They are all over, some more active than others, the northern states and small towns were more prevelant with them than southern states due to them wanting to keep north bound migrating blacks out
That makes a lot of sense. I live in a neighborhood that has an HOA but, when We 1st wanted to buy this house, they required us to pay off several rental properties that We have. They were hoping we would not be able to pay those off but, we paid those off so they had to Shut Up while we moved in here. ❤🖤💚👊🏽 B1
This the sad part of all this, alot of black people said ok, we wont come to your town we will create our own. Once white people seen these towns prospering they came and destroyed them. It was a lose lose situation 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Yeah...bc the vast majority of them are literally evil; Our current socio-political nightmare is a testament to that fact. Bunch of GD Devils...smfh... we left the civil war completely unfinished.
Like Tulsa aka black Wall Street? White actually flew rickety biplanes over Tulsa to drop bombs on the banks and stores. First documented aerial bombardment in history
This is why the old grandma said “ stay woke out there “ the second to start slipping and stop paying attention to your surroundings, you can die. That’s the true meaning of WOKE
@@doll.ov.poetrii4682racist did last two years wonder why? Can’t have a word that makes blacks smart. They went right at that word like there was a war on it. Spread this message.
In addition to sundown towns There are also border towns like Laredo texas .... but they are only in the south western part of the usa . Instead of whites it's Mexican drug cartels !
Facts Now, they're EVERYWHERE. They used to be easier to sidestep, but they think they own everything, now. Of course, you a 14:36 re Free to Travel, but they don't mind challenging you. Some of them are Ready To Go the Whole Way. They're ready to Crash Out on a dummy mission. Ain't nobody got time for that. Those 'agents' are everywhere. Get On The Record, early.
And that is why we must all start with respect when treating each other. Playground rules don’t change. I respect you so thus you have zero issues being respectful back. Now if people are not respectful then we know about them and can act accordingly.
All of because we wanted to be treated like human beings but yet blacks went an fought in WW2 fighting against one racist country to defend another racist country
to be far, most of one country fought against racists. Sadly, that fights still going and i dont know if as many people from any race are fighting against those racists.. Some are even going to vote for them.
It's true i have never been to America but i think you exaggerate very much... I'm living in Europe since 10 years now but originally from Africa, i never exprienced such a thing
@@fleurviolette1257 Ummm we are NOT exaggerating. This is unfortunately a very real reality for those of us who are black or in my case biracial. Whether you are full black, white and black (white passing) or black and white (black passing). Sundown towns still exist and the brutal racism here in the states still exists to this day. It is NOT an exaggeration. So please don’t talk about stuff you have no idea about. Certain areas in the states are dangerous for non-whites. As someone else pointed out here just because it’s 2024 doesn’t mean things have “changed”. I’ve experienced first hand racism and not the “muted” kind either, as I’ll put it. The type where you will be lynched. Lynchings may not be by hanging from a tree anymore. But they are still happening. This time more often than not it’s by the barrel of a gun, among other violence. Such as police brutality and kneeling on the backs of necks. So if you’ve never been here, much less lived here. Please don’t talk about stuff you have no personal experience with and say that it’s an “exaggeration”. Because it’s sadly not. I’m white passing and almost got killed for being a “half-breed “Ni****”. So don’t go thinking either that if someone is white passing means that they are safe. To white supremacists it doesn’t matter to them whether your skin is white or black. If you have even a tiny bit of black in you. Even if it’s just a minuscule amount….to them you are full black and if you are not careful they will, if given the chance….they will kill you. 😑😑😑
@@genbunin5376 I'm so so sorry you've experienced such a thing 🙏 it's honestly shoking, i dont even know what to say, you are right i should never talk about something i have no idea about... I'm french i have never been to America before, here in Europe the reality is completely different, i'm not saying that racism dont exist but it's not as violent as described... I heard stories too here sometimes but me personnally i have never exprienced racism maybe because i'm a woman i dont know... Well, thank you for your advice and informations 🌻🌻🌻
@@fleurviolette1257 Your welcome. Thank you. Yes, that experience I had was completely terrifying. It gave me a taste of what my ancestors more than likely experienced on my mother’s side. I will never forget the look of hatred the white supremacist bore upon me. He threatened to sh*^# me and my siblings. By saying, “I’m going to Sh*^% a couple of N words!” 🥶🥶 That’s as close as I’ve come to getting Ly#%^*$. I’m sorry I got like that. Wasn’t trying to be offensive or rude. I apologize if I came off that way. 🙁 It’s just that mindset is dangerous, even for us Americans. We tend to forget that 50 to 70 years ago. Hell even 100 years ago really truly isn’t that long ago. If you want to learn more I suggest you to look up the tragedy of Emmett Till. I’ll add a caution , if you choose to look his story up it is NOT for the faint of heart at all. Another prominent example would be the Tulsa Oklahoma Greenwood Terror attack committed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1921. Where out of jealousy and hatred the Ku Klux Klan completely destroyed what was known as “Black Wall Street”. There’s actually video of the aftermath and it’s a very sobering reminder that history isn’t that far away. I also recommend listening to the song called “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday. It encapsulates the terror of the segregationist south back in the 1930’s to 1940’s. 😣😣
@@genbunin5376 Dont worry it's ok i understand, of course i do accept your apologie and thank you for have accepted mine too 🙏 i really didn't mean to hurt anyone... I also experienced horrible things in my life but in a different area.. I do believe that our expériences teach us a lot about who we are.. And Wow you actually teach me a lot of things! I recently bought a book of Martin Luther King, it taught a lot about the segregration, it was awful stories and at the same time very inspiring! It even helped me a lot with my English 👍 i've learned plenty of new words... I know about the klu Klux klan this horrible organisation... I saw a few documentaries about and sometimes it made me cry... I'm a very sensitive person.. I haven't heard about everything you recommand i'm gonna take a look it sounds very interessing That's right 50, 70 years is not that long ago and i can understand what you feel about your ancestors... My ancestors had tough time too you've probably heard about the colonisation history by France in Africa... In Ivory Coast for example where i'm originally my ancestors have been colonized by France that's why we speak french... but you know It's also very terrifying stories... Well, thank you so much for have sharing 🌻🌻🌻
When I was in the US Army stationed at Fort Hood Texas, I had a friend named Caldwell who was black and from Florida. He was going on leave and I warned him about stopping for gas in East Texas because there are still hundreds of small Sundown towns which still exists today. Unfortunately he didn't listen to me and stopped in one of those little towns for gas and later told me that everybody in the gas station stopped when he started to pump gas and stared right at him. He looked perplexed and stared into the KKK brand in the gas pump! I think he told me he pumped $5 of gas to get to a larger town! He did not stop until he reached Florida! I was born and raised in Texas so I know all about the history and its people, like the fact that many white Texans still laugh about not telling black people they were free for about 6 months after the emancipation proclamation.
That’s crazy. I live in Houston and my family has been here since the 90s or late 80s…I heard of sundown towns but I honestly thought it was in the middle of nowhere like random ass places you would see on google maps. I remember visiting my sister’s home in Splendora and telling my boyfriend about it during the car trip. He said to just be careful and to not go cleaveland or anything past there at night. Which was kinda confusing since on google maps there’s literally a Mexican restaurant. It’s so strange
@@damin9913 the color of our skin 😅 as Hank Hill said “a man shouldn’t be judged based on his skin but on the actions of his hearts.” Luckily times are different now but there’s always that one few people that ruin it for everyone
@damin9913 My best guess is you are not a minority correct? Try being Hispanic or black, trust me, people have tried to recreate William White's social social experiment black like me. All of them quit within a couple of hours because they couldn't take the level of harassment and change in worldview.
@@ravinderdhupia4779 hell no, what do you think Trump went to them for his rallies? If you don't believe me come to Harrison Arkansas and see for yourself.
Sometimes I am sorry I was born here. As a US military veteran, I feel it's a shame I am never treated like a FULL CITIZEN BORN HERE. Yet any MF can walk in here and get treated better than me because their skin is white. I pray it never takes me off the deep end someday. It's a shame.
I'm 63. I graduated from college in 1983. I went to college on the "Main Line" outside Philadelphia. A retiring white professor at the college said that when she first came to the college back in the 1940s, there were no black students and that blacks were not even permitted to live in that town. We later discovered that there had been a black student sometime around the 1930s or 1940s who was forced to live in another neighboring town because she was not permitted to live in the dorms nor was she permitted to live in the town. Sundown towns also caused the creation of other nearby black towns whose residents served as a source of menial laborers for jobs such as maids, cooks, janitors, etc. At my college, there was a nearby town such as this. That is where most of the cleaning staff lived who were black because the commute from Philadelphia would have been too far to come each day. I was shocked when I went to graduate school at a university in Michigan to find that black people at one point were not permitted to live in the dorms there either. They had to seek lodgings in homes in that area, hence the development of a black section of that town.
@@rozchristopherson648 Still in NC in 2024.When I retired 4 yrs ago,doc here told me he knew ppl who needed house cleaners.What!No thanks,clean my own house thank you.Nothing new under the sun.❤👍🏽
@@Hackenschmidt. So the town you ❄️🪳's flooded at the bottom of Lake Lanier dosen't exist?, or your incident in Tulsa and the hundreds of others, it's all public info. Please go flatline yourself.
