Tulsa's Buried Truth, Bonus: The Survivors
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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New clues about the Tulsa Race Massacre are unearthed from a mass grave, but the city remains divided. The highly anticipated findings from the graves investigation leaves many Tulsans disappointed, and the community is demanding answers to the question that still remains: What does justice look like for the Black families affected by the massacre?
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| 0:00.0 | The arguments are getting louder in Tulsa. |
| 0:05.0 | This is bull what we are doing and what we have done to black people in this city forever. |
| 0:11.0 | This generation deserves better. |
| 0:14.0 | We had a massacre, and you guys are apologizing for it without reparations. |
| 0:20.0 | Today, the same mayor, who they praised as a hero in black neighborhoods just a few years ago |
| 0:25.4 | is now being condemned by some of those same voices. |
| 0:29.6 | I don't take it personally. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm the CEO of an organization that did not do all it could to try and find these victims for nearly 100 years. |
| 0:39.6 | And I would be suspicious of the city, too. |
| 0:42.9 | You see, there are many people here demanding justice, |
| 0:46.5 | especially after the mayor promised them a real murder investigation |
| 0:50.4 | into the racial violence that took place here in 1921. |
| 0:55.0 | And the scientists digging through the earth for clues are finding bodies. |
| 1:00.0 | Three more remains were discovered at a mass grave at Oakland Cemetery. |
| 1:03.0 | But some people feel they're not doing nearly as well, finding answers. |
| 1:07.0 | We've been doing this for two or three years now, and you're still angry. And I get it. |
| 1:12.6 | The questions turned a century old last summer. |
| 1:17.6 | Who killed the families of Black Wall Street? |
| 1:20.6 | Where did the racists from way back then bury all the proof? |
| 1:26.6 | And what justice if any do the surviving black families |
| 1:35.0 | deserve today I'm Steve Os Insommy a senior national correspondent at ABC |
| 1:43.0 | and this is Tulsa's Buried Truth. |
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