Black FedEx Driver Speaks About Sundown Towns in the Midwest

[@electrowayne2918]

If black people had sun down areas that targeted ANY OTHER race besides themselves .. the national guard would be called in.. and nothing less. The fact that those towns still exist .. is crazy

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

Guys do have them, they just don't have any kind of name. Like there are countless stories of other races in predominantly black areas dealing with all kinds of crap. Pretty much almost never gets talked about.

[@Sam5D]

​@yeahyeahwowman8099 Black people arent discriminating against people based on skin color we also dont hang people for their skin color. We usually rob people who look like they got money, and we mostly delete ourselves due to self hate caused by all the bs the cia and elites have been doing to cause the dysfunction

[@illahham]

@@yeahyeahwowman8099you’re delusional and don’t know what a sundown town is

[@RUCCIGK]

@@yeahyeahwowman8099because they act like victims and it’s “ only racist when white people do it “

[@JohnDoe-bg9py]

​@BJosephtosure, every hood in every major city. Garfield park in chicago, the south side, memphis hoods, the list goes on and on. you guys commit 50% of violent crime

[@RahYisrael99]

Remember, Dr. King said Chicago was the most racist city he had ever been to. Chicago is still racially segregated. And there are still sundown towns in illinois.

[@broco6608]

Sundown towns exist very near Chicago, too.

[@Lupo32]

Off the top of my head Anna Illinois - aint No N-words around Bridgeport irish owned Cicero italian but now mexican owned

[@zaheerahshareef8131]

Yes lots of them

[@zaheerahshareef8131]

Valparaiso, Indiana is one too

[@pamparker4047]

He was absolutely right

[@magikzebra6552]

I was a traveling nurse in Michigan for a few years and had many patients in the middle of nowhere. I would work from 9am-7:00pm, although my patients and MOST of their families were cool. One of my patient's sons would be there (sometimes) and would tell me to make sure I left before it got dark because of racist people in the area. He always asked if I had enough gas to drive the 15-20 minutes out of the area. I remember one time I didn't have enough gas and he ( always strapped up) followed me to the nearest gas station. I never encountered any racism in those towns but his warning was enough for me to believe him.

[@talknewz7617]

Of course you should believe him! Why wouldn't you?

[@ironknightgaming5706]

Wow!

[@complexblackness]

@magikzebra6552 Another reason why you don't let your gas tank go below half. Crazy how you didn't have enough gas to cover 20mins to get out of town. Keep your tanks above half people!

[@choiceofyahuwah]

Goes to show you, we're under threat all the time.

[@eoleol4750]

It's that private talk they have among themselves. The ones that don't like it tell you to be careful.

[@nisa1388]

I grew up in NJ in the early 70’s to early 80’s, the Princeton area a few miles from the university. We were the only black family in the entire township. The racism we experienced still affects me today. And I’m 55.

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

Did you put your foot up they ass?

[@idcook]

I refused an offer to attend Princeton University due to experiencing racism there when my family stopped at a restaurant during an excursion that passed through the area years earlier.

[@eoleol4750]

I know this is about racism. But your comment is interesting to me. I'm 55 too, born in Paterson but moved when I was small, down south. Moved back to New Jersey a couple of times in my twenties. Jersey is the most dynamic place I ever lived. Multiple, crazy dichotomies: Over-educated people with some of the most severely uneducated, "Speak American" heard it many times, only in Jersey. Black people that look white, proudly pro- civil rights and sure to tell you I'm Black. My Pop was one of them. Negative rumors about Italians (if you know what I mean). I worked in a bank with many Italians. They tried to send me to a banking school and another time to Rutgers. Each ethnic group calling the other a slur but they still go out and help the other group. Creative, entrepreneurial (House music, rap), Disco (African-Americans from the south, Spanish people, technology from Italians) all among foul smells emanating from trash and paper on the street. Strangely chaotic and beautiful at the same time.

[@Zedeckfeareducatedhamite]

Very sorry ... It's sad

[@ryanjackson9010]

I'm sorry to hear that you experienced that. Dealing with racism at a young age can certainly be traumatic. That's something that I can definitely relate too.

[@adamspful]

Peoria IL is about 30% Black and surrounded by sundown towns. We need to update the Green Book!

[@LGND105]

From Michigan born and raised. I agree, as a Black person in America, the Midwest is very racist! I moved to the south and of course, racism is here too, but people tend to think that racism isn't in the north which is crazy. The Midwest is just as bad. America's hate and greed will be its downfall.

[@Confessions089]

Slave mentality.

[@gmw1635]

Same here born and raised and no lies detected.❤

[@johnnealis6826]

Amen, save White diaper faces for me

[@Swordoftruth289]

Bull crap. I'm born and raised Michigan. Metro Detroit. Traveled and lived all over the south. I guarantee you the north is better. We are less racist. It you all that are racist against the white man.

[@tonyamartin1425]

I'm in Texas the Detroit area is the most racist place i have seen in America and the black people voting democrat in Detroit think everywhere else is more racist super brainwashed

[@ironwill6859]

This is the 3rd delivery driver I've heard speak on Sundow Towns. And I remember the other brother who was shot at & chased he was also a FedEx driver.

[@TLACY606]

I remember that. It's dangerous being a delivery driver let alone black. You're just trying to do your job and these fools want to rob or kill you.

[@kingjay1628]

Yep, In Mississippi of all places.

[@TYRONE-kh9zn]

​@@TLACY606If it's a Sundown Town situation those pale faces ain't trying to rob only kill then they might rob you of your belongings yet unaliving is the primary motive with them in particular

[@TYRONE-kh9zn]

​@@TLACY606If it's a Sundown Town situation then unaliving is the primary motive

[@TLACY606]

@@TYRONE-kh9zn Exactly.

[@complexblackness]

23:39 Don't forget that in 1952/53 West Germany approved $700 million in monetary reparations for Israel. That is the equivalent of over $7 billion today. Reparations was the jump start that took Israel from literally a third world country to what it is today.

