Many years ago. My girlfriend asked me to take her to her parents home in Mississippi. Before we made the trip, her dad got on the phone and told me there's a town between where they live and where we were coming from and told me not to stop not even to get gas. So I asked him if I get a blow out, He told me to drive through on the rim. And I'll come get you and bring you a tire.
@isaiasvillalba1659
7 ай бұрын
Real one.
@michaelryan3818
7 ай бұрын
Having grown up in north MS, I can verify this.
@krayne2084
7 ай бұрын
That dad just stopped a horror movie from happening.
@growingoaks
7 ай бұрын
Aint people know that hate crimes are like. Hella illegal lol its not even worth it. Thats fucking wild
@Flightsuit
7 ай бұрын
@@growingoaksNothing happens in sundown towns anymore This is pretty much old
@anjelica948
9 ай бұрын
I grew up in a sun-down town. We didn’t call it that, but as soon as Fredo explained it, I knew exactly what he was talking about.
@joeblow5658
9 ай бұрын
No you didn't 😂
@KingONFFE
9 ай бұрын
@@joeblow5658Fun Fact: Other people exist outside of the world you know.
@anjelica948
9 ай бұрын
@@joeblow5658 Yeah, I did. I’m white, and the town I grew up in, especially my neighborhood, Everyone told me “After dark, you Do Not go on these specific streets.” They especially said “after dark, you do NOT CROSS this bridge.” Even during the day, crossing that bridge was considered dangerous. Don’t tell me where or how I grew up.
@joeblow5658
9 ай бұрын
@@anjelica948 mf that is not what's being discussed 🤦♂️😅🤣🤷♂️ " sun down town" is a code for a town that will beat, kill or worse to browns an blacks... what you just described is a regular rough neighborhood 🤣🤣🤣 yall so fucking soft it's pure comedy
@joeyjones1271
9 ай бұрын
I just hope you turn out different from those type of town folk
@ericblue5436
7 ай бұрын
Yep! Sundown towns still exist in America. Lots of areas like that in North Carolina. Be careful near Jacksonville, Verona, Richlands, Catherine Lake, Dunn, Kenly, Spivey's Corner, Coats, Erwin, and Chinquapin. Avoid 9 Mile at all costs!
@melonman2064
7 ай бұрын
Oh. This is how I found out that my childhood dwellings are actually horrid places. Oh no.
@btf_flotsam478
7 ай бұрын
@@melonman2064 The tip-off for shit cities is seeing people unironically flying national flags as a normal occurrence.
@fortepiano4491
7 ай бұрын
I live unnervingly close to Nine Mile Road, and I'd say it's fine just driving through. Just don't knock on anyone's house asking for help with a tire.
@MarloSoBalJr
2 ай бұрын
My late grandmother grew up in Chinquapin. My father and his brothers were raised in Wallace, NC. They ran into these situations, but not as often compared to my grandfather in Pender County on the other hand...
@Ezees23
2 ай бұрын
Yeah, I'm a NC native - and I just tell everyone who is forward-thinking to stay away from those small "in-between" towns "Down-East" of Raleigh, any town south of Charlotte, and towns in between Winston-Salem and Asheville. Basically, I just tell them to stay near the "Metro" areas where there are large, diverse populations - and don't move anywhere that's too small to have a bus/public transit system, LOL....
@AdzaanMaiiTso
8 ай бұрын
I'm Native and on the Rez, towns nearby are like this. They're known as border towns and you avoid them.
@btf_flotsam478
7 ай бұрын
Poor sods, you didn't ask to have your country turn into the laughing stock of the developed world.
@rezidux
7 ай бұрын
Pine Ridge reservation is the same way. Grew up about 20 miles off the rezz and part of my time was in Potato Creek. If you're white and live on the rezz, God help you.
@HighSentinel
3 ай бұрын
@@reziduxwait trying to understand, when you said God help you is it the white people we have to worry about or the Native Americans have to worry about like who is the one trying to hurt you?, either way that’s horrifying how you have to worry about your own safety in your own home from the people living near you.
@rezidux
3 ай бұрын
@@HighSentinel I'll make it simple. If you're white, stay away from Pine Ridge South Dakota. I can't speak for every rez. Just that one.
@sirvaniss
2 ай бұрын
Wow the colonizers know no shame...
@ShroomNana
9 ай бұрын
Those places are the reason The Green Traveler guide was written.
@coolcapri2
9 ай бұрын
“The Green Book”. My aunt grew up in Arkansas and she said she had one (something similar) for her job as an insurance seller. They gave it to any employee of color who traveled for them.
@ShroomNana
9 ай бұрын
@@coolcapri2 thank you for correcting me on the title.
@shamachelon
9 ай бұрын
What’s that?
@mostlynull
9 ай бұрын
@@shamachelonLet's try and use some context clues, yeah? People are talking about sundown towns which are places that are...less than welcoming to people of color, and then someone mentions a Green Book. One of the replies even says that all traveling salesmen of color were given a copy. So, logically, what can we conclude about the Green Book and its purpose? 😂😂😂
@assfuckerthejointpounder5834
9 ай бұрын
As a minority, as in being the native population. Should I read that book? (Native American(
@shannonaugustine2318
8 ай бұрын
“Should be zero” damn right!!
@btf_flotsam478
7 ай бұрын
It is zero! I'm only counting developed countries, because who knows what happens in shithole countries like South Africa and the US?
@cheshirecat3978
2 ай бұрын
They don't exist
@Peaches-i2i
2 ай бұрын
You're more likely to end up in a neighborhood of nonwhites that will end you for being there after dark than these mythical sundown towns.
@ashtonoak4370
2 ай бұрын
@@Peaches-i2i hush klansman
@HungMantis
2 ай бұрын
@@Peaches-i2iyou’re crazy if you actually believe that little bro
@oniemployee3437
9 ай бұрын
As a european I figured a "sundown town" was a town filled with old people. Safe to say, this went from 0 to a 100 real quick.
@000MIMS
8 ай бұрын
I mean... They got these towns in Europe too
@oniemployee3437
8 ай бұрын
@@000MIMS Not to my knowledge. So many towns, villages and other settlements are on this continent and I don't even know most in my own province.
@Soyblackpower
8 ай бұрын
@@oniemployee3437you probably dont know because you are privileged enough to not have to worry about it. Privilege is invisible to those that have it.
@oniemployee3437
8 ай бұрын
@@Soyblackpower You talk about "privilege". Your opinion is ignored. Please go spin that yarn somewhere else.
@han090
8 ай бұрын
@@oniemployee3437Are you that ignorant that you would refuse to accept something could exist that you're lucky enough to not be aware of? Because that's exactly what you're doing dismissing the very concept of privilege.
