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 rid of the bodies. By dumping them in mass graves around the city. We have tulsans have an undetermined number who were murdered. It should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks this crime scene won t speak doesn t have the ears to hear. The ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. So rough, so tough. For all you people listening, located right here in tulsa, oklahoma. This is where we tell our stories our way. We can be talking about these graves, you know, here in tulsa, oklahoma. Excavation of these graves. What it means to us. I guess i ll start with you, ch
Planned. To casey stegall ahead of the president s remarks. Yeah, neil. We expect the president s remarks within the hour. It s going to include a whole lot of stuff, specific plans and policies that he says are designed to help african american communities thrive in this country. Everything from real estate to businesses to education. The backdrop could not be more fitting than here in tulsa, oklahoma. The site of one of the worst if not the worst racial incidents of violence in u. S. History. 100 years ago. The greenwood district known as black wall street up until 1921 when a white mob attacked the neighborhood and burned almost everything to the ground. Almost 300 people died. A century later, there s still a handful of survivors. We re not all equal. So we re all we should all be equal regardless of the color, the creed, anything. But we re not. That s a big change in my mind. Now, president biden also met with some of those the survivors this afternoon while also touring the gree
florida governor ron desantis in iowa yes today, not mentioning donald trump by name, but still taking a few swipes at him. i think he was. we will show you what else he had to say about the front runner in the race for the republican nomination. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, may 31st. good to have your with us, along with joe, willie, and me. member of the new york times let s show jonathan really quick. okay, go, go. okay. we done this before. can we stop for a second? tj, i am scratching my face. you want to go to me now? and also, this historic day leave him alone. let s do jenna. hold on. cover me for a second, tj. okay. oh, we ve got jen. see, she can t even mess up! now now. good morning. okay. is my collar straight? thank you. let s actually get to work. hold on. when we do get to work, it s going to be a lot of fun, because i m going to get the yankees in a second, but these republicans will donald trump
Economy they created with black folks trading among themselves. deboyd marvelled at the dream land theater owned by a black woman lulu williams and she was able to keep people coming to her theater even though they had a white theater across the street. people said no, we want to serve our black businesses and created something that was gaining national admiration. it s a tragedy what these folks had built was destroyed savagely by white folks in tulsa in 1921 and important to highlight we have a highlight the fixation on a white mob in tulsa that descended on the community and burned it down. some might assume this is low-class white people. take a look at the photographs. you will see men in suits who were part of this mob. you ll see men in the national guard observing the burning of greenwood. we know for a fact, for example, that it was the city of tulsa police department that deputized white people, not knowing some of their names, and the city