US Presidency
2021

We should know the good, the bad, everything. That’s what great nations do: They come to terms with their dark sides. And we’re a great nation. The only way to build a common ground is to truly repair and to rebuild. I come here to help fill the silence, because in silence, wounds deepen. And only—as painful as it is, only in remembrance do wounds heal. We just have to choose to remember. We memorialize what happened here in Tulsa so it can be –so it can’t be erased. We know here, in this hallowed place, we simply can’t bury pain and trauma forever. And at some point, there will be a reckoning, an inflection point, like we’re facing right now as a nation. What many people hadn’t seen before or ha-—or simply refused to see cannot be ignored any longer. You see it in so many places.