[@40acresandatractor]

Don't forget the USA paid all that and continues to pay Israel BILLIONS annually, but no REPARATIONS for ADOS, FBA and FREEDMEN🤨

[@Vvrroommm]

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[@WETALKINMEDIA]

Good info reparations should start in the 30 trillion range why ....with 30 million blacks...7 billion would be 233$ per person

[@complexblackness]

​@@WETALKINMEDIAThat was the initial sum to start it off. To date, Germany has paid around $90 billion and still pays today. I made the comment not to suggest that 7 Billion would be a starting point, but to add to what Ryan Jackson was saying. Also it's a good historically accurate counter to any ✡️ person, who would speak against Reparations, for Foundational Black Americans.

[@Vvrroommm]

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[@briandawsonii4451]

As a trucker from the South, I am 29 years old and have been trucking for 3 years. In my opinion, the Midwest is far more racist than the South, with Indiana, Illinois, or Ohio being the worst.

[@Mavuika_Gyaru]

Something people forget is that the majority of black people are in the south. Yes there are some racist degenerates in the south but there are also plenty of good people. The Midwest is where the freaks are at

[@demondtaylor88]

Indiana Missouri and Wisconsin are really bad from my experience

[@briandawsonii4451]

@@demondtaylor88 I forgot about Wisconsin yes that's true

[@prettybrwneyez7757]

It is!!

[@p.capes1]

Very!

[@unklegee136]

I live in Wisconsin and Sundown towns definitely exist in 2024!! I used to work in Waukesha County and it felt like I was living in the 60's! Very backwards and Racist! And speaking of Illinois, I remember coming back home from IOWA some years ago and got lost and went through the backwoods of Illinois. BIG MISTAKE! Lol! When I walked into a dollar tree to ask for directions, I was met with evil stares and felt dark energy from the other customers! I walked back out immediately. I said a prayer in my car and found my way back home!

[@ryanjackson9010]

@@unklegee136 that's insane!!! APDTA that you made it out of there safely and was able to find your way back home.

[@Shineynsparkles]

😮

[@peterdavis8471]

Thank you God you made it safely out of that HELL HOLE 😢

[@mrconfusion87]

I'm an Asian and my own mother did NOT like the vibes of some of the customers in the McDonald's in a rest stop outside of Rockford along the interstate when we were driving up to Wisconsin from Chicago in the Summer of 2000!

[@taniamarie2486]

So basically this whole country is a sundown country. I’m from California I know they are here too I’ll do more research

[@ryanjackson9010]

@@taniamarie2486 Pretty much.

[@TheVegan15]

This is America 😩

[@thrill2020]

Rio Linda and just about anywhere north of Sacramento

[@taniamarie2486]

@@thrill2020 fasho

[@magikzebra6552]

I live in Los Angeles and some are surrounding Fresno.

[@t.h.8475]

Hoosier here, I am white. My Dad grew up in a sundown town. His mother told him that when she was a child, she saw men in white sheets marching through the woods. That's a big signal to me that I don't want to be there.

[@jackharle1251]

Shelbyville?

[@EarthOceanMoon]

​​@@jackharle1251 Good guess... Maybe even Kouts, or Rensellear.. I'm from Gary, Indiana and we know all about them little anti black farming communities.

[@antdell8730]

I wish the Civil Rights movement was more about black economic development than “let us through the front door”. Black people are too dependent upon others for our survival 😢. We fought and died to open the door for hispanics, asians and middle easterners.

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

Hispanics are our people. Did you seem to forget how many blacks were given refuge in Mexico during slavery?

[@Sachi52]

You should read more

[@antdell8730]

@@Sachi52 Using my eye sight is sufficient dear.

[@butterfish-g9f]

So, the Black Panthers. The entire Black Panther movement was exactly what you want, and they were also a major part of the civil rights movement. Hunted out of existence by the FBI mind you, because black autonomy was not going to be tolerated by the US government, but that was their stated goal.

[@jsutigers8954]

@@olafharoldsonnii4713 Mexico & Brazil etc had African Slaves dropped off there too....b4 the USA slaves migrated there....

[@pamparker4047]

And yet, fed ex did nothing to stop these attacks on their drivers 😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@bryansimpson8694]

It's a damnable shame

[@GalenJoyce-ff2cp]

It's hard to process that a company could be so f**king despicable.

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

I hate fed ex. I'm a truck driver and their truckers are rude to other truck drivers. Traffic etiquette basically.

[@DarrylJordanofficial]

In Detroit when I was about 7 or 8 this white girl passed my house. I spoke to her and she told me her father told me not to talk to "the "N" word. I was sad but I did not listen to her. I told her that was foolish. I still played with her and went to her house. After I started going to her and her house to play in the yard, the father had a change of heart and started fixing old bicycles in his garage. I told my other friends. We were all at that house playing and riding the bikes with her. I changed that man before it was too late for him. He enjoyed our company and seemed relieved. He turned out to be cool but I will NEVER forget that.

[@ceceprincess4758]

Couldn't be me

[@gunngangsta]

Stop looking for acceptance.

[@DarrylJordanofficial]

@@gunngangsta I was a kid fool! Besides, I made a difference in my neighborhood. We had to co-exist. We owned a home and were not going to move in the late 70s yes showing my age. I'm 52 old

[@DarrylJordanofficial]

@@ceceprincess4758 that is why the stars did not put you in that situation. I made a change for the neighborhood because I had the personality to do so. My parents and the parent of that girl praised me for being brave and straight forward. the other kids were looking at me like why are you going to that racist house. Ignored them. Then they started playing at the house.

[@gunngangsta]

@@DarrylJordanofficial I don’t care about your history! I call bs on your race baiting! Foh, lame.

[@jamiemitchell5110]

Sir! You are absolutely right when you say they’re going to pay for the way they treated us here in America. It’s coming sooner than we all think. GOD is not pleased & HE has given them plenty of time to correct their HATE!!!