Driving on the highway past Vidor, Tx in the 60's, the town had a big sign before the exit, letting everyone know they were a sundown town. I made sure to never use that exit.
😳AND THE GOVERNMENT LET IT BE OK😑So please tell me why we STILL have faith in a system that has NEVER protected us yet WE PEOPLE OF COLOR OUT NUMBER THEM 😑COME TOGETHER PEOPLE OF COLOR🙏🏾✨🧚🏾✨💫
@ButterFlyGoddess The idea sounds good, but come together and do what exactly? We don't have that type of POWER in our hands. We don't control the three branches of the United States Government! Did marching and protesting help? TMH made a promise to Abraham and his descendants that HE will destroy our enemies. HE will do this for HIS GLORY and none else.
I lived in College Station TX in 1985. Black people lived on the other side of the tracks. My friend lived in Beaumont TX and he took me to Vidor. The sign was there as you entered town. It's the only town I've ever seen with a Sundowner sign.
@@ButterFlyGoddessi feel you sis but we don’t out number them. States like Idaho, Vermont , New Hampshire , NorthDakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montanna have very small black populations, thus their numbers are much greater than ours but that shouldn’t be an excuse for us to not do what we need to do. I feel if we put black over everything else we would be much further along,but all of our underlying sub cultures hold us back. Christian, Muslim, light skin, dark skin, educated, uneducated, poor, rich, church going, non church going, Democrat, Republican etc..,, all of these things and a myriad of other things keep us in fighting that stalls our progress. When white supremacy sets up road blocks to keep us from catching up they don’t care about any of those things, all they see is our skin color✅
Being British im proud of a Northern village that stood up against the American segregation in 1943 during WW2 Its known as the battle of Bamber Bridge check it out on RUclips. The American military demanded that mixed race drinking of US servicemen stop in the pub so all 3 of the pubs put up signs saying "Black Servicemen Only" the white MPs took offence and a riot broke out. The white US hierachy just didnt understand us Brits as a rule dont care about your skin colour, its about the person. The villagers found the Black troops friendly, polite and didnt fight ohhh and they were great dancers another thing that annoyed them was british girls dancing and dating the black troops. The unit was the 1511 Quartermaster Truck Company.
Thanks for sharing this, I’m getting tired of people asking f all skin colours in the Uk trying to pass the Uk off as this evil racist empire that’s still stuck in its colonial days. I sincerely like to think that we have learnt from our past here in the UK. So much division has been caused in the UK due to this false I formation being spread.
Was just talking to my husband about this… my job tried to send me to a previously named sundown town and pretend like because it’s 24’ “times have changed”
Not all places are created equal so maybe they changed or maybe not. I’m an average dud white and I’ve been interviewed by the local white busybody of where I was from and what my business was there. Entire restaurants knowing, “you’re not from around here!” and wondering if I’ll be safe all the way out.
Well, the only disagreement is the statement that sundown towns mainly existed in the early 1900s. That’s where I disagree as the practice of sundown towns in Southern California definitely existed in the late 1970s through the 1980s in places like Marina del Rey, Culver City, Torrance, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Long Beach, most cities in Orange County and places like Glendale, Eagle Rock and Pasadena just to name a few, even Beverly Hills. by that I mean that after sundown a black motorist was typically stopped and harassed in these areas for no cause. The objective was to discourage African Americans from traveling through these areas. This is a form of sundown town policy and this practice continues in certain parts of country until this very day.
I know from personal experience that 'sundown mess' exists in places like Long Beach, Culver City, Orange County, and ESPECIALLY BEVERY HILLS. America prides itself going around the world 'bashing' other nations over their way of life, but America is hypocritical and allows "stuff" to happen. Can't wait till this place is 'flattened'...
James W. Loewen’s book on this subject is incredible. I found myself having to put it down and take a moment to weep for our forefathers, our mothers, their mothers… I also grew up in a neighborhood of Chicago bordering *two* sundown communities. We were well warned not to be in those places at all if we didn’t have to, much less at night.
I mean in 2024 I bout whatever they think the bout. I stopped in several of these towns when I pcs from one base to the next in Texas south Carolina Kentucky ect. They really not bout that action. But who would want to be in these moonshine swigging ass country places anyway.
When you had to drive down south to see family, you would prepare a bunch of fried chicken, soda and water in a cooler, and a blanket you would use to cover youself when you peed in a cup on the side of the road. I remember this in the late 80s!!!
One of my elder described this as her favorite memory. She said her husband kept a gun in the front seat for protection while traveling to Tennessee with the kids.
That sounds like any southern person on a road trip. When we would leave to head to my grandma's in Florida we always had a picnic basket. When we left we had chicken, potato salad, a gallon of sweet tea and fried fruit hand pies. Sorry, if I overstepped my boundaries.
What's funny is the initials. "Sundown Town" = ST "Small Town" = ST Literally the initials are the same. Im not saying the choice of words was intentional, i do believe in coinkidinks, but I could easily see "small town" being used as a dogwhile.
@@timsimmons5190Victim? Please explain? My 12 years of public school and 6 years of college, high school diploma and Masters degree seem to have not helped me figure this out?🤷🏾♂️
@@timsimmons5190it's easy for you to say perhaps if the tables ever turn and black people created sundown towns let's see if you will be saying that...then again your culture is on CODE and wouldn't dare go against it.
@@VjidfyjgtXhiifdhh Its Public information and that's what you do anytime you show up in groups around some one else. There is no lie, your gaslighting attempt failed. Im "wt" and I say so dosen't work anymore.
Oberlin College is considered one of the colleges to admit Black students. What they fail to mention was that Black students could not live on campus! They had to live with the town's people. So, yes, Oberlin College was one of the first to admit Blacks, but they could not live on campus. Coretta Scott King, the future wife of Martin Luther King, attended Oberlin College in the 1950's, but was not allowed to live on campus! Some Black family had to assume her food & shelter needs. Welcome to AmeriKKKa!
This is the same Oberlin College that rightfully got folded over the coals in a lawsuit following an incident where one of their forever victim students was stealing. Tldr; - *Black* Oberlin student got caught red-handed shoplifting from a barkery. - Student and his friends assaulted staff and were arrested. - Oberlin Staff and Students rallying behind claims of racism and began protesting the bakery. - Fiasco ensues, and bakery loses buisness and sues the college. - Media actively inflames the whole thing. - Oberlin College gets btfo'd by verdict in Bakery's fabor. - Time passes - September 8, 2022. Oberlin gives up on contesting the verdict and has to pay the Bakery a $36.59 million settlement.
The US went out of its way to exclude most Black citizens from benefitting in the US. And the US government was allowing it to happen. What everyone should be asking is why the US did not keep the exact same energy when it came to taxes and warfare. It's not like the US government ever said "we don't your tax money," or "we don't want you fighting for or with us." And that is the real basis for reparations for Black citizens.. If Black folks would wise up and cut out joining the military, stop the lust after luxury goods like BMW and Mercedes, etc. (They are not helping Black citizens) and limit our spending with national companies and spend more with Black businesses and in the communities, a lot of change would take place. But we can't wait to get a good job and become one of them. But they never let any of us become one them. The one's they can make money off of from sports to politics become mostly their prize tokens and "good ones" because they are controlled by their money system. They can't speak too loud or too proud because the money system will affect their income.
Any video evidence of their existence? Surely one of the trillions of cameras would have caught someone in a sundown town spilling the beans. No? Didn't think so.
I grew up in a very small town in MO. It was a sundown town. As late as the 70’s, there was a billboard at the main intersection, coming into town. It said “N, don’t let the sun set here on your behind”.
@@derp8575One simple search will tell you you’re wrong. SDT in Florida - Gulfport, Jay, Ocoee, Zephyrhillis. California - Yorba Linda, Whittier, Wheatland, Westminister the list goes on. Educate yourself before you decide to spread misinformation.
1:06 This sign was located in Detroit, Michigan, directly opposite the Sojourner Truth Homes, a federal housing project. It was photographed in February 1942.
Believe me, they still exist today. In 1991 I was driving from SC back to NY. It was approximately 8:45-9:00 pm. I took a wrong exit off 95 and found myself in a sundown town (which at the time I didn't know even existed.) Sparing the particulars I promptly turned around and driving about 100-130 mph back to 95 and resumed my journey home. I stopped at the first LIT rest area where there were food courts and a gas station and contemplated the realization of what had almost happened to me. Sweating profusely and sitting in my car ironically it was a white couple that inquired about me. Initially Fearful they actually comforted me. They restored some of my faith in human nature and kindness. I don't remember what exit but this is just just my tail of thier existence.
@blessed7645 i drive from the Midwest through the south and to the west coast every year... I stop in towns all the time and never do i feel unsafe until I go through the hood, and I'm black.
