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On the recordMay 31, 2021
My fellow Americans, this was not a riot. This was a massacre. We do ourselves no favors by pretending none of this ever happened. We can't just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know. We should know the good, the bad, everything. That's what great nations do. They come to terms with their dark sides. I come here to help fill the silence because in silence, wounds deepen.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

President Biden commemorates the Tulsa race massacre, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging historical atrocities.

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