[@frederickgriffith7004]

We can't save some of them from themselves anymore. If a Democracy means the sharing of ideas, power and resources they are willing to destroy it.That has been made clear over the last 40 years. But most of them are going to find out that the society they wish to create will never include them as well. The Oligarchs don't care.They will use America and Americans as their own piggy banks. They will extract the resources but will not invest in human capital, regardless of race. Minimal investment in human beings with the expectation of maximum returns.Oh they will give some of them the crumbs just like other non African American people just to keep the strategy of Divide and conquer alive and well. But the Oligarchs have a voracious appetite. They want more and more in return. But put even less and less back into the system.

[@shamenowisemen7152]

The Bible says there are the devil esau edom, we’re god chosen people that’s why they hate us

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

Guys don't check yours, so whats the problem. Like if the situation was reversed, you would have done the same thing to us. Pretty much see you're cruelty with all the countless wars in Africa and unspeakable atrocities.

[@lucasbrianna22]

@@yeahyeahwowman8099 tbh we taught your kind or people everything yall didn’t even know without any hate fyi…. Yall started the race WAR first.!!

[@DCCNA]

Its true. the book sundown towns explained this as well. My father told me about the north being far most racist than the south, but has more "law and order". Yet another reason for an anti black racism crime bill.

[@ronnieitaquab1008]

When they mean law and order..are they saying they just didn't allow the KKK to come there and openly march and throw dynamite into Black peoples homes I guess

[@dahliar410]

The north is not more racist you are delusional

[@ckh937610]

To be honest, it isn’t a matter of more or less, but it just manifests itself differently.

[@c.b.jersey7304]

@@ckh937610 Yes!!!

[@keithgray4891]

Yes, Jesse Lee Patterson, Ye, and Candace Owens, need to go to one of those Sundown Towns and then talk their BS?..

[@GalenJoyce-ff2cp]

We definitely don't claim either one of them.

[@c.b.jersey7304]

@@keithgray4891 Ha haaa exactly!

[@joshcoffman2303]

@@keithgray4891 show me proof they still exist I'm confused I understand what you all are trying to say all we see is these people driving to these towns we don't see the actual occurrences of a sundown town so if it is like this where's the proof where am I completely clueless and I was too stoned when I was watching this lol

[@joshcoffman2303]

@@keithgray4891 I lived in Northern Indiana my whole life and I can see what you're talking about but I've never experienced nothing like that or seen anything like that or even ever heard of anything like that I've heard of the KKK being around here and the headquarters for the KKK was in Columbia City

[@rogerleemeyzindi2979]

Add Larry Elder,Tim Scottr and all these C..k s...king samboes to your list bro!

[@pennydink72]

Sundown Town? 🤔 So you mean to tell me every year we pay state taxes to a state where we as black people cannot go to every city? Yet my tax money pays for their schools, roads, bridges, first responders? Sounds like the perfect case for reparations to me!

[@cheryldouglas8903]

It’s long overdue 👍🏽

[@GwendolynHawkins-p3d]

Thanks, brother for speaking the truth when it comes to freedom,,Only God can make you free!!!!

[@micpowers1136]

I don’t understand why these companies send black drivers to these sundown towns

[@RahYisrael99]

Why would they care? You must've never had a job before.

[@pamparker4047]

They don’t care about their drivers safety 😢😢😢😢

[@captainhawk8229]

I'm black and I go to these areas all the time. I've been trucking for years and never had a racist or bad experience. But my truck has been broken into in Baltimore as well as memphis "predominantly black cities" 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@c.b.jersey7304]

@@micpowers1136 I'm wondering don't these people want their deliveries, their cable serviced or whatever a black worker may need to come to their town to do? Do they think only white people will be sent? They need to let them know they need to learn how to treat all people that come to their town or they won't be receiving certain services they need and depend on. The mayor or governor needs to let them know. It's ridiculous you have to be afraid to do your job!

[@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564]

​@@RahYisrael99Exactly. They don't.

[@DC-Deezy]

I used to live in texas. I renember passing a area called vidor tx if you were black you avoided that place. I stopped miles out and a white man told me hey whatever u do dont stop there.

[@tonyjones1560]

I still have family in Texas, Houston specifically. Best believe, they aren’t trying to “fellowship” in Vidor or anywhere nearby LOL. “But if they come up here and act stupid, we get stupid with them.”

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

@@tonyjones1560no yall won’t

[@tonyjones1560]

@@olafharoldsonnii4713 Galena Park or the 5th Ward back in the day? FAFO

[@godschild2-yd3jy]

We need a resurgence of The Black Panther Party every state!!!!

[@canguskahn]

I would not fux with east TX. The police made a black traveling doctor disappear some years ago. Think it was Jasper, TX

[@78gbw]

I live around lots of racist neighbors in indiana but many of my amazon drivers are black. I just try to make them feel safe and appreciated when we have contact. Im sorry for her experience.

[@lorenzot5100]

I'm born and raised in St. Louis MO and lived in Illinois and boy Illinois out paced Missouri in my opinion for most racist sundown towns. I lived in many small towns there and feared for my life every day i was there until i moved to mich more progressive area. If you Google how many African Americans missing from Midwest I bet you Illinois or Wisconsin will beat out most Midwest big cities and towns. People think Illinois is blue...yeah but that's only Chicago area. The test of the state trend's Red and they are very fake and outright racist in Illinois. Stay Woke my people. If u need gas always fill up in large cities that are well lit. Avoid small towns altogether afterall look how many of them vote. They want your money not our melanin coming to their towns. I lived in the town where Jelani Day the educated brother who wanted to hangout with the white girls. Google it guys. Danville Illinois is where hes from but his remaining body parts were found in Peru IL in sundown town.

[@Nitabita_]

What’s crazy about this story is that he wasn’t far from Terre Haute, Indiana…there are a lot of black people there…whoever took him…didn’t want him found.

[@lorenzot5100]

@@Nitabita_ exactly. I believe law enforcement was apart of it too. Stay Woke!