@@JohnFadtu They have no idea just how deceived they are lol! There should be countless videos of people in sundown towns admitting that they exist. Yet we have nothing, nada, zip, zilch. It's super easy to brainwash certain demographics. I would like to go with a group of blax to a sundown town to make a documentary. We livestream the entire time for their safety. They won't do it because it would force them to admit that YT rural conservatives are some of the nicest, least racist people in America. The blax have been possessed by Satan to believe these lies, while the YT rural conservatives are possessed by God to keep them out I suppose. There's literally no law or danger stopping them from moving into a small town other than their literal brainwashing. Rural folks don't know how good they have it. Maybe we should start telling blax that Chicago is now a sundown town. Chicagoans would lose half their homicides overnight lol!!!
Travelling (especially after dark,) is also hard for brown people. I’m Mexican and have been told I’m not welcome in gas stations in Wisconsin and southern Illinois.
The term "woke" is used by the intolerant to describe diversity they dont like. Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights.
@toryjei9435 no such thing as co-opting a term historicaly used to fight opression, stop bigotry and prejudice, to fight this very things. Your personal, prejudiced and bigoted views change none of that. Now get lost asshole.
Imagine hating someone because of something they cant control. I cant fathom despising someone ive never met before the moment they spawn into the world. In 2024? Its so incredibly bizarre.
They still exist.... Is a former full-time driver and I've driven across this country several times from east to west.... They still exist I told one of my passengers that there should be signs so that people like myself know that I'm entering a son downtown. They of course jokingly laughed it off as if they didn't exist! This is one of the reasons why change hasn't come on a large scale. Many of these oppressors and the descendants of the oppressors are in denial or they are in cahoots with or secretly carrying out the rules created by their ancestors to keep us out! You see it with the karens and the brads who continually call on us and ask why we are in their apartment building or why are we in their hotel or why are we in their home town, period. YAH help us!
Why do you want to live in YT areas to begin with? Oh that's right. It's because yall neighborhoods are violent ghettos. That might explain why the founders of BLM purchased mansions in YT neighborhoods. Actions speak louder than words. Either you scurred of us or you ain't home girl.
We moved to Oregon not knowing it was effectively a sundown state...after three years, we are finally leaving this state! The main reason, the people....
As an illegal immigrant from Mexico, I Thank God for my elder black brothers and sisters. No other race could have stood up to those racists! God bless America. 🇺🇸 black people are heroes to people like me. God used them to make a way for people like me. ❤
Descendants of American slaves never had many Allies beyond a remanent of Quakers, Methodist Episcopal, Protestants, Catholics, Union soldiers, Federalist, and Republicans. They created black history with just a few Allies. When God shows you your enemies do not get mad, get wise by asking God for wisdom.
If you read 'Early Days in Greenbush' online, you will see that one of my ancestors used his farm as an Underground Railroad stop 'for the colored man on his way to Canada and freedom'. Another was shot at Chickamauga, fighting with a Wisconsin outfit. I thought that let me off. What do I owe? What I realized after someone answered that opinion is, this never ends. It's still the same struggle and if you want to honor those who went before you, you have to do your part now. Respect yourself, respect others. It's hard in this world, yes. It's supposed to be. Don't let fear and hate rule you. Offer help, and get help when you need it. We're all just humans.
I’m Mexican and also from Arkansas and I can tell you from experience that there are towns still like this. Even in broad daylight, they still stare at like you’ve done something horrible but in reality you’re just enjoying a lunch with other family members. We were actually complimented by our waitress saying we were the nicest people she’s ever met compared to the people staring at us. Nice lady and hope she’s doing good. Who knows what would’ve happened if we were there at night…
Those mean mugging people showcase their misery due to societal programming. They think like robots who can't think outside the box, therefore stuck in their bigoted ways.
Growing up on Houston, we all knew about traveling through Vidor, TX, and Jasper, Tx. I was a kid when James Byrd Jr. was lynched. I was a senior in college when I learned about other lynchings in Jasper that were ruled as suicides. We also covered the case of Alfred Wright. Vidor still has its reputation to this very day. I know there are towns surrounding Dallas that love to fly their confederate flags, as well. Texas, man! Smh! Georgia, too! Columbus, Ga was too much for me!
Excellent documentary. I was born 1961 in Greenville S.C . Left in 1985 to move to NYC..I attended an all black until the year 1968 , then in 3rd girl the city was desegregated. Greenville was not a true sundown town , but , the absence of Asian- American Greenville residents in early 1960’s was a glaring example of the exclusionary nature of Southern towns . We still have a long way to go . Keep fighting and pressing Younger generations to come .
I just took a road trip to Indiana and stopped for a hotel in SALEM. I had no idea it was a sundown town. We literally had to leave first thing in the morning… that’s got crazy! Never again
What ? Black conservatives don’t say that . Black liberals don’t even say that . Also you do know democrats were the ones doing this ? Republicans freed the slaves ! Democrats still to this very day do things to keep black people down all while trying to look like the champion to black folks . Look at your comment your trying to think for black folks yourself with your sly devil democrat undertones . Jim Crow much ?
Its true!!!! 100% last month June 2024 ,Im in texas, I recently had a door to door sells job. a older white woman told me and my coworkers that we need to be gone by 8:00 pm. There was a home with stone grey dragons and lions. My coworker told me a white pulled a gun on him while selling internet service.
Hyattsville, Maryland was a sundown town. Celestial Church of Christ WAS a historic church there. It burned down in Feb. 1993. I’m sure it was deliberate. The neighbors said the music was too loud.
I'm 45 I remember traveling when from Tennessee to Maryland even summer break was over. My grandma had us pee in a pot in the car. I didn't understand why we couldn't stop at the gas station.
When i used to live in America, im from Kenya, i never understood why my auntie always told me not to stop for gas in certain areas (Central TXs) The cold stares and reception i got made me do a little research.
That sounds more like Churchianists than Christians. Churchianity is a form of heresy. Churchiansts pervert both the Bible and Christianity, rejecting what does not fir their ego.
This is the biggest lie you've been told... That ppl don't like black ppl because of their skin color. Other groups have very dark skin, Indians are often just as dark, yet they aren't treated like Africans... Maybe it's the crime, the drain on resources and little benefit the black community brings to the community as a hole compared to like every other race... But I know, shoot the messenger, never look inward... How's that been working for ya?
I recently visited Terrell and Wills Point, TX for work. Come to find out, it’s a sun down town now being “revitalized” or “rebranded” or “gentrified”. We gotta be careful and use discernment even today in those “up and coming” towns/cities.
Seem like this happened in Chicago in the late 70s before I joined the Marine Corps(I had a part-time job working at Dominic at grocery store) and walk several blocks to are apartment, and was stopped every other night by the Chicago Police(where are you coming from big N-word??? where do you live atBig H-word? and I was doing nothing but walking home to an apartment with five other siblings.(a one bedroom apartment with an empty refrigerator, but we had can-goods.(that was utterly wicked and corrupt to the core and the perpetrators of that hideous law., many of them were Catholic police, because I seen them coming out of the Catholic Church with their suits on as I walked to the same grocery store on Sundays. Monsters.☹️😵💫🤢🤮
I was born in Chicago and it was one of the most racist experiences. The first time I was called the N-word and chased by a white person, I was 4-5 years old and the person was a teen. I learned early what racism was capable of and I pack accordingly in such environments.
As a White Catholic I can tell you that those Police officers were completely living against the teachings of the Church. And they should be ashamed and repent. I'm sorry for your experience.
@@PharmerJohn1 damn I'm so sorry you had to experience that at such a tender age..i believe that's the motivation to you carrying, don't blame you a bit👊🏿
@@teresawicks-kq3bq Indeed, and they continue today, which is why they lie to themselves and you that racism magically disappeared, because they want to uphold the institution...
Sundown towns, frequently linked with the southern United States, are also prevalent in the northern regions. Despite being in the year 2024, many of these towns unfortunately continue to uphold discriminatory practices. Additionally, it is important to acknowledge that the US government's lending and mortgage practices towards African Americans historically contributed to the establishment of sundown towns.
@Auntkekebaby Exactly! America owes American Descendants of Slaves reparations for the systematic racism they inflicted. Since reconstruction, these systematic practices have had a lasting influence on the way Black Americans interact with the so-called American dream. Black Americans had to overcome black codes,share croping, eminent domain, domestic terrorism, ghettos, Jim Crow, red- lining, and denial of the GI Bill all sanction by the US government. Black Americans are not looking for handouts, just what's owed for inflicting pain and emotional distress for hundreds of years.
Also why independent black farmers were virtually wiped out. The USDA was in on that, naming improved strains of wheat, corn, etc., after *Confederate generals* to encourage white farmers (who received all the grants and low interest loans from the government) to plant the improved crops!
My brother n law is from South Carolina and the towns next to where he's from are still to this day sundown towns ,that's b.s So my people keep your heat close by
I worked for a trucking company out of Memphis Tennessee we would not send black drivers to eastern Kentucky unless the run could be made without a layover .
In 1990, the adjacent northern metro Atlanta counties of Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, and Pickens, had together, a total white population of 154,000 and a total black population of only 1,900. Despite those very lopsided racial demographics between them, hardly a soul in the Atlanta area seemed to be aware that they formed the only multi- county "Sundown Region" within the Deep South at the time.
Ninjas killing each other. Not sure who they is, but ain't nobody else killing ninjas but other ninjas. Ninjas are statistically safer in small towns than in their own hoods.
