>> WELCOME TO MUTUALLY INCLUSIVE.

MAY 31st THROUGH JUNE FIRST MARKS THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY KNOWN AS THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE.

WE SPOKE WITH HISTORIAN WHO HELPED LEAD A COMMISSION ON THE 1921 TRAGEDY WHO SAID BLACK AMERICANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL THIS RACE WAR.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ HEIGHTS BEEN CALLED THE SINGLE WORST INCIDENT OF RATION VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN HISTORY ON THIS EPISODE OF MUTUALLY INCLUSIVE, WE LOOK BACK AT THE ORIGINAL BLACK WALL STREET, HOW IT WAS BURNED TO THE GROUND, HOW LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE WORKING TO KEEP THE LEGACY ALIVE.

>> GREENWOOD IS DEVASTATED, ABOUT IT DOES COME BACK.

IT IS GOING TO COME BACK.

>> IT US THOUGH EARLY 1900'S AND THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA HAS BEEN FORMED.

>> INDIAN TERRITORY IS FORCED TO JOIN OKLAHOMA TERRITORY IN 1907 LARGE NUMBER OF SOUTHERNERS WHO HAD THE WHITE SUPREMACIST ATTITUDES HAVE MOVED INTO THE TERRITORY AND BASICALLY RUNNING THE NOW STATE OF ONLY OAK.

>> ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL CITY, TULSA, HAS LARGE BLACK POPULATION, ABOUT IT IS AREA ROOTED IN RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION.

>> THE VERY FIRST LAW PASSED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE OF THE NEWLY CREATED STATE OF OKLAHOMA WAS A LAW TO SEGREGATE SOLELY ON THE BASE OF RACE.

TULSA, THERE FO FORE, IS COMPLETELY SEGREGATED BASED ON RACE.

>> BLACK INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES HAVE TO RELY ON THEMSELVES FOR THE BASIC NECESSITIEST THIS SOON FORM COMMUNITY KNOWN AS GREENWOOD.

>> THE CAUSE OF SEGREGATION, BLACK PEOPLE COULD NOT GO ANY PLACE THEY WANTED TO IN TULSA AND SHOP, BUY FOOD, CLOTHING, WHATEVER THEY NEED TO DO.

A MAID WHO MAY WORK IN ONE OF THE BIG RICH PEOPLE'S HOUSE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF TULSA, WE COME TO HER HOME IN GREENWOOD BUY HER FOOD, HER CLOTHING, GO TO A DOCTOR, JUST ANYTHING THAT YOU NEEDED, CUE GET IT IN GREENWOOD.

THE DISTRICT DEVELOP NAS A THRIVING ECONOMIC COME IN THE SEE AGGRAVATOR OF DIFFERENT BUSINESSES AND STABLE FINANCIAL CIRCULATION.

WELL, WHAT WAS HAPPENING IS A DOLLAR WOULD BE BROUGHTING INTO THE BLACK COMMUNITY AIN'T WOULD TURN OVER FIVE OR SIX TIMES BEFORE THE DOLLAR WOULD LEAVE THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

THIS LED TO BLACK.

AND BOOKER T. WASHINGTON DUBS IT BLACK WALL STREET.

A NAME THAT STILL CARRIES ON TODAY.

THE SUCCESS IS NOT SEEN WITHOUT DANGER OR RISKS.

THE KU KLUX KLAN WAS QUITE OPERATIVE IN STALL WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IS PRESS BLACK PEOPLE TO USE THAT TIME IS TO KEEP THEM IN THEIR PLACE.

BLACK FARMERS WERE PROSPEROUS BEYOND THE NAMERS.

AND THE ECONOMIC COMPETITION.

>> AS TIME CONTINUE, RACIAL FRUST RATIONS ARE HITTING A BOILING POINT ACROSS THE NATION AS MANY BLACK AMERICANS ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

>> NOW, THE WAR IS OVER.

AND A LOT OF THESE BLACK VETERANS COME BACK TO GREENWOOD THAT THEY HAVE SEEN CONDITIONS IN EUROPE.

THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED IN PLACES LIKE PLANTS, THAT THEY WERE NOT BEING JUDGED BY THOUGH COLOR OF THEIR SKIN AND THEY WERE GIVEN OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY COULD NOT POSSIBLY DREAM OF IN THE UNITED STATES AND DETERMINED TO GET SOME OF THE FREEDOM THAT THEY FOUGHT FOR.

