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TULSA, Okla. — In the city that bore witness to the Black Wall Street massacre of 1921, the twin epicentres of America’s seismic shift on justice, race and social disparity find themselves just a 30-minute walk apart.
Black Lives Matter protesters, their momentum unabated after nearly a month since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, are planning to gather today in downtown Tulsa to demand an end to the systemic, institutional repression of people of colour.
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Not far away, Donald Trump will be heralding his return to the presidential campaign trail with his first “Keep America Great” rally in nearly four months — an indoor affair at a 20,000-seat downtown arena, despite the ever-present threat of the novel coronavirus.
The twin perils of COVID-19 indoors and the possibility of race-fuelled violence outside will make it hard to know where to stand.
“I would not do an indoor rally, but the president thinks that he’s above all of that,” Rev. Al Sharpton said Friday as he arrived at a Juneteenth rally in the city’s historic Greenwood district, the site of the violent clash 99 years ago that’s also known as the Tulsa race massacre.
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