BLACK WALLSTREET/FORGOTTEN DREAM/

[harry brown]

I READ  ON  A WEBSITE ABOUT  BLACK  WALLSTREET.1921  BLACK  PEOPLE  IN TULSA  OKLAHOMA  HAD  SUCESSFUL BLACK  BUSINESSES/SUCH AS  THEATRES,BANKS,CHURCHES,RESTAURANTS,POST OFFICE,HOSITALS AND LIBRARIES...ALSO A  BUS SYSTEM....THEN  THE  DEMONIC  KLAN  DESTROYED  THE  BLACK  BUSINESSES,AND KILLED OVER  3,000 BLACK PEOPLE...IF  BLACK PEOPLE  WERE ABLE  TO  DO THIS BACK  THEN  ,WAY BACK THEN//WHY  IS IT  BLACK  PEOPLE CANNOT  DO IT NOW//WE HAVE NO UNITY//BLACK PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO  HAVE UNITY BACK THEN//MINISTER FARRAKHAN  WANNTS TO  REBUILD  DETROIT/HE WANTS TO TALK TO  PREACHERS/WHY///THEY  ARE   LIKE PIMPS////THEY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM///THE CHURCH  COULD BE  LIKE  A  BANK///PEOPLE  BRINGING MONEY TO THE CHURCH,THEN THE  CHURCHES  CAN  ALL GET TOGETHER  AND DISTRIBUTE IT  IN  OUR COMMUNITIES//BUT  THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN,BECAUSE OF GREED/////////..AMAZING HOW THINGS HAVE GOTTEN//BLACK PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES HAVE BECOME  LIKE SLAVE PLANTATIONS,WITH BLACK OVERSEER'S......./

[Cynique]

There has been an undercurrent from the past about what happened way back when to the thriving black community in Oklahoma and how cruelly and inhumane the Native Americans in this territory were dealt with by the U.S. Government, - voices murmuring that the swath of tornadoes that just recently devastated this state are the ghosts of revenge.

But revenge is a double-edged sword and black people are still struggling with the ghosts of white southern resentment against the emancipation of the slaves whose present day descendants are mired in the residue of slavery that oozes with irresponsible low-life behavior.

[Troy]

Harry it is simple, Black people had no choice but to depend upon each other back then.  The law prevented Black people from enjoying some very basic rights.  We banned together because we HAD to.

 

Today this same is true, but people simply don't recognize it.  Sure the laws have changed, but the relative situation and outcomes have not.  Look at Black incarceration rates, employment rate in the best jobs, how poorly our children are being educated, etc. 

 

I think ultimately we will come to the conclusion that we have to support each other because no one, least of all the government, will.