Goddess morning Royals. First, give praise and worship to the all High.
Olmecs Early as 1200 BCE to About 400 BCE
- The first great Mesoamerican civilization.
- Olmecs appeared to practice ritual bloodletting, and played the Mesoamerican ballgame, hallmarks of nearly all subsequent Mesoamerican societies.
- The Olmec civilization was first defined through artifacts that collectors purchased and considered among ancient American’s most striking.
- Monumental sacred complexes, massive Stone sculpture, ball games, chocolate drinking and animal gods were features of Olmec culture.
- Believed to be African ancestry by African scholars and are heralded as one of the foundations of the book by Ivan Van Sertima entitled “They Came Before Columbus.”
- The distinctly African features of a broad nose and thick lips led many to those conclusions.
- Some say the noses and lips are thick because of dull tools, however, they have impeccable eyelids and hair. If one can carve an eyelid, then why not a narrow nose?
Black Wall Street Greenwood, suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma: 1906 – 1921
- One of the most successful Black economies in American history.
- O.W. Gurley, a wealthy African-American from Arkansas, moved to Tulsa, purchased over 40 acres of land, and sold to other African-Americans in 1906.
- During oil boom of the 1910’s, area of Northeast Oklahoma, around Tulsa flourished.
- Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, a two-day massacre of hundreds of Black residents started by a white mob.
- Over 800 people admitted to area hospitals, estimated 10,000 homeless, 35 city blocks housing 1,256 residences destroyed, and 600 successful businesses lost.
- The community mobilized it’s resources and rebuilt the Greenwood area within 5 years of the race riot in spite of political efforts to prevent reconstruction.
The Moors 711 AD – 1492 AD
- Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb (North Africa), Iberian Peninsula, Sicily (Italy), and Malta, 711 AD – 1492 AD.
- Occupied Mazara, on Sicily, developing a port in 827.
- Intellectual achievements of the Moors in Spain had lasting effects; when Europe had two universities, the Moors had seventeen.
- During the 10th century, Cordoba not just the capital of Al Andalus, but also one of the most important cities in the world; had street lighting, 50 hospitals with running water, 300 public baths, 500 mosques, and 70 libraries.
- Held extensive knowledge of irrigation and cultivation of crops.
Redlining
- Practice of marking a red line on a map to delineate an area where Banks would not make loans; most frequently discriminated areas were Black inner-city neighborhoods.
- The term “redlining” was counted in the late 1960s by John McKnight, sociologist, and community activist.
- It refers to the denial of services or selectively raised prices to residents of certain areas based on racial or ethnic composition of those areas.
- Banks would often lend to lower-income whites, but not middle and upper-income Blacks.
- Redlining, today, is illegal and a component of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 speaks against racial-geographical discrimination.
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