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

Liberal means jack shit. Oregon was a sundown state. California has more sundown states than Alabama

[@lp3960]

I agree, but that's why you have the right to bear arms and defend yourself, lol. This ain't the 1920s. If someone's attempting to take your life, then they will be apart of the floor.

[@fcrowson6480]

Same here in Minnesota! Super "Liberal" in the twin cities area. But completely surrounded by RED. Also *very* fake personalities here as well.

[@AphrooneRichardson]

Foundational Black Americans Black Code: IT'S TIME TO #BOYCOTT FedEx forever! NO MORE TALK!

[@Vvrroommm]

Reparations for Slavery Excerpt Dr Claud Anderson of Powernomics and The Harvest Institute576p aa iAmBlackPlanet kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIXPnZuDbs6EsMU NEELY FULLER JR - ON REPARATIONS HIP HOP CARTOONS kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqfUioOofLh2hNE

[@j-us-t_be-in-g]

Boycott America...the world.

[@marktalbott3835]

I'm a 60 year old white dude. I grew up in Noblesville Indiana. 20 minutes north of Indianapolis. There was a Klan rally around the town square. 1977. Virtually every member of government in that town for the last 50 years was a member of the KKK. I worked at the street department, and I got a lesson on the racism that existed in my town. My parents moved up there from kentucky. They notice the difference in toxic racism. The northern clan was based in Central Indiana. The grand wizard had moved up from alabama. His last name was Stevenson. Really good buddies with the governor. This was the mid-1920s.

[@bryansimpson8694]

DC Stephenson was the law in state of Indiana during the 20s

[@qweezy219]

​@Soldiertilthedirtmost parts of Indiana is very safe sometimes depending on you... Sundown towns or not if you like or act like you always stand on business then you good in the bad lands/the ghetto/sundown...you just gotta worry about the crazy police presence sometimes that be on real bullshit,, especially if they county sheriff

[@Pawpawog969]

I really don’t want to go places were I’m not wanted, I’m to old to try to fit in were I don’t belong, and to be honest I don’t want to be around them anyway !! We as a community should have are own sundown towns!! I said what I said!!

[@neverettebrakensiek8771]

They do exist

[@YourAlcoholicUncle]

Most inner cities are sundown towns, in a way

[@idcook]

@@neverettebrakensiek8771 No, they don’t exist. There is no place in America where Blacks are supported by law if they act to refuse anyone access to anything outside of their homes.

[@Heavon1999]

We live where we are not wanted and that is the problem!!! This fcking country!

[@theurbanthirdhomestead]

Aren't those called inner cities? White flight is real, brother.

[@montizzlefoshizzle7131]

Yup you're right. The whole entire country is sundown from what I've experienced the last 12 years, the main reason I keeps one on me and a bigger one in the truck. These people don't scare me..

[@johnnywebb2351]

Agreed 💯 👍🏾

[@shermanbrown2539]

Young Brother You Have Renewed My Faith In The Young Of Our People To Move Foward Courageously !!! Thank You !!!

[@ryanjackson9010]

Absolutely and thank you so much!!!! I appreciate you. Much respect!!!!

[@deborahjohnson9764]

Thank you thank you thank you for speaking the truth in 2024 not a damn thing has changed in my lifetime and I'm 70 years old wake up my people you sleep and wake up your vote don't count never did thank you my black brother.

[@Thadopeera]

Well we have our own Sundown town here called East Oakland California. And here we return the hospitality 💯

[@RAPSNINO]

As WE SHOULD IN EVERY HOOD ACROSS AMERICA!✊🏾

[@dahliar410]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@blkwarriorspirit5528]

Not really. Oaktown getting gentrified too. Times have changed from 30 years ago. And I got family posted all over Oaktown. California is damn near totally gentrified. ✌🏿

[@anthonyosburn3786]

I remember when east Oakland was predominantly black.

[@desmondmarshall7384]

​@@blkwarriorspirit5528like the movie The Last Black Man In San Francisco.

[@jeronronnunkoffunk4691]

Hey, how are you doing? Brother great segment. I am currently a Detroit resident have been since the 1980s, but I was also raised in Lansing Michigan and in a little town outside of Lansing call Holt you are absolutely right. I saw Moore racism issues and different areas of Detroit And that area but I remember exactly what you’re talking about how Dearborn was so racist because I remember my dad back in the 1980s complaining about driving through there anyhow great podcast. This is on point, you have spoken many truths never mind getting off course of a subject because it all ties into it as you said sundown towns are result of the very things for which you said America we see it’s downfall and suffer. Thank you, brother peace and blessings man.

[@tinawalker5833]

You are absolutely correct. Sundown towns are all over the US. They never went away. I have traveled all over the US and can testify to this. They are not just in the south!!

[@themanifestorsmind]

I saw the map he's talking about, and there are very few sundown towns in the South compared to the midwest. Especially the Deep South really doesn't have many sundown towns.

[@johnnywebb2351]

​@themanifestorsmind 😂😂that's bc the whole south is sun down

[@themanifestorsmind]

@johnnywebb2351 that is what the media would have you to believe. But the south isn't really like that. Racism is very subtle down here. But it actually makes sense that the sundown towns are up north and in the midwest. Black people have been in the south since the colonial days. We've always lived here. We've always been around. But during the Great Migration, black people started moving up north and out west in droves. The white folks didn't want us there. They wanted to keep their white towns white.

[@johnnywebb2351]

@@themanifestorsmind thanks for the update

[@AnomalyBelleza]

Wow! Thank you for making this video! This is a topic and issue that I don’t think ppl realize for deliverers. I deliver for Amazon. While I have not yet encountered such a thing, I think about the existence of this issue for drivers.

[@Comfy8443]

Please stay out of Oklahoma small towns. My son started doing delivery for Amazon Flex and I decided for safety reasons to go on these deliveries with him to outside Tulsa Ok area. We delivered as far as Locus Grove, Muskogee, and as close as Mounds Ok. No person of color is safe in any small town in Oklahoma. Do not stop in any these towns not even for snacks. The death stares are real. We experienced dogs being left on property outside and the customers knew we were making deliveries. Dont take what he saying for granted. Stay prayed up and keep them eyes and ears open.