@athacruz9119
9 ай бұрын
“I’m a second amendment American” Fredo 😂love your content man your mad real
@nathalieduverna6963
9 ай бұрын
Ditto
@maxxcarver5502
9 ай бұрын
Love that about him!
@MissChrys
9 ай бұрын
With extra mag
@skeletonbuyingpealts7134
9 ай бұрын
Armed minorities are harder to oppress
@ronnickels5193
9 ай бұрын
@@MissChryswith as many mags as it takes for the threat to stop being a threat
@IndomitableAde
3 ай бұрын
Don't sleep. It isn't just the South. Indiana, a known Klan stronghold, has multiple sundown towns. Other Northern and Midwestern states do too.
@SalimSivaad
2 ай бұрын
Indiana has reportedly more sundown towns than any other state. Places in the South used to living near Blacks, even if they live separately from them. Up North in the Midwest, segregation was more strict.
@IndomitableAde
2 ай бұрын
@@SalimSivaad yes! Living in Northwest Indiana meant having to drive the entire length of the state, or drive west to Illinois (not much better) and it was so bad in the 70s and 80s we didn't take a road trip without having a car full of cooked food and very few drinks. We'd leave at the crack of dawn so we could be well out of the state before dark. My mother was really only comfortable stopping in Indianapolis (about a 4-hour drive back then) for bathroom breaks, which is in the middle of the state and also the capitol, but there are sundown towns to the north of it, namely Whitetown and the surrounding communities with "White" at the start of them. VERY on the nose, but at least it made them easily identifiable.
@Ehh.....
2 ай бұрын
I used to work IT Field Service in NW (Mostly Bank and Gas Station ATMS). I had to explain to my Manager why I could not take a job in Kouts. He had zero understanding of what a sundown town was and told me if i was scared to request the guard. Issue being that the guard we typically get was this older black retired police Sargent (Nothin against him, he was a chill guy), I ended up requesting him and then he ended up explaining to my Manager why 2 black guys, one visibly armed, at an open ATM (cash exposed) after sunset is a very very VERY, bad idea. Fortunately my manager got the hint.
@peacekeeperbabe
2 ай бұрын
?? He did not say southern states he said America. I’m would not b surprised if there are sunrise/boarder towns in Alaska…
@ynraider
2 ай бұрын
Paradise, Oregon... Washington Parts of California Illinois Michigan Upstate NY Georgia North & South Carolina
@traditionalnative
9 ай бұрын
As someone from Standing Rock (Oglála and Huŋkpapa Lakȟóta and Hawai'ian), my brother was killed in front of me when we went off Rez when he was 16 and I was 14. (It was day, even, but still applies.) Thank you for speaking about it.
@MsAubrey
9 ай бұрын
🫂 Sorry that happened. That’s awful.
@Beginnerreadsthebible
9 ай бұрын
💔💔💔💔💔💔 I'm so, so sorry you saw that, may he rest in peace
@trsumbry
9 ай бұрын
So sorry for your loss.
@kikig5036
9 ай бұрын
💔
@donflywalker563
9 ай бұрын
Damn and they on ur land that super suxs
@ezioshadowblade9126
9 ай бұрын
My wife is black, I’m white, I didn’t know they still existed until we were on a ride trip through Montana. Once she told me where we were, even though the road was empty, I had never been more nervous and was pressing the edge of that speed limit till we left the boundaries of that city far behind.
@edwardgaines6561
8 ай бұрын
🤔
@thornback5641
7 ай бұрын
I cant say this is across the board but your wife being with you is way safer then if she was traveling alone or if you were a black man and she was a white woman. In either of those 2 cases you have a much greater chance of not leaving the town from all Ive ever come to know.
@thatonedudeyousawb4
7 ай бұрын
I’m mixed, my mom is white and my dad is black, and when I was like 3 my mom, grandma on her side, and I went to go visit family in Montana, and as my mom and I were checking into a hotel during the roadtrip a guy came up to my mom and said “if that boy is your son I wouldn’t recommend staying here overnight”. I don’t remember any of this but my mom has told me and others the story, needless to say I’m not going to visit family in Montana any time soon
@FrankensteinsMom
7 ай бұрын
I’m glad your wife has you, you care about her a lot
@kyetes.866
7 ай бұрын
I’m a queer immigrant and my godfather is black, when I went on my first crosscountry road trip he told me that if I accidentally end up in one of these towns, do not speed & do not run red lights, don’t do anything that can give them cause to pull you over in those town limits
@ambershockley8961
8 ай бұрын
Sundown towns still exist And the historical black towns that they literally put under a lake or pond.
@elizabethmcwhorter3445
7 ай бұрын
Central park springs to mind
@sikatwin1234
7 ай бұрын
Lake lanier mentioned!!
@tyreecestewart4997
3 ай бұрын
Lake Norman
@Sgt-lott10
2 ай бұрын
@@sikatwin1234there's a reason it's haunted AND cursed
@KidRoctopus93
2 ай бұрын
I’m Wagoner Oklahoma and there are a few VERY small historic all black towns just a few miles down the road. Very run down and sparsely populated. No stores or anything that I’ve seen but there are still people hanging on.
@sonjastanley1067
9 ай бұрын
In 1996, there was one in Indiana where my husband and his brother took a job. Their boss told the police that they would be working for him so that they would know that they had a reason to be there. And their boss would always let them off a half an hour early so that they would be out of town before it got dark. It was crazy to have existed then and even crazier in 2024.
@tiffanychill8219
8 ай бұрын
Can I ask what city ? I live in that state
@MsDanyelleM
8 ай бұрын
I grew up in Indiana. I'm thinking of 3 right off the bat.
@sonjastanley1067
8 ай бұрын
@tiffanychill8219 Good day! We can't remember the name of the city, but it was by Washinton, Indiana. Best wishes!
@sonjastanley1067
8 ай бұрын
@@MsDanyelleM Wow! That's crazy. Best wishes!
@MsDanyelleM
8 ай бұрын
@@sonjastanley1067 oh that's on the south end of the state... Lots of tiny little towns. The only one I can think of where I KNOW you would be alright in is Oakland City. Lovely little town. The rest... I actually don't know but there are almost no blacks living there.
@dmac4060
9 ай бұрын
Pocket partner is crazy 😂😂
@FredoOnTV
9 ай бұрын
Port-a-homie 😂 has my back all across America 💯
@Notturnoir
9 ай бұрын
Pocket pool is something different 😅
@bmoresweetz7023
9 ай бұрын
Fking Hilariously 😂
@leovalenzuela8368
9 ай бұрын
Oh toooolie! - Mickey
@sistersun1954
9 ай бұрын
"Pocket Partner" may be the wisest thing I've heard...
