American Madness: Interactive Map

[@wiredgourmet]

NOTE: I don't use the label "African American" when referring to black people because it's imprecise (excluding black folks outside the USA, and including whites who come from Africa). Worse, I consider it an academic label introduced by the White Establishment who like nothing better than telling black folks and other minority people how to think and talk about themselves. It strikes me as a verbal pat on the head, and it makes me cringe. This topic will arouse emotions. Nevertheless, I'm going to allow comments. You are welcome to disagree with me, and with each other, but the merest hint of trolling or flaming will earn you an instant ban. If you'd like to post a comment, that's fine, but you need to come correct.

[@TheHalfBlackReaper]

Then I assume you're a child who didn't live the actual history. We chose African American over Black in the 80's because "black" is historically derogatory with negative implications. And none of us actually are that color, but rather varying shades of brown, while at the same time all have African ancestry. Hwite people don't come from Africa, so that's not a valid point. Those groups of Europeans colonizers on the continent have different labels such as Afrikaaners. None of them transported to the US consider themselves African American except for in Elon's dumb jokes. Now if you want to talk about a label forced on us by the White Establishment, that 100% is "Black".

[@vjhamilton4043]

@@wiredgourmet You are a pan-Africanist?

[@joesalvator5878]

"black and white" are generalizations that are mostly used to sow division and perpetuate tribalism. There's no such thing as a black or white race.

[@bustinnutsinslutsbutts]

We had months, year after year, where this history was beaten into our heads in school. We are weary of this stuff. It was forced on us and were supposed to feel bad. Like the emmit till thing. It was horrible, then on our own we learned of his dad n got in trouble talking about that, that wasn't part of the guilt they were trying to press on us. That's the problem, in a nutshell.

[@leg414]

I do disagree....As you say "Black" or "White" so are you talking about actual colors of the people or their regions of origin....As i have never seen [color] a true "white" person, but albinos...Who are mostly African/African Descent, Not a totally "black person" either like that of midnight or totally....I call them African/African descent, or European/European American and so forth....As this more defines them as opposed to thinly veiled "Social constructs" used to denote superiority and moral as designed...As if you are not "white" you are not privileged or relegated a class far above for many benefits and not "black"which would denote bottom class and to be avoided in the hierarchy....Could say more...Not time not space....So disagree and revalue your ingrained biases....Peace

[@TomDLuv777]

Those who don’t take the responsibility of learning from history damn the innocent to suffer abuses.

[@DianeCampbell-s3g]

What?

[@josephbelisle5792]

Excellent video. Thank you. People of good conscience, in our federal legislature, have been trying for over 70 years to make lynchings a federal crime so that those responsible can be prosecuted in federal courts and not be allowed to get away with murder. Congress has yet to pass any such bill. Racism is far from dead. I remember finding out about post Civil War reconstruction where black citizens were elected to government in all capacities. Except President's and their cabinets of course. I was elated and disgusted at the same time. To read about the success of our democracy and the abject failure of our democracy. It only made my hatred of racism more adamant. Thank you for the video and it's presentation. Well done.

[@novanetom9833]

They don't speak on their human rights violations which still goes on today lynching in sundown towns

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

What lynchings and/or sundown towns?

[@waltershumer4211]

? What ?

[@Lizpolygigiblissgirl]

That's a lie.

[@scottowensbyable]

100 years ago. Were in a different time

[@Lizpolygigiblissgirl]

If illegal invaders get arrested and deported will you consider that lynching?

[@leohorishny9561]

NOT “madness”. Hatred, prejudice, bigotry, but there is no pathology involved or any medical component behind the interest, and actions involved with lynchings.

[@peacehopelovecharity]

One thing I noticed was in Missouri, many of the lynchings were clustered in the Missouri River valley, and the SW corner of the state. The river valley was known as "little dixie" in the 19th century and was a bastion of Confederate support during the Civil War. SW Missouri went through ethnic cleansing after reconstruction. In fact, Diamond Missouri, home of the George Washington Carver birthplace, had no black residents in the 1980's when I lived in a neighboring county. Fun fact: The Kansas University Jayhawks and Missouri University Tigers are both named after militias, not animals. The free state militia Kansas Jayhawkers and the Confederate militia Columbia Tigers. Both schools share the same hometown as the militia.

[@100perdido]

The Warmth Of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson deals with the migration of Blacks from the Jim Crowe South starting with WW1 and provides great background information on the conditions that led to this migration, including lynching and other horrors of the post civil war South. This book is an eye opening history and a must read.

