Sheila Jackson Lee: “I include the KJRH article in the Record. [From KJRH] Gov. Stitt Responds to Letter From Tulsa Race Massacre Commission…”

“I include the KJRH article in the Record. [From KJRH] Gov. Stitt Responds to Letter From Tulsa Race Massacre Commission Tulsa, OK, May 14, 2021.--Gov. Kevin Stitt has officially been removed from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission. This comes after Stitt signed a bill limiting race and gender curriculums in Oklahoma schools earlier in May. House Bill 1775 prohibits state public schools, colleges, and universities from incorporating certain messages about sex and race into any course instruction. This also comes on the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, where a white mob attacked Black residents and businesses in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, also known as Black Wall Street. The governor's office released the following statement Friday afternoon: ``Governor Stitt's role as a member of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission has been purely ceremonial and he had not been invited to attend a meeting until this week. It is disappointing to see an organization of such importance spend so much effort to sow division based on falsehoods and political rhetoric two weeks before the centennial and a month before the commission is scheduled to sunset.…”