Political Rewind: The Parallels Between Tulsa, Atlanta, The Wealth Gap And Racial Justice
Wednesday on Political Rewind: Tamar Hallerman, senior reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, guest hosted the show.\n\nPresident Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre in Oklahoma yesterday. It has\xa0been a century since white Tulsans attacked Black residents of the Greenwood neighborhood in that city.\n\nThe type of widespread, targeted violence seen in Tulsa in 1921 was neither unique to that year nor that city.\xa0Georgians do not have to look far to find similar events\xa0in our own histories. Atlanta, Forsyth County and Augusta were just some of the places that saw eruptions of violence against Black communities in the decades following the Civil War.\n\nA nationwide awareness of the events in Tulsa\xa0has reinvigorated a conversation\xa0on tackling longstanding inequity that reverberates from\xa0historic violence against Black communities.\n\nSo what is being done to address those horrendous parts of our history \u2014 here in Georgia and across the country?\n\nIn other news, a triggered alarm at a Fulton County warehouse holding election equipment is drawing the attention of the conspiracy-minded. But what is\xa0really going on?\n\nPanelists:\n\nDr. Andra Gillespie \u2014 Professor of Political Science and Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University\n\nProf. Fred Smith \u2014 Professor of Law, Emory University\n\nDr. Amy Steigerwalt \u2014 Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University\n\nStephen Fowler \u2014 Politics Reporter, Georgia Public Broadcasting