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"The clothing stores, nightclubs, cafes, rooming houses, and other businesses lining the streets and avenues of the Greenwood District provided ample opportunity for casual strolls, shopping sprees, and entertainment excursions. Greenwood offered a dab of this, a pinch of that-a little of everything. The Greenwood District came especially alive on Thursday evening, the traditional 'maids day off' for domestic servants living in the white community. (During this historical period relatively few African American women could expect employment opportunities beyond domestic servitude.) The influx of these working women provided a rush of business and added luster to an already glittering community. "There's something off putting about plastering her face over a document that considered her to only be 3/5 of a person at one point in time.No. That's not what happened at all. To understand what happened to Black Wall Street, you have to study the period immediately following the Civil War (Reconstruction) and how the policies set into place as a response to emancipation affected black people at the time.the beginning of the end of Black Wall Street....heres the difference.... back then we were limited to practice group economics.. now with integration we give our money to everyone else under the false ilusion that others do the same with our businesses..True but to answer his question. The history books will say whatever they want it to say. Look at them now in regards to slavery, hell some of em even go as far as to say that the slaves enjoyed slavery and didn't want it to end.
But you're right we have to build our economy. I don't see how areas could in the past w/ limited resources and we can't with ample resources.
Once we were allowed to patronize stores outside of our own, we pretty much abandoned the black owned stores.
Institutions like Freedmans Bank (chartered by the good 'ole US Government) were initially creates to help the influx of emancipated people by helping them establish savings and financial strength. By all means it was a great success for that time period...until Henry Cooke and his friends purposefully drained the bank by approving unsecured loans and making terrible business decisions that just so happened to benefit Cooke's associates. Even Congress said that he and others should be indicted....but nothing happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman's_Savings_Bank This series of events caused a great deal of black people to lose what was literally their life savings, and has continued to perpetuate distrust of banks in urban communities today.
Because of this and as a response to the incoming Jim Crow laws, places like Tulsa/Black Wall Street built their own institutions and they were, again, very successful. Poor whites took notice of black peoples' power to build up their communities and grew resentful, as they had been sold illusions of grandeur by politicians of the time that had not been realized. While the Tusla Riot(s) are the biggest example of this, well to do black communities across the nation were targeted and attacked in a similar fashion by the klan and other disgruntled/poor whites.
Our communities were destroyed, both physically due to the amount of people killed and buildings destroyed, and also financially, as the cost of damages bankrupted any business that wasn't already burned to the ground.
So, while it is technically correct that black people have continued to shop at stores owned by those outside of their communities following the end of jim crow, its not exactly because they abandoned black businesses. A large section of the black economy had been destroyed before they had a chance to shop there -- don't forget that blacks could not get jobs because of unions that systematically barred them from gainful employment. Blacks often had little choice but to shop outside of their communities once we were able to rejoin the workforce on a large scale - the shops within our communities had already become targets and were being destroyed/bankrupted.
I'm serious though
Everyone might not believe in God, but there's without a doubt a higher power out there
Really the place for that eventual debate though?
DCtrollamericanNo but it always comes around not sure how it did in this thread.
integration ended black wallstreet?
community was destroyed 40 something years before integration
white folks destroyed black communities in Wilmington, NC and to this day black communities down there is still in shambles
Wow the new vid show shows the view from the police garage and the cop dragging her out of the cop car. Hands and feet bound. Lays her on the ground and unties her and then drags her away. Body seemed pretty lifeless...smh.
Not bashing, but once again, you see all these, "Pray, Pray. That is all you can do" comments on Social Media. What has prayer done thus far? "We" have been praying for 400 years. Where the hell has that gotten us? I don't say that to be disrespectful but at what point do you stop using the, "I will let God handle it" card? I just don't get it man.
God hasn't looked out for us man yet we still call to him when stuff like this happens. All-powerful right? Well do something magical to put an end to all of this madness man. Or should we wait for him to work in "mysterious ways."
Wow the new vid show shows the view from the police garage and the cop dragging her out of the cop car. Hands and feet bound. Lays her on the ground and unties her and then drags her away. Body seemed pretty lifeless...smh.
Exactly .
RIP Sandra Bland and Kindra Chapman |I .
With all this outrage, and the "it's time for drastic action" talk that always gets thrown around when things like this happens, I always find myself wondering what exactly needs to be done.
There are people out there that throw their lives down for a cause, but they lack the direction/conceptualization of an intended or desired end result. So on most of their cases, their martyrdom will always be taken with a grain of salt because their death didn't serve a purpose in the grand scheme of things.
Inversely, there are those who have actual ideas, but they have a more difficult time in convincing the masses that there are sound courses of action. Without the masses (who bring the anger, passion, and willingness to lay down their lives), there is no hope for true action.
So, what do we do?
Why am I not hearing anything happening to the cop? From his mistreatment and abuse of her to lying in his report, all that should be addressed.
Obvious doctoring of the tape....
Most obvious open & shut case of 2015 presently...
Sandra Bland Swallowed Or Smoked 'Large Quantity Of Marijuana' In Jail: DA