Biden Visits Tulsa to Mark the 1921 Race Massacre
We ran the numbers: There are 1961 news articles covering this topic. 68% (1325) are left leaning, 25% (493) are center, and 7% (143) are right leaning.
On Tuesday, President Biden traveled to Oklahoma to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. While left-leaning articles highlight that Biden promoted initiatives to reduce the Black-White wealth gap, right-leaning articles highlight that MSNBC analyst Mara Gray claimed that White Americans “tend to be very good at forgetting history.”
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that while in Oklahoma, Biden promoted initiatives to reduce the Black-White wealth gap. Biden also said he tapped Vice President Harris to lead the push for voting rights in response to states imposing ballot restrictions.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is a long-overlooked attack that left as many as 300 people dead in a community once known as Black Wall Street. The attack has received more attention as the national conversation has increasingly focused on the issue of systemic racism and police violence over the past several years.
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that MSNBC analyst Mara Gray claimed that White Americans “tend to be very good at forgetting history” in reference to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The article notes that Gray failed to provide specific examples to support her claim as she argued that “the American experiment” is more complicated than people want to believe.