Nate Burleson and wife Atoya explore her ancestral ties to Tulsa massacre

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  • "CBS Mornings" co-host Nate Burleson and his wife, Atoya, go on a journey to explore her ancestral roots and the impact of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
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Komentáře • 159

  • @celesteturner6912
    @celesteturner6912 Před 3 měsíci +64

    This was a great story. My family found out a few years ago that our great uncle was the last person to be lynched in Georgia. A reporter contacted my aunt to see if she knew about him and luckily my father was still alive to confirm the story. Good luck Nate on getting more information.

  • @characterchange6793
    @characterchange6793 Před 3 měsíci +78

    Thank you for covering this. This/OUR history will NOT be erased, no matter how much it's ignored or attempted to be twisted.

    • @shaylarobinson700
      @shaylarobinson700 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Amen 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽

    • @dbentleyto95
      @dbentleyto95 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Bless all of the families who kept the stories alive so they could be brought to light. It is amazing it took so long for the rest of us to see. ❤

  • @emilgiese
    @emilgiese Před 3 měsíci +104

    Can’t erase Black History like this! Well done CBS & Nate Burleson!

  • @BrianRagsdaleStudio1
    @BrianRagsdaleStudio1 Před 3 měsíci +82

    I loved this quotation on the wall "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin. I felt the spirit of our ancestors in this whole segment. Deeply sad, moving, and touching, as we reflect on our courage, wisdom, creativity and determination in the face of unspeakable terror, tragedy, and dismay.

    • @lady2550
      @lady2550 Před 3 měsíci

      Many things change without force though.

    • @BrianRagsdaleStudio1
      @BrianRagsdaleStudio1 Před 3 měsíci

      Can you please say more, I did not reference force in my initial comment? @@lady2550

    • @christenasmalls6118
      @christenasmalls6118 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Amen. We as a race of people move from generation to generation never being conquered.

  • @dakotac180
    @dakotac180 Před 3 měsíci +37

    This country should be ashamed of itself, people deserve their wealth back... Nate is a great journalist, telling this story is true for a lot of black lives erased.

  • @ari333
    @ari333 Před 3 měsíci +20

    My heart sank when I saw the photo of the foundation of the hotel. This piece was deeply moving.

  • @ranaebarker1443
    @ranaebarker1443 Před 3 měsíci +39

    This year I will turn 52 and I learned of Black Wall Street at a very young age, by watching PBS.
    I never will understand why Oklahoma never reimbursed these families for their loss.

    • @Bluejacket4life2
      @Bluejacket4life2 Před 3 měsíci +5

      You actually do know why

    • @lynnw2041
      @lynnw2041 Před 3 měsíci +5

      I myself learned about this years ago on PBS as well. I am 58. Have learned about so many other stories since then as well. FL(outside of Rosewood), SC, MS, GA and many more I'm sure that are buried in history.

  • @marlenesheffield8777
    @marlenesheffield8777 Před 3 měsíci +19

    Our history and contributions will not be denied or erased!✊🏾💯

    • @user-hj8um4lk5l
      @user-hj8um4lk5l Před 3 měsíci

      That's because it's His/Story which has been embellished, lied, tormented.....our Melanated Truths need to be told and found out so as a family, and as a people know who we are to be able to tell our children who they are. Yiu know where You come from to know where You are going😊

  • @marietoussaint2802
    @marietoussaint2802 Před 3 měsíci +12

    Love it Nate...what a blessing to see you and your wife"s family 💜🙏🏾 come together in such a way!!!

  • @deborahbellamy8896
    @deborahbellamy8896 Před 3 měsíci +21

    Thank you to Nate and his family. This brought me to tears. But, we shall rise again, and again, and again, and again, and..........

  • @Rolando_U
    @Rolando_U Před 3 měsíci +68

    Reparations now!