@johnnyhellfire6
7 ай бұрын
Good on you for having common sense and packing in the country. So many folks think it's so quiet and peaceful in the country. NO God damnit, theres a lot of messed up shit that happens out there, for example Sun Down Towns.
@MarloSoBalJr
2 ай бұрын
The reservations are even worse. If you could help it, avoid them. No rules
@johnnyhellfire6
2 ай бұрын
@@MarloSoBalJr you respect them and don't f around on their land. I lived near one and saw a thing or two
@sanitytbd3455
9 ай бұрын
My dad survived a lynching when he was a teenager here in Georgia. They beat him nearly to death and attempted to dispose of what they thought were the corpses into a local pond and sped away. They obviously didn't know that my dad wasn't a corpse yet, and he managed to swim to safety. His friend who was with him that night wasn't so lucky.
@janetleegreen8891
8 ай бұрын
I'm glad your dad survived, but I'm Truly sorry for the his loss 😢😢😢
@music79075
7 ай бұрын
Jesus Christ. When was this!?
@celisewillis
7 ай бұрын
Jeez I'm so sorry, how traumatic!
@btf_flotsam478
7 ай бұрын
My condolences you live in such a rough part of the world, I hope you can escape to Canada.
@maxwellsimmons530
6 ай бұрын
@@btf_flotsam478 Still not safe.
@RegiLHJ
9 ай бұрын
This is why I want to create the Green Book app. There are a lot of people who don't understand how real it is out here
@eldritchteletubby9319
8 ай бұрын
Yo, this is actually an amazing idea. Could help a lot of people.
@sisterfister7891
7 ай бұрын
_Do it._
@FerociousSniper
7 ай бұрын
Holy shit. Is it really that bad still?
@anglosaxiphone8246
7 ай бұрын
Issue is communities will try to sue you or say you are biased.
@eldritchteletubby9319
7 ай бұрын
@@anglosaxiphone8246 I mean. If someone says that your community is a sundown town and your response is to sue them, you're probably a sundown town.
@the-ohmwrecker
8 ай бұрын
I’m from a sundown town. That shit was scary for us natives too
@christiannipales9937
9 ай бұрын
There used to be a thing called a Green Book. A must have for Black motorist in the early 19th century. It basically listed all the 'sun down towns' in the US and explained live testimony on how people were treated. Survivor bias but its only the ones who got away that got to tell the tale.
@AndyfnB
8 ай бұрын
*20th century. But still it's crazy that existed.
@christiannipales9937
8 ай бұрын
@@AndyfnB that vernacular always got me. Lol my bad
@AndyfnB
8 ай бұрын
@@christiannipales9937 I literally had to train myself to remember add one. Haha.
@rbrown8804
8 ай бұрын
The green book is still around.
@celisewillis
7 ай бұрын
I remember my Black friends telling me they slept in the car on road trips, not because they couldn't afford all the motels, but because they knew the towns they couldn't stay in.
@Dale-m2e
9 ай бұрын
I'm a white guy from South Carolina and years ago I got a job traveling. When to Alabama to do some work. ( Storm chasing) doing tree work I seen a Billboard sign that said. If you're black don't get caught here when the sun goes down. I couldn't believe it. That was when I found out about sundown towns. I couldn't wait to get out of that town.
@doodles4funo569
8 ай бұрын
My black friend recently educated me on sundown towns as well it sound unthinkable that this still exists
@maybe0rdinary
7 ай бұрын
Oh, god, I know EXACTLY which town you're talking about. It's not exactly local to me, but that's a horrid fucking sign. Maybe it's a good thing it's still up for WARNING purposes only, but its wording is... god. Alabama's a rough state for sure
@Poemi10304
7 ай бұрын
Alabama is really one of the worst states in the country, besides Florida and Texas.
@emoryogglethorp8180
7 ай бұрын
@@maybe0rdinaryThe fact that the warning has to exist in the first place is an indictment on our country as a whole, not just that 1 town, the federal government can easily do something about stuff like this but they don't
@LaMarcheFutilé101
7 ай бұрын
One might even argue that the federal government actively supports and endorses this kind of behavior on many ways.
@jbark678
7 ай бұрын
Me and my dad were driving from Atlanta to Nashville and he was pulling into a gas station somewhere around the state line when a group of "individuals" walked out of a stop which featured distinct "iconography." My dad said, who is a 60+ black man from south Georgia, said "Nope," and pulled right back out and kept driving.
@caxolog
9 ай бұрын
Fredo went from "Give me Piece" to "Don't make me give you peace"
@nailahdawkins
9 ай бұрын
"Don't make me rest YOU in piece!😅"
@WayStedYou
8 ай бұрын
Dont make me pull my piece*
@RabidDogma
8 ай бұрын
Best way to get rid of sundown towns, though, have to admit. No one likes sundown towns.
@GetOfflineGetGood
9 ай бұрын
"If the day-to-day people tell you that, you can assume the cops won't do anything to them" Buddy, I'd be shocked if it wasn't the cops themselves doing it in the first place.
@jeffreydallas6047
9 ай бұрын
Most likely the cops are in on it....
@Wee_Catalyst
9 ай бұрын
Yep
@maxmccullough8548
9 ай бұрын
@@jeffreydallas6047 the cops are who the day-to-day folks are warning you about....
@dmandman9
9 ай бұрын
True.
@DopeDevastation
9 ай бұрын
That's what he meant.... he literally said they the same way, do yall be paying attention?
@wendylott6920
7 ай бұрын
Being born and raised in South Carolina. Sadly I know of a few sun down towns. I wish they didn't exist but once hate gets in a person it's a sickness that can almost never be cured.
@draconicfeline6177
2 ай бұрын
There shouldn't be any in 2024... that there are is proof that there really is no hope for humanity or the world.
@BuzzYardServices
8 ай бұрын
There's a sign in a town between Savannah Georgia & Statesboro that says that shit. This was 15 years ago...i ain't been back since. Had a big black man as a coworker that got ran off from a trailer for Comcast install...we were subcontractors. That trailer didn't get cable for over a month...our contractor removed the customer from our list. Dude sicked his dogs on that man + threatened him. Shit was crazy.
@grmpEqweer
8 ай бұрын
Dude didn't need cable or internet anyway, he's already crazy enough.
