QUICK STUDY — The Perfectly Ghastly Symmetry of Oklahoma’s Racist Past and It’s New Law

While we frequently hear that “Everybody has ghosts in their family closet,” no where is that more accurate than in Oklahoma. Those of us old enough to have grown up humming tunes from the Broadway and screen hit Oklahoma had no idea of the malice and mendacity hidden by those charming stacks of hay in a farmer-cowman tale set around the time of a white-on-Black war — the Greenwood Massacre of June 1st, 1921.