Oklahoma's History: Native Displacement, Black Wall Street and the Sharia Ban

But I was reminded actually about events that I remember because I was an adult when they happened, and that was question seven fifty-five.

When the state of Oklahoma voted in a referendum to amend the Constitution to ban Sharia law.

What does that mean? I don't know. And yet the voters banned it anyway.

What I offer today is just a reflection on the American history that runs through this state.

You all sitting in this room, in this town, we're sitting in a space, in a time when I don't have to tell you that the same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago,

bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago, that those forces are alive and well today