Pain and terror: America remembers its past
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- More than 4,300 men, women and children were lynched by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. As America’s first memorial and museum dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people opens in Montgomery, Alabama, Guardian US chief reporter Ed Pilkington meets founder and racial justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson
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I didn't humanism was an opinion, I learned it was a philosophy.
Maybe you need some Wes Cecil?
I've spotted a big hole in your ludicrous argument, Archie. It seems like you're still able to write your complete drivel on this version.
I can't wait for the guardian to go bankrupt after BREXIT..it will be sweet karma
You know what would be a good follow up on this... a look into what happened to and where the families are of these victims. How held back they were, or how this heinous act held them back too.
I guess you prefer ignorance...
I think the more a country assesses and reflect the darker sides of their history, the better. Brushing it under the rug isn't a good idea.
Eoghan O'Leary Fitzpatrick like how Islamic nations brush ottoman colonialism under the rug???
joe farmer hey, I don't know.. Probably? Not too well versed on ottoman history! :) but I'll take it that you somewhat agree with my point? :)
There comes a point when you need to let go ! I'm pretty sure that time has been over looked , and 99 percent of Americans obviously knows this happened and have moved forward with normal human progress and there is the 5 percent that holds on this past refusing to progress with the rest of society . If a ten year old can see a rope hanging in a seafood restaurant wall and indentify it for purposes of lynchings instead of a rope used for the maste sail of the ship then clearly that's an individual prespective of there life and what they choose to comprehend things with in the case of this monument it's the author that is showing his prespective on life it doesn't represent anything else unless you accept his vision , if it gone no one would see his thoughts and they get to move forward beyond the past . This serves no other purpose but advertising we don't want to let the others move forward. The more you keep it alive the less we can progress cause evidently they can't . There is no reason to hold onto this type of negative intentions of people who can't move forward , don't drag the rest of America into this non progress , you need help if this is holding you back in life !
Rich Buddy I agree ! It's like an alcoholic saying one last bottle , wait just one more ! Can I have the last bottle .
This monument Force's every to see ! Are you seeing beauty and progress ? Or are you seeing someone that is holding on to vision of a hundred years ago .. today's employer's do the same thing , stand around they dock your pay see the progress ?
If you don't like the memorial, you don't have to go see it. The privilege of being able to ignore injustices that haven't affected you.
Jon Doe Who said we don’t have jobs?
Tom Haflinger
You are one THEM
WUT
Adrian Benavides
True
Tom Haflinger
You are one of THEM
I want to see this monument in person. Deeply moving! Grateful for these historians making sure this isn't forgotten
From enslavement to mass incarceration.
Python Papi got to love those democrats ey
Python Papi if one gets caught committing a crime its on them and no one else. Skin color doesn't matter. People need to be held responsible for their bad decisions and criminal acts.
1WildlandFirefighter The criminal justice system is not fair and equal to Black, and Hispanic people. White people get less time for the same crimes they committed.
Michael Roberts This would be a much better country if that lie was true don't be foolish, skin color matters in the U.S.
Looking in from the outside, the US discriminates against skin colour. Deny opportunity because of skin colour. Mass incarceration has been proven to be because of skin colour. US voted in an openly racist president who took the country back one hundred years. The implosion is going to be ugliest thing ever seen.
Please take an example on Germany working up their own history! They are doing it the right way and showing respect to the people their ancestors killed!
Shaun O'Brien Could you please explain that ?
Shaun O'Brien I have no clue what you are talking about I live in Germany myself and I don't know which group you are talking about
Shaun O'Brien I don't understand you at all what are you talking about ? What guilt ? Could you please explain what you are meaning because I think you are just talking rubbish.
Shaun O'Brien Butthurt Racist.
Good job Luc :)
This memorial honors the lives of over 4000 people who died from lynching and touches on so much more. They did a beautiful job in it's construction and it's a good thing that it is being shared. We never had to walk in these individuals shoes or experience there terror. At the end of the day none of us would have wanted for our final moments to be so terrifying and cold. People will and have forgiven but they should never forget American history if we wish to do better in our future. Let go of the hate, comparisons, politics and who is right or wrong for a moment and just learn.
*honoUr
America doesn't remember the past.....if it was the case it would teach the true horrors of these events
Jon Doe We need to tell the horrors done by their ancestors and perpetrated on their people as to not repeat history. The rest of your comment is racist nonsense I won’t delve into.
This museum shows America is on the right path at facing its racist past. Trump should be invited to attend this museum. Maybe it would open his mind, or heart, to have compassion for other's not like him. I know that's asking allot.
I agree with you, but Trump would not care ,
he hasno empathy for anyone. He is a racist
he learned it from his father
Jon Doe..talk about irony
Excuse John Doe, he's just stupid.
Like Eddie Griffin said, "they're so racist they're stupid."
