8220;riot&#8221; so insurers did not have to pay claims.<br \/>\nYoung,\u202fthe only senator to debate on the resolution, also criticized the chamber\u2019s leaders for bringing up the resolution after silence on racist incidents.<br \/>\n&#8220;Newkirk, Oklahoma; Norman, Oklahoma; and even Edmond, Oklahoma \u2014 we\u2019ve had events that the leadership of this body has not addressed for us, to us, and has not put out anything, and now we\u2019re going to try and say that we support events that are going on in Tulsa, Oklahoma,&#8221; Young said.<br \/>\nKu Klux Klan flyers were distributed in Newkirk early this year, while a basketball announcer directed a racial slur at the Norman High girls team and a teacher told an Edmond seventh-grader his &#8220;Black King&#8221; T-shirt was racist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Trotter Tulsa Public Radio The Oklahoma Senate adopted on Wednesday a four-page resolution commemorating the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Senate Resolution 24\u202fwas introduced by Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat. &#8220;I think it\u2019s an important truth that we as Oklahoma leaders need to acknowledge and teach so we don\u2019t repeat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,103],"tags":[125],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-19501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-centennial","category-featured","tag-1921-tulsa-race-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19501"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}