Black Wall Street, or the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was one of few extremely prosperous Black neighborhoods in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. Unfortunately, this self-sufficient, wealthy Black neighborhood burned to the ground by white supremacists. The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 left thousands of Black Tulsans homeless, hundreds dead, and the district completely obliterated. Now that we have reached the 100th anniversary of the tragedy, there need to be reparations from the United States, a country that claims to strongly value the ideas of prosperity, democratic equity, and equal opportunity. The citizens of Tulsa’s Greenwood District who lost their lives in this horrible mishandling of justice were not even buried in marked graves, let alone given the opportunity to pursue the full version of what the American Dream is supposed to be (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness as written by in the Declaration of Independence, for example). Tulsa, and all of Oklahoma for that matter, was a supposed safe haven for Black Americans post-Emancipation Proclamation and the opening of Indian Territory. This safe haven for Black Tulsans was soon turned to Hell due to a horrible assumption of guilt by white Tulsans about 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a Black shoe shiner, who was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, the 17-year-old white elevator operator of the nearby Drexel Building. He was taken into custody, but white Tulsans decided to riot, massacre many Black Tulsans, and burn the district to the ground regardless. The time to commemorate the success of Black Wall Street and mourn the loss of so many lives is far overdue. As Peter Lupsha states the American values in “American Values and Organized Crime: Suckers and Wiseguys,” “The taproots of American culture are those Lockeian (sic) values embodied in the writings, declarations, and documents of the Founding Fathers and their interpreters. These values are based in beliefs in individualism, property, or ‘materialism,’ competition, and freedom of action, or independence.”