  • @verawallace9055
    @verawallace9055 Před 3 měsíci +26

    Why was this allowed to happen to these hard working people, thanks to the team for putting this together

    • @Bluejacket4life2
      @Bluejacket4life2 Před 3 měsíci +5

      Because of⚪️

    • @dbentleyto95
      @dbentleyto95 Před 3 měsíci

      Money and not wanting people of color to have wealth and power. Still happening, of course, but the strength of these strong people will not be extinguished.

  • @justmontina
    @justmontina Před 3 měsíci +13

    I’m so happy I saw this episode this morning! My grandmother is visiting from Ohio and her father was born in Tulsa and we’re descendants of Greenwood. Her father’s name was Milton Berry and they moved to Cincinnati Ohio.

  • @terrygross5740
    @terrygross5740 Před 3 měsíci +23

    A lot of this was jealousy and envy, not wanting them to have more than what you had.

  • @13579hee
    @13579hee Před 3 měsíci +16

    Putting up a memorial isn't enough. Where is the money?!?!?!

  • @danijones819
    @danijones819 Před 3 měsíci +7

    my beautiful black people we are like a Phoenix I love anything that teaches about my history thank you for this

  • @jc22358
    @jc22358 Před 3 měsíci +7

    This gave me chills. Difficult to process and put into words.

  • @brittsavage7982
    @brittsavage7982 Před 3 měsíci +22

    Powerful story!

  • @happyhill9753
    @happyhill9753 Před 3 měsíci +17

    SO sad to lose one’s Legacy. So many losses.😢

    • @1970BBB
      @1970BBB Před 3 měsíci

      I feel the same way when plantation owners statues are torn down , very offended

  • @atlarichie
    @atlarichie Před 3 měsíci +15

    Thank you for these stories. They are so important for us🙏🏾

  • @educate2cre8
    @educate2cre8 Před 3 měsíci +26

    Great piece. Thank you.

  • @nkind6962
    @nkind6962 Před 3 měsíci +17

    Thanks for this very well done and informative segment.

  • @cherylevansrn8419
    @cherylevansrn8419 Před 3 měsíci +7

    What an amazing story and to connect in today is just incredible! Generational wealth taken!

  • @vachonew5904
    @vachonew5904 Před 3 měsíci +5

    I remember at my old job we had a journalist& historian come to our job for BH month and told how he visited and researched every thing on this topic. He stated that Tulsa wiped everything from their records, news paper etc. he had to go to the neighboring towns who had written articles on it. Tulsa was trying to tell ppl who lived there was lying. There were two young siblings who survived and the told their story. There were explosions/bombing of the town. It was awe opening because they tried to erase it back then and deny our truth

  • @kristin8270
    @kristin8270 Před 3 měsíci +11

    This was a great segment!

  • @peaceangel4192
    @peaceangel4192 Před 3 měsíci +26

    It's beyond tragic that "they" are waiting for the last survivors to die without compensation. All good blessings to Justice for Greenwood as they continue the struggle for the justice that has been denied.

  • @8MauLau23
    @8MauLau23 Před 3 měsíci +10

    I’ve been to that place. Incredibly depressing what human beings can do to other human beings because of bigotry is appalling.

  • @mgardner70
    @mgardner70 Před 3 měsíci +6

    I found out as a 7 or 8 year old at a family reunion in Tulsa. It’s impossible to wrap your head something so evil as a child.

  • @michaelsaunders6361
    @michaelsaunders6361 Před 3 měsíci

    Such a blessing to be able to bring this story to life. No better person to cover this than Nate and his family. It hurts how much damage was done to us and how we perservered.

  • @brendaturner5015
    @brendaturner5015 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thank you, Mrs. Burleson for sharing your beautiful story with us.

  • @jamesholloway3689
    @jamesholloway3689 Před 3 měsíci +22

    Beautiful piece, well done. Congratulations.

  • @vienicestyles
    @vienicestyles Před 3 měsíci +21

    DESCENDANTS OF BLACK WALL STREET DESERVE REPARATIONS.

    • @marriejames01
      @marriejames01 Před 3 měsíci

      Yes, I agree. This is what the so called Black leaders should be fighting for but most are focused on the illegal migrants.

  • @highestandbestlife
    @highestandbestlife Před 3 měsíci +9

    Nate thank you to you and your family for sharing your experience. I grew up in Oklahoma, and when I went to highschool and it was mandatory that I took Oklahoma history I never knew about this ungodly act that was bestowed upon the black community in Tulsa all those years ago. When I learned about it as a 57 year old adult living in another state, it absolutely broke my heart. I look forward to making myself more informed thanks to your special report. Thank you and your family for the education. My god bless everyone person who was affected by this event and hopefully in some way we can heal and learn from this information and hopefully as it’s told, more and more. I hope it’s now included in every Okla highschool history class for starters. So generations will learn how to treat people and exactly where they came from…❤🙏🏻 😢

  • @cmcwilliams120
    @cmcwilliams120 Před 3 měsíci +9

    Didn’t the Oklahoma Department of Education pull any historical facts of this tragedy from the school curriculum or was it they wanted try and say “both sides” were wrong for this terrorist attack?

  • @jcorey68
    @jcorey68 Před 3 měsíci +8

    Just heartbreaking 💔

  • @k.bllard6329
    @k.bllard6329 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Thank you for sharing your history/story. I was touched with the aunt's question for her great-great grandfather.

  • @DMEseter
    @DMEseter Před 3 měsíci +5

    I was watching the show “Watchmen” and the intro was the Tulsa massacre and It was the first time I was made of this event in history. Great piece

  • @DDD12398
    @DDD12398 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thank you for sharing your family’s pain, pride and history.

  • @katrisalarry38
    @katrisalarry38 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thanks for reporting on this just brings me to tears

  • @sunii4264
    @sunii4264 Před 3 měsíci +9

    Black Native Freedmen land- (tens of thosands of acres) pre-Oklahoma statehood, laid the foundation for the creation of Tulsa's Black Wall Street.
    The Black community of Tulsa lost blocks BUT the Black Native Freedmen lost thousands of acres all across Oklahoma during that time.
    The BN Freedmen and Exodusters were the forces that created & sustained Black Wall Street in Tulsa.
    Hard Facts

  • @janicescott-pair97
    @janicescott-pair97 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Well done, thank you.😊

  • @bluskyy6333
    @bluskyy6333 Před 3 měsíci +6

    And Still We Rise!!!❤‍🩹

  • @lzrd8460
    @lzrd8460 Před 3 měsíci +5

    All American people deserve to know their past. Especially the bad moments in history. Thank you so much for this show. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪💪💪💪

  • @angeliafloyd3860
    @angeliafloyd3860 Před 3 měsíci

    Brought tears...story need to be told!❤

  • @gina9684
    @gina9684 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This is awesome. It touched my heart.

  • @gilmoremccoy6930
    @gilmoremccoy6930 Před 3 měsíci +4

    This segment brought tears to my eyes 👀👁️! There wasand still is so many injustices and oppression committed towards black US 🇺🇲 citizens by racist and government officials. It's time to stop the hate!

  • @marilynb8704
    @marilynb8704 Před 3 měsíci +6

    I'm SO SICK & TIRED of the MEDIA NOT showing & visiting NORTH TULSA. Avoid talking to black citizens in TULSA. City & state putting money to divide the city over 100 years. I dont live there any longer & I'm not a youngsta. However Tulsa is my hometown. Go see, visit NORTH TULSA talk with real black people of Tulsa.

  • @RashaadRahh
    @RashaadRahh Před 3 měsíci +8

    It’s very sad that our recent ancestors had to experience that and that European American’s recent ancestors had committed such domestic terroristic actions. At least today’s time we have all matured and have options to politically talk these past atrocities out to make the heirs whole after the losses via monetary restitutions such like defendants pay to plaintiffs after being sued for damages.

