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Myth of “Black Wall Street” is Deployed to Bolster Black Capitalism
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
14 Jun 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Myth of “Black Wall Street” is Deployed to Bolster Black Capitalism

In an article in Black Agenda Report titled “From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism,” Too Black, a writer and poet based in Indianapolis, reported that “most Greenwood Blacks worked for white businesses, and 95 percent lived in substandard housing.” The Black Wall Street Myth, said Too Black,  is used “to push Black capitalism” and  obscures the fact that “there were actually Black folks rising up and trying to protect a Black man from being lynched” in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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