>>> WE ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON
JOINT BASE ANDREWS.
ANY MOMENT PRESIDENT BIDEN SET
TO LEAVE FOR TULSA, OKLAHOMA.
THE PRESIDENT HEADING THERE TO
MARK THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF
THE MASSACRE.
TODAYS DATE AND THE TRIP ARE
HIGHLIGHTING THIS CRITICAL
MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHEN
IT COMES TO RACIAL JUSTICE.
WHEN BLACK WALL STREET BURNED TO
THE GROUND 100 YEARS AGO SO DID
THE WEALTH OF AN ENTIRE
COMMUNITY.
MANY THRIVING BLACK-OWNED
BUSINESSES NEVER REOPENED.
JAKES GREAT-GRANDFATHER, A
FREEWAY STANDS ON TOP OF MY
POSSIBLE INHERITANCE.
WHO IS TO SAY WHAT EVITTS ZULU
LOUNGE WOULD BE IF NOT FOR A
SO-CALLED RIOT?
J. KAVIN ROSS JOINS ME.
I HOPE YOU CAN GIVE OUR VIEWERS
AND LISTENERS ON SIRIUS
SATELLITE RADIO AN IDEA OF WHO
YOUR GREAT-GRAND FATHER WAS AND
WHAT HIS BUSINESS MEANT TO HIM
AND THAT COMMUNITY.
>> ITS GOING BACK FROM GROWING
UP IN TEXAS, I BELIEVE IN
DENTON, TEXAS, AND CAME FROM
HERE TO TULSA.
LIKE MANY OTHERS HE WOULD HAVE
HIS BUSINESSES.
IT WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT --
REALLY SOMETHING.
IVE BEEN UP ALL NIGHT SO EXCUSE
ME.
BEEN RUNNING AROUND.
MY GREAT-GRANDFATHERS PLACE WAS
THERE WHERE THE MURAL IS, AT
CAMERON AND GREENWOOD AVENUE.
A LITTLE JOINT, NOTHING FANCY,
BUT IT WAS HOME.
ITS HARD TO TELL -- SOME OF THE
DOCUMENTATION ARE MESSY, AS I DO
MY RESEARCH.
I KNOW HE WAS ANGRY AT THE TIME
OF THE RIOT AND AFTER THE RIOT
AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS
HAPPENING.
HE LOST HIS PROPERTY.
ITS A HARD PILL TO SWALLOW.
IM GETTING TEARED UP NOW
BECAUSE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MY
INHERITANCE.
AND A FREEWAY SITS ON THE TOP OF
IT.
IM FINDING OUT WHAT HAPPENED SO
MANY YEARS AGO.
I UNDERSTAND THIS ANGER, THE
ANGER OF MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
WHO NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT.
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL TIME BACK IN
THOSE DAYS.
EVERYBODY IS CONNECTED.
AS IM DOING MY RESEARCH, NEVER
TO RETURN AND LIVED SOMEWHERE IN
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA.
THE ONLY THING I CAN REMEMBER
THEY WERE -- HE HAD SOME VERY --
IM GETTING TONGUE TIRED.
IM GETTING TIRED.
>> TAKE YOUR TIME.
TAKE YOUR TIME.
>> HE WAS DOING GOOD.
THIS IS A VERY EMOTIONAL TIME
FOR ME.
VERY HARD TO TALK.
>> I CAN IMAGINE.
I THINK WE SHOULD TELL FOLKS,
THOUGH, YOU ARE IN A CEMETERY
BELIEVED TO BE THE SITE OF A
MASS GRAVE OF VICTIMS OF THE
MASSACRE.
YOU ARE THERE WITH
ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND OTHERS WHO
ARE LOOKING FOR REMAINS.
TELL US ABOUT THAT WORK YOUVE
BEEN A PART OF?
>> WELL, I MUST ADMIT WHEN WE
DUG 15 FEET DOWN IN THE GROUND
IN JULY AND LOOKED DOWN IN THAT
TRENCH, IT WAS VERY POWERFUL.
TO LOOK UP AT THE SKY FROM THE
GRAVE, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE LAYING
IN A TRENCH DYING, KNOWING
YOURE GOING TO DIE AND JUST
LOOKING UP.
ITS HEARTBREAKING.
IT WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL TIME.
>> WHAT CAN THE STATE OF
OKLAHOMA -- WHAT SHOULD THE
STATE OF OKLAHOMA AND/OR THESE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WHAT
SHOULD BE DONE TO MAKE IT RIGHT?
>> LETS START WITH NUMBER ONE,
NOW WE CANT CHANGE THAT AWFUL
BILL, SENATE BILL NUMBER ONE
WHICH WAS A LAW THAT SEPARATED
THE STATE BY RACES.
THEY NEED TO START WITH THE
ORIGINAL FINAL REPORT, FIVE
RECOMMENDATIONS -- LETS DO
THOSE FIVE.
THATS A START.
LETS BEGIN THE CONVERSATION.
LETS DO THAT NOW.
ANYTHING ELSE EVERYBODY IS NOT
GOING TO BE ON ANYBODYS SIDE.
THEY HAVE TO BE TRANSPARENT.
TOTAL TRANSPARENCY SO ALL OF US
ARE LEARNING AT THE SAME TIME.
AND SO I KNOW WE NEED TO WRITE
SOME BETTER LAWS THAN THE ONES
WE KEEP CREATING OVER AND OVER
AGAIN TO FURTHER SEPARATE US.
ANYTHING THIS STATE OF OKLAHOMA
NEEDS TO BE, IT SHOULD BE
PURPLE.
HOW ABOUT THAT?
LETS GET ALONG.
THERES ONE TULSA HERE.
EVERYBODY IS FIGHTING RIGHT NOW.
NO, LETS SIT DOWN AND LETS
TALK THIS OUT.
WERE TIRED.
IM TIRED.
>> J. KAVIN ROSS, THANK YOU FOR
YOUR TIME, SIR.
IM SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS.