REFLECT AND PRAY. KOCO’S PERRIS JONES WAS THERE AS PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE NATION REMEMBERED THE HUNDREDS WHO LOST EITHR LIVES THAT D.AY PERRIS: GREENWOOD DISTRICT WAS PACKED MONDAY NIGHT WITH PEOPLE HERE FOR THE CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AT 10:30. IT’S SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE 10:30 IS WHEN THE FIRST SHOT WAS FIRED STARTING THE MASSACRE IN 1921. DESPITE THE RAIN HUNDREDS MADE , IT OUT TO TULSA’S GREENWOOD DISTRICT MONDAY NIGHT TO HONOR THE MANY VICTIMS OF THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE. IT JUST SHOWS TO ME IT’S , SYMBOLIC THAT YOU CAN’T RAIN OUT THE TRUTH. AND THE FACT PEOPLE ARE REHE SHOWS PEOPLE ARE NOT INTIMATED ANYMORE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH. PERRIS: REVEREND DR. BERO TURNER PASTOR OF THE HISTORIC , VERNON AME CHURCH IN GREENWOOD REFLECTING ON THE CENTENNIAL. >> JUST HAPPY TO SEE THE WOR COME TO VISIT TULSA AND TO LEARN ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. PERRIS: BUT REVEREND TURNER HOPES WITH THE RECENT AWARENESS SURROUNDING THAT DARK DAY CESOM JUSTICE FOR E THVICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. >> A GREATER SENSE OF A MAATND FOR JUSTICE, FOR REPARATIONS, FOR RESTITUTION FOR CRIMINAL , CHARGES. THIS IS NOT JUST A TOURIST SITE. THIS AREA IS A CRIME SCENE. SO I HOPE WITH A GREATER SENSE OF AWARENESS AND UNINDTY UNDERSTANDING WE ALSO HAVE A , CONSENSUS AND MANDE ATTO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT THEY KNOW WE WANT TO MAKE RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THE PAST. PERR
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Lots of collect for candlelight vigil to recollect, honor Tulsa Race Bloodbath victims
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Lots of gathered within the Greenwood District in Tulsa, to mirror and pray as we mark 100 years for the reason that Tulsa Race Bloodbath. Folks from throughout the nation remembered the tons of who misplaced their lives that day.Tulsa’s Greenwood District was filled with folks attending a candlelight vigil at 10:30 p.m. — It is vital as a result of 10:30 was when the primary shot was fired in 1921, beginning the bloodbath.Regardless of the rain, tons of made it out to Tulsa’s Greenwood District to honor the various victims of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath.“It simply reveals to me it is symbolic that you would be able to’t rain out the reality, and the very fact persons are right here reveals persons are not intimated anymore to talk the reality,” Rev. Dr. Robert Turner stated. Turner is the pastor of the historic Vernon AME Church in Greenwood.“Simply joyful to see the world come go to Tulsa and to find out about this horrible tragedy,” Turner stated.Turner hopes with the current consciousness surrounding that darkish day comes justice for the victims and their households.”A higher sense of a mandate for justice for reparations restitution for prison costs,” Turner stated. “This isn’t only a vacationer website this space is against the law scene. So I hope with a higher sense of consciousness and unity and understanding, we even have a consensus and mandate to our elected officers, that they know we need to make proper the wrongs of the previous.”
Lots of gathered within the Greenwood District in Tulsa, to mirror and pray as we mark 100 years for the reason that Tulsa Race Bloodbath. Folks from throughout the nation remembered the tons of who misplaced their lives that day.
Tulsa’s Greenwood District was filled with folks attending a candlelight vigil at 10:30 p.m. — It is vital as a result of 10:30 was when the primary shot was fired in 1921, beginning the bloodbath.
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Regardless of the rain, tons of made it out to Tulsa’s Greenwood District to honor the various victims of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath.
“It simply reveals to me it is symbolic that you would be able to’t rain out the reality, and the very fact persons are right here reveals persons are not intimated anymore to talk the reality,” Rev. Dr. Robert Turner stated.
Turner is the pastor of the historic Vernon AME Church in Greenwood.
“Simply joyful to see the world come go to Tulsa and to find out about this horrible tragedy,” Turner stated.
Turner hopes with the current consciousness surrounding that darkish day comes justice for the victims and their households.
“A higher sense of a mandate for justice for reparations restitution for prison costs,” Turner stated. “This isn’t only a vacationer website this space is against the law scene. So I hope with a higher sense of consciousness and unity and understanding, we even have a consensus and mandate to our elected officers, that they know we need to make proper the wrongs of the previous.”