Jon Doe
Would you speak to a French person who can't understand any other language in English and expect him or her to get it?
Why would you expect people to make intelligent statements as a form of debating you, although you've only made statements that lead to the conclusion that you're stupid? If you're not expected to understand, why expect the effort from others?
Jon Doe..EVERY BLACK PERSON THAT WAS SHOT BY A COP WAS RESISTING & FIGHTING? TAMIR RICE WAS RESISTING & FIGHTING? PHILANDO CASTILE WAS RESISTING & FIGHTING? ERIC GARNER?! THAT'S RACIST! Sad thing is you don't even realize or you don't even care..you're doin' what the police do..you are profilin' based off of your irrational fear's bc of what you see on fox news, hear from trump or see on 'a rap video' from a record label THAT'S OWNED BY SOMEONE THAT LOOK'S LIKE YOU! Who prolly' has a eugenic's agenda!
As an African American, wouldn’t you love to meet your ancestor(s) that survived that journey on the bottom of a slave ship. Wouldn’t it bring you to your knees in tears. I often wonder who they were; what tribe, what country, what language they spoke, what religion they practiced. I pray to God to meet them in the bye ‘n bye. Bet they wanna see me too.
The wall waterfall is probably my most favorite part of the memorial. The wall says:
“For the many whose names will never be known. They are all honored here.”
And you can hear the water everywhere you go when you walk the grounds. As if they’re saying “they will never be silenced again.” Omg… just writing that made me weep. I bet you anything that’s why they did the waterfall. So they will never be a nameless nothing in silence EVER again! Oh my heart!! The Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum are #1 on my bucket list. I HAVE TO go see if I find my family’s name from the county which my father was born in Mississippi. It has by far the most recorded lynchings of any state in America. There’s only 3 generations that’s separate me from slavery because my father was so much older than me (he was 56 when I was born and he was born in 1929). So if I remember correctly, his grandparents were slaves that worked for a house. My Papa died when I was 7 and all his family is gone by now, so I’ve done DNA and everything I can to find out my father’s history. I hope I don’t find out family name there, but regardless if I do or not, I HAVE TO go honor all the victims and pay my deepest, sincerest respects to each and every steel slab. We must NEVER forget. Never.
Can someone forward this video to Kanye and then speak to him about choice in America.
Ronald James He knows. He does not care.
@@amethyst0285 ,No! He don't.
Send it to Candace Owen's as well.
He's running for president now
He’s bipolar, it wouldn’t make a difference
This is horrific. Walk in their shoes and see how it feels....
Billie Holiday spoke about the horrors of Lynchings in her song "Strange Fruit"!!
A lot of thought was put into this memorial. Truly incredible
This is one of the reasons they no longer teach history in school, so that past stays unknown.
Kanye needs to be slapped for saying "Slavery was a choice"...he needs to review his black history and watch documentaries like this. This was very good to watch
It was a choice
@Drex Your Ex So you are saying Kanye is wrong?
I really want to go visit this. Glad we have people working to make us feel with out past.
The denial and backlash in this comment sectionis staggering. I use to look up to Americans and think "these people are so progressive thinking". But now the more I learn about US history, the more grateful I am to just stay in Malaysia.
We sure as hell have never practiced slavery.
Sol Usman Its good to know people like you around the world is learning the true Dark history of the United States. I'm Black American BTW.
A beautiful country Malaysia but it's history isn't peacefull . The different people living in the past fought each other. Prisoners of war ( man and women) were used for forced labour (slavery) or just killed. Was the islamification really peacefull ? The english coloniser brought unity.
Nowadays we can life in peace ,independent, and we should be gratefull for this.
Don't make the mistake of generalisations and simplifications; not all American have the same opinions or idea's.
Ikr i felt the same way when I was younger, everyone wanted to live in the US but now, I'd rather stay here in africa
You might want to look a little harder into malaysia's history surrounding slavery before looking down on another country.
@@barta9342 a POW is not the same as chattel slavery.
Someone needs to show Kanye West this asap
History should be known in its entirety whether it be good or bad. This is how we progress this is where we find foundation. To keep denying these voices from being heard, the screams will just come in other forms like earthquakes, wild fires and other natural disasters. Keep spilling blood and feel there is no consequence, keep closing your eyes for the lax of western life.. Your eyes will be forced open when you have to drink from the same violent cup. If we were any other people we would find mercy and empathy. God remember these people that had no pity on your inheritance, don't forget us even as we forget in our drunken stupor of this wicked nation.
My heart goes to ever person that suffered may God bless thier souls
I would love to know if any of those people who took their children to see the lynching are they still living and if so how did they feel then and now?
Probably all DEAD but the children 9 times out of 10 turned out to be as HATEFUL and as RACISTS as their parents. The 🍎usually NEVER falls far from the tree.
