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visit purple.com forward slash undistracted. acted. Hey y'all it's Brittany. So this week I traveled to Tulsa to mark the

100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, also known as the burning

of Black Wall Street. By now you've probably heard the story even if you didn't

get taught in school.

Over 24 hours on May the 31st, 1921,

more than 300 black people were murdered

and hundreds, if not thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed

after white mobs attacked the Greenwood neighborhood.

In the end 10,000 black residents were displaced and generations of wealth and opportunity

and power were violently stolen. However Tulsa is trying to revamp its image.

They took out a full page advertisement in USA Today

with the headline, Tulsa Triumph Tulsa Triumph and had the audacity to declare that the

city is quote leading America's journey to racial healing.

Y'all can't be serious.

Look, I was in Tulsa and I was fortunate enough to meet 107 year old viola Fletcher and her 100 year old brother Hughes Van Ellis, two of the survivors of the massacre.

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