1/ Today is 100th anniversary of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (5/31-6/1). The following Sunday, Methodist Bishop Ed Mouzon took to the pulpit of Tulsa’s prominent Boston Ave Church not to lament the loss of life but to denounce efforts toward racial equality....
2/ Methodist Bishop Ed Mouzon in Tulsa 1921: "There never has been and there never will be such a thing [as racial equality]. It is divine ordained. This is something that the negroes should be told very plainly.
3/ Methodist Bishop Ed Mouzon in Tulsa 1921: "Steps toward social equality are the worst possible thing for the negro man and the white." He went on to denounce DuBois as “the most vicious negro man in this country” & to declare that “the hope of civilization is Christ.”
4/ Methodist Bishop Ed Mouzon's sermon was carried following the Tulsa race massacre in the Tulsa Daily World and reprinted in Methodist newsletters all over the country.
5/ But there are signs of hope and change today. Rev. David Wiggs has led today's mostly white Boston Ave UMC Church in 100 days of reflection and repentance ahead of commemoration, and church has been active in telling the truth about their role in supporting white supremacy.
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