Tulsa Mayor Unveils Staggering $100M Reparations Plan
The first black mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma has unveiled an enthusiastic reparations prepare that would see more than $100 million bought the descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Mayor Monroe Nichols announced on Sunday that the city is opening a $105 million charitable trust consisting of private funds to resolve concerns consisting of housing, scholarships, land acquisition and financial advancement for north Tulsans.
Of that cash, $24 million will go towards housing and home ownership for the descendants of the attack that killed as lots of as 300 black people and took down 35 blocks, according to Public Radio Tulsa.
Another $21 million will money land acquisition, scholarship funding and economic development for the blighted north Tulsa neighborhood, and a tremendous $60 million will go towards cultural preservation to improve structures in the as soon as flourishing Greenwood community.
'For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city's history,' Nichols stated at an event honoring Race Massacre Observance Day.
'The massacre was concealed from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway developed to choke off economic vigor and the continuous underinvestment of local, state and federal governments.
'Now it's time to take the next huge steps to bring back.'
But the proposition will not consist of direct cash payments to the last known survivors, Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are 110 and 111 years old.
The first black mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma has unveiled an enthusiastic reparations prepare that would see more than $100 million bought the descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Mayor Monroe Nichols announced on Sunday that the city is opening a $105 million charitable trust consisting of private funds to resolve concerns consisting of housing, scholarships, land acquisition and financial advancement for north Tulsans.
Of that cash, $24 million will go towards housing and home ownership for the descendants of the attack that killed as lots of as 300 black people and took down 35 blocks, according to Public Radio Tulsa.
Another $21 million will money land acquisition, scholarship funding and economic development for the blighted north Tulsa neighborhood, and a tremendous $60 million will go towards cultural preservation to improve structures in the as soon as flourishing Greenwood community.
'For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city's history,' Nichols stated at an event honoring Race Massacre Observance Day.
'The massacre was concealed from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway developed to choke off economic vigor and the continuous underinvestment of local, state and federal governments.
'Now it's time to take the next huge steps to bring back.'
But the proposition will not consist of direct cash payments to the last known survivors, Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are 110 and 111 years old.