    • @markcosenza3274
      @markcosenza3274 Před 3 měsíci

      The CDC has listed gun violence as one of the leading causes of death among black Americans. Mayor Bowser of DC has declared a crime emergency because of rising black youth crimes.

  • @vienicestyles
    @vienicestyles Před 3 měsíci +12

    That’s why Black Generational Wealth is at $0 today.

  • @grandmother102645
    @grandmother102645 Před 3 měsíci

    I’m so inspired by this story after experiencing it through the personal biography of Nate and his wife. In some ways I shared and understand their pain and lost legacy in lost wealth to their families. A frustration that lives with every Black American today.

  • @marcygriffin7822
    @marcygriffin7822 Před 3 měsíci

    Thanks for sharing your family history ❤❤❤

  • @JuliusCOwens
    @JuliusCOwens Před 3 měsíci +4

    Amen ! ❤

  • @cynthiajones5116
    @cynthiajones5116 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thank you.

  • @evelenebarnett9362
    @evelenebarnett9362 Před 3 měsíci

    Great story to cover! I was born & raised in Okmulgee Oklahoma 30 miles from Tulsa! It was never taught nor mention in school! Can’t erase our history by silence! I went last year and took pictures of art & GAP street🤗

  • @j.r.3504
    @j.r.3504 Před 3 měsíci

    This is amazing! Great job Nate

  • @sammiesmith6690
    @sammiesmith6690 Před 3 měsíci

    My family was also affected by the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. I was last in Tulsa back in 2012 & seen the plaques & that museum.

  • @62new
    @62new Před 3 měsíci +3

    Every time I see the movie "Greenwood" which was based on the Tulsa riots, I get very angry and upset...😮😢

  • @belleami7675
    @belleami7675 Před 3 měsíci +7

    I love Nate even more now....for having a BROWN Black girl! Know that's not the topic; but not sorry.

  • @wandalopez814
    @wandalopez814 Před 3 měsíci +3

    ❤ Beautiful just Beautiful ❤

  • @mjerome1457
    @mjerome1457 Před 3 měsíci

    What great reporting

  • @armandgordon
    @armandgordon Před 3 měsíci +2

    Congratulations Nate Burleson

  • @dbentleyto95
    @dbentleyto95 Před 3 měsíci

    I am so happy to see that families hurt by this past can celebrate their family's heritage. Such a shameful massacre in our not so long ago history.

  • @Michael_B82
    @Michael_B82 Před 3 měsíci +6

    I’m proud of Nate having a black wife,
    Most nfl players end up with white women

  • @tinaanderson9952
    @tinaanderson9952 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Such a blessing 🙌🏾 ✨️ 👑

  • @onevillagesalon
    @onevillagesalon Před 3 měsíci

    This awesome!

  • @matthewgrice6902
    @matthewgrice6902 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Dear Nate,
    I am a Lions fan and have watched your career after you left Detroit. You and your wife are awesome. You both have stories that should inspire many children in the black community. Your ability to bring this story to life and educate people to these injustices. I would like to see you come back to Detroit and do a similar story on what happened to the Black Community here when the political forces if the time used urban renewal and public domain to put freeways and other public funded projects to split and destroy the Black Community for years.
    There is another story I heard of years ago, and I cannot remember the exact state or town. I think it was in the midwest. But this town was founded by the Black Community. They reinvested in themselves and as one company became succesful it helped fund the next black entraupenaur. Everything in the town was black owned. The bank, the grocers, the doctors, the lawyers, the farmers, etc.. The surrounding communities did not like the fact that they could not influence or undermine this community. So political influencers infiltrated the early NAACP and were able to undermine them through the NAACP's influence in the black community. The town lost it's cohesivness and started bickering and backstabbing until the town fell apart.
    It was a story I heard about, but do not know how truthful the particulars were. I would be interested if you would be able to find out if this story was true, and was it as devastating to the families involved like Tulsa was to your wife's family.