[@hysyon543]

Wow! 😮 52 years old and I didn’t realize Sundown towns still exist. Not that I haven’t experienced racism, but I was fortunate to grow up in one of the first free African American communities in Ohio. Sheltered, I guess. My question to our government is…,if you are not prepared to pay reparations that you cannot deny is owed, how can you be so free as to send mad money you claim you don’t have to other countries? That much is fiercely obvious to me. The whole concept of $ is a joke. No human being needs to be poor. Those with the power are greedy and use $ to control those without. Just like Medieval times. Still, those closest to God know that Karma is on their heels. 😂🎉

[@terrilynwoodfin8980]

My daughter worked in Hercules, California. She said when she would be waiting on the bus in the afternoons/ early evening people would be looking at her like, “what she doing here?” Little did we know, that area including Pinole were sundown towns. Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa…

[@getoffmygrass4857]

Yeah it's all over California honestly people just act like it doesn't exist.

[@pamwhipple7580]

My black aunt lived in Hercules Ca!

[@freedomdude5420]

​@getoffmygrass4ff857 fear of the second civil right movement.

[@terrilynwoodfin8980]

@@pamwhipple7580 did she experience racism?

[@pamwhipple7580]

@@terrilynwoodfin8980 not to my knowledge

[@sp-sc2lh]

Damn you gotta be bad to beat out Mississippi 😮😮

[@rbgalldayeveryday]

You're right about Sun down towns and we gotta be very careful!

[@dicktracy5234]

Yes the hood !

[@RealityRenegade-bv2ww]

THEY better be careful. A lot of us come from heavy military families. I'm one of those.

[@Rover757]

​me too

[@peterdavis8471]

​@@RealityRenegade-bv2wwExactly but they don't think like that until it's too late

[@electrowayne2918]

Coming from a military family means nothing.. I live in illinois. The law, the community and odds will be on their side. You won’t make it outta there. Paris illinois has a story about a situation about this. Happened years ago.. let’s just say the brotha vanished and the “law” definitely didn’t look or find him. I come from a heavy military family as well .

[@keshiamartin5188]

Love the channel I experience racial profiling in Warren, Mi. Born and raised in Detroit, Mi. Racism is still alive and well even in 2024 you are right.

[@ryanjackson9010]

@keshiamartin5188 thank you sister!!! I appreciate you.

[@villainsarentborntheyremade]

Being a black man from Kansas of all places…I looked up sundown towns and Kansas has the most.

[@MrPuma4]

Don't forgot Pennsylvania especially in the middle of the state. The long standing joke was that you have Pittsburgh on the one side and Philadelphia on the other, with ALABAMA RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE..

[@ryanjackson9010]

@@MrPuma4 I've heard that before.

[@MichaelSmith-qc7nk]

​@ryanjackson9010 Many from those Mid west SUNDOWN towns claim that they had nothing to do with Slavery, some say their parents came over much later thru Ellis Island.

[@Lupo32]

New York state specifically upstate new york is considered the Alabama of the north

[@jakinthebox7309]

⁠​⁠@@Lupo32 Oh Hell Yeah!!! Western New York, but don’t leave out parts of Long Island.

[@jaktil9246]

Have you been to erie pa

[@jsutigers8954]

I kno a female that moved to Ms. - she told me she faced more racism in a Seattle Suburb than during her time in Ms.....

[@skylynx121]

As a people...we shouldn't be letting anyone tell us where we can and cannot go!! If you drive through one of those towns, and someone disrespects you, you check them real quick and let them know you aren't standing for their disrespect and make sure youre strapped!! Stop letting these people run you out of a country that is ours too!!

[@BSOG3]

Makes sense. However, keep in mind that these people will kill you with impunity and their system of judicial justice will leave you nothing but dead or life in prison for what they will declare as murder. My uncle was a full fledged sheriff in uniform and wound up in a sundown town on a mission to pick up a prisoner to transport to another state. He went to the county jail, IN POLICE UNIFORM, and the racist cops there not only made him wait 24 hours to get the prisoner. White men kicked in the door at his hotel and shot up his room! He managed to get out of it but the incident traumatized him for life. He did go back to the jail to get the prisoner, who was white by the way, only to be laughed at by the cops. They gave him the prisoner who was a 21 year old white guy. The guy told my uncle he was tortured by those white guys and was eternally grateful that my uncle was transporting him. Don't check these backwards minded demons. Be safe!

[@gamblinhurn1]

@@BSOG3 Exactly, they getting away with murder everyday in Amerikkka. This was so messed up on so many levels. Why would they send your uncle alone in the first place?😠 You got to realize they know where these happen, they don't think we know. The movie Green Book kind of gives some ideas of the scenarios we've had to deal with & truth be told, still are🙄🤨😠🙏🏽

[@boydbay6274]

Realistically,do what you need to do, but you need to understand that the law Sheriffs and the police are involved with this. Best to not be in these areas at all. As someone speaking from experience. You're dealing with a 50\50 situation, at best.

[@skylynx121]

You make a good point. I totally agree.​@@BSOG3

[@BSOG3]

@@gamblinhurn1 They transport non-violent offenders alone quite frequently. I think he was under the false assumption that because he was in uniform driving a state issued car, the cops would be fraternal and "officer to officer" cool, like they usually are. Even the racist cops usually respect another man in uniform. Unfortunately, this time he was wrong about that. He said the white kid kept thanking him over and over. My uncle could have just left and got out of there but he said something told him to get the prisoner regardless. The crazy thing is he went to get the guy in broad daylight and they were acting crazy from the beginning. He had to fire his weapon in the hotel room to protect himself so he had to fill out a report about what happened. When the issue was investigated by their internal investigation they claimed he never checked into the hotel, even though they had run his state issued credit card for the room. A room that they shot up and he never stayed in for more than a couple of hours. They're insane.

