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OKLAHOMA CITY Democratic presidential candidate Beto ORourke this week visited sites in Tulsa and Oklahoma City that were targeted by violence, and made a point of linking the Tulsa race riots and a recent deadly mass shooting in his Texas hometown.
The former congressman stopped Monday in Tulsas Greenwood District, where a white mob in 1921 looted black businesses , left homes and churches smoldering and killed an estimated 300 people. He later visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, which honors the 168 victims of a 1995 domestic terrorist bombing of a federal building.
ORourkes visit to Oklahoma followed the Aug. 3 shooting in El Paso, Texas, where a white nationalist killed 22 people and wounded two dozen others. Police said the attacker targeted Mexicans when he went into a Walmart with an AK-47 assault rifle. The shooting is one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
What I find Tulsa doing for me and for the rest of America today is to connect those dots all the way back to 1921 and before the very foundation of this country, ORourke said. Not only are we as divided as weve ever been, but the racism that has been foundational to this country has now been admitted out into the open. And people are acting on that, he said.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/orourke-visits-oklahoma-sites-that-were-targets-of-violence/2019/08/20/c682b8e4-c379-11e9-8bf7-cde2d9e09055_story.html
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JI7
(89,262 posts)with these things we never dealt with.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)I really get inspired hearing Beto speak. He reminds me of Bobby Kennedy.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Merlot
(9,696 posts)I had predicted that he would make a comeback, and we might be seeing that now.
I'm still torn between Harris and Warren for top of ticket. Could vote for Beto, or would be trilled to see him as VP.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
essadaw
(185 posts)and I thought that I had a good education. But I'd never heard of the Tulsa massacre before his visit. It just proves the point that Beto is making.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided