Online Public Relations Thoughts

Tulsa, OK is remembering the race massacre of 100 years ago when a section of the town was burned, people killed and dumped into mass graves and a community shattered.   The Greenwood District never recovered from the conflagration, and it is only now that horrors of the day are receiving attention in the media and in local government.  Why the culture of silence?  African-Americans kept quiet out of fear.  City fathers said nothing because of the PR problem it presented.  Generations grew without knowledge of the incident and expressed dismay when they belatedly discovered the facts.  Tulsa now is trying to excavate the mass graves and to rebury the dead into individual sites.  It is the least the city can do.  The stain on the city will not disappear now that it has been revealed.  It is part of the city's fabric of history and a reminder to the nation at large of the segregation and intolerance that characterized the 20th Century.