[@Almighty5-ww1kl]

Indiana is not liberal it’s very conservative

[@johnnealis6826]

Still voted for Obama gave us Pence and Buttrrans Sec.

[@natelynn5774]

That wasn’t his point. Was pointing out that systemic racism exists everywhere

[@emms6724]

Sonya Massey was from Springfield Illinois this just gave me chills.

[@demondtaylor88]

Most of these racialized killings of black people happen in the Midwest

[@Bre884]

This, gentlemen is on point about those areas he named in this video. I remember what happened to the young black male, truck driver, in Indiana. He was found inside the back of his truck trailer hung . Only 25, years old . Police say, it had been a struggle inside his sleeping area . This area was a Sun- Down Town . Sad !😢😢😢😢😢. There's no way this illegal activity is still allowed in this country. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@emzywillrich7243]

Here in Texas today, a white official complained about "Trash" coming into his city from the transit system.

[@ryanjackson9010]

@emzywillrich7243 that sounds about White. What city in Texas was this?

[@TheRecReport]

Raised in Massachusetts and there's definitely lots of anti Black behavior

[@badgirlhollywood9741]

The whole country is anti black

[@thor0270]

Boston especially!

[@TheVegan15]

@@thor0270still? I was born and raised in Boston had to get away from there. I heard things have changed. My relatives seem to love Boston🤔

[@thor0270]

@@TheVegan15 Yes. Still to this day it’s a r@cist city. Even though they got an Asian American female mayor now to make it seem like it’s not.

[@endtimes9763]

Please come to a Saving Knowledge of Spiritual Matters (Ep 6:12)

[@welder9163]

I'll enjoy my Freedom. $1800 a month from unemployment. Another 900 for rent. Another 1000 side hustle. I refuse to be a slave. Work the systems like They work you!!

[@missmorena1049]

Yeah the system that helps us!! You won’t find that system anywhere our people are in power.

[@BrainsBeautyandCommonSense]

Be careful in Ohio, too. The three ks are in Canton, and Amherst was a sundown town. I don’t trust a former sundown town.

[@ironknightgaming5706]

“Former”

[@ckh937610]

Canton at about 25% black and with 70,000 people(about 18,000 black people) has a klan presence?

[@corycanada2683]

I need to know these towns I’m in Ohio from KY

[@BrainsBeautyandCommonSense]

⁠ bear in mind they say they’re not come downtown anymore, but I will be very careful, especially at night included part of town. Amherst, Avon, Avon Lake, Canton, any city with Canton in the name. Be cautious in Grove City and the little towns around Columbus. Watch around Cincinnati, too. To be honest, Ohio (Michigan, Illinois, and around Seneca and upstate New York, too) is littered with little pockets where you can get hemmed up. Be careful of highway exits where there are no chain stores, chain gas stations, or chain restaurants.

[@BrainsBeautyandCommonSense]

@@ckh937610Yep, nowadays, they stay pretty quiet. People don’t want to lose their job over who they are at home.

[@bobbullethalf]

You can also add Oregon to that list also. Anything outside of Eugene is a problem.

[@ckh937610]

Or NE Portland.

[@SteezeePicasso]

R.i.p. Sonya Massey | They told us not to get off the Greyhound in South Dakota

[@fairness2all]

I'm in Columbus, Ohio, it's very racist. According to Google racist comments and searches Ohio is the 2nd racist state. West Virginia is #1 with most racist comments.

[@ckh937610]

Columbus, a city that has a black mayor and about 28% black? I know racism is everywhere, but I’ve never heard that about the city of Columbus.

[@realbrown3723]

​@@ckh937610 Just because a city has a large black population does not mean it isn't extremely racist. Remember the plantations? Look at L.A. and K.C.

[@realbrown3723]

@@fairness2all Ohio is a racist and awful State PERIOD. If I had to get to New York by land, I would drive through Michigan to Canada or through Virginia before I would drive through OHIHO.

[@missadventure3397]

Sounds about right. We moved into an Irish part of Queens NY in the early 80s. I clearly remember all the mothers grabbing their kids out of the pool as soon as me and my sister went in to swim. That was New York City and I was only 6 at the time. I can recount many other incidents up through 2017, when I left. Currently in Virginia, but it’s expected here.

[@jaktil9246]

Racist people tend to have dark energy

[@j-us-t_be-in-g]

I live in Lincoln Square in Chicago, and the white women are scared of me. There were many instances where I'm behind them and they would keep an eye on me. They think as a black man or just black person that I have an anger problem, which is very far from it. This is a predominantly white neighborhood I live in. I'm only here because my place is cheap as hell.

[@marshallmotorfreight9547]

I'm a Black man, and I've lived in Wisconsin for over 25 years. I've been driving truck 98% of the time within the midwest for 20 years. I've never experienced what most would call "racism" nor discrimination. So, it really comes down to personal experience really.

[@jackiechun5817]

@marshallmotorfreight9547 I think it comes down to your phenotype,your looks(like if you look close to eurocentric standards or you look very sub suharan), luck of the draw, and WHO you just so happen to encounter. Either way, there's definitely a lot of raycist folks in THOSE places.😒💯💯💯💪🏾🧔🏾‍♂️

[@missmorena1049]

I’ve experienced it from my OWN! Being called darkie etc. I’m happy that I’m in a decent neighborhood (if you know what I mean). I run and the only time I got targeted was by young so called brothers, they threw a can of soda on me and I won’t even say what they was screaming

[@jt3409]

@@jackiechun5817true, I also think that it comes down to chance. For some black people they say that they’ve never experienced racism. But, that’s like saying “it’s raining but, I didn’t get wet!” When in reality the person probably did get wet, they just didn’t feel anything.

[@lindaj2960]

We used to call Michigan, Mi-Mississippi. It was so segregated until maybe the 2010’s. Blacks have moved to suburban Detroit but not to the smaller towns up north or the UP.

