In the 1920s, there was a Strong Black Community here in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of 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 [bleep] land. 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 rid of the bodies by dumping them in mass graves around the city. We have tulsans of an undetermined number who were murdered. It should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks that this crime scene is not going to speak doesnt have the ears to hear. The ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. I came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. So thats been, whew, i dont know how many years. My mother is from oklahoma. There was a Strong Black Community in
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we have enough that do exist. i thought it was much ado about nothing. look, i know you don t want to talk about it. this is why this is the reason i wrote the book. this is why you have conversations with people who don t look like you so that you can have a degree of comfort with them to be able to discuss these things and you know their intentions. so as i always say and i ve said to you since i met you, and you know that, if you don t have a friend who looks doesn t look like you, you re not doing it right. i hear you. look, i got a lot of black friends, but none like you. i tell you why i thought it was relevant, one, always happy to talk about what i say. i m more inclined to talk about what i do versus what other people do when they want to talk about what i said. say. but we ll leave that to the side. people don t follow these issues. the reason i thought meghan markle was really impressive to me was, one, talking about your pain ain t easy. it s not. even
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