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Speaker 1: Yeah, uncle from school. Question good, let's just keep a

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Speaker 1: real straight shout with Jason. I'm gonna get a little

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Speaker 1: bit roughly. I'm here for it. Those who really believe

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Speaker 1: in the American process, all of us. The street shot,

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Speaker 1: no chaser? What's your girl? Tessla Figaro on The Black

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Speaker 1: Effect podcast That word that Work. My name is Christy

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Speaker 1: Williams from Tulsa, Oklahoma. I'm a descendant of Greenwood black

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Speaker 1: Wall Street and I'm also a Creek freedman, and I

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Speaker 1: served on the City of Tulsa nine Mass Grades Investigation

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Speaker 1: Oversight Committee. We just commemorated the centennial of the nine

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Speaker 1: one Tulsa Race massacre. The national media is gone, which

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Speaker 1: means we have to continue to tell our stories our way.

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Speaker 1: I want to give you an update on the mass

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Speaker 1: Grades investigation that the media is not telling you. As

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Speaker 1: a committee member on the oversight committee, myself and others,

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Speaker 1: we escorted about seventeen bodies from the mass grave to

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Speaker 1: the forensic lap that was on site at the Oaklawn Cemetery.

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Speaker 1: And again I said, I escored it seventeen bodies and

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Speaker 1: seven of those were children ranging from ages three to

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Speaker 1: seven years old, and there was a pregnant woman who

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Speaker 1: was about six to seven months pregnant based on the

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Speaker 1: forensic anthropologist Dr Phoebe Stubblefield's report. And I got to

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Speaker 1: see these remains, I saw those babies. I solved this woman.

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Speaker 1: And I cannot tell you what that has done uh

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Speaker 1: to my spirit uh and to my psyche, But it

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Speaker 1: was something that I had to do. It was something

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Speaker 1: that we had to do. We also discovered a mail

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Speaker 1: with three bullets located by his collar bone and trauma

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Speaker 1: to his skull and his skeletal structure. All of this

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Speaker 1: have been confirmed from the forensic anthropologist Dr Phoebe Stubblefield.

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Speaker 1: In total, we found thirty five bodies from that mass grave. Now,

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Speaker 1: during our last meeting on Tuesday July, the city planned

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Speaker 1: to do a reburial in a ceremony that we knew

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Speaker 1: nothing about, nor were we a part of the planning

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Speaker 1: for that. So we voted as a body to postpone

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Speaker 1: the reburial and the ceremony because the investigation had not

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Speaker 1: been completed. Bodies had not been properly identified, so therefore

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Speaker 1: we couldn't contact their next of ken, So why would

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Speaker 1: we rebury them if we haven't contacted their families. Also

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Speaker 1: for the male where we found the bullets, the FBI

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Speaker 1: should have been called. The FBI was not called. There

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Speaker 1: was no medical examiner um there on site. The mayor

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Speaker 1: said this is a crime scene, Mayor G. T. Bieman,

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Speaker 1: he said, this as a crime scene. But there was

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Speaker 1: no FBI, no medical examiner, nothing to to further investigate this.

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Speaker 1: So why would we move forward with reburying and having

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Speaker 1: a ceremony. So we postponed it because it was just

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Speaker 1: too premature to do that. Now that Friday, just a

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Speaker 1: few days later, the cities they just went on their

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Speaker 1: head and reburied, uh, the bodies. They reburied them in

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Speaker 1: the same mass grave that we pulled them out of. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you heard that right. The city reburied the remains and

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Speaker 1: the same mass grave that we pulled them out of. Now,

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Speaker 1: even though we voted as a body to postponem this

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Speaker 1: reburial slash ceremony, they did it anyway. And we did protests.

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Speaker 1: The community protested right outside the cemetery and they still

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Speaker 1: did this. But this is why we have to support

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Speaker 1: our black media like Tesla and Figaro who was so

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Speaker 1: gracious to give Greenwood and black Wall Street a platform

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Speaker 1: to tell the world was going on on this sacred

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Speaker 1: ground we call Greenwood. And I want you all to

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Speaker 1: know that Greenwood just doesn't belong to me or to

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Speaker 1: the people who live here. It belongs to all of

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Speaker 1: us and we all have a responsibility to it. Greenwood

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Speaker 1: is what was the mecca of Black entrepreneurship, prowess, community

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Speaker 1: and communal shared principles and values agreed upon. Those ancestors

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Speaker 1: left us all a group, a blueprint to follow, So

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Speaker 1: please take the time to study it and the legacy

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Speaker 1: of our ancestors right here in Greenwood. So please share

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Speaker 1: this story with your family, with your friends, and if

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Speaker 1: you ever get an opportunity to visit Tulsa, please come

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Speaker 1: to Greenwood and put your feet in the soil. Mmmmmm