Watch VideoIn eighteen hours of raging racism, several hundred people were killed right here where I’m standing. Buildings burned. Bombs dropped from the sky. Bullets and bodies littered the streets, all leading to the destruction of the prosperous area known as Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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