Oregon was founded as a whites only state. They just barely passed a law outlawing slavery as punishment in like 2022. We hate it here. Luckily we are leaving in a month! Tired of being the only poc family in our town
Stop saying minorities!!! White women are minorities. Tall ppl are minorities. It was native blk ppl who endured these problems, you brought up Native Americans whom many were classified as negro in the south.
In The town of Darien Connecticut was an agreement that no Blacks or Jews could live there when I was in the next town of Stamford. I got harassed just riding my bicycle there as a 12 year old.😮
I live in an old sundown town in the North. Most employers won’t even look at applications from “black-sounding names”. When my boyfriend and I, teenagers at the time, started applying for apartments, he had his email’s name set to ‘Tyrone Naphil’ (a tiktok star, i think? idk, it was a joke between friends) and we kept receiving “we have no openings right now” emails. When he noticed the mistake and changed it to his real, white-sounding name, we instantly got approved for one of the apartments we had already applied to.
@@scottrenkema5130 That would be you. These buck dancers 🎻 🎶 🕺 care about NO one but themselves. Any smart Black person know this. I am glad Uncle Ruckus Thomas is not in the National African American Museum 😂
I’m confused as well Keith. Is it denial or ignorance on their part?Let’s see Nikki Haley wouldn’t have any issues driving through a sundown town,she’d be completely safe. It wouldn’t hurt her to research black history in the United States to see how violent, racist and hateful white ppl have been to black ppl and Native Americans in the US! She could learn something and hopefully stop making inaccurate comments like this! Tim Scott would definitely benefit by doing the same. Maybe if he took the time to separate himself from the red bubble of ignorance& denial he lives in and take a ride at sundown.Be safe out there. 💙💙💙💙
@@derp8575It’s honestly sad this is how you function in life, your parents must be disappointed. But you may have gotten it from them. Stop throwing so much attention in YT Comments and seek help. Because everything you’re saying on this channel is nothing you would say to anyone’s face irl.
As a black man from Tennessee I can tell you they still exist for sure.
Whats your experiences around those towns?
They are all over, some more active than others, the northern states and small towns were more prevelant with them than southern states due to them wanting to keep north bound migrating blacks out
Don't Let the Sun Set on You!
@thelonegerman2314 ive never experienced anything as a black 24 year old
Where, so I can go live there. Probably crime free
Fun fact: the origin of homeowners associations started in sundown towns as a means to keep black people from moving into the neighbourhood.
That's why I would never have a home in a neighborhood with an HOA.
And KKKarens
I believe that
Really?wow
That makes a lot of sense. I live in a neighborhood that has an HOA but, when We 1st wanted to buy this house, they required us to pay off several rental properties that We have. They were hoping we would not be able to pay those off but, we paid those off so they had to Shut Up while we moved in here.
❤🖤💚👊🏽 B1
This the sad part of all this, alot of black people said ok, we wont come to your town we will create our own. Once white people seen these towns prospering they came and destroyed them. It was a lose lose situation 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
So true
Yeah...bc the vast majority of them are literally evil; Our current socio-political nightmare is a testament to that fact. Bunch of GD Devils...smfh... we left the civil war completely unfinished.
Jealousy
Better build an interstate through the hood
Like Tulsa aka black Wall Street? White actually flew rickety biplanes over Tulsa to drop bombs on the banks and stores. First documented aerial bombardment in history
This is why the old grandma said “ stay woke out there “ the second to start slipping and stop paying attention to your surroundings, you can die. That’s the true meaning of WOKE
Facts✅✅✅💪💪💯
Yup. "They" changed the slang into meaning something else completely in popular culture; something negative.
@@doll.ov.poetrii4682yet y'all will vote Trump
@@doll.ov.poetrii4682 the fact that they use the word Woke and turned into something else pisses me off so bad. 🙄
@@doll.ov.poetrii4682racist did last two years wonder why? Can’t have a word that makes blacks smart. They went right at that word like there was a war on it. Spread this message.
It's worse now. There's no signs up.
In addition to sundown towns
There are also border towns like Laredo texas .... but they are only in the south western part of the usa .
Instead of whites it's Mexican drug cartels !
Exactly this is still going on as we speak.
Facts
Now, they're EVERYWHERE.
They used to be easier to sidestep, but they think they own everything, now.
Of course, you a 14:36 re Free to Travel, but they don't mind challenging you.
Some of them are Ready To Go the Whole Way.
They're ready to Crash Out on a dummy mission.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Those 'agents' are everywhere.
Get On The Record, early.
Yep I live in Santa Fe Texas and stay armed because I am a Mexican but there really is no problems unless you are acting like a wild animal
And that is why we must all start with respect when treating each other. Playground rules don’t change.
I respect you so thus you have zero issues being respectful back. Now if people are not respectful then we know about them and can act accordingly.
All of because we wanted to be treated like human beings but yet blacks went an fought in WW2 fighting against one racist country to defend another racist country
Hardly any black americans actually “fought” only 780 died.
Europeans ensured long ago that this would be a racist world.
Such a good point.
No, blacks want to engage in crime.
to be far, most of one country fought against racists. Sadly, that fights still going and i dont know if as many people from any race are fighting against those racists.. Some are even going to vote for them.
If you are south of the Canadian border, you are in the South
-Malcolm X
Holds true to this day.
talcum x was a pimp.
Malcolm X came around, unlike yourself
@@robertdipaola3447Wrong. He came around to embracing people individually. He always denounced racism and the USA’s practices
- a guy who never looked at a map
Maybe because the US is south of Canada?
There are still sundown towns in America. I've been through some. You just always have to be ready wherever you go as a Black American.
It's true i have never been to America but i think you exaggerate very much... I'm living in Europe since 10 years now but originally from Africa, i never exprienced such a thing
@@fleurviolette1257 Ummm we are NOT exaggerating. This is unfortunately a very real reality for those of us who are black or in my case biracial. Whether you are full black, white and black (white passing) or black and white (black passing). Sundown towns still exist and the brutal racism here in the states still exists to this day. It is NOT an exaggeration. So please don’t talk about stuff you have no idea about. Certain areas in the states are dangerous for non-whites. As someone else pointed out here just because it’s 2024 doesn’t mean things have “changed”. I’ve experienced first hand racism and not the “muted” kind either, as I’ll put it. The type where you will be lynched. Lynchings may not be by hanging from a tree anymore. But they are still happening. This time more often than not it’s by the barrel of a gun, among other violence. Such as police brutality and kneeling on the backs of necks. So if you’ve never been here, much less lived here. Please don’t talk about stuff you have no personal experience with and say that it’s an “exaggeration”. Because it’s sadly not. I’m white passing and almost got killed for being a “half-breed “Ni****”. So don’t go thinking either that if someone is white passing means that they are safe. To white supremacists it doesn’t matter to them whether your skin is white or black. If you have even a tiny bit of black in you. Even if it’s just a minuscule amount….to them you are full black and if you are not careful they will, if given the chance….they will kill you.
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@@genbunin5376 I'm so so sorry you've experienced such a thing 🙏 it's honestly shoking, i dont even know what to say, you are right i should never talk about something i have no idea about... I'm french i have never been to America before, here in Europe the reality is completely different, i'm not saying that racism dont exist but it's not as violent as described... I heard stories too here sometimes but me personnally i have never exprienced racism maybe because i'm a woman i dont know... Well, thank you for your advice and informations 🌻🌻🌻
@@fleurviolette1257 Your welcome. Thank you. Yes, that experience I had was completely terrifying. It gave me a taste of what my ancestors more than likely experienced on my mother’s side. I will never forget the look of hatred the white supremacist bore upon me. He threatened to sh*^# me and my siblings. By saying, “I’m going to Sh*^% a couple of N words!” 🥶🥶 That’s as close as I’ve come to getting Ly#%^*$. I’m sorry I got like that. Wasn’t trying to be offensive or rude. I apologize if I came off that way. 🙁
It’s just that mindset is dangerous, even for us Americans. We tend to forget that 50 to 70 years ago. Hell even 100 years ago really truly isn’t that long ago. If you want to learn more I suggest you to look up the tragedy of Emmett Till. I’ll add a caution , if you choose to look his story up it is NOT for the faint of heart at all. Another prominent example would be the Tulsa Oklahoma Greenwood Terror attack committed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1921. Where out of jealousy and hatred the Ku Klux Klan completely destroyed what was known as “Black Wall Street”. There’s actually video of the aftermath and it’s a very sobering reminder that history isn’t that far away. I also recommend listening to the song called “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday. It encapsulates the terror of the segregationist south back in the 1930’s to 1940’s. 😣😣
@@genbunin5376 Dont worry it's ok i understand, of course i do accept your apologie and thank you for have accepted mine too 🙏 i really didn't mean to hurt anyone... I also experienced horrible things in my life but in a different area..
I do believe that our expériences teach us a lot about who we are..
And Wow you actually teach me a lot of things! I recently bought a book of Martin Luther King, it taught a lot about the segregration, it was awful stories and at the same time very inspiring! It even helped me a lot with my English 👍 i've learned plenty of new words...
I know about the klu Klux klan this horrible organisation... I saw a few documentaries about and sometimes it made me cry... I'm a very sensitive person..