@BuzzYardServices
8 ай бұрын
@@grmpEqweer well, it wasn't to watch the Jeffersons🤪
@grmpEqweer
8 ай бұрын
@@BuzzYardServices 🤣
@GodlyWodahs
8 ай бұрын
There's a lot of places like that here in Georgia but I find most of them are in North Georgia. I've ran into a few sundown towns in coffee county, Fitzgerald, and tifton but it's a lot worse in the north.
@BuzzYardServices
8 ай бұрын
@@GodlyWodahs Ludowici may be the town I'm thinking of... I'm unsure but looked it up on the map just now. Not surprised up there is hillbilly.
@ateliermink6340
9 ай бұрын
I grew up near one. Its 30 minutes from my hometown and isn't on any of the Sundown Town lists. But its one of those towns where the cows outnumber the people and only has a Dollar General and five churches. My Granny used to refuse to sell eggs to folks from there and would warn traveling folks away from it. She was a white passing Native American and used to tell my blonde behind that i wasn't white enough to go through there safely due to having native and Irish blood. That stuck with me. She was right, btw, got shot at in my teens for stopping at that DG. 2nd worst town i went to.
@crispinmcsticks
9 ай бұрын
And that’s only the second worst?! Buddy, what actual hell did you have to go through in the worst one?
@bruhbutwhytho
9 ай бұрын
@@crispinmcsticksikr
@benjaminthefox
9 ай бұрын
SECOND worst!?!?
@ateliermink6340
9 ай бұрын
@@crispinmcsticks Funny enough, it was another Sundown Town. My very naiive step-dad actually decided to take us camping on a small beach for a week. Now for two days it was pretty normal, the town was kind of stepforfd-ish, but normal and the beach was nice. But the last two days..oh boy. See, my step-dad is pretty good at fitting in. But he let out that he was from up north on day three when we ate at the Waffle House. And it's the first time the locals saw the rest of us. My mom was blind, and I was in my goth phase at the time (I was 15). Mom and I both inherited Granny's nose and boy howdy did the locals notice that part of us. I learned so many slurs those two days. Got called a mutt alot. Our tents were set on fire twice. They kept saying mom should've been killed before reproducing because she was 'defective'. Got shot at by both locals AND cops. My dog got poisoned (she lived). We left pretty quick after that. Threw the dog's poop bag on the cop car window on the way out. Not a happy summer vacation. We ended driving all the way to Panama City for a week after that.
@ateliermink6340
9 ай бұрын
@@benjaminthefox Grew up in Alabama. It has quite a few terrible towns. The worst was a small town near Orange Beach.
@WillRennar
8 ай бұрын
"If you're out after sun down, don't count on being around at sun up."
@VoodooTrashPanda
8 ай бұрын
I had a friend that lived with his parents through college. It was a pretty nice neighborhood, but it was still out in the sticks near a mountain. One of the few times I visited they were doing a potluck bonfire, with tons of folks from the neighborhood and friends of my friend (good bit of white southerners but still a handful of other ethnicities and families, especially the college friends). I learned there were stories of the clan still being present up the mountain. But the kind old memaws would be havin’ none of that shit. The general sentiment was: “so help me god they ain’t gonna lay a single finger on anyone from this community” I got the feeling that the clan was secluded to the mountain because if any attempts were made at harassment or worse, an army of southerners would burn the whole mountain down. At least around here, I think the only remaining sundown areas that exist are because they don’t have the AK toting grannies to keep them in check until the clan dies off
@fleatactical7390
Ай бұрын
The Klan is dead. Sop falling for the MS's boogeyman stories.
@HandleUnclear
9 ай бұрын
Oh Fredo, as a black adult immigrant I had never heard of these until in 2020 when I was shopping around for homes. There was a charming queen anne style home 30 minutes out from the city, needed some TLC. My realtor was hesitant about showing me the home, but I was insistent that I had to see it as its my dream home architecture and its within our budget. Welp, we met during the day and walked through the home to find mold everywhere, but our realtor was relieved and expressing she didn't want to show us the home and was glad it had issues. I asked her why, and she looked confused and asked "are you aware of sundown laws?" My husband and I went home and learned the town the home was located in was a sun down town.
@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070
9 ай бұрын
The fucking idiot you were forced to call an agent should have told you OFF RIP at the very start that y'all were in a sundown town. She clearly likes drama or wanted to be cute. Or just is incompetent at disclosing critical info.
@jamaicanqueen8681
9 ай бұрын
This gave ne shivers and the hairs stood on the back of my neck.
@Nightingale_time
9 ай бұрын
I cannot believe this is still a thing. Not that I can't believe it, I guess I can, I'm just so, so angry that it is.
@DembaiVT
9 ай бұрын
She should have said that up front. She nearly got you unalived
@johanstinson
9 ай бұрын
@jamaicanqueen8681 that's how white people feel jn the hood....before they get murdered
@PhycoKrusk
7 ай бұрын
Defending the freedom of movement with the right to bear arms, one sunset at a time.
@joanncooper7297
9 ай бұрын
💯 them gas stations be clutch. They will worn you, don't get caught here after dark. I appreciate it, really helpful when I was in college. Saved my life a few times.
@Zagar099
7 ай бұрын
Worn college education
@WesleysPassingThought
9 ай бұрын
“When the sun goes down, you go down” - a friend
@Jivom16
9 ай бұрын
fluffy!!!
@Luciffrit
9 ай бұрын
@@Jivom16 parasites...
@flamingphoenix1425
9 ай бұрын
@@Jivom16FLUFFY!!!
@xanderschwartz9864
9 ай бұрын
“It don’t go down bro-IT DO GO DOWN”
@StrawmnMcPerson
9 ай бұрын
Is this a quote from something or are y'all actually just the hyperviolent garbáge type that can't handle the sight of your own species (given all the inbreeding)?
@potatopirate5557
8 ай бұрын
You can usually feel it by the way the locals act even during the day. You can just feel the "what do you think you're doing here, you don't belong here." Even if you're a local too, just not the _right kind_ .
@Daelyah
7 ай бұрын
Exactly. Went to a shitty bar meant for older generations, in the town I went to school in. This was around my birthday, a couple years ago, because my partner wanted to try the place out. He did his best to be jovial, but NONE of the patrons reciprocated his attempts to be cordial. The waitress was the friendliest person, there. Made it clear to my partner after we ate that I did NOT wanna go back, ever again. The vibes were disturbing, at best.
@potatopirate5557
7 ай бұрын
@@Daelyah yeah, y'all be careful. It can be genuinely very dangerous.
