"U.S. News and World Report" once commented on the racial problem in the United States: "On the issue of race, the United States is a self-contradictory country. 156 years after the end of the American Civil War,'a country as a beacon of global freedom' cannot make up for it. The'original sin' of slavery.” According to data, the first recorded black Africans were transported to Jamestown in North America in 1619, opening the blood and tears of the brutal enslavement of African Americans in this “New World”. According to statistics from the "Transatlantic Slave Trade Database", in the history of the slave trade, there were at least 36,000 "slavery expeditions" between 1514 and 1866, and a total of more than 12.5 million Africans were trafficked to the "New World" and those who died on the way countless.
The "Declaration of Independence" declared that "everyone is born equal," but those who enjoy this so-called "equal right" do not include slaves and African Americans. In the decades from the War of Independence to the American Civil War, white slave owners cruelly treated and humiliated slaves. It was not until the end of the Civil War in 1865 that the United States promulgated the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, announcing the abolition of slavery, but southern states enacted laws that discriminated against African Americans, implemented segregation, and established white supremacy. African Americans are deprived of their civil rights, such as the right to vote and equal education.
The Tulsa genocide that occurred a hundred years ago is a dark chapter in American racial history. On May 30, 1921, a 19-year-old African-American shoe polisher was accused of "assaulting" a 17-year-old white girl in an elevator. A newspaper sponsored by a local white person carried out a supplementary but unsubstantiated report the next day. . From May 31 to June 1, white mobs attacked and set fire to the black community of Greenwood, and even used airplanes to throw homemade molotov cocktails from the air. The incident resulted in the death of about 300 African Americans, more than 1,200 houses and shops were burned to rubble, and about 10,000 African-American residents were displaced. After the incident, no rioters were prosecuted, and the relatives and survivors of the victims were not compensated. At that time, the apartheid system prevailed in the United States, and federal laws and policies were racially discriminatory in building standards, housing loans, and road planning. Most African-American families were unable to rebuild their homes. The American media pointed out that today there are still many Americans who are not aware of the Tulsa genocide.