Far-right Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters suggested at a public hearing in Norman that lessons about the infamous racial massacre that destroyed the most prosperous Black community in Oklahoma don't have to mention race, reported Fox 25 News.
"The Cleveland County Republican Party invited him to speak at the Norman Central Library. The room was packed with many unhappy Oklahomans, making for an hour of chaos," reported David Chasanov.
"It doesn't matter how much the radical left attacks me," Walters told the crowd. 'It doesn't matter how much the teachers union spends against me. I will never stop speaking truth."
However, things got tricky for Walters when someone asked him if teaching about the infamous "Black Wall Street" massacre in the city of Tulsa would be banned under his restrictions on teaching "Critical Race Theory."
"Let’s not tie it to the skin color and say that the skin color determined that," Walters replied.
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The Tulsa massacre was an act of racial mass terrorism in 1921 that destroyed the Greenwood District of Tulsa, a nationally-renowned prosperous community nicknamed "Black Wall Street". After a 19-year-old Black shoeshiner named Dick Rowland was arrested on trumped-up charges for allegedly assaulting a white elevator operator named Sarah Page, white residents of Tulsa rioted, looting and burning down the Greenwood District. Roughly 300 people were killed, and when the National Guard was sent in, the Black residents were arrested by the thousands.
Walters, who was elected last year on a platform of ordering teachers to be given "patriotic education" and has pushed the urban legend about schools giving out litter boxes to children who identify as animals, has immediately become one of the most controversial state superintendents in the country.
Earlier this year, Walters was given the power by Gov. Kevin Stitt to downgrade accreditation of any school found to have "sexualized content," and to force schools to out children's gender identity to their parents. He has also come under fire after a state audit revealed massive amounts of waste and fraud in a homeschooling program he ran with taxpayer funding when he worked as a nonprofit director, with some of the money going to buy fancy televisions and Pokémon merchandise.
