Community here in tulsa was started by a realestate person from arkansas. W. Gurley. E was o. In thist 40plus acres area in early 2o century and 20began to developth century and he began to develop this area selling the state to individual lacks who wanted to blackspertyindividual who wanted to own property. The historic greenwood area is the area where he brought this bought this property. It became known as the black wall street because of the number of Business Developers to entrepreneurs that came the greenwood area to start a business. There was a lot of promise here because although blacks were not allowed to work in the oil fields, there was a lot of opportunity for those people who worked for the wealthier people who were in the oil business, and so there was a lot of promise there. Jobs, and good paying the people took advantage of it. And in the greenwood area you have doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, educators. Anything that went into lifeining our quality of could be found in the greenwood area. That was the origin of the people who are looking for opportunities and there was land available here in tulsa. Subsequently it just flourished. Thishen they arrested young man for this alleged assault on the elevator in this Downtown Department store, the word got around that they were going to try to lynch him, and quite naturally the community no, there isnt going to be a lynching. The first night they went down and nothing happened. But the second night that they fired, anda shot was from that, the melee started. Broke out everywhere. And as a result the whole greenwood area was burned to the ground. The only building left standing was the high school. Crossat is where the red director who was sent to tulsa aid st. Louis set up the station that was set up by the red cross. The aftermath of that was that people did not have any place to live, and the city passed an ordinance that said that you could not rebuild unless you use bricks. Well, using bricks was a prohibitive cost. O an attorney who moved to. While the lawsuit against the city and got the ordinance taken off the books, and people were able to rebuild their homes using wood or brick. The Greenwood District was by likeiddle of the 1930s, 1935, they had rebuilt the Greenwood District, ok . This story what should be all about, and that is the resiliency of the people and then being able to recover from such a disaster. Now we are standing in reconciliation bapark. The purpose of the park was to call the attention to the people who do not know about the 1921 race riots, for people to remember that such a disaster happened, and hopefully it will never happen again. Our whole effort here in tulsa now is reconciliation. We are all about reconciliation. If you look at the power of reconciliation, it gives you history of coming to indian territory and people working and living together, and that about up at the and then top, you see people reaching down and helping other individuals up to the top, and that is really what we ought to be all about all of the time, likes man should treat man we are all human beings. Process now is the chairman of the Poor Peoples Campaign. What is this campaign . Guest it was found about three years ago. We are organized in 46 states across the country, led by ofple of faith, people conscience, advocates to see the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, militarism and the war economy, and this distorted world narrative eating away at our society, saying we can do , what are the roots of so let this economic and racial injustice. We live in a nation that has 140 Million People who are poor. White americans who make up 67 million poor and lowincome people. We are living in a time when we have the capacity to actually address these issues, but right lack the political will. Country was founded on and we stillice need to overcome these injustices and in equities and in equities and we need to build a movement from the bottom up. We spend very little on education and health care and a living wage for anyone, especially people of color. Host what changes are you calling for . Guest we are putting forth a moral agenda. Universal singlepayer health that talks about public free, college education, ending the resegregation of school. We are talking about an end to. Ass incarceration we have a broad and bold program. We will be further announcing a when people join us for a Mass Assembly and march on washington. That will be online tomorrow, june 20, at 10 a. M. Its many different a mans coming up from the grassroots. Ommunity all races, all nationalities, all genders, all sexualities. We are going to build power. We are going to build a movement that puts peoples lives over corporate profit. We will go to calls. Winston in new jersey. Good morning. Welcome to the conversation. Hi, thank you for giving me a chance to speak. I have been paying attention to the root causes of economic inequality and what i have observed is that the equal Employment Opportunity commission is basically failing at its mission. Of 1964 isights act a clause in the statute that requires that commission to collect component one and component two component data is essentially demographic information, so who, what number of ethnic groups are employed at a Large Corporation of 100 employees or more and component two, collecting ,nformation about salary bands what groups are earning what salaries. Acts ago, closer to win the , thatnto effect surveillance was coupled with proactive enforcement so the might trigger an investigation from the the folks who were eligible for employment in the area. Over time, reverse racism essentially decoupled enforcement from surveillance and the agency was relegated to agencydata collection and, of course, they have administrative complaints. Theyre going after obvious cases of Large Corporations showing the host ok, winston and would deliver there. Rev. Liz theoharis, your thoughts . Winston, i am going to leave it there. Rev. Liz theoharis, your thoughts . Thet i appreciate raising issue. We have very high levels of Unemployment Rate now because of the pandemic and what existed harde words that it was for different people to get into the jobs that did exist. I appreciate the diversity in as 20,000ace, as well states have enacted racist suppression laws. To make sure that we are not using racebased gerrymandering, when a community is trying to hold corporations accountable, i think indeed we have a real ,ssue of systemic racism thatmic economic injustice is right in the middle of our system. Host kevin incheon, new jersey. Hi, kevin. Kevin in trenton, new jersey. I just read a great book called all i need to know i learned in kindergarten. Everyone treating everyone equal. They are scared. Its just a