[@Shogun1982]

9-11 was a terrorist event. Yet, millions of black people been going through 9-11 Red Summer terrorism year after year from 1619. "Never Forget"

[@Mre-i7c]

And many native tribes before that and still

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

And who do you blame? As far as slavery goes it was Africans SELLING other Africans. One famous African tribe of slavers had annual festivals in which they would decapitate 7 or 8000 of their neighbours for fun I suppose. They were the riches tribe in Africa at the time from selling their fellow Africans. More slaves went to the Muslim world than across the Atlantic. The Spanish worked their slaves to death and the Muslims castrated the males - that is why they do not have a "Black" problem. As far as modern oppression, ALL the turn-key countries handed over to Africans during the de-colonization period were destroyed by the Africans. If they can't even run a well-organized and developed country that was handed to them intact and functioning. Look up the story of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and educate yourself. Inter-tribal violence and slavery has not diminished in Africa. Learn some facts of History ... In your case it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and affirm that fact.

[@jessehowell-t2m]

@@Mre-i7cAt least they are able to stay to themselves. It’s a shame that everyone here is not treated the same

[@peterkoinzell7983]

we'd have jet packs if not for slavery

[@rccoladrinker]

ngl we’d probably be on mars by now

[@dhare07]

We'd be using the proposals as part of our everyday travel expenses. Magic would be the norm. Love would be EVERYWHERE and world peace would be lived instead of just a dream. We're further back than we actually realize.

[@kcufelgoog3225]

Not only slavery, but the attacks on pearl harbour, and on 9/11.

[@kcufelgoog3225]

We would also haveflying cars if not for the attack on pearl harbour

[@RipeOlives]

Actual American history... glad you haven't been censored.

[@noheroespublishing1907]

It's information like this that continues to confirm my suspicion that the focus in the history of the Soviet Union is wrong. It makes so much more sense to see the Soviet Union through the lens of a "Post Civil War Society", it explains so much more. When you look at it that way, all of a sudden the Gulag rates make more sense, because of how many people in the Russian White Movement (basically their equivalent of Ex-Confederates and the Klux Klan) were striking out at the government; the White Movement continued through World War Two, and they were major allies of the Nazis. Seeing the Stalin era as essentially a Post Civil War, Reconstruction, Modernization, Industrialization, and Collectivization, and then another Reconstruction after the Second World War, really clarifies how complicated that time period was in that part of the world. The complexities of Post Civil War Reconstruction eras are under explored aspects of social history and usually are ignored, despite the fact that the United States still suffers from the scars of its own Civil War, I mean the Confederate Battle Flag was flying around during the Capitol Insurrection!

[@anpdm1]

You do realize that Zionist, as we know them today, financed the Confederates and their agent masterminded the attack on Lincoln. Also produced "Birth of a Nation" which ignited the KKK to continue the democrat party goal of exterminating the Negro by 1965. Same folks lobby Congress and the WH for foreign interests of racist apartheid regimes today.

[@89volvowithlazers]

shared this along with so many similar deep dives thanks my brother from another mother

[@jonathanguzman3044]

This brave video about americas uncomfortable and obviously not as-friendly history has earned my sub

[@Lizpolygigiblissgirl]

Glad to see your anti White fervor being stoked, Revolutionary

[@Stellar_Politics]

And all of this is relevant today, many reactions to marginalized people getting more rights has evolved into lone wolf terror.

[@sstolarik]

Very nicely done. Good work on a horrific topic.

[@Pbav8tor]

Thank you for giving me two worthy new American heroes. I saw things as a child in the 60s. I lived through some bad incidents. I'm a 66 year old white lady who would be okay with paying more taxes to fund reparations. Part of the hate is misplaced guilt.

[@ElegantHamster-d7s]

Interesting. I never thought of that.

[@philipcollier7805]

11:25 The period from approximately 1890 through 1940 is known as the "nadir of race relations."

[@davidahamilton8195]

Klan marched on my high school for a week and on Friday they burned a cross on the fifty yards line. A yt girl held hands with a black boy on the bus so the driver told someone in the KKK about it. This happened in 1984 and it didn't even make the Atlanta News. David Duke was running for president and Donald Trump was backing him. My little brother and I froze when we were walking to school and saw them. My mom came up screaming get in the car. Someone called her, she drove a school bus too, the caller said don't let your half breed heathens go to school today it's only white people week until we get these uppity n words straightened out. I cried and prayed for the whole week. I've seen houses burned with the cross in the front yard. I just hope we never go back to those days again 💔🙏🏻😜

[@brimontXP]

Those days have never really left.

