Outrage as Republican says 1921 Tulsa massacre not motivated by race
The state official in charge of Oklahoma’s schools is facing calls for impeachment, after he said teachers should tell students that the Tulsa race massacre was not racially motivated.
In a public forum on Thursday, Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, said teachers could cover the 1921 massacre, in which white Tulsans murdered an estimated 300 Black people, but teachers should not “say that the skin color determined it”.
Walters is a pro-Trump Republican who was elected to oversee Oklahoma education in November. He has consistently indulged in rightwing talking points including “woke ideology” and has said critical race theory should not be taught in classrooms. Republicans have frequently conflated banning critical race theory with banning any discussion of racial history in classrooms.
Nothing to do with race whatsoever. It was purely coincidental that the mob perpetrating the attacks was white and their targets were black and that the whole thing started when a young black man was falsely accused of raping a white woman. And, per Wikipedia, white families with black servants who refused to turn them over to be detained found themselves being attacked by the white mob too. Plus it appears that when the National Guard finally rolled up to impose martial law, it was largely black people they rounded up.
Not even remotely about race. I suppose people should be grateful this shithead’s allowing the subject to be taught at all, though… Obviously it’s a fucking Trumpeter insisting race had nothing to do with it, too, same cunt who helped spread the transparently absurd story that some schools were installing litter boxes for their students who identified as cats. I mean… really? I’ll confess to being a bit baffled by furries, to be sure, but I doubt many of them are that literal about it…