matter of treat everybody equal. Dont come with the preconceived notions oh, im scared or he doesnt look like me. Thats how it is. Thats all ive got to say. I love cspan. I watch it every day and reverend liz, you are gorgeous, girl. Give me a smile. [laughter] host go ahead, reverend. Guest we need to talk about systemic racism. I appreciate this point. We are not naturally necessarily a racist people. That has happened because of media, larger structural inequities, so racism is at the core of our society. What we need is to solve a problem, our structural issues and Solutions Including policy, so if we are serious about trying to end racism, we need living wages. If we are serious about ending systemic racism we need to be fighting back against the resegregation of our schools. We need to make sure we have access to health care for absolutely everybody. Racism doesnt have to be the way it is. And so we have structural policies, people are caught that fear. What we are seeing in the Poor Peoples Campaign is that people for soall of these lines many years we are fighting we are fighting against racism, for young and old across our society. Host david, go ahead. Caller first of all, if you want to look at people trying to divide people by race, the democrat party. All, i dont think theres if you want to look lets goic racism back to the 1950s when black people had to drink out of a different water fountain, they could not go to the same bathroom, could not eat at the same lunch counter. We have moved a long way from that. We have moved to the point where beforet meal kneel someone with black lives matter, you are considered a racism. If you dont tweet something in support of black lives matter, you are a racist. My question is for this lady wht looks wider than me . Ter than me, what do you want i will answer the question for you, but what do you want . Other than the same bromide you have been pointing out we want programs, we want education, we want this, we want that. Is, you want reparations. Say it. Is that what you want . We have called for reform with a whole platform and many of the policies it you are speaking to our what we put forth in that platform. There are things like living wages for everybody. Universal health care for everybody. We are not a partisan movement. We challenge democrats, republicans, independents, who anddeeply political believed the issues of liberty equality arend political issues but we need to fight them across racial lines and political lines. What i want is for people in this country and across the world to have what they need to thrive, not just rarely survive, and with the level of resources thisd nation has, nobody should be homeless. Nobody should be without health care. Everybody should be up to make a wage that they can live and raise their kids with and we should all work to enact. Caller in west virginia. Caller good morning. Host good morning. Caller i want to tie together a few issues we have been talking about this morning. I grew up very poor. That stuck with me my entire life. School, ioing through decided to become a teacher to help children like me. Little did i know they were paying a low wage. If you had to put in the hours. Teachers get paid more. Nurses get paid. In my career of teaching, i was segregated against, and i am white, but i was segregated against because i was poor because i looked after those kids, and thats very , when youto live with think youre doing the best thing for everybody. Want to tie one more thing in the last thing he brought out after the shooting, his words meant a lot, i think, people who listened to that. He was asking for help. He was asking for help. , butd not want to go back minted but needed a mentor, someone to help guide him just like teachers help children. Prison. Imagine being in it was the scariest experience of my life. Just the fact of having to go through it. It was totally humiliating. Reverend, a lot there for you. Go ahead. Guest indeed. I want to thank the caller for their service as a teacher. Education is so important if we are really going to take on the systemic injustices that are in our society and i also want to encourage folks to connect with the Poor Peoples Campaign and tune into our mass poor Peoples Assembly march on washington at 10 a. M. The cousin many of the stories that are most impacted teachers,njustices, those who have no sanitation homeless, those in a tellpment get a chance to their stories and how people are rising up together to say this does not have to be this way. One military contractor gets as much from the federal government as it would take to expand health care in 42 states. It does not have to be that people suffer the way people are suffering. I think education is so key. Dollar know is every invested in Early Childhood saves seven dollars and other kinds of programs that are needed if you do not invest in education, invest in children and and Child Poverty across the rest of the country. You can tune in on our website or with the free cspan radio app. Bill in pennsylvania. Bill, can you make it quick . Go ahead. I just want to know what the reverend thinks about alternate schools question mark our schools are failing, especially in the inner cities. Shouldnt those kids have alternative schools to go to, either a parochial school, Christian School . I just want to know what liz thought about that. Guest thank you about thank you for the question about education. We need to fund our Public Schools to the extent that they can be a beautiful place for kids to be educated. But we need to push back against the resegregation of schools. Only lift up education and everybody, and what we are seeing right now is that so many kids are having to be educated onine, and that is hard families. Moread we need to invest resources to make our schools great as they can be. When weety will benefit invest in education and in children. Host if our viewers are interested you can learn more by going live this saturday at 10 00 eastern, the Poor Peoples Campaign rally, an online gathering of people across the country speaking out against social injustice. Speakers include activist cornel west, actor danny glover, comedian wanda sykes, actress debra messing, former Vice President al gore and his daughter karenna, and actress and activist jane fonda. Live saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, the Poor Peoples Campaign against social injustice, on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Trump this november we are going to take back the house , we are going to hold the senate, and we are going to keep the white house. President trump returns to the campaign trail saturday for a rally in tulsa. Watch our live coverage starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, ondemand