>> RATION VIOLENCE NOTHING NEW IN 1921 BUT ON MAY 31st TULL SAW, OKLAHOMA, A SEE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AC DON'T DATE.

>> DISK WORKING DOWNTOWN.

EVERYBODY KNOWS WHO HE IS.

HE HAS BEEN THERE FOR YEARS.

THE DREXELL BUILDING IS ONE OF THE FEW PLACES THAT BLACKS CAN GO AND USE THE BATHROOM.

DICK ENTERS THE DREXELL BUILDING, THELE VATOR OPERATE WAS A YOUNG GIRL NAMED SARAH PAIGE.

WHATEVER HAPPENED, NOBODY WILL KNOW, HE MAY HAVE LOST HIS PAL BALANCE IN ATTEMPT TO GAIN THE BALANCE.

HE REACHED OUT.

HE TOUCHED A WHITE GIRL.

WELL, THAT IS TABOO.

YOU CANNOT DO THAT.

>> PAIGE REPORTEDLY SCREAMING OUT RUNNING FROM THE ELEVATOR CAR AND SEEKS REFUGE IN GREENWOOD BUT AND PLEBBED BY THE POLICE AND TAKEN TO JAIL.

WORD SPREADS QUICKLY.

THAT NIGHT A GROUP OF BLACK MEN OFFERED TO HELP POLICE PROTECT ROW LISTEN OUTSIDE OF HIS JAIL CELL SITS A LARGE WHITE LYNCH MOB BUT THE SHERIFF REFUSES AS THE MEN HEAD BACK TO GREENWOOD.

THAT IS ALTERCATION.

ON THE STORIES THAT A WHITE MAN SEES ONE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR VETERANS CARRYING A WEAPON AND DECIDES THAT IT WAS HIS RIGHT TO DISARM THIS MAN.

WELL, THE BLACK MAN SAYS, IF YOU WANT THIS, COME AND GET IT.

SHOCKS RANG OUT.

HE PEOPLE ARE KILL.

THE BATTLE US ON.

>> BLACK DEANING FERS ARE ABLE TO HOLD OFF INVADERS IN PREAN WIND AS THE NIGHT CONDITIONS NUMBERS OF THEIR APONES IN QUICKLY GROW A SIREN GOES OFF.

16,000 ARMED RIGHTERS IN FADE INVADE.

>> WHAT HAPPENED IN STALL, TREEN VARIEDS DID NOT COME IN AND RUN OVER A GROUP OF UNARMED PLAQUE PEM WHO BR NOT WILLING TO FIGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM.

BUT HA THEY RAN INTO WASES A GROUP OF BLACK PEOPLE WHO WERE DETERMINED TO GENE THEIR HOMES AND THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN AND THE PROBLEM WAS, THAT THEY WERE OVERWHELMED IN NUMBERRANCE LOST.

THAT IS WHY I REFERRED TO IT AS BEING RACE WAR NOT AT RIOT AND NOT A MASSACRE.

>> OKLAHOMA OFFICIALS RELUCTANTLY SEN IN THE NATIONAL GUARD.

BUT MUCH OF THE DESTRUCTION HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE.

>> BLACK GENES ARE DISARMED, TAKEN INTO CUSTODY, AND PUT INTO WHAT WOULD NOW BE CALLED CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT THE BALLPARK AND OTHER DESIGNATED AREAS.

>> BLACK TULSA IS LARGELY BURNED TO THE GROUND, CITY OFFICIALS CLASSIFIED THE EVENT AS A RIOT, BLAMING THE PEOPLE OF GREENWOOD.

BLACK BUSINESS OWNERS WILL HAVE TO FIGHT AGAINST COUNTLESS OBSTACLES TO REBUILD.

>> THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE DETERMINED THAT GREENWOOD WOULD NOT COME BACK.

THEY WERE DETERMINED THAT THIS WAS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

>> HISTORIANS LIKE JIMMY WHITE WERE PINTED TO THE 1921 TULSA RACE RIOT COMMISSION RESEARCHED THE EVENT BUT SAYS THERE WERE ROADBLOCKS TO ANSWERS.

THERE WAS AS SOME PEOPLE REFER TO AS A CON SR. RAWS SY OF SILENCE.

YOU CAN SEE.

TO SOME PEOPLE WOULD BE A SHAMEFUL EVEN IF.

EVENT.

