Thread by @JRubinBlogger

considering that virtually no adult in America learned about Tulsa in public schools, it is not so shocking that the pogrom that killed approximately 300 people and wiped out a community’s accumulated wealth would have been largely ignored for 100 years.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Republicans, who cannot define “critical race theory,” nevertheless insist it is bad and don’t want it taught in schools. Why the right wants to excise part of our history: White people dread being confronted with evidence that racism is interwoven into our collective experience

accurate historical education throws a harsh spotlight on Rs' efforts to suppress Black power through voter suppression laws. There is a straight line that runs from post-reconstruction Jim Crow to Tulsa to anti-voting legislation now sweeping through Republican-controlled states

Erasing history is an effective means of casting anyone who protests against the status quo as radical, extreme and threatening. Justice becomes subversive, and defense of the system that produced injustice takes on the aura of a religious mission.