Very well spoken, thanks for the video.
this is called history repeating itself, you don't get it, these people have been watching every thing you do .
Still happening in the courtroom and department of injustice.
Such a beautiful memorial. A horrible monstrosity in our country, where answers have still not been found. I was profoundly affected by this memorial and encourage all people, all races, to visir. If you are not moved, something is terribly wrong.
You have a private organization making a claim of 4300 plus lynchings, and you accept unquestioningly. I think most of us can accept that not everyone that was executed by the U.S. justice system was guilty of the crime that they were convicted of...but it's very difficult to argue that all of them were just innocent people in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Justice denied is a terrible thing, but let's not conflate those who were truly victims of racially motivated lynchings with those who were executed by mob justice. At one time in history, and today in many parts of Africa, mob justice was the way in which justice was carried out.
America’s past?? America’s present!!
I'm so glad this museum has been constructed to honor all the men and women and children who perished in the wake of this reign of terrorism. We talk about other countries and their barbaric practices but refuse to acknowledge those which took place on the very soil we stand on. Its about time. I hope to get there sooner than later. As a Hispanic woman I have personally witnessed and experienced my own facet of discrimination and racism and yes it needs to be addressed... everyday.
Well, some people see racism in everything...ya big baby.
Such Eloquence ! He has some magic in his speech and choice of words
Rest In Peace beautiful souls, may your soul be at ease and let us never as a nation treat someone else of a different color as less human please respect each other
"Respect each other"...sounds like a good idea, but if they are a conservative, let's destroy their business's and their personal lives and if they attend a rally with a view point that is different than ours...let's bash their heads in.
The past? There were numerous lynching between 2015-2020
4400 lynching? That number sounds kinda low.
Hey Kanye... You need to watch this... You big dummy.
Great story!!! I'm glad too. 😇😇😇
Excellent video!
They need to realize how inhuman they were, they start all this hate in America, for no reason. It's time to stop, being ignorant and oblivious.
Brothas got some pay back at the Montgomery brawl yesterday. Historic win.
I GOT to Alabama and see those with my own eyes 😢
Yeah me too very I cant explain the feeling I had
We have never healed. My grandfather escaped one of these lynchings. I. This isn't just the past. I pray for my family everyday. I live in a state of stress that has no medical name because the medical community does not even recognize the terror that is Racism in America for Black and Brown people.
Thanks you sooooo much for having this museum!!!
I would definitely like to visit here and take in the pain and maybe see how we can make a change for the future....We need to come together as a nation and put aside our differences
I went their yesterday
take a look and get serious, todays jail is the new plantation , slowly but surely slavery is revised.
Sobering and important story, thank you
Also , incredible architecture
GREAT JOB BRYAN!!!!!!!!
It still happens these people have no soul and no conscience
May all the dead R.I.P. 💞💝🇺🇸🌺
Grew up in Alabama, this is taught to us because it’s state history. Sad that some places don’t teach about the atrocities
Very surprised a RACIST South would teach it's TRUE HISTORY or is it more like HIS-STORY is being taught???
That little girl told her father it wasn't the black boy, but those men wanted a reason to attack the boys. How despicable
Have you ever played the game telephone in school? Now multiply that over decades of changing stories...where everybody has a dog in the race.
I am so grateful that more & more of these museums are opening. I think as a nation we have never faced this dead on. & until we do, history will continue to repeat itself. We need these stories told. That’s the only way we will heal.
Bingo! Right on the money. As a Black American I approve this message.
Andrea...Yes, stories of mass justice denied need to be told...but are we to just accept the claims of this obviously biased group that X number of blacks were lynched, and that every one of these executions was racially motivated. Clearly the Equal Justice Initiative has a dog in this fight. Keep an eye on this and you'll see that it won't be too long before they have permanent funding at the federal, state and local levels...for 'education', which breeds more funding, and so on. Should any county dispute the claims made by EJI as to the details of any person executed within their jurisdiction and refuse to claim their 'shame casket' will be 'proof' that racism is still rampant and that more money...err, education is needed.
In case people have forgotten slavery started in this country under Britain.
The monument looks beautiful. I cant wait to see it when I go back home. My little town is evolving.
Kayne West needs to go there.
He's right, silence is terrorism. Repressing truth and history is among the highest crimes.
Shocking
Wow!!!
You'd better learn how to stand up against injustices for all OF US. . .CUZ YOU'RE NEXT!!!!
I went to see this man, this people just look so real, I mean I had chills the whole time literally, I cant describe it, I cant.....
Amazing stories.
When their is money to be had...people will come up with all sorts of tear jerkers.
It makes me so sad to watch things like this I’m sad 😞 for us and our history when I think about it makes me want to cry cuz no it didn’t happen to me but it happened to people that look 👀 like me
We do. Representation matters.