EVEN KNEELING DOWN THE DEATH TOLL SEEMED LIKE IMPOSSIBLE FEET WITH CITY DOCUMENTS CLOUDING THE NUMBERS.

>> THEY WERE SAYING THAT ONLY 26 BLACK PEOPLE WERE KILLED BUT WE KNEW THIS COULD NOT BE.

WE WERE AT LEAST ABLE TO GET IT UP TO 300.

EAND HIS TEAM PROPOSED A PLAN FOR SURVIVORS AND THEIR DESEN SENTS, THAT FIGHT CONTINUES TODAY.

BUT AS TIME GOES ON, WHITE SAYS GREENWOOD WILL BE RESTORED.

WITH THE PERSEVERE ANSWERS OF THE PEOPLE.

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PAST EPISODES AND THE MU MUTUALLY INCLUSIVE NEWS FEED AT MALEMUTELY INCLUSIVE ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ BLACK ENTREPRENEURS IN TULL SAL HAVE CONTINUED TO REBUILD BLACK WALL STREET.

AND PURSUE DIVERSE INDUSTRIES LIKE TECHNOLOGY AND MUSIC.

THE LEGACY OF GREENWOOD HAS SPURRED GROUPS TO START THEIR OWN CHAPTERS.

TODAY I AM JOINED WITH PRESTON AND TODD GILLESPIE FROM BLACK WALL STREET GRAND RAPIDS.

SO PRESTON, BETWEEN IT START WITH YOU.

TELL ME A BIT ABOUT HOW BLACK WALL STREET GRAND RAPIDS REALLY GOT STARTED.

>> , THANKS FOR HAVING US HERE.

WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS.

YES.

BLACK WALL STREET WAS B BIRTHED IN 2020 AND EVERYTHING GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND LOCALLY AS WELL.

STARTED WITH A PRIVATE GROUP ON FACEBOOK GOOD COLLEAGUE OF OURS STARTED A GROUP CALLED BLACK WALL STREET 2020 AND ACTUALLY ON JUNE FIRST AS WELL.

LOOKING BACK WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS THE 100 ANNIVERSARY DATE.

MOST THE MASSES DIDN'T KNOW.

YOU SNOW BY JUNETEENTH OF THAT MONTH, THE GROUP HAD GROWN TOP 3,000 PEOPLE WHICH IS PRETTY DRASTIC GROWTH FOR A SMALL GROUP ON FACEBOOK AND I JUST SIDE MYSELF, YOU KNOW, WE GOT TO TAKE THIS MOMENTUM.

BRING THIS TO LIFE IN THE REAL WORLD.

WE GOT A LOT OF MOMENTUM, INNOVATORS WITHIN THIS GROUP, IN WEST MICHIGAN AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

LET'S TAKE THIS TO REAL LIFE.

THEN, THEN, IN ADDITION TO THAT, ANOTHER ONE OF THE CO-FOUNDERS, TEAMMATES, A LADY BY THE NAME OF MARY, SHE WAS A DEVELOPER AND WENT ABOUT HER REALLY VATAL AREAS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE EASTON AREA AND HAS SOME PROPERTIES IN HER POSSESSION AND SHE POSTED IN A GROUP ONE DAY, WHAT SHOULD I NAME, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THIS AREA AND REMEMBER BEING THE FIRST COMMENT.

A LOT OF PEOPLE CHOPPING ON THE COMMENTS AND THE GREAT IDEA.

I REMEMBER TAGGING TODD GILLESPIE.

AND THE EDUCATION OF THE HISTORY AGE US NEEDING TO KIND OF BRING THAT DOOR TO FOREFRONT TO HELP US NAVIGATE THROUGH THE CURRENT TIMES AND SPEAKING ABOUT BLACK WALL STREET IDYLLWILD ON RECORD FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS.

BY THE SIDE AS CO FONNER THEN A LOT OF MEMBERS THAT JOINED IN WE SELECT AS WELL.

AND THEN WE GOT BUSY IN THE COME CONTINUITY.

WE STARTED VISITING BLACK BUSINESS AND EVEN ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND HIGHLIGHTING SOME COME IN THE MEMBERS AND PIONEERS AND THEN, JUST GOT WARM WELCOME.

AND SO YOU KNOW, SHOUT OUT TO MAYOR BLISS AND THE NEAR JOE JONES AND EVERYONE THAT JOINED US THERE AND GAVE US A GREAT FEELING THAT WE WANT WERE ON TO SOMETHING GREAT TO GET THAT EARLY SUPPORT.

