This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. For more than a hundred

years, the survivors of the Tulsa race massacre have been fighting for justice only to have

a judge deliver a powerful blow to their efforts. What happens now?

We want the Supreme Court to overrule our judge, kick us back down to court, let us move

forward, discovery, and have the opportunity to prove our case. That's all we're asking

for. Can Tulsa massacre survivors still find justice coming up on a word with me, Jason

Johnson, stay with us. Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything

else. I'm your host, Jason Johnson, the destruction of the Greenwood community in Tulsa,

Oklahoma back in 1921 was largely forgotten over the course of American history, certainly

by white America. The prosperous black community was burned to the ground, subjected to

aerial bombing, the first in American history on a domestic soil, and hundreds of residents

were killed, buried, and mass graves. But the survivors and descendants of the victims

have never stopped fighting for justice. Here's a clip of survivor Viala Fletcher testifying

before Congress in 2021, 100 years after the massacre. Still, Greenwood should have given

me the chance to make, truly make it in this country, when a few hours all of that was

gone. The night of the massacre, I was awakened by my family, my parents and five siblings

were there. I was told we had to leave, and that was it. I will never forget the violence

of the white mob when we left our home. I still see black men seeing being shot, black

bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see black businesses

being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams I have lived

through the massacre every day. I can't really forget this history, but I cannot. I will

not, and others who have us do not, and our descendants do not.

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