Following the Black Soldiers Who Biked Across America 

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He has a bike shop in Arizona, I think it's called Bicycle Nomad or that's what he goes by.

There’s never going to be enough healing … this will go on forever

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good luck. right wingers are doing their best to erase this history. look at desantis and what is doing to the education system in florida. as long as republicans continue to hold office we will continue to devolve and regress.

That's not possible to begin with. "Healing" often only comes when people forget, or things are good enough to forget. Because constantly bringing it up often brings up bad feelings and mistrust. Kinda like how nobody brings up the mistreatment of Irish Americans eventually making people dismiss it as "something that happened before". Mind you, this doesn't excuse modern mistreatment, but the point is that when people constantly talk about past/modern mistreatment there is often a aspect of politicians bringing it up to maintain their voter base. Ala Al Sharpton.

I hope this video was cause for some ambivalence also. It's not just a celebration of bikes. geez.

The ones from the time of the bicycles didn’t commit crimes but the ones from the 1870s were genocidal tools of murder.

In all of my year's of life, I did not know how far and; treacherous ride that they had.

Bad ass at killing indigenous peoples. The buffalo soldiers were not heroes they are monster.

thanks so much for watching!

Whoa- thank you so much! I knew he looked familiar

as you say, a very common story. thanks so much for watching.

Buffalo soldiers were literally slaves that were used to genocide indigenous tribes. So the white man can have the land to enslave those soldiers. Just overall retarded to glorify this history.

This is just flat out BS propaganda, wtf? The US doesn't "create" strife, that strife is the natural end result of people seeking to better or hurt others -if Hispanics achieve political power to become the "face" of the US, then its at the expense of other groups. The rich whites that supposedly get off from this "strife" themselves fight against each other and other rich people of varying colors. This is just a feel good way to ignore the real issues.

Much agreed. Such a contradictory error in racial history that very easily could have been overlooked.

thanks so much for watching.

They are brave and fearless! Much respect to them!

I need to check this guy out on IG for sure.

You're so beautiful, my god!

@@83chared Thank you!

Look into bikepacking/bike touring. People like pathlesspedaled or Ryan van duzer

Yes. Reggae hadn't become popular with black people in the U.S., and that song was an attempt by him to appeal to that audience and cross over (and also to appeal to pan-Africanism and "one love"), but it didn't really work at the time. Black America then was mainly interested in it's own music forms: funk, disco, soul, R&B, motown, blues, and jazz. The primary U.S. audience for reggae during Bob Marley's lifetime was white college kids and musicians. Reggae has a much broader reach and appeal today. Fela Kuti and Afrobeat also never really crossed over at the time, but people in the U.S. have slowly discovered it since then.

weirdly enough, there was a major bike race going on at the same time we filmed this that was intersecting with this route! I agree though, it would be pretty cool to see a proper race of this. The tricky thing would be figuring out exactly what the route is, because so many of the original paths are gone or forgotten, or go through what is now private land. But Erick would be the guy to do it.

@@dexdigi might not be exact in some areas but the main roads used back then are still used today. At about 1600 miles the tour would be a little shy of the Tour de France and could be just as economical. Attracting racers from around the world. The first bike tour of America

thats human history

That’s the reality of 20+ countries in Africa today too. Rinse and repeat.

@@dudeguy818 and Russia and Ukraine

Respect

Native Americans enslaved our people, some fought on the confederate side. Gen.Stan Waite was a confederate fighting to keep us enslaved. The 5 Civilized Tribes were called this because they took on the attitudes and beliefs of the colonizers. Today, some tribes are disenrolling Black members of their tribes. The actor Don Cheadle's ancestors were enslaved by Native people in Oaklahoma. History is fascinating.

It was hardly one or the other, at one time or another groups have done terrible things. A lot of Native American tribes fought alongside the Confederacy to maintain slavery of African Americans for their own benefit. Apologies are meaningless; accepting the past and trying to do better is what's important.

They were taking it easy and only the one guy did the whole trip. The vice guy only did some of the trip.

@@tamaraj4200 yes but the title suggests otherwise...

Not really. Also, that's besides the point anyway. It's not an endurance event.

@@richardtedyell3350 Not really what? What an odd response. We are aware it is not an endurance event. Are you slow?

'not really' as in the title does not really suggest the reporter goes the full distance. And even if it DID falsely suggest that, it's irrelevant because that's not the point of the video. Are you tipsy already?

Do it

Yeah, the so-called Five Civilized Tribes assimilated into whiteness by mimicking them - everything from the way they spoke, their style of dress, adopting Christianity, and owning slaves. In recent history, we saw the Seminole tribe deny black Native Americans (Freedmen) Covid vaccines. The history between blacks and Native Americans need to be explored in its entirety.

Cargo racks on the back make maintenance harder plus you don’t need much steering when you’re out of the city biking for hundreds of miles in a straight line.

@@airhab this is not true because you balance with the steering wheel. Just try cicling with the steering wheel welded stuck. ;) A basic Cargo rack doesn't impact maintainance. It's just one extra beam next to the main one of the frame. Repairing the tire doesn't onvolve replacing the whole wheel but even if you do there's no difference.

Bro they are almost always trolls meant to agitate and subvert the discussion away from historical fact.

whataboutisms come out reflexively, its the level of discourse they have to offer like little kids throwing a tantrum really. but what about butbutbut

eh, it always happens, so I'm used to it. I'm just grateful people took the time to watch something we made!

White ppl are so used to being centered that its destabilizing whenever they are not.

@@dexdigi EXCELLENT work as always Dexter.

To be fair. isnt it akin to doing something like calling the irish potato famine the european potato famine? Its just as accurate to say that but you wouldnt know how deeply if affected the irish people because their role in it has been erased by the "European" moniker. Its not racist or whatever to point out that a specific group of people was affected by something. They were called Buffalo soldiers and the significance of that is tied to their skin color. I wish darker skin didn't matter then or now but obviously it does to a LOT of people including the many in positions of power. So in this case pointing out that they were black indeed is relevant as it tells a huge part of why this is even a story to begin with.

@@GFarrsight Okay, first, I don't think that analogy works too well because its a specific nation.. Second, this is just perpetuating the fact that A LOT of people care waaaay too much about skin colors. Yes, in this one case it is related to race...somewhat. But this is an everyday occurrence for RU-vid titles. Especially if its on channels that call themselves "news". We've all seen it thousands of times. If its a blk man being shot or anything that will gain sympathy or praise, the title WILL call them a blk man. But if its a hwhite man in any of those situations, its just man. On the flip side, if its a blk person commiting something heinous, its a real shock if they even show the mug shot, let alone putting a race in the title. Yet if its a white person even seeming like they did something wrong, its in the title 14 times.... This is Vice. They're the racist ones who care waaaaay too much about skin colors. And besides, they could have put something about Buffalo Soilders in the title and that would have been way more helpful anf descriptive...

Stop whining, white boy.

True , something probably said by gangs in LA . Just keep following orders hu 😂