Survivors Of The Tulsa Race Massacre Challenge Dismissal Of Reparations Case And Call On President Biden To Act

Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images=  The last two known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are not giving up in their quest for reparations. On Tuesday, lawyers for Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to reconsider the case they dismissed last month and called on the Biden administration to help the two women seek justice, reports the AP. In a statement read by McKenzie Haynes, a member of their legal team, the survivors said, “Oklahoma, and the United States of America, have failed its Black citizens,” they continued, “With our own eyes, and burned deeply into our memories, we watched white Americans destroy, kill and loot.” “And despite these obvious crimes against humanity, not one indictment was issued, most insurance claims remain unpaid or were paid for only pennies on the dollar, and Black Tulsans were forced to leave their homes and live in fear.” They are also calling on President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice to open an investigation based on the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007, which    enables the reopening of cold cases of violent crimes committed against Black people before 1970. Fletcher and Randle were...