black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. but white paulsons talked about it as little africa or 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 of tulsa of an undetermined number, it should have not taken any nine years. anyone who thinks this crime scene is not going to speak does not have the ears to hear. the earth is shaking. i came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade, so that has been well, i don t know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma. and 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.
i have been out here on the studio for 13 years now. greenwood is special. want to come down here, you feel the energy. i would hate to leave greenwood , i will fight tooth and nail before i leave, to be honest with you. farmers insurance is my first business, however i have a studio, greenwood fitness and recreation studio. we have a debt to our ancestors here. we have to bring back what was once there. and anyone that wants to do business here should also be engaged in that same idea. that same mentality, that same thought process. when i got to tulsa in 1984,