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

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117886675258912882
- Source account: [@RadioGenoa](https://x.com/RadioGenoa)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:10
- Published: 2026-11-04
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CpmSSYX6TWVU/en/oklahoma-s-history-native-displacement-black-wall-street-and-the-sharia-ban

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CpmSSYX6TWVU/en/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.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CpmSSYX6TWVU/en/oklahoma-s-history-native-displacement-black-wall-street-and-the-sharia-ban?t=11) When the state of Oklahoma voted in a referendum to amend the Constitution to ban Sharia law.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CpmSSYX6TWVU/en/oklahoma-s-history-native-displacement-black-wall-street-and-the-sharia-ban?t=20) What does that mean? I don't know. And yet the voters banned it anyway.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CpmSSYX6TWVU/en/oklahoma-s-history-native-displacement-black-wall-street-and-the-sharia-ban?t=28) What I offer today is just a reflection on the American history that runs through this state.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CpmSSYX6TWVU/en/oklahoma-s-history-native-displacement-black-wall-street-and-the-sharia-ban?t=36) 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,

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CpmSSYX6TWVU/en/oklahoma-s-history-native-displacement-black-wall-street-and-the-sharia-ban?t=58) bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago, that those forces are alive and well today