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
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 🌻🌻🌻
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.
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✅
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.
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.
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.❤👍🏽
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'...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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👊🏿
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 RU-vid. 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.
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?
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!!!
@@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...
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!
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.
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 ?
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
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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
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.
Yea I just found out what these are not that I haven’t experienced it I was just unaware it was a thing. I immediately did my research and there are maps showing sundown towns all throughout America still to this day. At first I couldn’t believe it, but then I thought about times I would be on the road & have a very eerie feeling while stopping thru this middle of nowhere town & being the only black man. Even just experiencing racism growing up backed it up even more. I pray that men & women out here can find a way to prosper in this world set against us, & truly wish you all the best! It’s a cold world out here. God bless🙏🏾🤍
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.
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.
What do you think about it there's nowhere in the country that's not sundown other than places in California like Los Angeles Oakland New York Miami but most of the country is a sundown country
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.
When I was boy going to school in rural Southwest AR town limit sign still said don't let the sun go down on your black ass the sign was removed in 1996
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.
America does not care about the way black Americans are treated. They rather aid Ukraine and protest other countries. They will not stop the hatred. Are blood help build this country.
@@tyroneroberts4745 i don't expect 🇺🇲 to care for us...we have to care for us....tired of hearing BS like this...tons of things that happen to BP is because of BP's view of themselves..when SOME OF US NOT WE revamp and strengthen our cultural pride and respect for each other then just maybe there will be a shift
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.
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....
Found out a few years back that the (small) city I live in in eastern WI was a sundown town; heard stories as recently as the 80s that if you weren't white, you stayed indoors after dark under threat of violence/death. To this day, the largest minority is Hmong, which immigrated after the Vietnam war like they did to many Midwestern cities, and it's striking how they filled the same stereotypical "minority" niches in the minds of the white majority. Of course they also have the asian stereotypes as well, but the second and third generations are seen as more "thuggish" to the boomers.
That’s why I understand why black peoples would vote for Trump that make America great again is meant to help rich white peoples get richer and more prosperous for their families
Because black people were prospering under Trump while Biden called black people super predators and is responsible for the most black incarceration and then had the nerve to tell black people that you aint black if you don't vote for him. But keep letting the media tell you Trump's the racist one.
There is a town called Anna in Carbondale Illinois it stand for AINT NO NIGGAS ALLOWED and how I found out was from my mom when we was looking for Airbnbs this town popped up I almost booked the home cuz it was over nice my mom said hell nah when I told her the town 🫠
