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I try not to do things out of spite, there is a group of racists on Twitter targeting my inbox talmbout: "There was no Black Wall Street."



But the dude who was said "Maybe they bombed Black Wall street because of cultural appropriation" needs a history lesson.

The center of NY's financial district is called Wall Street because the Dutch actually built a wall there in 1652 because they thought England was going to attack. But it was just a regular street until it opened its first business in 1711:



The government-sanctioned slave market

By 1730, 42 percent of people in NY owned slaves, more than in any other city in the country except Charleston, SC.



They stopped selling slaves there in 1762, but that's just the beginning: