Evolution of the ghetto; see our “ghetto” didn’t start at the end of slavery it started at the beginning when they threw us under the boats.  becoming the first mobile ghettos. Then being forced to settle in the fields and shacks they gave us. being before the coining of the term ghetto. The terms New World Order (New World) was their term. one of the first new world orders in America was set out for us to be mules and worker bees.

You tell me where and how would the youth of that time, be or feel successful? Did they really free slaves on January 1, 1863? Should this be a questions today? Let me fast forward to one of our proudest moments in black history where the Idea of success for black people was born. Our Black Wall street where for the first time we as, Animals, Niggers and Monkeys had more of a chance with black youth being more successful then white youth  and they where terrified of loosing that power over there former mules. We had a dollar and a dream and we where going after it, but I bet kids in this day won’t learn this accomplishment among our people in school, it’s not an important part of history. they will never willingly give us that major building block.

Definition of ghetto (n)

         ghet·to

• [ géttō ]

1. area of city inhabited by minority: an area of a city lived in by a minority group, especially a run-down and densely populated area lived in by a group that experiences discrimination
2. Jewish quarter: in former times, an area in European towns in which the Jewish population was required to live
3. environment of isolation: an environment where a group of people live or work in isolation, whether by choice or circumstance

The use of the word ghetto dates back to about 1600 in Venice. There are various suggestions as to the origins of the word. In a time when some areas of Europe were expelling their Jewish population, Venice opted to allocate a part of the city to their Jewish population to isolate them from the “regular” population. This enabled the citizens of Venice to use the services of the Jewish merchants, bankers and doctors, but still have them isolated. However, in Venice the area was only expanded once and became overcrowded. Note that many of the inhabitants were not bankers or doctors, but were poor and lived by buying and selling secondhand clothes.In the 1890s the word, which originally referred specifically to an area which Jews had to live by law, was expanded to denote any run-down urban area inhabited by an ethnic minority. Since the 1960s this use has become widespread.

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The Greenwood community seems almost imagined when we examine it through a  historical lens.  The oil booms of the early 1900’s had many moving to  Tulsa for a shot at quick economic gains and high life, and African Americans  hoped to prosper from the new industry as well.  Tulsa, like many cities  and towns throughout the US, was hostilely segregated, with African Americans  settling into the northern region of the city.  As we often saw before  integration, Blacks in the area created entrepreneurial opportunities for  themselves, which housed an impressive business center that included banks,  hotels, cafes, clothiers, movie theaters, and contemporary homes.   Greenwood residents enjoyed many luxuries that their White neighbors did not,  including indoor plumbing and a remarkable school system that superiorly  educated Black children.

It was pure envy, and a vow to put progressive, high  achieving African Americans in their place that would cause the demise of the  Black Mecca many called “Little Africa”, and its destruction began the way much  terrorism, violence and dispossession against African Americans did during that  era.  A young White woman accused a young Black man of attempted sexual  assault, which gave local mobs and White men acting as police just cause to invade the unsuspecting  community. On the malevolent and horrifying attack.

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Let me walk you into the ripple effect from the youth of that tragic time, they got tired of being beat the fuck down and raped by justice over and over time and time again, 50 years into the future of the now negro, colored gal and boy. This time, we as a people coined the terms ” Dress for Success” and “Unite”  also the one that stuck with n us up to this date “We Shall Overcome. ”  We had hope on the horizon, and in the words of our current terminology we were about to get “TURNED UP.” With pillars like, W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963),Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993),Malcolm X (1925-1965), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) and Rosa Parks (1913-2005), just to name a few in the times of one of the biggest fights of our people in America to have success in the politics of justice in our now country where we pay taxes and raise our family’s along side of theirs. Lead way was made black people every where started to feel empowered by the loop holes in the imbalanced system of the whites only justice system, I can say one thing for curtain and two things for sure we went out with a BANG, with the manifestation of the vision of Huey P.

Newton. who feed the youth knowledge food and community.  We even were as a unit able to bring about some brave liberal  hearts of the political  unite called the government. This being my point, in the schools settings of today they continue to burn into the brains of our youth the assassinations of them all in one way or another.

 The reason some of our young don’t have a chance at Success is simply because they don’t know the POWER of words or even the depth of there Visions, There is a reason we have so many more  negative action words in just about everything media. In the now 21st century where we are now referred to as Nigga, Bitch, Gay Ass Nigga and Hoe, these terms coming from our  own. We have been referred to as Non Mutha Fuck’en Factors, all thru our history here in America, but because one woman that came from our same past said it on a popular Reality TV show that made it okayed by the GHETTO, no Values.  We think money is the root of Abundance, we allow disrespect right in our living rooms and bedrooms of our children, and tell our kids it ok to wear this on your  Chest Proud, and be happy to pay $50.00 and up. no morals. this type of behavior shows that mentally we as a people have been Conditioned. Now how do we get out? Since the late 1900’s every time we attempt to ban together they open the flood gates of the ghetto and we’re we thinned out.

I would like to take the time to give my ideas on this issue, I would love for others that may or may not come from where I come from to post about a solution to a subject we have all thought about and or worked to get out of.

Young minds need to know

As simply as I can put my solution with out writing a book.  Stop relaying solely on the school system monitor  school and community programs, Simply continuing to reinforce the Power Of Knowledge in the Ghettos of America will be a start .

Signing Out

Aisha  N Abdul-Wadud

Product of the Ghetto (with Morals, Values and a Vision).