>> MEANTIME YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR MISSION.

WILL YOU GO A LITTLE BIT DEEPER INTO THAT.

WHATS THE OVERALL GOAL NOR.

SO OUR MISSION IS TO ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP REAL ESTATE TO BUILD.

AND CITY ECONOMIC FOR BLACKS IN THE USA AND SO THAT HAS BEEN ON THE RADAR AGAIN.

I AM ATHLETE AND FOR A LIFETIME, YOU KNOW, SO I AM VERY COMPETITIVE.

SO THOSE TYPE OF NUMBERS THEY WILL HIT ME DIFFERENT THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON LIKE THROUGH MY STANDPOINT AND LOOK AT IT.

LIKE MY CITY.

WE ARE NOT SECOND WORST THAN ANYTHING.

ALWAYS HAD IT ON MY MIND ARE MIND SO MY ROUTINE, WE LOOK WHAT WE CAN DO TO CHANGE THE DYNAMICS OF THOSE NUMBERS.

WE WANT TO BE, WE WANT TO REACH OUR MAXIMUM KNOW POTENTIAL.

WE WANT IT FOREVER WITHIN.

WE WANT THE BLACK AND MINORITY COMMUNITIES TO BE INCLUDED AND PROSES PER, SO INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING, WE SAID, LET'S BE SOLUTION ORIENTED.

THIS HERE, THIS VISUAL IS A SOLUTION IN ALTERNATIVE TO GENTRIFICATION AND BEING RECEIVED WELL.

>> ABC LIT.

I WANT TO PULL YOU IN.

HOW DO YOU FEEL BILLION BEING A PART OF THIS PROJECT?

>> WELL, I FEEL PHENOMENAL, MAN.

I FEEL LIKE THIS IS JUST A NEED.

I FEEL LIKE THIS IS NECESSARY AND I FEEL LIKE LIKE HE SAID.

IT IS ALTERNATIVE.

BECAUSE IF WE DON'T PULL TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY, AND DEVELOP WHAT WAS ALREADY DONE AND BECOME SPEARHEADED AND LEADERS IN THE FOREFRONT TO BE ABLE TO PUSH THE BLACK BUSINESS DISTRICTS AND JUST ECONOMICS AND ITSELF BUT THEN, OIN OUR COMMUNITY TO SHOW THE YOUTH THAT IS COMING AFTER.

THAT IS MY FOCUS.

THIS IS LEG SY TO WORK ME.

WHAT DO I PASS DOWN.

WHAT DO I TELL MY CHILDREN WE HAVE DONE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A CHANGE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY WITHIN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS WITHIN THE CITY, WITHIN OUR STATE, WITHIN OUR COUNTRY.

YOU KNOW?

SO THERE IS ANOTHER ME, LIKE BLACK WALL STREET, I STUDIED IT FOR A LONG TIME.

I STUDIED THOSE THAT THEY GOT THE GAME FROM.

SO IT WAS LIKE, IT WAS NO-BRAINER, YOU KNOW?

I HAVE BEEN.

AND IN BLACK WALL STREET FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS.

AND NO QUESTIONS AND WE ASKED ABOUT IT.

OK. WHAT THIS IS NEXT STEP.

LET'S DO WHAT IS NECESSARY.

LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN.

>> AND TALK ABOUT CONTINUING ON THAT LEGACY OF WHAT WAS BUILT IN GREENWOOD AND IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TIME RIGHT NOW, OBVIOUSLY DOMING UP ON THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE IN A POSITION RIGHT NOW WHERE YOU ARE REALLY FURTHERING THAT MISSION AT SUCH MOMENTOUS TIME.

I FEEL LIKE WHO BETTER THAN US.

WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT IS MY RESPONSE.

WHO BETTER THAN US TO DO WITH IT THE VISION IN FRONT OF US.

LIKE WE HAD THE BLUEPRINT SO WE ARE NOT REALLY, REDUPLICATING IT.

NOT JUST WITH THE HISTORY OF THE MASSACRE, I DON'T WANT THAT TO BE THE FOREFRONT OF WHAT WE'RE ON.

WE'RE ON THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.

THAT ALLOW THEM TO BECOME SUCCESS.

THAT WOULD AWILL YOU THEM TO BECOME OWNERS AND DEVELOPERS AND MILLIONAIRES AND TO BE ABLE TO SET FIRE ON NOT JUST GREENWOOD, ABOUT IT WAS SY CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT CREATED THEIR OWN BLACK WALL STREET.

