Before Integration, We Were Thriving | BBS 2026 Day 2
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0:00A: Oh, for sure. It’s circulating over and over and over again. What, like, I’m paying people that are in Africa, they’re Black, and I’m working with people here in Black America, Black-owned businesses, because we got to keep our dollars circulating. Unfortunately, a lot of times our money goes outside the community, but it didn’t do that back in the ’60s. Before integration, we were doing very well. We were doing so well that we were making other people jealous, and they had to come and destroy our places. Which is the reason why we integrated in the first place, because if you have a bunch of businesses, you know, whether you’re talking about Greenwood, whether you’re talking about Seneca Village, whether you’re talking about, uh, Tulsa, Oklahoma, we were thriving so much that other people got jealous and had to destroy it.
