As more Americans reckon with the history of Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dr. Cornel West revisits a question that still unsettles the national conscience: what might this country look like if Black Wall Street had not been destroyed? Speaking from both scholarship and personal connection, he frames Tulsa not as an isolated tragedy, but as a deliberate interruption of Black economic self-determination. The legacy, he suggests, is not only what was lost in 1921, but what was prevented from ever becoming possible.
Source: @bornpowerallah