SO BE ABLE TO BE A PART OF THAT HISTORY, I DON'T THINK IS NO OTHER HISTORY WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS MORE IMPORTANT.

>> WHERE DO YOU FEEL LIKE THAT PUT CERTAIN OBSTACLES, THOUGH, NOW IN PRECEDENT SAY WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK ENTREPRENEURS WHAT DO YOU THINK WERE, I GUESS, SOLE BRATIONS WE CAN THROUGH WARD WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT GREENWOOD.

>> I MEAN, I THINK, I THINK THAT THE HURDLES THAT WE HAVE TO OVERCOME WAS THE SEGREGATION, WAS THE THING THAT BROUGHT US AND THE FEAR OF BEING SUCCESSFUL WHEN YOU SEE SUCCESS.

SEE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SUCCESS IS, WHEN TALKED ABOUT AND WHEN IT IS PUBLICIZE THEN YOU SEE THE DEMISE OF IT.

THAT WAS THE FIRST, THE DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

YOU KNOW, THAT WAS MY OWN GOVERNMENT DESTROYED THAT.

SO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT.

A WAS HEAVY FIGHT WE HAD TO OVERCOME.

THEN, THEN, TO SEE WHAT HE WE'RE ABLE TO DO 3:00 TO CONTINUALLY YOU KNOW, AND TO PICK IT BACK UP, I THINK THAT THESE EMPOWERED AND THOSE THAT UNDERSTAND LOOKED AT IT HIND SIGHT 2 20 AND THE WAYS HER TO THINKING OF THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

TO CORRECT THOSE ERRORS I THINK THAT IS CELEBRATORY.

THE PEOPLE THAT CAN GET INVOLVED AND PEOPLE CAN INVEST IN IT AND PEOPLE CAN SUPPORT IT.

LIKE THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TON RIGHT WRONGS AND WHAT A BT ARE WAY TO RIGHT WRONGS THAN TO HELP DEVELOP SOMETHING THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.

>> AND PRESTON, YOU TALKED A BIT ABOUT THE EDUCATION OF WHAT HAPPENED IN STALL, THE EDUCATION AROUND BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BLACK WALL STREET IN GENERAL.

WHY THAT IS EDUCATION SO IMPORTANT FOR FOLKS?

>> KNOW, WE COIN THE PHRASE, LEARN THE HISTORY AND CHANGE THE FY TURE.

THAT IS SO IMPORTANT.

WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE TOUGH CONVERSATIONS.

WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO LEARN WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, YOU KNOW?

BECAUSE AS TIMES JUST SAID.

THE OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE WRONGS IS A GREAT THING.

YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO KNOW THAT IT IS A NEW DAY.

I IS A NEW PAGE.

THERE IS NO LONGER SEGREGATION THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PASSED.

WE HAVE TO NOW CO EXIST ON HARMONY TOGETHER WITH ALL RACISTS WITH TRUE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION BEYOND THE CATCHPHRASE THE EDUCATION PIECE IS SO IMPORTANT FROM OW BEING THE FOUNDER WHAT HE DID AND WHAT THE ACRES OF LAND AND SUM MACHINED TO ONLY BLACKS AND THE HOTELS AND SIMON WITH THE AIRPLANES, YOU KNOW, THREE LIST GUESS ON, THAT IS STARTING TO FLIES OUR PEOPLE BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE STAISTICS WHO SAYS WE ARE THE SECOND WORST FOR BLACKS WE CAN LOOK BACK AT THE EDUCATION OF OUR HISTORY AND SAY WE'RE BETTER THAN THAT AS A PEOPLE AND WHOOP COULD LOB BRIGGS AND COLLECTIVE EFFORTS AMONG OURSELVES AND OTHER ALLIES OF RACISTS.

WE CAN STRIVE TO BECOME ME MAXIMUM POTENTIAL THAT THIS CITY CAN ROW DUES.

AND I FEEL LIKING THAT COULD BE THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY.

SO WE'RE USING EDUCATION OUR HISTORY TO SPEARHEAD THEFTS TODAY TO RECTIFY THE CRIESES WE HAVE ECONOMICALLY AND RATION DESPAIR SO A GREAT TIME AND IRONICALLY THE 100th A IN RAILROADS RY HERE SO THE TIME COON NO BE BET HER AND EVERYONE IS LOCKED IN WITH THE QAR REN TYPE FROM LAST YEAR TO NOW AND TIME TO SIT JUN AND BACK THE EDUCATION OF THIS HISTORY AND WHEN WE SEE IT WELL.