    • @celesteturner6912
      @celesteturner6912 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Hi. If you are in Detroit still go visit the 8 Mile Wall that was built to segregate the area for housing. It is located near 8 Mile & Wyoming on Detroit's westside.

    • @vickieflowers-williams9691
      @vickieflowers-williams9691 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ❤Thank you for sharing your story☕️🇺🇸🗣️🙏🏾

  • @dawntyson8970
    @dawntyson8970 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Awesome, great job Hannibal!

  • @anglee6624
    @anglee6624 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Wow!

  • @bayshaunseay5314
    @bayshaunseay5314 Před 3 měsíci +9

    Reparations are due.

  • @j.settles2988
    @j.settles2988 Před 3 měsíci

    Wow! Atoya looks exactly like her great-grandfather!

  • @jillianwhite69
    @jillianwhite69 Před 3 měsíci +3

    She looks like her aunts twin, strong family features

  • @jackiejohnson887
    @jackiejohnson887 Před 3 měsíci

    The truth will always rise to the light. I thank God, for revealing all truth. No matter how painful, the truth will make you free 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @leonphillips7132
    @leonphillips7132 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Where are the lawsuits for reparations?

    • @sonyabolden9652
      @sonyabolden9652 Před 3 měsíci

      Have you not Googled the stories?

    • @leonphillips7132
      @leonphillips7132 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@sonyabolden9652 I was being rhetorical since few people mentioned reparations in the comments.

    • @BlackTalonBeats
      @BlackTalonBeats Před 3 měsíci

      Judge Caroline Wall dismissed the case for Reparations of the Tulsa massacre. WS are attempting to run out the clock to avoid paying the survivors and descendants of the atrocity. Just like they did with the witch that had Emmett Till killed - Carolyn Bryant Donham.
      As Black Americans we must keep fighting for justice.
      ♥️🖤🔱🖤♥️

  • @achimjeffersB1
    @achimjeffersB1 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Everyone loves an underdog story except for Black Americans' plight and still, we overcome!!

  • @bobby-hg9hs
    @bobby-hg9hs Před 3 měsíci

    ♥️♥️♥️

  • @jdmmg4904
    @jdmmg4904 Před 3 měsíci +2

  • @Mike_Samps
    @Mike_Samps Před 3 měsíci +4

    Great job Nate!
    Wolfpack Alumni!

  • @cynthiadavis1782
    @cynthiadavis1782 Před 3 měsíci

    Gail doesn’t have to worry about that for her children.

  • @QB-ul5lq
    @QB-ul5lq Před 3 měsíci

    👍🏾

  • @allegrap1054
    @allegrap1054 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Reparations were never paid

  • @GratitudeGriot
    @GratitudeGriot Před 3 měsíci

    WOW!! such a powerful story and amazing way to use your job for personal gain lol the access to top-notch researchers and historians is clutch but I really wish more African Americans would trace their family's history in this country. I learned my grandpa was a WW2 Vet and he traveled to Europe. An uncle ancestor was in WW1 and is buried in France. My grandmother ancestors owned businesses and land at Women did not have the right to vote. so much accessible history out there is worth doing a lil digging!! ❤🖤💚

  • @greatestshopper1077
    @greatestshopper1077 Před 3 měsíci

    🥺. His Family LEGACY WAS meant to be
    R E A L and tangible to him and to his descendants. He built it. His LEGACY was no DREAM. 😢

  • @celestialnubian
    @celestialnubian Před 3 měsíci +1

    A quick trip to CPAC will show that the devil has not changed.

  • @vickiev.7016
    @vickiev.7016 Před 3 měsíci

    So sad! Poor Black people! . God will protect you!

  • @fabbehn0190
    @fabbehn0190 Před 3 měsíci +1

    It's amazing how they dont want to give black people money for slaver because it was "so long ago" but yet they never say that when Native Americans get money till this day!

