and i was told they got off and gotbút married. guest: it's important to go back to the context for the violence in tulsa in 1921 and to remember what was america like in 1921. it was a really often violent period. difficult time to and just the so-called race riots but the lynching. you have a successful black community here in tulsa in a place in the united states where the pri vailing ideology is white supremacy and jealousy and envy with respect to the

well-being and domestic called the k lmp a nmp which is a popular social group among the white community that is growing throughout the state of oklahoma oak and you have a media that is publishing articles that are incendiary and inflament tower and flames of and you have combustible mix and somethingo mix and cause and explosion and that something was the incident you referr to between a white girl that isn't the cause of the violence. it is not the fundamental

cause. host: memphis, tennessee. >> my first concern is the spoi from texas in regards to mass murder among our own black people. i justanted say psychologically and hard to get over. i want tore a -- [indiscernible]

>> recommendations how we repair the damages from the losses that occurred in 1921 includes further education and curricula reform and payments to survivors and descend ants and economic investments targeting the black community. there is a whole range of

options aso how we repair what was lost. i do want to report out that sole people that after the massacre in 1921, which obliterated the black community was the end of the story. it wasn't the end of the story. it is the human spirit. because many many black community said they would not be moved and rebound after the the national black chamber league had a four years after the massacre and peek as a business community was in the 1940. and it was urban renewal that causedv2 decline.

yes, republic a regulateses are something we are talking about and working to figure out how best we can try to repair some of the damage that was wrought on the 1921 massacre.

and some of the damages that have been done. but i wanted to ask that are you familiar with dr. fran is wilson and her theories on racism in america dynamic is it all stems from where the d.n.a. on black people is more dominant in terms of the skin complexion and plays a major role in racism. i am a believer in the fact that racism in america has grown suc.

when you put all of that together, i think the of helping america become better than it is to delve intoycholog. >> i understand racism is important. race is a social concept, which is to say that race is creation. it's often said■r8 there's more biological differences within so-called racists between so-called races. race is something we created and we have to understand as best we

can, who, why, et cetera around that creation. fundamentalor me is that will we recognized the shared humanity of other people. if we did that, we can wouldn't have these race massacres or lynchings or the kind of turbulent and international relations that we have today. what we share is humanity and validating that humanity between and among people is critical to our human relations. host: rockville, maryland, good morning. caller: my family, my mom is from tulsa who still has aarge

number of her siblings that live in tulsa. my question to you, sir, i have been plaque wall street member wall and seen the plaque, what is the percentage of black-owned businesses on wall street today snr. guest: fully

i'm sitting even as we speak right or black wall street on the corner of greenwood and archer. and it's here now. i think about fulton street books, a book store, sneakers and black-owned restaurants and black-owned restaurants and i don't know the restaurants and not just a commercial district these days but commerce, it's residence and university occupies the largist space, the --

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