[@smallstudiodesign]

If Trump gets in I’m considering emigrating. I’ve got Canada or UK citizenships eligibility as options to consider. And I’m taking my American husband with me. It’s gonna be a gong show.

[@charlotte-m5d]

Excellent,where did you go?

[@bwin3401]

Good video. I learned a lot. Thanks.

[@borntodiy]

Phenomenal work. Thank you

[@mindoftheoldone1743]

This video didn't lie once 💯 accurate.

[@MicheleHill-wv2wc]

Great video thank you😊

[@alexanderlane]

Just came across your channel via your espresso videos, was not expecting such an excellent documentary piece from the same channel!

[@QueenLibra9]

Those orange dots need to be covering the whole universe

[@AdalbertPtak]

Well explained!!!

[@panher]

Came for the coffee, stayed for the history!

[@barbieyoung6608]

Fluoride in the water!

[@llhpark]

And to think that the biggest philosophical question the boomers would go on to ask, 'who shot JR?' sits along that timeline as naturally as 'Safe and Effective' in the zeitgeist of last week.

[@roberthboyd6073]

These old people are standing in line early voting and they said that they know whats at stake

[@leewilly7068]

Whats funny is during the indian wars of the south you dont see a record of casualties but as soon as the the civil war ends the numbers start sky rockecting. Great video by the way.

[@SynUglyPPl]

Black power! This country will answer to Elohim for the wrongs it did to my ancestors, and tries actively to brush under the rug. At least two dozen of those dots on that lynching map were family members, some they say went missing and were never heard from again, but ifykyk.

[@Five_FiftyFive]

That kind of thinking will only add more dots.

[@regsutt2064]

@Dawson-x7n Yeah you’ll be one of them Edomite. God will avenge us, so like you people love to say get over it…Pray for Amerikkka all you want God is still going to destroy it !

[@brimontXP]

​@@Five_FiftyFive Racism always adding dots.

[@Five_FiftyFive]

@@brimontXP you missed point

[@clocksurfer]

Well done.

[@alicefreist318]

Absolutely excellent article. Thank you!

[@johnlong1100]

Thank you.

[@puhigeoffreywaynefuimaonok8656]

and he came he saw he set my people free

[@nancycole-auguste6614]

We need to be ONE united American people of many kinds. Which two of us are exactly alike, and why are people afraid of other people?

[@brimontXP]

Never been united.

[@Kelly-45916]

Can I tell you why Indiana is so under- represented? There's no hate crime laws and hate crime reporting.

[@gengrant5291]

Nothing goes unpunished. We pay or our descendents pay.

[@marcusslade9804]

Having just listened to a short piece elsewhere about revisionist history and completely unrelated to your subject matter here, your hypotheses are fascinating and, it would seem, well supported by the data you unearthed. I think I'm going to need another cup of coffee to consider this. Very well presented...thank you.

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

Robert Byrd, George Wallace, Joe Biden...

[@wiredgourmet]

Speaking of Biden's racism, I wrote an article about that which you might appreciate: wiredgourmet.medium.com/which-candidate-is-more-racist-eac5dbac91e2?source=friends_link&sk=c3a37a208935d9a7b683de229ddd2f4c

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

@@wiredgourmet I disagree concerning DJT and don't overlook the constant hammering he received while in office, intended to hinder accomplishment. Devisiveness is disgusting and has never served the interests of Americans, although it has raised awareness (unintentional attribute) and thus I suspect sent a majority in the opposite direction. BLM is said to have at the grass roots, a Marxist agenda. Lighting businesses ablaze seems counterproductive, to me...

[@jeremybeau8334]

Great video.

[@davidjoelsen3399]

Great research and well presented. Thanks

[@BrowniesnFriends]

and now they are doing the same thing to Palestinians!!!

[@JosephMitchell-zw3db]

Cool ty😅

[@luclachapelle3499]

Well done !

[@Horseracer-ds3vk]

No ⚖ No Peace

[@howlinwulf]

Money for what. Plenty of rich folks of all color. Nobody owes anyone anything if you didn't perform any work or service. Nothing is free bub.

[@matijaderetic3565]

Just like first time watching Beau of The Fifth Column, I thought you'd be right wing biased, but seemed sane enough to hear out a different point of view. Anytime I find someone reasonable to check if I am stuck in information silo, turns out that I didn't find someone with opposite views to mine. Thank you for your work on this video.