@MarloSoBalJr
2 ай бұрын
My family road trip from Baltimore to Montana was pretty fun 😅 You were right tho. No one had a fuss but the few times stopping at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, you felt that tension more than the heat itself. South Dakota; Iowa; Kansas; Missouri... 😵💫
@j.a.4360
9 ай бұрын
In Dayton VA, they had a blue law that said that it was illegal for blacks to be out in public after dark....i used to chuckle whenever I'd see their one black cop working nights. 😂
@JustJessee
9 ай бұрын
"blue law"? I'm not familiar with this term
@colewood3297
9 ай бұрын
@@JustJesseeI believe it's an old and stupid law that's still on the books but not enforced. Some are fun like "you can't walk w/ an ice cream cone in your back pocket" and some are like this one
@samblovinglife7946
9 ай бұрын
Wow
@puppybasket3906
9 ай бұрын
Blue Laws were usually outdated laws, when I first moved to Texas there was a list of things you couldn’t buy on a Sunday for instance. It was totally wild but because of the church influence. You could buy socks but not pantyhose for instance.
@MsJoyce31202
9 ай бұрын
😂
@valsblackcatsrule8740
9 ай бұрын
My daddy always said that there's nothing more disturbing than man's inhumanity to man. We're all the same... trying to get through the day. If my way doesn't go along as yours, so be it. No harm... no foul.
@SJChronykSpookyBae
8 ай бұрын
Jay, Florida. They still have a sign. Don't let the sun set on your @#$%^@$$ in the town of Jay. It's disgusting. And it's 5 miles away. I think it's a southern thing....
@Daelyah
7 ай бұрын
Being queer, I'm avoiding Florida altogether. To hell with that state!
@MarloSoBalJr
2 ай бұрын
@Daelyah People keep thinking Florida is progressive unless you live in Miami. Otherwise, it's about as cornball southern as you could get.
@obi-ron
9 ай бұрын
As a white foreigner, i appreciate your explanation an wish you and all those under threat from the disgusting people who run such towns good fortune and God's protection when passing through these places.
@truetolkienfan8491
9 ай бұрын
Please visit a black neighborhood. You would love it, especially if you and your wife approach a group of African American male youths. Please put effort in to get to know the black communities in America.
@obi-ron
9 ай бұрын
@@truetolkienfan8491 I would love to visit, but unfortunately don't have the funds to do so from Britain, about 4 miles from Sarehole Mill, inspiration for Middle Earth. As I am not American, I would probably be met with similar behaviour from groups of youths of any skin tone.
@truetolkienfan8491
9 ай бұрын
@@obi-ron I was being sarcastic. You would get jumped and robbed. Happens all the time to European tourists in America. They go to the wrong neighborhood and get robbed or beaten.
@obi-ron
9 ай бұрын
@@truetolkienfan8491 I am fully aware that you were being sarcastic. I didn't dispute your implication that meeting with a group of black youths might result in bad things happening I merely chose to inform you that the same can be said of meeting up with a group of lighter toned youth. Despite your conditioning, black people don't have a monopoly on criminal behaviour and white people absolutely do not have a monopoly on saintliness
@obi-ron
9 ай бұрын
@@truetolkienfan8491 I wasn't. Despite the conditioned responses of some people, black folk do not have monopoly over criminal activity and white people absolutely do not have one over saintliness
@RobertHackney-z3f
8 ай бұрын
Tenn Tech 1970, the school sent a rep to black student union meeting to advise us of the nearby towns we needed to avoid.
@SuperFoxdemon
8 ай бұрын
I had to explain to my coworker what a sundown town is because there are quite a few still in my county. She couldn’t believe it but the way they be acting out here, I believe it 😂
@cherylwirz2722
9 ай бұрын
I lived in Jamestown TN. They threatened to burn down a hotel because they allowed black people to stay there...this was in 2000...not 1950 mind ya.
@xblade149
9 ай бұрын
Damn man. I was five at time, scary
@DirtyBobBojangles
9 ай бұрын
@@xblade149nobody asked
@Taramushi
9 ай бұрын
@@DirtyBobBojangles, @xblade149 is shocked that this went on during his lifetime and not decades and decades before he was born. Chill.
@xblade149
9 ай бұрын
@@DirtyBobBojangles and no one asked your opinion, you walking talking pubic hair.
@xblade149
9 ай бұрын
@@Taramushi exactly thank you
@FIRE_BOMB1
9 ай бұрын
Remember kids, stay strapped or get clapped
@jbblades2835
8 ай бұрын
Was always wondering what my buddy was talking about Always told me "dont worry about it"
@williamknox6648
9 ай бұрын
Argo, Alabama is one of them. Had to drive an hour to work every day having to go through this town. Lemme tell you when i got off at might i didnt stop for shit. I saw a cop car behind me i hit my jazards until i found the walmart outside of Argo with the big bright lights and cameras everywhere
@azidal3755
8 ай бұрын
Walmart? I didn't know there was one in Argo or did you drive over to Springville?
@williamknox6648
8 ай бұрын
@@azidal3755 Drive through Argo and Springville to get to Ashville
@LMCorvinus
8 ай бұрын
so is Ozark AL. I got out of the car there to pick up a puppy, and "die **insert black slur here**" and "die **insert Jewish slur here**" on signs all over the place. every single person stared at us through their windows, and we were both white. I have never felt less welcome in my life
@Alex-2-5-1
8 ай бұрын
Lafayette and Eufaula that way to
@empresscarrie6230
2 ай бұрын
@@azidal3755he quite literally said outside of argo
@pustulio81
9 ай бұрын
My mom told me a story she heard from a lady she caregived for. She said three illegal Mexicans made their way through a "sun down" town in Oklahoma and got caught trying to steal a car. They, of course, ran. Unfortunately, they made the mistake of trying to hide in the woods....she said the sheriff dept. just stopped looking for them when they found out that's where they went. They knew those three men were already dead the second they made that decision. By morning, all three of them were left hanging from the bridge leading into town and, as you would expect, nobody saw a damn thing.
@KyleMcDumbshxx
7 ай бұрын
Holy shit
@celisewillis
7 ай бұрын
"illegal" is a weird word to append to a human, don't you think? As if it's "illegal" to be Mexican. I'm sure the people who lynched them called them "illegal", too.
@btf_flotsam478
7 ай бұрын
Glad I don't live anywhere near that shit (live in Australia).
@pustulio81
7 ай бұрын
@celisewillis No, it's not weird at all, actually. If they're living undocumented in another country (which is illegal) and they're Mexican, then you are an illegal Mexican. They chose to forfeit legal status in favor of illegal status. As such, they have no ground to stand on in an argument regarding their status, or how people decide to label them. If they want to change that, they know where the immigration office is. Until then, their complaints mean about as much as a wet queef.
