I don't know what those white people in this country feel,

but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children,

on some idealism which you assure me

exists in America, which I have never seen.

Welcome to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge

white people about black history. I'm Brad on today's show or my co-host Katina and

Garan. Today's topic is the Tulsa Race Massacre. We first go over the historical context of the time,

what actually happened, what justice did occur, and why it's helpful to know that it even happened.

We hope you enjoy the discussion.

All right, Garen, can you catch us up on what has happened since slavery to 1920?

And can you paint the picture for us of what's happening during this time? Yeah, so the events that we're going to be talking about in Tulsa happened 1921, just after World War I.

But just to paint the picture of where we're at in the story, after slavery, black people did not own anything.

They were not given a start as normal citizens of America.

The 40 acres and a mule promise was withdrawn.

It fell through that they weren't given land.

And so there's a system that formed in the South called sharecropping.

Sharecropping was a system where black people would rent land from the white

landowners, because remember the white people still had all the ownership, all the assets.

And then they would work the land, they would sell, either pay with money or with a portion of

what they grew,

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