I haven't heard about everything you recommand i'm gonna take a look it sounds very interessing
That's right 50, 70 years is not that long ago and i can understand what you feel about your ancestors... My ancestors had tough time too you've probably heard about the colonisation history by France in Africa... In Ivory Coast for example where i'm originally my ancestors have been colonized by France that's why we speak french... but you know It's also very terrifying stories... Well, thank you so much for have sharing 🌻🌻🌻
When I was in the US Army stationed at Fort Hood Texas, I had a friend named Caldwell who was black and from Florida. He was going on leave and I warned him about stopping for gas in East Texas because there are still hundreds of small Sundown towns which still exists today. Unfortunately he didn't listen to me and stopped in one of those little towns for gas and later told me that everybody in the gas station stopped when he started to pump gas and stared right at him. He looked perplexed and stared into the KKK brand in the gas pump! I think he told me he pumped $5 of gas to get to a larger town! He did not stop until he reached Florida! I was born and raised in Texas so I know all about the history and its people, like the fact that many white Texans still laugh about not telling black people they were free for about 6 months after the emancipation proclamation.
That’s crazy. I live in Houston and my family has been here since the 90s or late 80s…I heard of sundown towns but I honestly thought it was in the middle of nowhere like random ass places you would see on google maps. I remember visiting my sister’s home in Splendora and telling my boyfriend about it during the car trip. He said to just be careful and to not go cleaveland or anything past there at night. Which was kinda confusing since on google maps there’s literally a Mexican restaurant.
It’s so strange
@@damin9913 the color of our skin 😅 as Hank Hill said “a man shouldn’t be judged based on his skin but on the actions of his hearts.” Luckily times are different now but there’s always that one few people that ruin it for everyone
@damin9913 My best guess is you are not a minority correct? Try being Hispanic or black, trust me, people have tried to recreate William White's social social experiment black like me. All of them quit within a couple of hours because they couldn't take the level of harassment and change in worldview.
But the sundown towns r illegal now rite?
@@ravinderdhupia4779 hell no, what do you think Trump went to them for his rallies? If you don't believe me come to Harrison Arkansas and see for yourself.
I’m 82, and many of the atrocities that you elude to, are just as prominent today.
Sometimes I am sorry I was born here. As a US military veteran, I feel it's a shame I am never treated like a FULL CITIZEN BORN HERE. Yet any MF can walk in here and get treated better than me because their skin is white.
I pray it never takes me off the deep end someday. It's a shame.
How true
@@AudreyWhitfield-k6h I can well believe that.
@@AudreyWhitfield-k6h unfortunately the scent of trash never changes.
@@bluelava4282 How tragic
I'm 63. I graduated from college in 1983. I went to college on the "Main Line" outside Philadelphia. A retiring white professor at the college said that when she first came to the college back in the 1940s, there were no black students and that blacks were not even permitted to live in that town. We later discovered that there had been a black student sometime around the 1930s or 1940s who was forced to live in another neighboring town because she was not permitted to live in the dorms nor was she permitted to live in the town. Sundown towns also caused the creation of other nearby black towns whose residents served as a source of menial laborers for jobs such as maids, cooks, janitors, etc. At my college, there was a nearby town such as this. That is where most of the cleaning staff lived who were black because the commute from Philadelphia would have been too far to come each day. I was shocked when I went to graduate school at a university in Michigan to find that black people at one point were not permitted to live in the dorms there either. They had to seek lodgings in homes in that area, hence the development of a black section of that town.
O wow im from Philadelphia too
Good story
@@rozchristopherson648 Still in NC in 2024.When I retired 4 yrs ago,doc here told me he knew ppl who needed house cleaners.What!No thanks,clean my own house thank you.Nothing new under the sun.❤👍🏽
Smh
@mrdave5232 Ardmore.
They didn’t want us in their towns. But flooded us when we created our own towns.
Now they getting flooded
@nhcp371 you never created anything boy. Stop lying
@@Hackenschmidt.Dogwhistle much?
@@enigmaticopossum3087 I'm straight up a racist
@@Hackenschmidt. So the town you ❄️🪳's flooded at the bottom of Lake Lanier dosen't exist?, or your incident in Tulsa and the hundreds of others, it's all public info. Please go flatline yourself.
Driving on the highway past Vidor, Tx in the 60's, the town had a big sign before the exit, letting everyone know they were a sundown town. I made sure to never use that exit.
😳AND THE GOVERNMENT LET IT BE OK😑So please tell me why we STILL have faith in a system that has NEVER protected us yet WE PEOPLE OF COLOR OUT NUMBER THEM 😑COME TOGETHER PEOPLE OF COLOR🙏🏾✨🧚🏾✨💫
@ButterFlyGoddess
The idea sounds good, but come together and do what exactly? We don't have that type of POWER in our hands. We don't control the three branches of the United States Government! Did marching and protesting help? TMH made a promise to Abraham and his descendants that HE will destroy our enemies. HE will do this for HIS GLORY and none else.
The town has not changed. Ask any black truck driver who has picked up freight in the area.
I lived in College Station TX in 1985. Black people lived on the other side of the tracks. My friend lived in Beaumont TX and he took me to Vidor. The sign was there as you entered town. It's the only town I've ever seen with a Sundowner sign.
@@ButterFlyGoddessi feel you sis but we don’t out number them. States like Idaho, Vermont , New Hampshire , NorthDakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montanna have very small black populations, thus their numbers are much greater than ours but that shouldn’t be an excuse for us to not do what we need to do. I feel if we put black over everything else we would be much further along,but all of our underlying sub cultures hold us back. Christian, Muslim, light skin, dark skin, educated, uneducated, poor, rich, church going, non church going, Democrat, Republican etc..,, all of these things and a myriad of other things keep us in fighting that stalls our progress. When white supremacy sets up road blocks to keep us from catching up they don’t care about any of those things, all they see is our skin color✅
There are still Sundown towns today. Ain’t nothing changed but the weather.
Where? Sundown for who?
Poquoson Virginia for one.
Pekin, Illinois
@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293thx for that won't be going there...never even heard of that place.
@@rollerdots5186thanks for that as well although IL is damn near a ☀️ down state
Being British im proud of a Northern village that stood up against the American segregation in 1943 during WW2
Its known as the battle of Bamber Bridge check it out on RUclips.
The American military demanded that mixed race drinking of US servicemen stop in the pub so all 3 of the pubs put up signs saying "Black Servicemen Only" the white MPs took offence and a riot broke out.
The white US hierachy just didnt understand us Brits as a rule dont care about your skin colour, its about the person.
The villagers found the Black troops friendly, polite and didnt fight ohhh and they were great dancers another thing that annoyed them was british girls dancing and dating the black troops.
The unit was the 1511 Quartermaster Truck Company.
Wow crazy stuff
I’m black British and find this soo interesting, I wish this was taught in schools
Many people in the united states do not know that during world war two , the servicemen were segregated
Thanks for sharing this, I’m getting tired of people asking f all skin colours in the Uk trying to pass the Uk off as this evil racist empire that’s still stuck in its colonial days. I sincerely like to think that we have learnt from our past here in the UK. So much division has been caused in the UK due to this false I formation being spread.
@@charliemansonUK segregation is alive and well in the US today, sadly.
Was just talking to my husband about this… my job tried to send me to a previously named sundown town and pretend like because it’s 24’ “times have changed”
😲
Are you still working with them
@@crishnaholmes7730hope they are resigning soon!
Your English sucks so you probably wouldn't make it.
Not all places are created equal so maybe they changed or maybe not.
I’m an average dud white and I’ve been interviewed by the local white busybody of where I was from and what my business was there. Entire restaurants knowing, “you’re not from around here!” and wondering if I’ll be safe all the way out.
Well, the only disagreement is the statement that sundown towns mainly existed in the early 1900s. That’s where I disagree as the practice of sundown towns in Southern California definitely existed in the late 1970s through the 1980s in places like Marina del Rey, Culver City, Torrance, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Long Beach, most cities in Orange County and places like Glendale, Eagle Rock and Pasadena just to name a few, even Beverly Hills. by that I mean that after sundown a black motorist was typically stopped and harassed in these areas for no cause. The objective was to discourage African Americans from traveling through these areas. This is a form of sundown town policy and this practice continues in certain parts of country until this very day.
Dearborn, Michigan was until 1956. The race riots were bad over next couple decades through that whole metro area.
True
I know from personal experience that 'sundown mess' exists in places like Long Beach, Culver City, Orange County, and ESPECIALLY BEVERY HILLS. America prides itself going around the world 'bashing' other nations over their way of life, but America is hypocritical and allows "stuff" to happen. Can't wait till this place is 'flattened'...
'A few' for sure. Anything West LA. Brentwood, Santa Monica, West Hollywood you name it.
redding, lodi, santee,san diego lakeside,imperial beach, any town in kern county are considered sundown towns california is a jim crow state
James W. Loewen’s book on this subject is incredible. I found myself having to put it down and take a moment to weep for our forefathers, our mothers, their mothers…
I also grew up in a neighborhood of Chicago bordering *two* sundown communities. We were well warned not to be in those places at all if we didn’t have to, much less at night.
Black folk if your going on vacation this summer be careful and don't stop if you don't have to when your driving learn where these towns are .
