This is the Tom Hartman program.

While the country is still in flames,

the words of the day seem to be looting and rioting. I want to take these

one at a time. I'm going to start with rioting. I am not seeing homes being destroyed. I'm not seeing people being

targeted yesterday was the anniversary of the

the 1921 actual riot in Greenwood, Oklahoma.

The Tulsa Race Massacre is what it was referred to back at the time.

Greenwood was a suburb of Tulsa that had over 100,000 people living in it.

It was an entirely African American community.

They referred to it as the Black Wall Street. It was a very, very

wealthy place. Black people came from all over America to live there, to do business there.

The area Greenwood had, in addition to 100,000 people had

luxury shops, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores, a hospital, a savings and

loan, a post office, three hotel.

This was all owned and operated and run

by African Americans.

Jewelry and clothing stores, two movie theaters,

a library, pool halls, a bus and cab service,

a nationally recognized school system, six private

airplanes, their own airport, two black newspapers.

And on May 31st, white people actually rioted in Greenwood.

And by rioted, I'm talking about killing people and burning their houses down.

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