@TheAbbot92
7 ай бұрын
@@btf_flotsam478Yeah. Y'all got those dog sized spiders to worry about. And they don't gaf about what race you are.
@Stinkwolff83
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for the education. I think this could be one of the saddest and most horrific things I’ve ever heard.
@Hanibul_Lecktor
8 ай бұрын
Tennessee, we have stop sign towns. Told my cousin, do not go straight at that stop sign. Turn left, turn right, just don't go straight. You will never be seen again 😅
@Phil9874
7 ай бұрын
What in the fresh hell.
@anthonylombardi4168
2 ай бұрын
Bs....Chicago is a sundown town...chiraq...10,000 blk men ded from around 63..
@TheEmpress_1
2 ай бұрын
Please elaborate
@Hanibul_Lecktor
2 ай бұрын
@TheEmpress_1 do you know what a sunset town is, back in the 50-60s ? Same thing, just don't travel down certain roads. Mainly Holliers, one way in, no way out.
@Sumiya-lp8mm
9 ай бұрын
I was told that a couple of years ago when I visited my grandmother in the mountains of Va. Two men approached me around 4 pm at a gas station, they looked as if they were straight out of the 1930s said " you don't want to come across us two when the sun goes down, ma'am". Yeahhhh, sparks would fly.....
@IwishIknewmore26
8 ай бұрын
Sometimes justice can't involve law. I'll stand by it.
@stevencorrea8032
10 күн бұрын
like a hurricane swift and fast moving
@Justaguynamedsue
9 ай бұрын
I'm white and I would avoid a sundown town.
@kooldisciple2498
9 ай бұрын
aint nothing scary about it. just meth and smells like wet dogs
@grmpEqweer
8 ай бұрын
Me too, but I'm queer. They don't like my kind too much 'round them parts.
@MrsKatieninja
8 ай бұрын
Same, im disabeled n in lgbtq
@Smwilll6100
8 ай бұрын
I'm heterosexual, white but I wouldn't go either.
@mr.skeleton5536
7 ай бұрын
It's like setting foot into a horror movie no matter what you look like.
@teenacherry4958
9 ай бұрын
Fouke, Arkansas is still a sundown town. They didn't have a sign but they did have a statue of a black man covered in hair hanging by the neck at the entrance of town. It didn't come down until the late 90s. Stay safe out there. ✌🏾
@GMbowtie350
9 ай бұрын
Fouke might’ve been a sundown town but they never had a statue of a black man hanging. It was a black man pointing out of town. If you’re gonna talk about it get it right.
@RitzyTrailerII
9 ай бұрын
It's an American disgrace, no matter what the sign portrays. I grieve for this Nation. @@GMbowtie350
@teenacherry4958
9 ай бұрын
I was taken to see it when I moved to the area, and it had a noose around the neck. It sure as hell wasn't a necktie. 🤨
@Feralfoundry
8 ай бұрын
@@GMbowtie350 how is your description better?
@ProxiProtogen
2 ай бұрын
Its just correcting misinformation/a lie. It can be equally bad but its just better to say the truth @@Feralfoundry
@Prince_Luci
7 ай бұрын
Most of Arkansas is a sun down town. Arkanas is the greatest representation of “crabs in a bucket theory.” One crab alone can easily get out of a bucket. But if you want them to stay put you put a lot of crabs in the bucket. The other crabs will pull any crab back down to their level. It’s nothing but poor people keeping other poor people down. If you’re thinking about visiting arkanas, visit colorado, texas, or louisana instead.
@megusotaku2070
9 ай бұрын
I live in Arkansas and we have a few too. Harrison, ar is one and the people there don't even wait for sundown. Sad that this exists.
@SquidMunky
9 ай бұрын
Hardy
@Blackqueens89
9 ай бұрын
You’re dramatic 😂😂😂
@mikekeltner4291
9 ай бұрын
Liar. I live in Arkansas I know of no sundown towns.
@StrigidaeStrigiformes-sv6mj
9 ай бұрын
Emmet Till Hills. Avoid at all cost. Unless you whyte. Than you good anywhere. Literally anywhere.
@ThaPimpminista
9 ай бұрын
@@mikekeltner4291you either full of shit, or you one of those people who dress up like a ghost and burn tiki torches. Because if you're from Arkansas, and you're black, then you know to avoid places like Harrison and Paris AR.
@Kisha_Zuri
8 ай бұрын
Baby a group i was singing in were on our way home and stopped to gas up and grab snacks. This girl working there was about 16 and i watched the blood drain from her face, so i told my peeps we need to hurry up. She was calling THEM GOOD OL BOYS. Thankfully we were pulling out when the lifted trucks with the extra bright hunting lights (i assume...the irony wasn't lost on me) on the roof pulled in. And the universal linguistic threat was issued...YEEEEEEEEE HAAAAWWWWWW. If you hear that, you better get to gittin...cause it won't end well for you.
@PsychopathicV2
7 ай бұрын
Not saying you’re full of shit or anything but damn could that story be anymore stereotypical of country boys?
@MultiTaz333
2 ай бұрын
Sure jan
@vishnu2407
2 ай бұрын
@@MultiTaz333?
@divery4eyes
2 ай бұрын
that was embellished
@jdonvance
2 ай бұрын
@@divery4eyes @MultiTaz333 On the contrary, this sounds entirely plausible to me. I have thus far had the good fortune to never find myself in hostile territory, but I have heard enough stories to recognize the kind of barbaric behavior humans are still capable of. Some will always want to inflict pain, but they don't want to face any consequences, so they wait until they find some easy prey that won't be missed right away (like a few young women at night), and do whatever they want with the knowledge that anyone who might stop them will either help out (like being a spotter) or look the other way. That episode of Lovecraft Country where they visit a diner with white walls is an example of exactly this type of scenario. Incredibly dark things can happen when the game is rigged.
@MzShonuff123
8 ай бұрын
There’s sundown neighborhoods, too. When folks kept saying “Get Out” was a comedy, it was so sad. The opening scene is Black folks’ horror
@kelsyclark221
9 ай бұрын
I don't know if it's sadder that these places still exist, or that it's surprising that there's someone who didn't know what a sundown town is.
@samblovinglife7946
9 ай бұрын
I just didn't know they still existed.
@fudgen.a1249
9 ай бұрын
I mean, Sundown towns aren’t known for exactly advertising themselves. That, and for the those who live within them, some folks tend to note these towns usually don’t teach, or actively avoid (and discourage) teaching the history behind them, or teaching a very sanitized version of their own, and history in general, so some folks just don’t end up learning about them.