>> TALK ABOUT SPEARHEADING YOUR EFFORTS FOR TODAY.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE CAPITAL CAP!

CALM NAIN DOES PLAY THAT THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY.

ABSOLUTELY.

WE WANTED TO KEEP THE CAME PAIN WITH HISTORY.

SO THE 100 MILLION AMOUNT IS APPLICABLE TO THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY THEN AS HE SPOKE.

HE LOO LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT PART.

YOU NO IT?

IS A TOUGH PILL TOLL SWAL LE AND RELIVE.

SO ONCE YOU KNOW IT.

YOU KIND OF KEEP IT THERE YOU KNOW.

NOW WE WANT TO FOCUS ON THE BETTERMENT PART.

THAT WAS 16-YEAR PROS STRESS 1905 TO 1921 SO THE 16 YEARS PART OF OF THIS CAMPAIGN IS APPLICABLE TO THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF BLACK WALL STREET SO TALKING ABOUT $100 MILLION OVER THE NEXT 16 YEARS SO THAT BREAKS DOWN TO 62,000 YEAR PER DONOR LOOKING AT THE PRIVATE SECTOR, CORPORATE AMERICA SO WE WAN BIG BOX COMPANIES TO EACH PLEDGE $1 MILLION OVER THE NEXT 16 YEARS SO AGAIN, THAT BREAKS DOWN TO $62,000 A YEAR, THEN, COLLECTIVELY, BETWEEN THOSE 100 PLACES THAT WILL MAKE BUDGET OF $6.

2 MILLION A YEAR FOR THE NEXT 16 YEARS AND GO TO DEVELOPMENT AND THEN, THE STRUCTURE OF OUR DISTRICTS.

>> AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE, DO YOU HAVE KIND OF KEY THINGS YOU ARE WOK.

WE HEAR IT ALL THE TIME ABOUT WANTING TO CREATE MORE OPPORTUNITY AND ALSO BRINGING IN DIVERSE TALENT MAKING GRAND RAPIDS A PLACE WHERE DIVERSE TALENT WANT TO WORK AND BE.

ARE THESE ON THE HORIZON FOR YOU?

>> ABSOLUTELY.

YOU KNOW, DIVERSITIES OUR STRENGTH.

IT RULE TO LIS.

WE HAVE TO BECOME MOSAIC COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW?

YOU THINK ABOUT SA PAINTING.

YOU NEVER GOING TO SEE THE TRUE VIDEO OF A PAINTING THAT WAS JUST ONE COLOR.

ITS THE MULTIPLE COLORS THAT COME TOGETHER THAT MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL.

IF YOU GO THOUGH ZOO YOU WILL NOT HAVE A GREAT EXPERIENCE IF YOU SEE ONE ANIMAL.

IT IS DIVERSE ANIMALS THAT YOU SEE THAT MAKES IT A BEAUTIFUL THING AND EDUCATIONAL THING AND IT'S THE SAME THING WITH HUMAN BEINGS WE HAVE TO BREAK IT DOWN IN A WAY THAT IS VERY EASY TO RECEIVE AND UNDERSTAND FOR OUR PEOPLE AND YOU KNOW, TO BE SEE THOUGH VALUE AND DIVERSITY THEN INCLUSION.

SO YEAH.

WOE LOOK TO CREATE JOBS FOR BLACKS AND MINE ORS MOST DEFINITELY WE LOOK TO PRODUCE QUALITY BUSINESSES WITHIN THE SOUTH TOWN THIRD WARD DISTRICTS THAT CONSERVE ALL PEOPLE AGAIN AND THIS IS NOT SEGREGATION, SO WE ARE GOING TO BE COAL WELCOMING TO ALL RACISTS TO COME IN AND PATRONIZE YOU KNOW THE SERVICES THAT ARE BLACK BUGS NESES ARE OFFERING.

WE ARE LOOKING TO HELP THE ECONOMY REMAIN STABLE AND YOU KNOW, EVENTUALLY BOOM.

WE WANT TO CONTRIBUTE THAT.

BLACK VALUE MATTERS YOU KNOW.