And that is exactly why the Green Book was created. The racism couldn’t have changed that much since then.
@@hereitis.2587 good movie about green books
I mean in 2024 I bout whatever they think the bout. I stopped in several of these towns when I pcs from one base to the next in Texas south Carolina Kentucky ect. They really not bout that action. But who would want to be in these moonshine swigging ass country places anyway.
Mafia 3 vibes
The story of our lives since😏we were enslaved here?????
2024 We Need a New Green Book So We Can Go Where Our $Money$ is Welcomed... Business is Business.
I JUST said this.
@@Auntkekebaby Touche' (smile)
Google green book global is online site for black travelers
That's actually a great idea, I'll see what I can do.
There is a website /app called " Green book Global. Also there's a book by Martinique Lewis called the " The New Green Book.
When you had to drive down south to see family, you would prepare a bunch of fried chicken, soda and water in a cooler, and a blanket you would use to cover youself when you peed in a cup on the side of the road. I remember this in the late 80s!!!
Man you didn't bring some firepower
Wouldnt they know you werent white since you covered yourselves up?
One of my elder described this as her favorite memory. She said her husband kept a gun in the front seat for protection while traveling to Tennessee with the kids.
That sounds like any southern person on a road trip. When we would leave to head to my grandma's in Florida we always had a picnic basket. When we left we had chicken, potato salad, a gallon of sweet tea and fried fruit hand pies. Sorry, if I overstepped my boundaries.
@@darlahays2471 Sounds fun and festive, but traveling south doesn't sound as exciting knowing these kind of places exist..
They don’t care if the sun is up or down now 👀
Your right about that nowindays
@@kelvintorrence5994💯👏🏼
Yep! They don’t care!
The KKK still meets at the courthouse in Santa Fe Texas but they don't care if you are a black as long as you aren't bringing your drama over here.
No job = no be there. Workers only need to be present in the daylight. Then vanish.
Read: Sundown Towns by James Loewen, 800 pages of horror.
Thank you
I need to find this book asap.2024.
@@MisterTaylor2967 facts..he was on CSPAN promoting it some years ago.
@@ontariotreadwell7273 you can find this book on Internet Archive
@@ontariotreadwell7273eBay!
And make no mistake THIS is what "Make America Great Again" is referring to
When Aiden said “Try that in my small town,” he actually meant “Sundown Town.”
So be aware at Election Day: You know what will happen by Voting for that obese Gold Hamster...
What's funny is the initials.
"Sundown Town" = ST
"Small Town" = ST
Literally the initials are the same. Im not saying the choice of words was intentional, i do believe in coinkidinks, but I could easily see "small town" being used as a dogwhile.
No its not!!
I fekking hope so
Definitely paid attention to this when taking my daughter to a college tour
We need these books back!
Lmao for what. Yall want to be the victim so badly. It's actual sad.
@@timsimmons5190Victim? Please explain? My 12 years of public school and 6 years of college, high school diploma and Masters degree seem to have not helped me figure this out?🤷🏾♂️
@@timsimmons5190 Smart guy it's for us to stay safe.
@@timsimmons5190it's easy for you to say perhaps if the tables ever turn and black people created sundown towns let's see if you will be saying that...then again your culture is on CODE and wouldn't dare go against it.
@@Eatinvanillaicecreamon7_5I’m sure an online facebook type group can be created
Many SUNDOWN TOWNS used to be Black-incorporated towns that were stolen by racists for their land...
Boo hoo but another lie
@@chanraedouglas7768 you people never created any towns. You can't self govern
@@VjidfyjgtXhiifdhh Its Public information and that's what you do anytime you show up in groups around some one else. There is no lie, your gaslighting attempt failed. Im "wt" and I say so dosen't work anymore.
@@VjidfyjgtXhiifdhh Public Information that has been recorded throughout U.S history. There is no lie that's what you do.
What's stopping yall from making another blacc Wall Street?
I resided in Oklahoma for 6 years and passed two sundown towns with signage. About an hour outside of OKC
Where
Oberlin College is considered one of the colleges to admit Black students. What they fail to mention was that Black students could not live on campus! They had to live with the town's people. So, yes, Oberlin College was one of the first to admit Blacks, but they could not live on campus. Coretta Scott King, the future wife of Martin Luther King, attended Oberlin College in the 1950's, but was not allowed to live on campus! Some Black family had to assume her food & shelter needs. Welcome to AmeriKKKa!
Interesting
This is the same Oberlin College that rightfully got folded over the coals in a lawsuit following an incident where one of their forever victim students was stealing.
Tldr;
- *Black* Oberlin student got caught red-handed shoplifting from a barkery.
- Student and his friends assaulted staff and were arrested.
- Oberlin Staff and Students rallying behind claims of racism and began protesting the bakery.
- Fiasco ensues, and bakery loses buisness and sues the college.
- Media actively inflames the whole thing.
- Oberlin College gets btfo'd by verdict in Bakery's fabor.
- Time passes
- September 8, 2022. Oberlin gives up on contesting the verdict and has to pay the Bakery a $36.59 million settlement.
The US went out of its way to exclude most Black citizens from benefitting in the US. And the US government was allowing it to happen. What everyone should be asking is why the US did not keep the exact same energy when it came to taxes and warfare. It's not like the US government ever said "we don't your tax money," or "we don't want you fighting for or with us." And that is the real basis for reparations for Black citizens.. If Black folks would wise up and cut out joining the military, stop the lust after luxury goods like BMW and Mercedes, etc. (They are not helping Black citizens) and limit our spending with national companies and spend more with Black businesses and in the communities, a lot of change would take place. But we can't wait to get a good job and become one of them. But they never let any of us become one them. The one's they can make money off of from sports to politics become mostly their prize tokens and "good ones" because they are controlled by their money system. They can't speak too loud or too proud because the money system will affect their income.
They still exist,just removed the signs!
Naked women big boobs in the jungle
Any video evidence of their existence? Surely one of the trillions of cameras would have caught someone in a sundown town spilling the beans. No? Didn't think so.
Born 1985 in Southern Illinois and experienceed this growing up. Just sad.
Illinois has the highest concentration of SDT's, even they're all over. James W. Loewen's book and online database takes a deep dive in this
@@IrvTheReaper what’s an SDT? YOU MEAN std’s ?
Are you slow? Sun down town. SDT.!!!!!
Dude you not a victim of anything except your own stupidity
@@IrvTheReaperyup IL is a sundown STATE
I grew up in a very small town in MO. It was a sundown town.
As late as the 70’s, there was a billboard at the main intersection, coming into town.
It said
“N, don’t let the sun set here on your behind”.
Anyone ever take a photo of that sign?
In the North They Had Sundown Neigborhoods.
ong, i live in new york and one of the towns 10 minutes from me had a law that black people weren’t allowed to own or rent land there
Emphasis on HAD. Same with the South. Literally not one SDT in existence.
@@derp8575One simple search will tell you you’re wrong. SDT in Florida - Gulfport, Jay, Ocoee, Zephyrhillis. California - Yorba Linda, Whittier, Wheatland, Westminister the list goes on.
Educate yourself before you decide to spread misinformation.
@@Kazuxai Those are alleged SDTs. There are cameras practically everywhere in 2024. Show me video evidence of their existence.
@@derp8575 Have fun trolling.
1:06 This sign was located in Detroit, Michigan, directly opposite the Sojourner Truth Homes, a federal housing project. It was photographed in February 1942.
Believe me, they still exist today. In 1991 I was driving from SC back to NY. It was approximately 8:45-9:00 pm. I took a wrong exit off 95 and found myself in a sundown town (which at the time I didn't know even existed.) Sparing the particulars I promptly turned around and driving about 100-130 mph back to 95 and resumed my journey home. I stopped at the first LIT rest area where there were food courts and a gas station and contemplated the realization of what had almost happened to me. Sweating profusely and sitting in my car ironically it was a white couple that inquired about me. Initially Fearful they actually comforted me. They restored some of my faith in human nature and kindness. I don't remember what exit but this is just just my tail of thier existence.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 get help
They still exist to day then you proceed to tell a story from 1991😂😂😂😂 literally another changing point in America😂😂😂
@@cspence5400that's relatively recent though... 30 odd years ago. Such a shame 😮
@blessed7645 i drive from the Midwest through the south and to the west coast every year... I stop in towns all the time and never do i feel unsafe until I go through the hood, and I'm black.
@@JohnFadtu They have no idea just how deceived they are lol! There should be countless videos of people in sundown towns admitting that they exist. Yet we have nothing, nada, zip, zilch. It's super easy to brainwash certain demographics. I would like to go with a group of blax to a sundown town to make a documentary. We livestream the entire time for their safety. They won't do it because it would force them to admit that YT rural conservatives are some of the nicest, least racist people in America. The blax have been possessed by Satan to believe these lies, while the YT rural conservatives are possessed by God to keep them out I suppose. There's literally no law or danger stopping them from moving into a small town other than their literal brainwashing. Rural folks don't know how good they have it. Maybe we should start telling blax that Chicago is now a sundown town. Chicagoans would lose half their homicides overnight lol!!!
