U.S. Purposely Destroys Families, Can Citizens Rebuild Black Wall Street?

Terrorism on American soil didn't just start with the 911 plane crashes. The tragedy of entire neighborhoods being burned to the ground has happened, unfortunately, several times, with thriving African American communities having been attacked for building successful infrastructures of businesses, schools, hospitals, transportation systems, and homes where stable families raised good children. What happened? Today we examine some ugly historical and not-so-long-ago events, as a group of organizers make a trip to Oklahoma to revisit Black Wallstreet, with the hopes of rebuilding this great legacy in cities across America. Our first guest, Jerry Nicolas, reveals some shocking truths about the underlying intention of government agencies to destroy African American families. Later, we'll discuss the tragedy of Black Wallstreet, and other areas of American terrorism on Americans, such as Rosewood, and more recently, the Move massacre, and how those attitudes are manifested in todays police response to protests in Ferguson and Baltimore. What needs to happen in order for African Americans to build viable communities that will be protected and not purposely destabilized and destroyed? Our guests Jeffery Dawkins and Revin Fellows along with Illinois State Representative LaShawn Ford discuss their upcoming trip to Oklahoma to explore the possibilities.