THAT IS WHAT WE ARE WILLING TRYING TO ADVOCATE IS APPRECIATE OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND HISTORY HISTORICALLY AND CURRENTLY AND EMBRACE THE VALUE THAT WE BRING YOU KNOW.

BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY LIKE YOU TALK ABOUT YOU GOT THE TON IN ALMOST EVERY MAJOR CITY.

GOT MEXICAN TOWNS.

YOU GOT WHITE BUSINESS ALMOST EVERYWHERE AND IT ONLY MAKES SENSE TO HAVE BLACK SPACES INTENTIONALLY BUILT MATTER OF EMBRACING CULL TUR AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SEG IS GOING AND ANYTHING OF HATE.

US ALL LOVE AND EMBRACING DIVERSITY AND CULTURE SO ADD OUR NIECE PIE AND BRING OUR HAVE TU THE TABLE AND GROW TOGETHER.

THIS CAN BE FOR EITHER ONE OF YOU?

WHAT STEPS CAN YOU TAKE OF COURSE THEY SAY WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS.

I CAN HELP IN SOME WAY.

>> REAL QUICK SO WE HAVE BEEN VETTING THE 501C3 FOR POTENTIAL PARTNERS SINCE WE ANNOUNCED THE END OF THE YEAR WE LOOK AT THE ANNIVERSARY AND THE PERFECT TIME TO SOLIDIFY THAT SO THE MOMENTUM LOCALLY AND NATIONWIDE IS GOING TO GO TO GREAT HEIGHTS AS WE APPROACH JUNE FIRST WITH THE ANNIVERSARY SO AFTER THAT TIME SOLIDIFY FOR WE'LL PUT TOGETHER OUR OFFICIAL BUSINESS PLAN AND PITCH THAT IN ATITION DO WHAT YOU SEE.

AND WE'LL START ACCEPTING BLEGS FROM THE BIG COMPANIES OF ONE MILLION.

ONE MILLION PER COMPANY AND THE DEPARTMENT AND SPECIAL THANKS TOO JEREMIAH GARCIA WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THEM MONTH TO MONTH THIS IS GOING TO THE PLANNING AND YOU KNOW, THEY ARE SUPPORTING WHAT WE ARE DOING AND PUTTING UP SOME BUDGET MONEY AS WELL TO HELP US BRING THIS VISION INTO MANY VEST TATION AND VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE CITY HAVE IMPRINT ON THE DEVELOPMENT AS WELL.

ALTHOUGH WE'RE LOOKING TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOR MAJORITY THE CITY'S IMPRINT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AND ARE EXCITED TO HAVE THEM SUPPORT AND BUYIN AS WELL AS THAT CONTINUES TO UNFOLD.

>> PRESTON, I LOVE HOW YOU TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE CITY AND WANTING TO PARTNER WITH THEM ON THIS.

TAG WHATS THE REACTION LIKE IF COMMUNITY MEMBERS?

>> THE REACTION HAS BEEN GREAT.

MAN.

THEY SEE THE VISION.

IT IS PAINING THE PICTURE.

SEE WHAT WE'RE STRIVING TO DO BECAUSE IT IS NOT ABOUT US.

IT IS ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.

WHEN YOU MAKE IT ABOUT THE COMMUNITY THEY CAN SEE THE VALUE IS IN THE PEOPLE.

THE VALUE IS NOT IN JUST THE BUSINESSES.

THE VALUE IS UNTHOUGH BUSINESS AND THE PEOPLE THAT THE BUSINESS SPOST READY SO FAMILY ORIENTED LIKE WE FOCUSED ON RIGHT NOW ON THE BURDEN WHICH IS THE FIRST BLACK WALL STREET DISTRICT WHICH IS IN THE EASTERN AREA OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, AND IN THE SOUTHEAST SIDE AND THE THIRD WARD, YOU HAVE MISS MARY MALONE AND SPEARHEADING THAT VISION EVENT AND RIGHT NOW.

WE GOT THREE OR FOUR BUSINESSES ALREADY MOVING SO THE PROCESS IS COMING.

SO IT IS BECOMING NOT JUST US TALKING ABOUTING WHAT BLACK WALL STREET LOOKING LIKE.

WE ARE SHOWING.

WE ARE SHOWING WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT IT.

>> AGESLY.

WELL, YOU BOTH ARE CERTAINLY PUSHING FORWARD WELL A LOT OF MOMENTUM.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME TESTIFIED IN TALKING TO ME.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

SEE YOU NEXT TIME.

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