Travelling (especially after dark,) is also hard for brown people. I’m Mexican and have been told I’m not welcome in gas stations in Wisconsin and southern Illinois.
If only more non black people of color understood white ppl dont like them either.
Your also Native American 🧬🌎
Don't forget that............ what can you expect
From euros ??they literally butchered
89% of Our Native brothers .
The term "woke" is used by the intolerant to describe diversity they dont like. Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights.
Exactly. The word has been bastardized by the right because they warp and appropriate everything
Now they use a joke
Co opting per usual
@toryjei9435 no such thing as co-opting a term historicaly used to fight opression, stop bigotry and prejudice, to fight this very things. Your personal, prejudiced and bigoted views change none of that. Now get lost asshole.
😂 that's true Brody's pale faces don't let us have anything..
Imagine hating someone because of something they cant control. I cant fathom despising someone ive never met before the moment they spawn into the world.
In 2024?
Its so incredibly bizarre.
Racism stems from narcissistic tendencies that’s why.
They still exist.... Is a former full-time driver and I've driven across this country several times from east to west.... They still exist I told one of my passengers that there should be signs so that people like myself know that I'm entering a son downtown. They of course jokingly laughed it off as if they didn't exist! This is one of the reasons why change hasn't come on a large scale. Many of these oppressors and the descendants of the oppressors are in denial or they are in cahoots with or secretly carrying out the rules created by their ancestors to keep us out! You see it with the karens and the brads who continually call on us and ask why we are in their apartment building or why are we in their hotel or why are we in their home town, period. YAH help us!
Yah will avenge
He will help us just keep your focus on him that's a big start 👍🏾
Why do you want to live in YT areas to begin with? Oh that's right. It's because yall neighborhoods are violent ghettos. That might explain why the founders of BLM purchased mansions in YT neighborhoods. Actions speak louder than words. Either you scurred of us or you ain't home girl.
@@MsUnity2011 a black man’s wild instinct will always control him. That’s the reason y’all kill each other the way you do.
We moved to Oregon not knowing it was effectively a sundown state...after three years, we are finally leaving this state! The main reason, the people....
As an illegal immigrant from Mexico, I Thank God for my elder black brothers and sisters. No other race could have stood up to those racists! God bless America. 🇺🇸 black people are heroes to people like me. God used them to make a way for people like me. ❤
Descendants of American slaves never had many Allies beyond a remanent of Quakers, Methodist Episcopal, Protestants, Catholics, Union soldiers, Federalist, and Republicans. They created black history with just a few Allies. When God shows you your enemies do not get mad, get wise by asking God for wisdom.
If you read 'Early Days in Greenbush' online, you will see that one of my ancestors used his farm as an Underground Railroad stop 'for the colored man on his way to Canada and freedom'. Another was shot at Chickamauga, fighting with a Wisconsin outfit. I thought that let me off. What do I owe?
What I realized after someone answered that opinion is, this never ends. It's still the same struggle and if you want to honor those who went before you, you have to do your part now. Respect yourself, respect others. It's hard in this world, yes. It's supposed to be. Don't let fear and hate rule you. Offer help, and get help when you need it. We're all just humans.
God outside tearing everything up! I know how to pray 😆🙏🏾🙌🏾
For any racists trying to keep sundown towns a thing, may I interest you in a beautiful summer vacation to Lake Lanier?? 😊😊😊😊
LOL
@@jenihardy09 they would really love it there!!! 😉😂
@@destinythomas5537 Of course, it's a great vacation spot😉
Yess! I highly recommend! 😊
I heard that the fishing is great on that lake. 😁
As a black European and part of the black diaspora this is incredible and very educational. Thank you very much for the history lesson and education.
Black what?
@@ymz.hu.3gyt it's just like saying black american
Black America STAY safe and STAY READY
Ready for the Newports
@@Bung_HolioLOL
FACTZ. Stay vigilant Black people. The devil is busy.
THANK YOU AGAIN!
I’m Mexican and also from Arkansas and I can tell you from experience that there are towns still like this. Even in broad daylight, they still stare at like you’ve done something horrible but in reality you’re just enjoying a lunch with other family members. We were actually complimented by our waitress saying we were the nicest people she’s ever met compared to the people staring at us. Nice lady and hope she’s doing good. Who knows what would’ve happened if we were there at night…
Those mean mugging people showcase their misery due to societal programming. They think like robots who can't think outside the box, therefore stuck in their bigoted ways.
Growing up on Houston, we all knew about traveling through Vidor, TX, and Jasper, Tx. I was a kid when James Byrd Jr. was lynched. I was a senior in college when I learned about other lynchings in Jasper that were ruled as suicides. We also covered the case of Alfred Wright. Vidor still has its reputation to this very day. I know there are towns surrounding Dallas that love to fly their confederate flags, as well. Texas, man! Smh! Georgia, too! Columbus, Ga was too much for me!
Glad I'm from NY..I live in Atlanta and never had a problem yet
Thank you so much for this video. It was very informative and it shows us how Great America is.😢
Thank you for enlightening me about this subject. Its tragic but its real.
As someone who lived in CULLMAN ALABAMA, some things never changed... just the signs are gone and the violence is more hidden
Excellent documentary. I was born 1961 in Greenville S.C . Left in 1985 to move to NYC..I attended an all black until the year 1968 , then in 3rd girl the city was desegregated. Greenville was not a true sundown town , but , the absence of Asian- American Greenville residents in early 1960’s was a glaring example of the exclusionary nature of Southern towns . We still have a long way to go . Keep fighting and pressing Younger generations to come .
I just took a road trip to Indiana and stopped for a hotel in SALEM. I had no idea it was a sundown town. We literally had to leave first thing in the morning… that’s got crazy! Never again
America is sick
So is your mother
American history is sick*
But the black Conservative say ,this was the great time for black family's. The land of the, not So free
They are delusional.
What ? Black conservatives don’t say that . Black liberals don’t even say that . Also you do know democrats were the ones doing this ? Republicans freed the slaves ! Democrats still to this very day do things to keep black people down all while trying to look like the champion to black folks . Look at your comment your trying to think for black folks yourself with your sly devil democrat undertones . Jim Crow much ?
democrats did this to you
What happens when you drink the kool-aid
Well before the civil rights movement it was!
Its true!!!! 100% last month June 2024 ,Im in texas, I recently had a door to door sells job. a older white woman told me and my coworkers that we need to be gone by 8:00 pm. There was a home with stone grey dragons and lions. My coworker told me a white pulled a gun on him while selling internet service.
To be fair they do that to all solicitors. I have seen blax answer their front door holding a gun.
Hyattsville, Maryland was a sundown town. Celestial Church of Christ WAS a historic church there. It burned down in Feb. 1993. I’m sure it was deliberate. The neighbors said the music was too loud.
Don't Forget ALABama Cullman, montgomery, All Point South...
No one wouldnt discount the south at any cost, whats underrated are racist towns in northern or western states
There's ignorance everywhere. Be aware!✌
I'm 45 I remember traveling when from Tennessee to Maryland even summer break was over. My grandma had us pee in a pot in the car. I didn't understand why we couldn't stop at the gas station.
@@St63420 actually it was later then than because my brother and I were coming back from summer break in school.
What about for doing number 2?
@@kia6955 thank grams because that situation could have been messy.
Maryland is a sundown state in the north
@@olafharoldsonnii4713 not PRINCE GEORGE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY
This is what they mean when they say they want to make America great again. 🇺🇲
You are correct. Look up project 2025 if you’re unfamiliar.
How so?
Very great research, and education, and insight
We need an updated GREEN BOOK, even as a 55 year old white guy, theres places I'm leary of,
When i used to live in America, im from Kenya, i never understood why my auntie always told me not to stop for gas in certain areas (Central TXs) The cold stares and reception i got made me do a little research.
Good ole Christian folks for ya
exactly
That sounds more like Churchianists than Christians. Churchianity is a form of heresy. Churchiansts pervert both the Bible and Christianity, rejecting what does not fir their ego.
not even.. they took the bible and used it to their own understanding for their own gain and to keep blacks enslaved. you trippin
They're not Christians. A true Christian wouldn't do this
😂😂😂 typical Chad making Chad statements!
So sad & crazy that we are so hated just because of our skin color....BUT....love our culture.
This is the biggest lie you've been told... That ppl don't like black ppl because of their skin color. Other groups have very dark skin, Indians are often just as dark, yet they aren't treated like Africans... Maybe it's the crime, the drain on resources and little benefit the black community brings to the community as a hole compared to like every other race... But I know, shoot the messenger, never look inward... How's that been working for ya?
It's their fear of Genetic Annihilation...
It has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with character.
Culture?????😂😂😂
@@geomar1010If only everyone truly felt like that there would be no such thing as racism.
I recently visited Terrell and Wills Point, TX for work. Come to find out, it’s a sun down town now being “revitalized” or “rebranded” or “gentrified”. We gotta be careful and use discernment even today in those “up and coming” towns/cities.
The LoveCraft Country explained a lot of this...reasons why the show was cancelled.
Sure is. This show is off the chain.
@@seauxfetch what is or was it about
Danggg I been waiting on it to come back on
It was a limited series
@@QueensKeepsakes28 I heard it was cancelled while season 2 was in the works, I could be wrong though.