  • @billiehicks6587
    @billiehicks6587 Před 3 měsíci

    I’m glad I stopped and looked at this story.
    I live in Southern California and I think of the Bruce Family that had their Beach Front Resort taken from them by the City of Santa Monica.
    Now they discovered the Whyte family also had their land taken from them and the City of Santa Monica built a hotel called the Viceroy Hotel that’s making money for the city, on Pacific Coast Highway.
    When does it stop and when will these families be compensated? The Bruce’s got a placket placed on the land and they are in negotiations to get financial compensations.❤
    What about all the inventions that Black people were cheated out of.
    My niece in Maryland is a Historian Librarian in the Princess George’s School District.
    She and I took her granddaughter to the Black History Museum and it was almost impossible for us to get in for all the Other People (Caucasians) there.
    As my niece educated her granddaughter at each exhibit, by the third exhibit, her eight year old granddaughter looked up at my niece and said; “I hate white people.”

  • @marriejames01
    @marriejames01 Před 3 měsíci

    It is sad that the Hotel and other businesses weren’t passed on. Why aren’t the so called Black leaders working to get the descendants compensated!?
    Side note: I’ve seen many times when the children sell the property for little to nothing. That usually goes against what the parents or grandparents wanted.

  • @justtrust426
    @justtrust426 Před 3 měsíci

    And the sad thing about a story like this is the fact that it is not the only story like this. Black towns, and sections of Black areas was destroyed all over this nation. And to add insult to injury the remaining survivors of the Tulsa Massacre did not win their case for reparations. Yet, look how they can pull money out the air to send to other nations, fight wars and to house people that has not paid one penny in taxes. You have to not have a heart to think that is ok. SMH.

  • @etf42
    @etf42 Před 3 měsíci

    the greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa was rebuilt and it was not even called black wall street until _after_ it was rebuilt. black then people abandoned their own communities and cities after the civil rights movement.

  • @lfresh1673
    @lfresh1673 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Muskogee Creek Indians were attacked in Greenwood, not former slaves, not Africans, not crayon colors. Yes, they were extremely wealthy.

    • @howardwest5969
      @howardwest5969 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @lfresh1673 the children of former slaves owned the wealth, this happened in 1921

  • @gsup3874
    @gsup3874 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Reparations are due! Let my people go Pharoah!

  • @user-en1zc5vd6y
    @user-en1zc5vd6y Před 3 měsíci

    What do you mean Dwight is 50yrs old??? Did he freeze somewhere around 15??? Am African and we call this witchcraft 😂

  • @release6800
    @release6800 Před 3 měsíci +8

    For God so Loved the world that he give his only begotten Son, whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

  • @GLORIAJEANEZEKIELMDPHDLONG120
    @GLORIAJEANEZEKIELMDPHDLONG120 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Lord, Lord! Luke 11:2

  • @righteousbyfaithinChrist
    @righteousbyfaithinChrist Před měsícem

    I somehow missed this a month ago...with one of the last survivors passing recently; still waiting for justice from the state of Oklahoma...i find the denial of just reparation and recognition, shamelessly racist.

  • @Fabulosity84
    @Fabulosity84 Před 3 měsíci

    All of those businesses!! All of the generational wealth lost!!

  • @Creator-Universehardbody
    @Creator-Universehardbody Před 3 měsíci +1

    We are NOT "Black" we are Indian

  • @bobbiewright1500
    @bobbiewright1500 Před 3 měsíci

    Those descendants needs to get reparations !

  • @sexymama1966
    @sexymama1966 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This must have filmed before Nate went back to the, um, cornrows. I'll go ahead and enjoy/learn.

  • @iamnikkitucker
    @iamnikkitucker Před 3 měsíci

    But they keep saying we aren’t owed anything. So sad. But don’t worry we will get the last laugh. It’s called KARMA.