The Tulsa Massacre should be universally understood as one of the most important and revealing events in all of American history but white supremacy really kept it pretty much covered up for the last 100 years. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1319218478637867009

I took a TON of US history classes and even in college the Tulsa Massacre was either completely ignored or quickly glossed over as a "race riot."

The erasure of the Tulsa Massacre from "mainstream" (white) narratives of American history isn't a mistake, it's the perfect example of how white supremacy looms over everything in our society, especially our national memory/identity.

The same power structures that kept Tulsa out of the history books are what kept the reality of cops killing unarmed black people and then lying about "fear for their life" to get away with it out of the mainstream until smartphones started catching them doing it on tape.