Thank you for this museum to honor our ancestors
What chu talk'n 'bout Willis?
It hurts that this is necessary to open hearts and minds. It shows how long the affect of slavery and all that in entails lasts within people.
💜
4400 over 73 years. That is around 1 person a week.
Wow..that is your justification
Rafael Pena Justification? Lol no
Ricky spanish lynching is only a small fraction of the atrocities and oppression against people of color in this good ole USA. That 4,000+ is a number of accounted for lynchings. Please stop it. Really?????
Harrison Engle That's still no excuse. 4400 that we know of.
Ricky spanish there were over 13.8 million blacks killed during slavery... And thats a small estimate that some colleges have done. Look it up these 4400 that were killed was only in Alabama. You must not know anything about Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas Texas Florida Georgia Louisiana North Dakota South Dakota Virginia and even parts of Oklahoma... They weren't just killing black people in Alabama and that wasn't the entirety of slavery. From the boat to the shore to the state to the city to the barn to the Grave... They did not document how many slaves they killed they did not document how many babies they murdered and how many of them were made into alligator bait nor how many women were given up for science experiments. You really need to do your research but then again you probably don't care... white people don't care about what doesn't happen to them.
Wow
That's why they have so many serial killers.
Now, on why no reparations ! And still treated like 💩we black folk have to stay woke , in my family it's like let's change the subject ! We're even condition to forget and carry shame and guilt black folk shouldn't have to apologize for being upset constantly ! Guess this was a good way to do something with the hurt .
I love how distinguished he looks just sitting on his porch.
A FASCINATING AND SAD STORY.
So Sad we are still there.
It called the devil's children that all it is devil children is the only ones that can do this to other people. Period.
Still Kanye says Slavery was a choice. :'(
Duetronomy 28-68
Only when the Native American story is told truthfully, only then can we all move on.
If you don’t pray for yourself, you will find yourself becoming just as bitter and hateful as they are. I grew up in the fifties and the sixties so I experienced it first hand. But I refused to allow their hatred anger and bitterness define who I am. They have a lot to pay for. And it won’t be pretty either. Their harvest is coming and it’s coming soon as a matter of fact it’s already is here
Sadness ☹️
So many things the world still needs to know that I still wish I could understand so cruel that our skin colors separated us so much more then it should ever have it's so much easier to love one another!
I have come to the conclusion that there are two types of human, One with a Murderous Evil Spirit, And the other one's whom couldn't think of Murdering or hurting another. That's it people. Unfortunately Evil is more Memorable than Good. God bless you all.Arohanui Aoteroa.
you will make a good slave B.K.K. , there IS a time when a man has to defend himself.
i love you black people ❤️❤️❤️
You don't have to treat any disease. The disease can only be treated if the one having it wants it to go away. That is not your job. You have to make sure it does not happen to you any longer, this terror and pain. That's it!
WOW!. THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜,
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My hometown
Sick to want to watch a lynching. What kind if person would want to see that? Or MAKE children watch.
lynching was a choice slavery was w choice bring poor is a choice being born Is a choice being ugly is a choice we can make our own reality - Kanye west logic
The funny thing is. I live in the south. We Talk about lynchings all the time where I live. We talk about how messed up we were and then we go back to playing smash bros.
Sobering
Listen, dont tell Africans. Especially, African Americans to get over this. This is hood to remember
I speak for my ancestors who were enslaved. No one these.
Why would they want these horrible reminders of the past around?
Because we still live it everyday but many people don’t believe us
@@JustHere751 you live in slavery? How so? Through taxes? Or do you have a master that you serve for free?
Actually, a great monument would be one which highlights the many industries with their foundations in the enriching system of slavery. Wells Fargo, Pharmaceuticals, textiles, etc...
Evil creates evil!
On my Bucket list...#1
I live in Montgomery. I made a personal decision not to visit. I don't do well with this. This is painful and absolutely horrible. Please share your experience with us when you do go.
I will tried motel/hotel where Rev. King was killed didn't go in and went to Saint Augustine several times but could not go in slavery quarters but REALLY want to go here. My mother and father were from Alabama. Peace Shamekia.
Horrible shocking unjustice. We all owe to the Legacy Museum and we all must gather courage to fight racism today wherevery it appears and in whatever form.
The people of The Legacy Museum and the people of Guardian are doing great job in fighting racism in the most human and civilized way. For better world.
My ancestors were hostages who were tortured and murdered they were not slaves they were forced into slavery by animals
2019 been Mexican in chicago brown skin black hair and brown eyes.
People still have prejudice
This should never be like this again on naive land today 2020
This mentality is so different from Japanese trying to get rid of Comfort Women Memorial.
4400 documented lynchings! Remember those who weren’t documented… it’s vastly larger than 4400 souls