Far-right Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters suggested at a public hearing in Norman that lessons about the infamous racial massacre that destroyed the most prosperous Black community in Oklahoma don't have to mention race, reported Fox 25 News."The Cleveland County Republican Party invited ...
I grew up in Idaho, I was a grown ass adult when I learned about it, stumbled into it really.
I found out about it because of the black history museum in Washington DC. I knew about some of the events that happened, but had a make eye opening experience going through that museum (And the Native American museum).
My highschool history classes 1000% glossed over 20th century racism and oppression. It was like “the civil war happened, then the civil rights movement made everything hunky dory, the end”.
I stupidly thought racism was just something in our distant past. Antiquated ideas no longer here. I was a naive idiot.