Biden: 'We must not give hate a safe harbor'

U.S. President Joe Biden says hate hides and "we must not give hate a safe harbor."

Biden's comments came on Tuesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he led remembrance of one of the nation’s darkest moments of racial violence, marking the 100th anniversary of the destruction of a thriving Black community in Tulsa.

Biden helped commemorate the deaths of hundreds of Black people killed by a white mob a century ago, his visit coming amid a national reckoning on racial justice.

The events stood in stark contrast to then-President Donald Trump's trip a year ago, which was greeted by protests.

Biden is the first president to participate in remembrances of the destruction of what was known as “Black Wall Street.” In 1921 - on May 31 and June 1 - when a white mob, including some people hastily deputized by authorities, looted and burned the Greenwood district.

The president, joined by three top Black advisers, met privately with three surviving members of the Greenwood community who lived through the violence, the White House said.

Viola “Mother” Fletcher, Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis and Lessie “Mother Randle” Benningfield Randle are all between the ages of 101 and 107.