The Tulsa Race Massacre a century later: "If we are the body, why aren't his arms reaching?"
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 1 June 2021
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The Tulsa Race Massacre ended a century ago today. In The Daily Article for June 1, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells this tragic story, then he focuses on the first biblical step Christians must take to confront the sin of racism in our culture and our souls.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.2 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.1 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison, a Denison form. And this is the daily article for Tuesday, |
| 0:21.7 | June 1st, 2021. The title is, The Tulsa Race Massacre a century later. If we are the body, |
| 0:28.6 | why aren't his arms reaching? On May 30, 1921, a young black man entered an elevator in downtown |
| 0:36.2 | Tulsa. At one point, he was alone with its white female operator. |
| 0:40.9 | It's unclear what happened next, but the operator screamed and the man fled the seed. |
| 0:45.5 | He was arrested the next day. |
| 0:47.8 | Rumors spread through Tulsa's white community. |
| 0:51.0 | A story published in the Tulsa Tribune on May 31st claimed that the man had attempted |
| 0:55.9 | to rape the woman. An angry white mob gathered in front of the courthouse demanding that the man |
| 1:02.0 | be turned over to them. Seeking to prevent a lynching, a group of 75 black men arrived on the scene, |
| 1:08.2 | some of them World War I veterans who were carrying weapons. |
| 1:11.6 | A white man tried to disarm a black veteran, the gun went off, and chaos broke out. |
| 1:17.0 | Over the next 24 hours, thousands of white rioters poured into the Greenwood District, |
| 1:22.4 | a prosperous area known as Black Wall Street. |
| 1:24.8 | It was home to more than 300 black-owned businesses, including |
| 1:28.7 | doctors' offices, pharmacies, and two movie theaters. The white rioters shot unarmed black |
| 1:34.6 | citizens in the streets and burned an area of some 35 city blocks. As many as 300 people were |
| 1:41.9 | killed in the rampage, which destroyed more than 1,200 black-owned houses, |
| 1:46.8 | numerous businesses, a school, a hospital, and a dozen churches. |
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