[@ckh937610]

Marquette had some due to the Air Force Base. You have some in Baldwin/Idlewild and a few other nearby towns.

[@Itzvinnyboii]

I see some black people in the u.p when I go up there not a lot like other cities but a few in iron mountain, Menominee and Marquette

[@lynnjenkins8732]

Well the hurricane just watched out a bunch of sundown towns in North Carolina, so there is a God😂😂

[@VtooSmooth]

Great video my brotha. We must demand reparations. It's WAY past due. They owe us ! We need to come up with a plan to get what we are owed

[@yxnghexed]

In my humble white opinion and in my experience I feel like down south there ain’t as much racism as there is up north and in the Midwest I grew up in Baton Rouge and visited Detroit and just seeing the difference in race dynamic was crazy to me

[@ironknightgaming5706]

As someone who also lives in metro Detroit I agree with you. Was harassed by cops for literally no reason multiple times. Livonia MI. It got so bad they even had to put up a giant building warning black drivers that they would be pulled over and racially profiled. Look it up.

[@mikel.5850]

Anyone that thinks racism was disappeared as for themselves and I’m white and it’s out there. We have not become any more lightened or better behaved. We just need to learn to love one another leave each other alone. I feel sorry for a lot of the delivery people of color or even people working behind the counterin stores because the abuse is wrong it shouldn’t be tolerated. Our world is so full of hate and all you can do is try to spread a little kindness and pray and thank you for the reminder about the vitamin D. Stay safe drink your fluids and pray every day.

[@j-us-t_be-in-g]

No. People need to stop hating blacks. I receive the same treatment as those drivers. It's not about everyone getting along. It's about everyone getting along with blacks.

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

Go and give a crap when everyone admits they are racist. Like especially in America anytime this topic comes up, we always go to the default setting of white. Pretty much any other race being racist, usually just gets glossed over, or not even mentioned, it took asian people to finally call out the 100+ asian women that got attacked by black people blaming them for covid.

[@LeonNobles]

And this is America. An eye for an eye.

[@Vvrroommm]

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[@potentially__9445]

PERIOD!!!!!!

[@totw41]

It's like they are afraid of defending themselves.

[@LeonNobles]

@@totw41 not enough of the right fire power.

[@Bre884]

@@LeonNobles Yes, and God, will bring their own recompense back upon them !

[@TheVegan15]

You spoke nothing but the truth. Subscribed! Give us our reparations💰

[@ryanjackson9010]

Thank you and appreciate you.

[@Almighty5-ww1kl]

Dnt forget Missouri

[@JunkerDriver999]

Last year I drove from Memphis to Omaha Nebraska. I made the biggest mistake driving thru central Missouri. Cabool Missouri is miserable. All the way from Jonesboro Arkansas to Kansas City is a sundown area.

[@peterdavis8471]

Yes indeed true facts so sad 😢😢😢

[@thestrengthreport7517]

If anyone is familiar with the Navy Seal and Social Media personality David Goggins. He talks about his time growing up in Brazil, Indiana during the late 80’s and early 90’s. And how the racism was an everyday thing for him in his small town with neighbors and friends. He claims that those same people denied those accounts when he talked about it in his book. But he stated it was a mental war every single day.

[@mellozappa583]

Yup!! Those malls in the burbs of Detroit were crazy business back in 80's and 90s . Worst part is; people kept going

[@Alisa-b4u]

You are definitely on point, thank you for sharing your story, your thoughts and your experiences, I just subscribed- we appreciate you ❤

[@ryanjackson9010]

@user-zw9ki6lk5t Thank you very much!!! I appreciate you, too.

[@steverich136]

You make a good point about the economics of racism. We do have to get our own stuff.

[@ruckes13]

Yes,i am in Detroit and an Uber and Lyft driver. I dread gping to all of those places you named. And Bloomfield Hills is horrible as well. 😐😐. And i dont drive at night anymore.

[@ranajohnson9995]

Yep I would be so nervous doing DoorDash downriver

[@MomTube-i9w]

Oceans of blessings y'all ❤❤❤❤

[@Eradeye]

Integration split our communities up. I am for segregation but we must clean up our communities and stick together and raise our family.

[@RealityRenegade-bv2ww]

Bruh, you can't be serious. Segregate and go where with what?? Think before you type stupid shit. With what resources to initiate anything? Bruh, stop playing. I'm accountable for me and mine, not the collective, just like EVERYBODY else.

[@360conscience]

I agree that Springfield Illinois is a sundown town. Sonya Massey R.I.P .

[@ironknightgaming5706]

I was just thinking this.

[@noslavementalitynosellout6174]

*Thanks for exposing racism in Midwest etc you right its very bad they get mad when expose them trying to be vindictive SMH you right*

[@Nitabita_]

Indiana has never been liberal….so not sure where “liberal Indiana” came from,..I grew up in one of the small towns in Indiana that was “accepting” of black people but Indiana 💯% racist for the most part. There are no parts of Indiana fully accepting of black people except maybe Hammond, Marion, East Chicago,..but they consider themselves part of Chicago even though they are part of the Indiana side. One of the founding members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc was born in my hometown, Dr. Marcus Peter Blakemore. My hometown, does have a rich black history and community. I’d be happy to share more.

[@ryanjackson9010]

@Nitabita_ my bad for confusing Indiana, with Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

[@donmckee90]

Franklin in the house....lol

[@Jblow-u2m]

Please do. I know I'm interested.😊

[@Dimi374]

Always avoided South Bend, Valparaiso, and Terre Haute.

[@MichaelSmith-qc7nk]

​@@ryanjackson9010remember what *(Kumba YAH !!) really mean my bro.

[@thelastafrican802]

I appreciate your candor.

[@staywell7217]

Is there a website with these sundown town listings? These are actually zombie towns, because that is what WS are.

