We can’t heal without proximity. Art can get us there: Ravi Rajan

Ninety-nine years ago this year, an entire black community was massacred in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Violence stretched over two days in the city’s Greenwood section. Thirty-six people were killed — more than two-thirds of them black. White supremacists obliterated families and their entire way of life.
But in the 23 years I grew up in Oklahoma, I wasn’t taught a word about the Tulsa Massacre. It was never mentioned because the black experience was to be ignored. It wasn’t to be