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The Oklahoma City Zoo is located only 2.5 miles from my childhood home. It was one of the top zoos in the nation, but it was surrounded by little else; only the little-know Softball Hall of Fame Museum and a main “stadium” surrounded by adjoining softball fields. I had been by there a few times before graduating from high school, but I never gave it a second thought. As a young adult I spent a few summers playing softball with a few games at the complex, where they had ...

As I have stated before, I was born and raised on the (North) East side of Oklahoma City. It was middle class, relatively crime-free and pretty much all Black, with very few exceptions. In the mid-1970s, there wasn’t much to do in Oklahoma City in general as far as tourism but especially on the East Side, but as a teenager, what did I care? There were plenty of fun things to keep an active and curious mind occupied on a daily basis. I knew of other places through reading or television, but I never ...

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Back in the late 1970s, Team Hawaii of the North American Soccer League moved to Oklahoma and became the Tulsa Roughnecks, they had a six year run before the NASL folded; they won the League Championship in 1983 to cap the only top-tier professional team’s run in the state. Until…

The Ford Center was built in Downtown Oklahoma City in 2002 using a new city initiative called the Metropolitan Area Projects, or MAPS, without an anchor tenant. Three years later. ...

In the period right after Reconstruction up through the early part of the previous century, there was widespread massacre and violence done against many groups of people of color. A small number of these episodes were public knowledge; while the vast majority were covered up so successfully they’re largely unknown, even by people who grew up in the same of neighboring communities. There has always been an effort to whitewash (pun intended) certain aspects of the turbulent racial history of this ...

Originally Posted by Oklapatriot

Originally Posted by Canoe

Have you researched the approach they took in South Africa? It sounds similar to your proposal.

Is that the approach that takes land back from the owners and gives it to the natives? It will be interesting to see how that works out. I think it would be interesting to see how the POC would handle the border situation if they owned Arizona.

POC often DO own the border in Arizona. Hispanics are the large majority in two of the four border counties and represent over 30% ...