You can start by acknowledging the fact that the Tulsa riot was started by an armed black mob that fired the first shots.
Exactly right. As with much of what we’re taught about certain episodes in history, it’s a mishmash of fairy tales and outright lies. The Tulsa riots started with the arrest of a young black man for assaulting a white girl or woman. Rumors swept thru the local black community like wildfire and a small group of riled up black men marched to the jail. They were told why the young man was arrested, and they left. But emotions continued to run high in the black community, and soon an even larger group of armed black men gathered and marched four-abreast back to the jail. They were loaded for bear, and the shooting soon began.