Seem like this happened in Chicago in the late 70s before I joined the Marine Corps(I had a part-time job working at Dominic at grocery store) and walk several blocks to are apartment, and was stopped every other night by the Chicago Police(where are you coming from big N-word??? where do you live atBig H-word? and I was doing nothing but walking home to an apartment with five other siblings.(a one bedroom apartment with an empty refrigerator, but we had can-goods.(that was utterly wicked and corrupt to the core and the perpetrators of that hideous law., many of them were Catholic police, because I seen them coming out of the Catholic Church with their suits on as I walked to the same grocery store on Sundays. Monsters.☹️😵💫🤢🤮
I was born in Chicago and it was one of the most racist experiences. The first time I was called the N-word and chased by a white person, I was 4-5 years old and the person was a teen. I learned early what racism was capable of and I pack accordingly in such environments.
As a White Catholic I can tell you that those Police officers were completely living against the teachings of the Church. And they should be ashamed and repent. I'm sorry for your experience.
@@PharmerJohn1 damn I'm so sorry you had to experience that at such a tender age..i believe that's the motivation to you carrying, don't blame you a bit👊🏿
@@MOLICIOUS69 it’s better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
@@PharmerJohn1 you got damn right
Thanks for putting this together,well done,keep speaking truth.
Many of these towns are alive and well in 2024. Nothing has changed at all.
This is so ignorant 🙄 and the U.S.A still have a lot of learning about their own mistakes and history even today in June 23 , 2024 😮.
This lets you know who your enemies are!!!
Those weren't mistakes. It was systemic 😊
@@teresawicks-kq3bq
Indeed, and they continue today, which is why they lie to themselves and you that racism magically disappeared, because they want to uphold the institution...
@@stylish1012as a black person everyone is your enemy including OUR VERY OWN
THEY NEVER WILL THEY DON'T WANT TO!!!!!💯🎯👂🤌👋
SOOOOO much true YT ,brutal history they won't teach in schools.
Sundown towns, frequently linked with the southern United States, are also prevalent in the northern regions. Despite being in the year 2024, many of these towns unfortunately continue to uphold discriminatory practices. Additionally, it is important to acknowledge that the US government's lending and mortgage practices towards African Americans historically contributed to the establishment of sundown towns.
@@ChocoBeauty8 Right. We can follow the red lining maps to find the northern equivalent
@Auntkekebaby Exactly! America owes American Descendants of Slaves reparations for the systematic racism they inflicted. Since reconstruction, these systematic practices have had a lasting influence on the way Black Americans interact with the so-called American dream. Black Americans had to overcome black codes,share croping, eminent domain, domestic terrorism, ghettos, Jim Crow, red- lining, and denial of the GI Bill all sanction by the US government. Black Americans are not looking for handouts, just what's owed for inflicting pain and emotional distress for hundreds of years.
Also why independent black farmers were virtually wiped out. The USDA was in on that, naming improved strains of wheat, corn, etc., after *Confederate generals* to encourage white farmers (who received all the grants and low interest loans from the government) to plant the improved crops!
My brother n law is from South Carolina and the towns next to where he's from are still to this day sundown towns ,that's b.s
So my people keep your heat close by
That must be Lexington County or in the upstate region (white part of that state) most of the land across South Carolina is own by black Americans
Agreed 💯 👍🏾, and ready to go
@@javionriley8739eh if we being honest ..I’m from the upstate mannn the low country more racist than up here
I worked for a trucking company out of Memphis Tennessee we would not send black drivers to eastern Kentucky unless the run could be made without a layover .
Thanks for the education because I always wondered why the freed slaves didn't move from the South to the North. Now I know.
I’m 26 and I been avoiding sundowns towns my whole life cuz every majority city in Tennessee is separated by multiple Sundown towns/Counties 😮💨
West Tennessee is the black region of Tennessee!! Middle & East Tennessee is the white region
@@javionriley8739 Majority of Black People live in The West but There Is Alot Of Black Folks in Nashville, Knoxville & Chattanooga.
Is that near north Georgia... Gainesville ga to be exact@@javionriley8739
TX and FL are like this too.
This was so informative. I can't believe throughout my school life I was never taught about this. This is the first time I've heard of a Sundown Town.
America has an extremely sadistic/violent history towards black Americans.
In 1990, the adjacent northern metro Atlanta counties of Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, and Pickens, had together, a total white population of 154,000 and a total black population of only 1,900. Despite those very lopsided racial demographics between them, hardly a soul in the Atlanta area seemed to be aware that they formed the only multi- county "Sundown Region" within the Deep South at the time.
Yeap aka northern Georgia is the white part of Georgia! Everything else is black
Very well said, great spoken words of truth. Thank God for the change.
No sign at Wyoming valley, wilkes Barre, Pa. Oh but its there! Seen it 1st hand.
DON'T WE STILL HAVE SUN DOWN 👇 AND JIM CROW WITH OUT WRITTEN SIGNS?
😂😅😊
The midwest is full of them ....
And upstate new York is known as the Alabama of the north
What's the purpose of typing all those ridiculous emojis. Grow up
Yes they still exist especially throughout the mid west . Some of the signs are still up
Yup many of them
No
Interesting and eyeopening film.Greetings from Poland
Now they killing ninjas in broad daylight and stupid ninjas is killing each other
Every ethnic group kills their own, news flash
Ninjas killing each other. Not sure who they is, but ain't nobody else killing ninjas but other ninjas. Ninjas are statistically safer in small towns than in their own hoods.
@@derp8575who made sure they were put in those hoods 🤔
This is why I keep my SK ... RUN UP ON ME AT YOUR OWN RISK
Agreed 💯 👍🏾
We're all brothers in Christ.
I’m driving from Va to Texas tomorrow thru many sundown towns. I only stop at truck spots to refuel.
Living on the west coast, Oregon was a "Sundowner town" well into the early 60s. We are not that far removed from these Apartheid practices in the US.
Portland is where skinheads came from. On the east coast that's what we thought in the 80s.
Oregon was founded as a whites only state. They just barely passed a law outlawing slavery as punishment in like 2022. We hate it here. Luckily we are leaving in a month! Tired of being the only poc family in our town
Dude!!! Your channel is a blessing!!!
It's amazing how they don't want us in these areas ! They come in our community anytime they want to.. Black Wall Street..
Stop saying minorities!!! White women are minorities. Tall ppl are minorities. It was native blk ppl who endured these problems, you brought up Native Americans whom many were classified as negro in the south.
In The town of Darien Connecticut was an agreement that no Blacks or Jews could live there when I was in the next town of Stamford. I got harassed just riding my bicycle there as a 12 year old.😮
1997 parts of Santa Cruz County, CA!
Anaheim and Lynnwood ??
I live in an old sundown town in the North. Most employers won’t even look at applications from “black-sounding names”. When my boyfriend and I, teenagers at the time, started applying for apartments, he had his email’s name set to ‘Tyrone Naphil’ (a tiktok star, i think? idk, it was a joke between friends) and we kept receiving “we have no openings right now” emails. When he noticed the mistake and changed it to his real, white-sounding name, we instantly got approved for one of the apartments we had already applied to.
Watch the movie They Cloned Tyrone
My thing is…Y’all can be separate but why do they tear down the communities we build for ourselves?
Jealousy
Because we're the indigenous people of the land. They never embrace our togetherness because they are the invaders. That simple.
That's the point of white supremacy
Uncle Ruckuses Tim Scott, Bryon Donalds, and the dishonorable Clarence Thomas 🎻 🎶 🕺 would still want more Jim Crow
Morons!
Your sick
@@scottrenkema5130 That would be you. These buck dancers 🎻 🎶 🕺 care about NO one but themselves. Any smart Black person know this. I am glad Uncle Ruckus Thomas is not in the National African American Museum 😂
@@scottrenkema5130 You're sicker for defending them 🤮 You need to fix your grammar problems. 😂
@@scottrenkema5130 I meant to say You're 😂 These 3 buck dancers care only about them and their massa.
You're the sick one defending them
I didn't know this. Thankyou for this information.
Wait! I'm confused. Nikki Haley and Tim Scott said this has NEVER been a racist country...right? 😟
It's racist, but just towards YTs and Asians.
I’m confused as well Keith.
Is it denial or ignorance on their part?Let’s see Nikki Haley wouldn’t have any issues driving through a sundown town,she’d be completely safe. It wouldn’t hurt her to research black history in the United States to see how violent, racist and hateful white ppl have been to black ppl and Native Americans in the US! She could learn something and hopefully stop making inaccurate comments like this! Tim Scott would definitely benefit by doing the same. Maybe if he took the time to separate himself from the red bubble of ignorance& denial he lives in and take a ride at sundown.Be safe out there. 💙💙💙💙
@@derp8575It’s honestly sad this is how you function in life, your parents must be disappointed. But you may have gotten it from them. Stop throwing so much attention in YT Comments and seek help. Because everything you’re saying on this channel is nothing you would say to anyone’s face irl.
@@Kazuxai That wasn't a rebuttal.
@@derp8575 Wasn’t meant to be, it’s incredibly sad how the internet makes you people act. None of you would act the way you do.