Hey guys, JB

Today's show is the final episode in what we've been doing all through February, which is

commemorating Black History Month by talking about the history of African Americans in this country as it relates to the economy stock market

et cetera, and I think I really saved the most impactful episode I wanted to do for last

So what we're going to talk about today is a book called The Burning

And the burning was written by Tim Madigan about 20 years ago. I actually almost to the week or to the month and

He's a journalist worked at a big newspaper in Texas and was assigned an article

And upon being assigned the article he basically ended up in a situation where

He had to research something that he almost didn't believe could have possibly happened

And this is the true story of the burning of Black Wall Street

And this episode really means a lot to me because

When I first became aware of this event in US history, I said the same thing

I said how could this have happened and nobody's aware of it

Two things first how could this have happened, but second how come nobody even knows the story

How come we've never been taught this story

So you're going to learn a lot today about an episode in American history that is starting to get more attention

But for decades and decades it was almost something that it was always something that was too terrible to speak of

And so teachers didn't really teach it you didn't learn about this in school and

Now all of a sudden there's this kind of awakening around this event and so I really want you to

Just kind of absorb it the way that I have and carefully consider the takeaways from this

But Tim's going to come on in a second and

His book was published 20 years ago, but the event that that he's chronicled

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