More than 100 years since the nation’s deadliest race massacre, the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill to grant national monument status to Greenwood, Oklahoma.
I walked those streets as a teen in '89 or so. Nothing but stone and concrete outlines of homes and streets and sidewalks. We had a really hard time looking at it, being there, thinking on it, whatever. I can’t say what it was like, I don’t have words. I can say I still tear up remembering it.
And at the time, we had no idea of the real horrors. We just didn’t know.
I walked those streets as a teen in '89 or so. Nothing but stone and concrete outlines of homes and streets and sidewalks. We had a really hard time looking at it, being there, thinking on it, whatever. I can’t say what it was like, I don’t have words. I can say I still tear up remembering it.
And at the time, we had no idea of the real horrors. We just didn’t know.