[@joanb7180]

You’re right it’s not surprising of racism in the north. I’m from Alabama and have experienced racism and very aware of driving in different towns even during the daylight. I experienced a severe form of racism out of Asheville NC, resulting in legal situation. I’ve also experienced racism in upstate New York. As a black female retired from nursing and military, racism is very much alive and prevalent!

[@EarthOceanMoon]

This brutha ain't lyin.. I'm from Gary, Indiana born and bred; which is about 30 minutes from Chicago for context. Most areas in the Midwest outside of the ones that have a sizable black population are very clannish and racist. We many SDT's in Indiana.. Kouts, Rensellear, Shelbyville, Crown Point, Evansville, ect....

[@chrswrld_3321]

I’ve done deliveries throughout Illinois for years and never had any problems besides the “I’ve never seen a black person before” looks. I’ve been in many of these places at night and never really felt unsafe. There are stories however like Jelani Day, The Uof I student who’s body was found in the Illinois river, that are suspicious as hell.

[@k.thayerhardy520]

Located 7.6 miles from Detroit as straight as the crow flies, Dearborn, Michigan is not only the largest Arab-majority City in the U.S. (as of 2023) but also the largest source of protest regarding the Israeli government's treatment of non-combatants in war-torn Palestine.

[@CorneliusHinton-y2l]

Pa most definitely have some sundown town as well

[@jaktil9246]

Have you been to erie pa

[@ckh937610]

@@jaktil9246Erie is about 20% black and has some Hispanics. Plus, it is a city of about 100,000 people. So, I don’t think it is a Sundown Town.

[@jaktil9246]

@@ckh937610 how is it there

[@Brookins360]

I'm a merchandiser in michigan and I remember my job sent me up to East Tawas for a afternoon shift. My first stop was this mom and pop grocery store right next to lake Huron. When I walked in those people look at me like they seen a ghost. I was ready to walk out til the store manger power walked out of office to me and showed me to backroom where my order was at. Funny thing is that it was winter time so I had a regular coat so you couldn't see the uniform of the company I work for but somehow he knew actually who I was. My job set me up that day. Literally called the store and told them a black man is coming to work the truck load there smh. But from how they acted East Tawas is definitely a sundown town

[@kelvinshorter2990]

...and still no need for a h8 crime bill

[@HighKicks2yaTeef]

Tauren Reign Reloaded has an excellent series on sundown towns!

[@ironknightgaming5706]

Excellent video. I have bad experiences in Livonia MI too. Still just as bad in 2024

[@gmw1635]

We definitely have some in Michigan

[@barrytruesdell1893]

Forrester's Of America Bar.Columbia Pennsylvania.Black Delivery Drivers NOT Allowed All Packaging Take To The Back. I Lived Across The Street

[@hendrsb33]

Reminds me of a Dick Gregory joke about the difference between being Black in the North and South... In the South, you get can get close (to whites) as long as you don't get too big In the North, you can get big as long as you don't get too close

[@chrisfinley5529]

you got it backwards dummy

[@jeffsmith8065]

I live in Southfield Michigan, he's not lying about Livonia and Novi is bad also!

[@boydbay6274]

To be honest, ifyou check, you'll find numerous sundown towns in every State.

[@michaelamaestas4950]

This is real , really real

[@A_Kingdom_Well]

I live in the midwest , we just know certain towns are off limits to stop for gas.

[@ryanjackson9010]

Absolutely.

[@cincin9509]

The world would be a boring place if everyone were the same! Vote 💙 for our kids and grandkids!

[@anthonykirk9174]

The Midwest is way more racist than the South. Over 50% of black people live in the South. Black people even live in the Mountains in the South. The Midwest and the West Coast only have about 10 % black people. So, there are plenty of places you won't find black people in the Midwest and on the West Coast.

[@Nitabita_]

#1 reason I moved to the south. While my entire family lives up north, I am alarmed by the sheer number of people who just refuse to move back down south. Growing up in the north, living in the south for 4 years...I just don't ever see myself going back up north. Even though racism looks different now then back in the 50's and 60's I could never see myself moving back up North knowing the more violent nature of northerners now.

[@YADAMNDADDY]

​@Nitabita_ you aint from the south. Go back up north

[@eazymoneymane7789]

I from texas and I agree the Midwest and new York is more racist than the south, im a truck driver and i experienced more encounters even in Oregon

[@hashimx1959]

What is wrong with my people. When are you gonna wake up? This is actually still a conversation?

[@dahliar410]

In the North, new york, we naturally seperate ourselves from those crazy people. Why would you want to live amongst them with their history??

[@freedomdude5420]

You sus.🤨

[@niyanyc3242]

Lol😂

[@pocu321]

I am white. My daughter is biracial. We went home to Illinois to visit my parents in Illinois. They took us to a bbq joint in Anna, Illinois. My daughter is 17 but she's so small she probably looked around 15 at that time. The look these white men gave her, particularly one, were beyond belief. I normally do not like confrontation but I locked my stare on this one guy who kept cracking comments to his friends and looking at my daughter. If anything was worth going to jail for, this situation would have merited it and I was ready. He didn't say anything to her directly or me when he saw me staring at him but that's because many if not most white men I have met in my life from that area are complete cowards. They can't be brave unless their friends surround them and they feel like their friends are co-signing. I do not know what my father would have done if something had been said. My father is kind of crazy. But I will never forget it and I made up excuses after that to never return to Anna with my kids when my parents wanted to take us to eat there.

[@edwardfletcher8158]

yep Anna , Illinois has a bad history of rascim for decades. Actually all of Illinois except the city Chicago

[@lorrainekennedy5762]

This is insane i caant believe this, i was reading reddit and found out that america has these towns and i mean over the border here in Canada, i dont think ive ever seen anything close to America's racisim.

[@wandak1889]

The majority of the State Prison in IL in Sundown Towns. I’m in Chicago and we have Sundown Town 1 mile away from Chicago boarder. Cicero,IL is notorious and MLK said it back in 67. The most angriest MOBBS was in Cicero, IL. It’s 2024 and they still will pull you over for nothing.