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.
to get back what was lost. we ve lost a lot of history, a lot of testimony, a lot of known heritage that koufb passed down because it wasn t safe to talk about for so long. nobody said nothing until now. we just now talking about it. growing up, old folks didn t talk and they actually kind of hid a lot of stuff from us. staying quiet was one of those ways of protecting yourself. it s been in the back of your mind wondering can this happen again? what can i do to prevent this from happening again to my children. there has always been a scar to me and i don t have never even thought about speaking.
we ve lost a lot of history, a lot of testimony, a lot of known heritage that koufb passed down because it wasn t safe to talk about for so long. nobody said nothing until now. we just now talking about it. growing up, old folks didn t talk and they actually kind of hid a lot of stuff from us. staying quiet was one of those ways of protecting yourself. it s been in the back of your mind wondering can this happen again? what can i do to prevent this from happening again to my children. there has always been a scar to me and i don t have never even thought about speaking. you kind of have to. i said why did you dig a burial