@bucketofsunshine6366
9 ай бұрын
I've never heard of them, but I'm not from the south. Unless I'm just a sweet summer child, too naive for this world, I don’t think we have those around where I live.
@bruhbutwhytho
9 ай бұрын
@@bucketofsunshine6366they’re actually most common in the Midwest from what I’ve seen
@Wikrin
9 ай бұрын
I grew up in rural Alaska and never heard the term until a few years ago. This country is awful.
@Gripfang
9 ай бұрын
I grew up in a town in the 90's that had completely expelled their black residents waaaay back and was a sundown town for a good while after. It was still mildly resentful of my presence, being one of the very few folks of a melanated persuasion myself. So junior high and high school had some fun moments. I went back in 2022 and it has changed so much. Lots of different types of people. People generally seemed to get along, as far as I could tell. Even the local pointy hat people don't really raise much of a fuss anymore. They mostly keep to themselves and have cookouts and raffles at their compound where they LARP as revolutionaries. The town is still a dead-end shit hole. It's just a more diverse dead-end shit hole now that will crush your spirit regardless of race.
@kalerdeakin3754
8 ай бұрын
Hey Illinois man here : it's a sad statement usually people see Illinois is a blue state and think it's not like that but basically besides Chicago and a few fringe citys there are sundown towns in the entire state down from Chicago it's really bad the normal people hate it . We even have to keep a lookout for minorities to warn them or protect them from the clans
@Shelsal5000
7 күн бұрын
Thank you for looking out for them. Whites like you have always existed❤
@porchecarter9968
9 ай бұрын
We need a website that list em. 😢 It's sad but we need something to help keep the community informed
@MrsKatieninja
8 ай бұрын
Their isent????
@josephperez2004
7 ай бұрын
@@MrsKatieninja There might be, but I can't say I know of one. I imagine if a site did get well known enough, the towns would demand it get taken down for 'defamation'.
@unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz7956
7 ай бұрын
Omg think for yourself
@laustin2832
9 ай бұрын
I experienced a sundown town as a kid a little more than 20 years ago in MS. My family was just driving to Disney World. We stopped at a BP station and the clerk said “They don’t like your kind around here. You all better hurry up and go”. At the same time I saw a white man watching us from a corner by a pay phone. We gassed up and headed out of town. At one point I looked through the rear window and there was a pickup following us. I could see rifle barrels through their windshield. They stopped following us when we crossed the county line. It happened the following year in a different MS town on another Disney trip. My family has roots in MS and I’m too traumatized to visit.
@egm8602
8 ай бұрын
Just avoid Disney, I guess...
@rivertam7827
8 ай бұрын
America sounds like a fkn nightmare
@grmpEqweer
8 ай бұрын
@@rivertam7827The big cities are quite tolerant, but some small towns never got over that Jim Crow mindset.
@grmpEqweer
8 ай бұрын
@@rivertam7827 Adding this: I live in the Houston TX area. Over 130 languages are spoken in my county. Two hours by car from me is Vidor, TX, one of the most infamous sundown towns, used to be a KKK headquarters.
@edwardgaines6561
8 ай бұрын
@@grmpEqweerSo wait a minute. The quart asks if both the Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys are Black. Do those folks still root for them?
@grannypeacock
7 ай бұрын
It turns out the town I live in was a sundown town into the 80s. Once I learned that I decided not to vote for anyone who's in bed with the Mafia, which is all the old school politicians. I've voted for folk I disagree with on nearly every issue to get that influence out of my city
@mr.nobody4994
8 ай бұрын
Can’t believe this is still a thing. It sounds so much like a relic of a long gone era.
@tubalord3693
7 ай бұрын
The problem is people stop talking about it and what happens when you don’t talk about something at festers and grows history is a flat circle and nobody learns from their mistakes
@AriessunvirgomoonlightLibraise
9 ай бұрын
I'm born an raised in Southern California, and YES, we had them here up until the late 60s, and some spots up in NorCal is still active with it
@Notturnoir
9 ай бұрын
Yeah, the movie Devil in a Blue Dress shows this accurately.
@xblade149
9 ай бұрын
Damn really?
@LexYeen
9 ай бұрын
@@xblade149yes, really.
@isaacbahr9991
9 ай бұрын
there are no sundown towns in northern California, if you disagree with me then name them.
@Kharizmah
9 ай бұрын
@@isaacbahr9991Santee, San Diego CA nickname Clantee. On my way traveling to college in Sonoma, we passed through an area. My dad stopped in front of a building that had a sign, “No Colors”. They’re around.
@Dookie04
8 ай бұрын
It should be zero and teamwork makes the dream work. Thank you for educating me.
@ra2186
9 ай бұрын
He just described the whole state of Missouri
@kimberlynelson1468
9 ай бұрын
Yep.
@sixx6789
8 ай бұрын
Yop. Fucking hate it here😭
@SashaPlata
8 ай бұрын
Where in Missouri y’all at?
@itsthefrogmafia
8 ай бұрын
yep…hate ts
@RutabegaNG
8 ай бұрын
The Midwest. All of it.
@professoreinstein6
9 ай бұрын
Been around some of those towns traveling through VA. It's crazy how my grandparents told me about them when they were much younger and then my cousins and I experienced the same things 40 years later. Now I'm telling my kids the same stuff. 😢
@celisewillis
7 ай бұрын
Just heartbreaking to need to tell children that there are people who irrationally hate them. I'm sorry you're put in that position 😢
@cake_9510
2 ай бұрын
The surprising thing is that the biggest cluster of them are in the Midwest. You'd think they'd be down south, but no. When you think about it though, the Midwest is super rural, even remote, and that leaves room for insanity.
@Perceptionreflection
9 ай бұрын
I lived in Richwoods, MO and uh... there were several tiny places around us I as a mixed Mexican kid couldn't go. Only 1/4 but at the time very visibly so... they killed a black man in Sullivan right in front of his kids when I lived there. His daughter was my best friend... I never saw her again and my white mom wouldn't take me to that grocery store anymore in fear. No investigation happened, no arrests. His family fled. Stay safe, stay aware. Like Ani Difranco says "At every state line there's a new set of laws and every police man comes equipped with and it goes: there's a thousand shades of white and a thousand shades of black, but the same rule always applies. Smile pretty and watch your back."
@shrimpdragon1353
9 ай бұрын
Where is richwoods north or south I’m in poplar bluff mo if yk where that is for a gauge
@kenriley-fe5kv
9 ай бұрын
You're exaggerating. I live in Franklin County been to Sullivan countless times and there are mixed families there are every assortment of race coloring creed. Maybe many many years ago but certainly nothing in my time
@RommelTesla
9 ай бұрын
Source: "Trust Me Bro"
@cutienerdgirl
9 ай бұрын
@@kenriley-fe5kv You don't even live there. How are you going to tell him what happened to his BEST FRIEND?!