[@wiredgourmet]

NO worries. It's easy these days to forget that we Lefties hate Liberals as much as Right Wingers do, just for different reasons :)

[@Kelly-45916]

I often feel matters of race supercede Politics. You will find black people on both the left and the right who feel this way. We may disagree on most issues, but when it comes to race, it supercedes political lines. Don't view any person discussing the harm of racism as being "left" or "right". View them as fighting against. If I chose to ignore "lefties" opinions on racism, I'm choosing to ignore my own best interest as a black woman, and cutting out potential support. It's only when they start seeking to control and divide and tell you what you should be voting for, because of race, do I walk away.

[@Kelly-45916]

​@@wiredgourmetyes, it's the liberal condescension.

[@stevemartin4249]

@@Kelly-45916 Hi Kelly. Hedged agreement here. Agreed because I am a white male who grew up in rural North Carolina in the 60's and 70's and still remember bits and pieces of a largely unspoken segregation that left me bewildered. But hedged because this seems to apply to America more than some other countries. I've lived in Japan for 42 years now. Ethnicity is not an identifying variable on I.D. cards, registration, etc. But nationalism (or sometimes political affiliation) is. Sometimes, until I hear someone speak, I have a difficult time telling the difference between Japanese, Koreans, or Chinese ... especially very young children or the elderly ... neither of which are affected much by fashions. But the nationalist hatred between Far Easterners of the same 'race' can be every bit as corrupt and evil as anything I've seen in the American South. The Japanese Unit 731 of W.W.II is just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe this is one hint that "race" is not so much a fundamental biological difference between people, and closer to a social construct. If there were no races based on skin tone, I suppose the tribal mentality of homo sapiens would create "races" or castes based on height, or finger length. Cheers from Japan!

[@TrineDaely]

@@wiredgourmet Time out. I've used those terms interchangeably for decades, what's the difference?

[@EpicMiniMeatwad]

Cool.

[@autrywillis9489]

Thank you for sharing. I hope that all of hard work does not get censored.

[@haroldmorris5901]

Great Video! SUBSCRIBED!

[@AMERICANZOMBIETODAY]

Amazing research. Thank you

[@SuperLuminalElf]

AGREED

[@KristaErrickson]

I'm with you bro. I get it.

[@Sean-e1r]

Those in Power... well True Power... are thee Most Racist of all Entities 😮

[@williamchamberlain2263]

OK grandpa, now drink your cocoa and take your Xanax

[@MEEZYFROMPG]

​@@williamchamberlain2263 When you have to use snide smart comments, you know the OP on to something.

[@Trace-l7k]

Some of those who work forces Are the same who burn crosses

[@vjhamilton4043]

Thank you for covering the Works! It is good that you were able to trace them down. Good research!

[@JesemanuelRamirez]

“Oh look a Wired Gourmet video” one of the first things I see in the video, clansman… was not expecting that. Need to finish watching this when I get home with a beer.

[@MrThad15]

You ever visit the lynching museum in Montgomery, AL?

[@Bambi7ish]

Yes....check out the Equal Justice Initiative calendar. You will learn of many atrocities done in the early years.

[@Smb626]

OMG Who knew😱

[@honeyebby]

I really enjoyed this video. I even saved it so I can always come back to watch it. I really hope you go far with your amazing work sir. 🎉

[@ljavery10]

Georgia shoulda been just been painted orange😢

[@frankypc]

You are way smarter than I am but, If i may suggest, the reason there is less lynching prior is because they died arbitrarily at the hands of their own enslavers and Im not sure anyone was keeping track of that.

[@sebastianheimann7639]

Interesting video! Are you planning on doing a history channel?

[@killvision791]

Lol and don't get me wrong, I actually think u did a fairly good job 👏 👍 😉

[@followtheciaence]

Now do a video on contemporary extrajudicial justice and slavery in africa

[@billybob1723]

@followtheciaence - So you can distract from American racism and injustice?

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Hello Snowflake

[@kingsandqueenskingsandquee8616]

$reparations$

[@howlinwulf]

No reparations bub.

[@joeyj6808]

This was very well done. Kudos to you for making it interesting and informative without being preachy. I tend to avoid this subject, as it reminds me how very long we still have to go in this country. You need only look in the comments to see that primitive racist reactionaries still exist. Still, progress does occur. I am a 62 year old gay man, and my folks have also made some progress in my lifetime. But obviously we all still have a long way to go.

[@howlinwulf]

Hope not it's unnatural, nasty and worse perverted. You know better

[@djfundraiser9710]

Interesting… Maybe if you look up the term that was used at the time in which you’re talking about, maybe you’ll get different numbers. They weren’t “Black” until James Brown came around. They constantly changed their names to make it harder to trace their indigenous roots.

