Biden to address the gap in racial wealth at the site of the Oklahoma massacre

U.S. President Joe Biden has called for a narrowing of the gap between America’s racial wealth in the wake of Republicans ’efforts to reduce voting rights across the country, where Tulsa was one of the most brutal attacks in Oklahoma. black community in U.S. history.

Biden’s trip to Greenwood on Tuesday, known as “Black Wall Street,” before being whitewashed by a white mob in two days in 1921, highlights the White House’s attempt to heal the wounds of the American race that exposed blacks. Lives Matter protests escalated a year ago.

Moreover, in many of the states they control, Georgia, Florida and Texas, it is becoming increasingly tense as a result of Republican efforts by critics who see it as a campaign to limit voter turnout.

Texas Democratic lawmakers took a walk on Sunday night to prevent a bill from passing through the state House of Representatives reduce the vote. Biden strongly criticized the legislation as “non-American,” and national party president Jaime Harrison called it “Jim Crow 2.0,” referring to the system of discriminatory laws and policies that once dominated southern states.

However, Texas Republicans hope to renew their push for an election review law in a special session of their state legislature, keeping the fight alive.

In one national level, Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill that would reduce statewide voting restrictions. But it is stalled in the Senate, where the Biden party does not have the majority needed to move forward under the rules of the upper house.

As Republicans have ventured into efforts to impose voting restrictions, Biden is under pressure from many in his party to change Senate rules so that Democrats can accept them without the support of Republican voting reform.

Prior to Biden’s visit to Tulsa, Biden made a proclamation that “Americans should reflect on the deep roots of our nation’s racial terror and re-engage in the work of rooting systemic racism across our country.”

The attacks in Greenwood 100 years ago left 300 blacks dead and thousands homeless. Biden plans to meet with leaders of the massacre community and survivors during his visit.

The White House has pushed for new measures to reduce America’s racial wealth gap, including tackling discrimination in home appraisals and giving a $ 100 billion boost to small businesses in disadvantaged communities under federal contracts. As part of $ 2.3 million infrastructure planThe White House has put up $ 15 billion in labels to renovate the transportation networks that divided black and white communities, contributing to racial differences.

“The devastation caused by the Greenwood neighborhood and its families led to the coming of almost impossible recovery laws and policies,” the White House said in a statement. “And the chronic divestment by the federal government of black entrepreneurs and small businesses denied Black Wall Street a shot at reconstruction.”