HB 1775 Creates Rift Between Stitt, Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission Chair

The chairman of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission is taking Governor Kevin Stitt to task for signing House Bill 1775, which restricts public schools from making students feel ashamed or inferior because of historical events. Phil Armstrong sent a letter to Stitt asking how he can reconcile membership on the Centennial Commission with the support of a law which is contrary to the mission of reconciliation and restoration.

Tulsa World’s Randy Krehbiel writes Stitt responded by saying he and First Lady Sarah Stitt “both strongly support reconciliation, healing and the rebirth of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, and have worked with the 1921 Race Massacre Centennial Commission on multiple productive events.”

Stitt also claimed that Armstrong does not represent the sentiment of all 44 members of the Commission toward HB 1775.

Additionally, Representative Monroe Nichols resigned from the Centennial Commission because he doesn’t want his criticism of Stitt to reflect on the Commission.

Read the Tulsa World story here.


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  1. castor, 12 May, 2021

    The Commission needs the Governor a lot more than the Governor needs the Commission. The Governor should politely leave the Commission and let Phil Armstrong flap in the wind.

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