Tulsa race massacre

It's a historic congregation.

Much of it, though, was destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, but the basement survived and the sanctuary was rebuilt in 1925.

So how did the scheme work? Well, as a senior pastor, Mays controlled the church's finances, which, by the way, here at Ministry Watch, we recommend that we would say that's a bad idea.

But it was the case at this church.

Yeah.

And, you know, our home state is where the Tulsa Massacre took place, and a lot of that hist- I- I- that racism, that inherent white supremacy that was all justified in this perverted interpretation of the Bible still permeates through all of these states.

All of these states are Republican supermajorities.

All of these states are bottom 10 states, and all of these states value death, value the accumulation of wealth, value placating to corporations, and if people die, so be it.

I'm Keith Merks.

Congress is weighing a measure to preserve the site of the Tulsa Race Massacre as a national monument.

Thomas Pablo reports the Cherokee Nation is throwing its weight

behind the idea.

Senate Bill 1051 was sponsored by Oklahoma Senator James Lankford last year.

It would designate Tulsa's Greenwood District as a national monument preserved by the National Park System.

That district was the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

That's when an estimated 300 black people were killed and 35 blocks of the city's Black Wall Street were destroyed by a white mob.

Sure, I like this.

But people didn't go to it in the way that they went to the 9-11 Museum or the Tulsa Race Massacre experience Greenwood Rising that we made or even Planet Word, which is joyful and about words.

What did you learn about that?

Well, that goes to my larger theory about culture in America, which is that.

Uh, some allegedly White supremacists, and not very creative or, uh, uh, violent White supremacists, they splashed white paint outside of a chapel, the Rothko Chapel in Texas.

In another, white paint was used to vandalize a 100th anniversary memorial gallery to the Tus- Tulsa Race Massacre in 2021.

But, you know, the massacre was in, uh, uh, 1921.

She also mentioned a rainbow crosswalk for LGBTQIA+ persons, that's how she wrote it, in New Brunswick, Canada, being painted over with white paint in an act of intolerance.

They're going to pull their gun out because they're defending something that they believe that they own.

So when you build a black Wall Street, you should not just not be surprised when they try to burn it down.

But you should put that as part of the business model.

You should assume they're going to try to burn it down.

Right.

And then you can go ahead and plan for how you're going to rebuild if they burn it down.

And one thing about black Wall Street that most people don't know, Cody Ransom.

who just knows so much about Black Wall Street.