One of the worst injustices, of all the very many terrible injustices of this event, is that almost no white Americans know about it.

Here we had a peaceable, prosperous community of Black people going about their lives, building businesses, raising families, and minding their own business.

Then white Oklahomans swooped in with guns, knives, and airplanes to butcher them and burn the town to the ground.

To butcher them, burn them alive, and burn the town to the ground.

This happened within living memory, and I didn’t know a fucking thing about it until I was in my fifties.

That’s just infuriating. How can we have justice if we suppress our history like this? How can we have justice if we don’t even know what we need justice FOR?

Every school child in the United States needs to know about this and so many other things. Just like every school child in Germany learns about the atrocities of the Nazi era, in vivid detail, so that it never happens again.

But just the other day Chapel Hill denied tenure to a professor involved with the 1619 project, a denial everyone involved says was clearly because of her work on the 1619 project.

Not only will we not sit school children down and teach them the brutal truth about the vicious racism of America’s past and present, we punish academics who try to teach adults about it.

It’s all so disgusting I don’t have strong enough words to describe my disgust.