happen right here in your own home town in the middle of the united states. and yet it has. my name s gt buy numb. i m the mayor of tulsa. i grew up here in tulsa. my family s been here since the 1870s. my great great grandfather was the second mayor of tulsa. i heard about the massacre in 2001 or 2002. i was 24 years old at this appointment. every high school student in oklahoma has to go through an oklahoma history course. never came up. my dad had been president of the tulsa historical society. never came up. hearing about that, it was shocking to me, because i lo tulsa. i couldn t believe that tulsa would be the kind of city where something like that could happen. we are tulsans of an
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and i love what it could be. but tulsa has a truth problem. hiding the truth and people who will not challenge what is perceived to be true. what s keeping tulsa from being a great shining city on the hill is dealing with the legacy of the so-called tulsa race riot of 1921. white tulsans murdered black folks and were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. by dumping them in mass graves around the city. many awful things were done to get rid of the bodies. in the late 1990s, senator maxine horner and my father,
my mother is from oklahoma. there was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. these people were the core of black entrepreneurship. and they would help you get your business started. 1920 greenwood was booming. people call it the black wall street. when you read the editorials, they would also post events that were happening. and i imagine they were having a great time. what i love about greenwood is, what it was.
black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. greenwood was like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. but white tulsans talked about greenwood as little africa or niggerland. tulsa was a powder keg. needing only something to set the community alight. between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. today we call it a massacre. they were hastily trying to get