David Zucchino on "Wilmington's Lie" 

Professor Hunter, you have the best guests for giving us the historical building blocks we truly need. Thank you!

I live 40 miles from Wilmington and was never aware of this until I saw David on PBS discussing this atrocious event in history.

My great grandparents sent my grandmother and great aunt up NJ to get them out of Wilmington after the massacre. Great interview, thank you!

The message is fear. 100% true

Wilmington on Fire documentary is excellent!!! A must watch!!!

Karen and David thanks for sharing this Great History lesson with us. Wow History lesson 101. This is a sad day in this country 😢 😞 😔 😪

Professor Hunter, great piece. The Wilmington example has been discussed extensively In Class but I think a lesson drawing from your question "What are white people fighting for?" could greatly broaden that discussion and provide more historical insights

Me too, I had no clue and I stay 30 min from WIL. I did not learn about in High School! My grand Dad worked on the ships in Wilmington, NC. Great information! Wilmington has changed a lot; white people drastically moved /moving in from the west and north. Key black communities have been lost to development! Great information ℹ️

I was born and raised in Wilmington NC , my best friends Grandmother told me about the riot of 1898 , she was a survivor , I was a freshman in high school when she told us the stories , her testimony is at the library of UNCW .

My eyes are open

I am always amazed at the things I don't know about our community. Thanks you for this enlightened interview. Education is in fact power.

Great interview. Tulsa was not the only thriving city for blk people. Few know about Wilmington NC. My ancestors lived in the area but never talked about it. I have found that folks from NC are the most mannerly in the country . Real talk. They will say yes ma'm , no ma'm both blk and wht. Accurate history needs to be taught to all children. This is the reason the powers that be do not want us to know our history- so we may be bound to repeat it.

My family is from Wilmington and some still lives in Wilmington. I went to school in Wilmy. I did not find out about this until about 5 years ago. What a shame. Really a shame.

It's amazing all the evils that have happened in our past and currently! It's like we are in an ever-spinning whirlwind that 'recycles' our history!! Thanks, Karen, for the varied topics and your dedication to enlightment!! I truly never heard of this but it feels like deja vu!!💯

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up." Unknown. It worries me : America can’t pay when the bill comes due. We often think man has to subdue man. That’s against the Source teaching. Mankind literally tells the creator of all “ your creation of anything other than my whiteness isn’t good”. Wow ! Audacity! Yes , Professor I sit with this thinking and knowing it will not get better. However I also know this, I’ve been reminded of my own humanity and all is well.

Good broadcast sister Karen. Keep on keepin on ✊🏾

You are brilliant professor Hunter

When I was a kid the white neighborhood we moved into greeted us with bricks through our windows, graffiti on the walls and cars driven through our yard tearing up the grass, and some of the perpetrators were the sons of the people who sold us the damn house. And then there were the very few white neighbors who risked and then suffered ostracism to help us put the house back in order. I didn't know the specific details of so many incidents but I sure learned the truth of this nation early.

I remember an In Class with Carr episode about this insurrection! Arguably the craziest part of US history that people don’t know about

I have family whose business was destroyed and then left Wilmington for NYC immediately following this horrific event.

What we need is a new updated US Constitution it's time! 2021!

Love your show. Very informative! I've been having thoughts of leaving this country also.

I am just as,or more uncomfortable than you seemed in this video. what's going on with "ignorant" people who think they have a right to just erase people, why?

I have hope but not for the U.S.A. Once the U.S. became an empire the clock started ticking. When the Soviet Union fell and the U.S. invaded the graveyard of empires it became clear to me the fall will happen in this lifetime. Since the U.S. cannot be reformed I have hope that what rises from the ashes will be a place of cooperation rather than domination. Otherwise it'll just self destruct and vanish and that's not a bad thing either.

I know about this because my parents and grandparents are from Wilmington NC. I grew up with the knowledge of what happened. Did I learn about this, or Tulsa, or the other 80 + insurrections by racist domestic terrorists in school? No.

There are a lot on nuggets in this interview.

I don’t know what the future holds but I do know everyone should be holding cash and a passport if you choose to leave and cash, guns and community if you plan to stay.

I purchased a 22 Ruger rifle for sport shooting before the run on guns in 2008. The only rifle club to learn gun safety, how to care for and operate my rifle required NRA membership so I joined the NRA. I took the safety class and started target practice. My goal is the senior Olympics. I believe in the second amendment. It protects our right as black people to bear arms too. Think about that. Recognize that firearms and ammunition is getting increasingly difficult to find in any city regardless of its size. Rural communities have gun shops. Think about that, hard.

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The similarities described of the event in 1898 Wilmington gives me goosebumps, just thinking of the tribal violence that occurred during the 2007 elections in Kenya, Africa. The opposition had vowed to eliminate one tribe, calling them "the snake that had to be killed, by all means necessary". Unfortunately for Kenyans, they don't have an exit strategy......apart from getting involved at the grassroot levels, standing up against the elite MisLeaders. 365 days till our next General elections. Fingers crossed it'll be peaceful 🙏

As always I tell people this nation wont, cant and dont change. The ideals at its core will never change when we are 14% of the population. Leave this country. Look at the olympics. We are everywhere. No place is perfect but a lot of places are not the U.S. we can thrive anywhere as black people.

They'll self-destruct

Terry Gross did a interview about this on Fresh Air last year, and, as usual, because it's Terry Gross, it was fantastic! The program is still available in the Fresh Air archive.