Tulsa massacre event shot down by survivors' money demands

[Mik]

Survivors? There are survivors that were old enough in 1921 to have remembered the event?

https://deadline.com/2021/05/tulsa-oklahoma-cancels-black-wall-street-massacre-commemoration-john-legend-money-demands-1234765892/

[Loki]

NYT comes in with a more nuanced point of view on the failure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/us/tulsa-race-massacre-commission.html

I wonder how the organizers of the event feel however…I would think no event has to be a huge disappointment and the big last minute ask(demand) a huge mistake…but maybe it was strategic… would love to hear.

[Mik]

All about control of the money raised.

[Copper]

I assume the president will still attend.