Hey everybody, it's Wednesday, June the 2nd, and over these past few days, and for many

of you, you've probably seen this over the past few weeks, we have been acknowledging the

100-year anniversary of the Tosa race massacre.

I want to talk about it in the context of reparations.

Today was the day after the very worst attacks and murders and lynchings and bombings in

Tosa, Oklahoma, in a black community called Greenwood 100 years ago.

100 years ago today, businesses, homes, schools, churches were just ash, and people were scrambling.

To figure out where to live, where to go, what to do, how to make it.

I want to talk about how easy and obvious it would seem to be to offer reparations to anyone

and any descendant of anybody impacted by the Tosa race massacre, and yet this country

still refuses to do so.

Let me unpack and explain what I mean.

This is Sean Kane, and you are listening to The Breakdown.

The past two days in particular on May 31 and June 1, we have been acknowledging and

I don't want to use the words celebrating, but I think honoring is the right word, honoring

those who survive the Tosa race massacre, who endured it, honoring the brilliance and

beauty and magnificence of the place that they called Black Wall Street, Greenwood, they

are in Tosa.

And morning and grieving the enormity of the loss, the pain, the lynching, the destruction,

the murder, the bigotry, the racism, the ugliness, and just trying to help this place that we call

home, the United States of America, to try to help this place, acknowledge the pain of

its past.

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