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

0:05 Is that Democratic Senator Byrd? I think it was

[@bennybaker4926]

Good video!

[@dr.wagner216]

😂 1:36

[@Ms_Kymm]

WOW!! This is different 🤯How did You cross my algorithm Sir 🧐 Don't know why my heart is pounding, I'm waiting for the turn to why we should all forgive/forget & move on 🤨(I'm scared to look in the comment section) 😮‍💨

[@Ms_Kymm]

I'm Impressed! 😏

[@Ms_Kymm]

​ @wiredgourmet I admire you gaining knowledge of & keeping up with our evolution 💪🏾Black Americans {Foundational Black Americans} have finally realized the importance of Lineage & Delineation from Black immigrants👉🏾 (which we are not) 😏 We're taking the stigma away from the word 'Black' & embracing what it represents TO US in America as part of our culture & struggles 💜 The "I NO BLACK" people of color, understand that Black has been a stereotype meaning - those lazy Black Americans or sometimes entitled, they can't make up their minds which. 😅

[@brimontXP]

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. No one forgets 9/11. Why should we forget. #NEVERFORGET

[@randomuser1105]

Why the cursing?

[@davidhairston1542]

Maybe just maybe you missed the part about "freeing" the slaves that includes burning down all the cities and many plantations and turning 4 million slaves lose across the country side with no way to feed or cloth them. What do you think the slaves HAD to resort to to live? Slavery is wrong but there are many ways to solve them problem. Without destroying the economics that feed people. The civil war improvised Everybody in the South for generations.

[@nates9105]

What are you saying? You have various incomplete thoughts going on there

[@Sicksociety334]

Freeing slaves was never the end game that the washed up history classes teach. It was collateral and slaves being released like they were was collateral damage of sorts. It was done like it was to causal disruption to stop the south in its tracks. This is also a very big part of why it took so long for civil rights and integration in the south. Echos that reverberate to this day.

[@TararyzeMcg]

Then they shouldn't have took to violence...the SOUTH was WRONG!! Your twisted

[@Sicksociety334]

@ nice that everyone has an opinion. Yours smell of feces

[@Eddie-rm4xc]

Why do you talk about slavery back in 1800’s and show 1950’s vids? As if! Peddling propaganda?

[@djfundraiser9710]

😂 yeah he’s playing 3 card monte

[@Trace-l7k]

Smooth brains can’t follow logic boys, it’s out of your league.

[@brimontXP]

Not propaganda when it really happened.

[@TararyzeMcg]

Maybe because "videos " weren't around back then ffs😒🙄😖

[@Eddie-rm4xc]

@@TararyzeMcg it’s propaganda, this is what the deep state wants! They want us dumbed down on drugs and fightIng each other! American against American! What they don’t want is a united educated people!

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

Oh! I see dredging up the past to excuse being a perpetual victim. Smart move.

[@brentwalker8596]

Ahhh, did this video hurt your feelings?

[@Leslie-es5ij]

Unless it's lily white history white people don't want to let the truth be told, not about natives, slaves, Asian Americans. Just white wash it, bury it, and pretend that it doesn't happen anymore !

[@eddiethorne6461]

The legacy is here.

[@billybob1723]

@stevenmcgillivray9283 - Forget your past at your own peril.

[@raygreenfinger]

​@billybob1723 this is why they Don't teach real history anymore. Uneducated ppl are easily led

[@JebidiahStillkrackingagain]

Informative.🫡

[@JebidiahStillkrackingagain]

Good effort and presentation. Indirectly makes me quite ashamed of my own pretty stupid and naive notions of my own white "supremacy".....Which by the way did NOT involve my participation in lynchings or beatings, or any act of terrorism. (Or even me growing up below the "Mason Dixon" line.) But I would be lying my "posterior" off if I said I never told a joke that could be considered very offensive to African Americans or blacks, or that I never uttered the "n" word. Interestingly it was a piece or documentary about Medgar Evers (from Mississippi) I watched that REALLY drove the point home to me about what a SUPERIOR man is!!😳🫡😳 It ALMOST makes me feel sorry for his SON....!!!....I mean how could or would he ((the son)) live up to THAT?!?!) HE ((Medgar Evers)) probably needs HIS face on some American currency!!! Perhaps replacing ANDREW JACKSON'S on the TWENTY at least??? Look up the word "badass" in the dictionary, fairly certain the definition will simply say: "Medgar Evers"🙄🫡🫡🙂