On Friday evening, President Donald Trump announced that he was rescheduling his original June 19th rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma to June 20th to honor Juneteenth, a holiday recognizing the end of slavery in Texas.
“We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal,” said President Trump.
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“Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this holiday and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents."
”I have therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th, in order to honor their requests,” the President added.
We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal. Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2020
...We have already had ticket requests in excess of 200,000 people. I look forward to seeing everyone in Oklahoma!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2020
When it was announced that President Trump would be holding his first campaign rally since the coronavirus lockdowns, Democrats immediately pounced on him, claiming that his June 19th rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma was a deliberate message to the black community.
"Tulsa was the site of the worst racist violence in American history. The president’s speech there on Juneteenth is a message to every Black American: more of the same," said far-left Democratic Rep. Val Demings.
Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden also weighed in, saying, “He’s going down to Texas on Juneteenth, right? The first major massacre, literally speaking, of Black Wall Street, years ago.”
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The comment was quite ironic considering Biden has a history of anti-black legislation.
Check out what the Daily Wire reported:
Biden’s invocation of “Black Wall Street” is a reference to the Tulsa race massacre, between May 31 and June 1, 1921, during which a white mob razed a predominantly black neighborhood, including 1,200 homes and the Black Wall Street business district, when rumors spread that a black man had tried to rape a white woman — an allegation that was printed in an inflammatory newspaper article before the violence started.As many as 300 people were killed, and a commission-issued report on the massacre eight decades later concluded that the most likely explanation for what happened between the man and the woman was that he stepped on her foot, and when she screamed, he ran away.During an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump told Harris Faulkner, who is African American, that it should be thought of as a celebration. When Faulkner interjected that it was scheduled for Emancipation day, Trump signaled they were both on the same page: “The fact that I’m having a rally on that day, you can really think about that very positively as a celebration because a rally to me is a celebration.”
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