The following is Blog post number forty-three in the ongoing Racial Reconciliation in America Series. It is entitled: Rebuild Greenwood Avenue Nationwide.

RACIAL RECONCILIATION

REBUILD GREENWOOD AVENUE

NATIONWIDE

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2011/02/greenwood_oklahoma_from_the_black_wall_street_to_the_tulsa_race_riot.2.html 

One of the best kept secrets of White history in America; a great travesty of the government post Civil War and during the Jim Crow era, is the event known as the Tulsa Riot of 1921. Unless something new has been reported since I read the Tulsa Riot Report some years ago, the only reparations paid were to the hardware store owner; a White man, who was reimbursed for the bullets used by the KKK during the riot! 

Why no one has done a MADE FOR TV movie about this TERRORIST ATTACK has always been of interest to me. This was a Klan orchestrated attack. The Ku Klux Klan remains a legal organization in America! The Klan's activity against Black folk historically is known to be rooted in terror.

When you hear the words "The Klan" you think White hatred of Black folk! The travesty is that the State, meaning neither the federal government nor the state government intervened for Black protection, or for their rebuilding effort.

This is why for Black folk it seems that terrorism against Black folk is okay in the eyes of the government. White folk in charge of the Tulsa city government at the time were thought to be members of the Klan as many people in that State were. City police did not come to the aid of the Greenwood Avenue residents. At the time Oklahoma was known to have one of the largest Klan populations, estimated to be from 1-3 million folk depending on who you believe!

For this cause Black folk must reunify as a people spiritually if not physically. One need not live next door to care! Proximity is not a necessary demand in the consideration for unity of purpose in Black progress. Black folk can stop hating and killing one another; focus on righteous common cause demonstrated by a togetherness and support of one another!

Common cause for Black folk must become the Black refrain and White folk need to join the course and sing:

YES WE CAN

BECAUSE ONCE WE DID

WE CAN BUILD AGAIN

WE FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT

WE STAND FOR THE GOOD

WE BUILD TOGETHER

A NEW GREENWOOD

ACROSS A NATION

AND EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD

Yes Black folk and White folk must reconcile. Let it also be that the work of a Black economic common cause becomes part of our efforts. Racial Reconciliation in America is more than a call for an end to interracial animus. Yea, it is also a call for the desired result of changing the poverty condition that Black folk face everyday in America; for this poverty, is a matter of Black economics.

There must become an economic component in the rallying cry for racial justice and reconciliation. In the days ahead, we contend that economic considerations will become a stumbling block in the reconciliation quest. This economic stumbling block must not be overlooked or avoided, no head on, it must be met and burst asunder. 

The plight of Black folk will change when the psyche of America changes generally around the truth that the propaganda of Black folk as simply a dangerous inferior and slothful people is a lie straight from the pit of hell! Like any folk Black folk will of course protect themselves and attempt to secure their own interest.

As a race of people Black folk are neither slothful nor inferior but rather triumphant in the face of great barriers hardship and challenges. The greatest challenge for Black folk is and has always been to overcome the power of separation and isolation as it is attached to racism.

An industrious people, Black folk have always overcome both separation and isolation. When Black folk have been separated and isolated unto themselves; in America, not being deterred by White racism what is shown is that Greenwood Avenue is the result. The success is what is hated! When left to thrive Black folk always find a way to excel.

The problem is the jealousy and envy that comes as a result of Black achievement. The industrious nature and creative work of God within Black folk is a powerful thing. The devil has always recognized the greatness, power and fearlessness of Black folk. This can be seen in his unrelenting efforts to chain and defeat the human spirit of the Black race.

Well, in this effort the devil shall never succeed for God Almighty is on the side of right!