@kenriley-fe5kv
9 ай бұрын
@@cutienerdgirl I'm just telling you that is not the way it is in general. And yeah I do live in the area and I've been all around it for a very long time. Does that answer your question?
@3arthIsGhetto
9 ай бұрын
There are *still* actual sun down towns in the South and they really are NOT places you dont want to go as POC, at night or really ever. 2024, too smdh Source: I lived in AL and TN.
@Metalalbumreviewers
7 ай бұрын
Grew up in a Jewish household in a very rural community. Lots of my friends didn’t understand why I wouldn’t go to certain towns with them for a night out. The ones that did understand generally came from families that wouldn’t associate openly with my family for obvious reasons. They were few and far between, but never a good feeling having to pass through one of those places when I was by myself.
@wellmanj28
9 ай бұрын
Yes Sir I'm native American so I lived this in the 80's
@DanielRivera-rj5yg
9 ай бұрын
Buffalo, NY still today. The bodies of two well known old school martial artists were fished out of Lake Erie. Years apart. Both said to be suicides.
@Daelyah
7 ай бұрын
So fucked how NY still has so many shitholes to avoid. My region isn't perfect, but there are some safer locations. May be white, but I know my queer hide needs to avoid a LOT of places, even in this state.
@aliciaaz2356
7 ай бұрын
Vider, TX is terrifying. I always traded shifts with a white co-worker whenever my job would send me out there. That sundown town aint no joke
@TheTamranator
2 ай бұрын
There's a few towns in East Texas like that, sadly.
@hummzaa8704
9 ай бұрын
We still have them up here in the Pacific Northwest so keeping a pocket partner is advised😮
@XMANIAFLYYY
9 ай бұрын
That’s one way to word it 😂
@godfreyharris4963
9 ай бұрын
I broke up with someone who wanted me to come visit her in South Washington, north Oregon, area that was mostly in marked Sundown town area. Yet she didn't understand why I didn't want to go down there. But there is a black family in the community. . . A black family.
@TheSklar
9 ай бұрын
Thats wild... I didn't think the PNW would be like that.
@Lupo32
9 ай бұрын
The Pacific northwest is where a lot Of whites went to as a safe haven .
@ms.ladybug6186
9 ай бұрын
@@godfreyharris4963 tried to lure you in an a "Get out" situation.. if your safety is no concern then it's not the person for you..hope you take heed!
@MorganMakesThings
8 ай бұрын
In my experience (white-passing Jewish) this is true of most of Indiana. I've been accosted multiple times in public in broad daylight there for being Jewish. I venture to guess that folks in them there parts are even less polite to minorities with more melanin. Y'all stay safe as possible. Things are bad out there right now, and even worse in places where they were already bad.
@btf_flotsam478
7 ай бұрын
Australia accepts asylum seekers from the USA, if I recall correctly.
@unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz7956
7 ай бұрын
Describing your self as “white passing Jewish” might be the literal most embarrassing statement I have ever heard in my entire life
@AKu-xs5vg
5 ай бұрын
@@btf_flotsam478Imagine thinking that the same exact people on a different stolen continent would be any different lol
@btf_flotsam478
5 ай бұрын
@AKu-xs5vg America has a radically different culture to Australia. I know that if that stuff was found to exist here in Australia, it would make front-page news for months.
@AKu-xs5vg
5 ай бұрын
@@btf_flotsam478 cope
@ahseaton8353
2 ай бұрын
When I lived in Columbia, South Carolina, my wife worked in Irmo. Irmo was "NICE". It was so NICE that the "wrong" sorts of people left before sunset.
@dusfitz
9 ай бұрын
When I was in the Army, there was a place in Mississippi not terribly far from Biloxi. We took a bit of a trip on a weekend pass, in this town is a lil diner/bar where the waitress told us "You guys heading back to base? You should, it gets rowdy here after dark." We left and my buddies were all about going back to biloxi, they informed me of this whole thing. I am a dumb white kid from the north... I couldnt fathom it at that time. Still messes with my head to think that exists still.
@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc
9 ай бұрын
How many pushups did you finally get "Sgt. Tume??)" to do?? Note: If you don't get the joke, then see the movie "Biloxi Blues" starring Matthew Broderick.
@dusfitz
9 ай бұрын
@@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc you're the second person in a week to mention this movie to me for entirely seperate reasons. Lmao. I guess I'm gonna have to watch it now.
@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070
9 ай бұрын
that is actually kinda wild cause that a tad obscure of a reference
@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc
9 ай бұрын
@@dusfitz It will certainly help you to understand my "humorous"🙄 comment😉
@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc
9 ай бұрын
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 Probably a little OVER "a tad"!🙄😉🤣
@Chickienugs
9 ай бұрын
There was a depiction of a sundown town in Lovecraft Country, pretty chilling
@samblovinglife7946
9 ай бұрын
That's where I learned of it, I'm from South Georgia and I'm 42. I mean I know whites didn't like us but can't be out at night, even in 2024, this place is unbelievable...
@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc
9 ай бұрын
Up in LOVECRAFT Country eh?😱 Given what he wrote, I'm thinking you might want to stay out of the water as well, or not even DRINK the stuff for that matter.😳🤣
@strawberryjam6235
2 ай бұрын
@@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc Lovecraft Country is a a TV show
@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc
2 ай бұрын
@@strawberryjam6235 Did not know that--thanks for the info. 🫡
@spiritteddy9393
7 ай бұрын
This is today's reminder that even if I grew up in a violent neighborhood shit coulda been worse. Everybody stay safe out there.
@jenniferbates2811
9 ай бұрын
Thank you. I'm in Rhode Island, and I've never heard of this term
@clairesboyzd3933
9 ай бұрын
yeah because in rhode island they’re the norm😭😭😭
@jenniferbates2811
9 ай бұрын
@@clairesboyzd3933 What do you mean? What's the norm?
@bernadettecartin
9 ай бұрын
@@jenniferbates2811He's saying that all of Rhode Island is basically a sundown town.
@jenniferbates2811
9 ай бұрын
@bernadettecartin Gotcha....thank you. It's not a true though
@dustinconnolly7258
9 ай бұрын
Read a book
@Katiedid1975
9 ай бұрын
At 66 I was born in a sun down town. We even had a billboard and other signs around town. Out in the county, signs weren't even necessary. Sadly, we have not progressed as humans to the extent I thought sure we would by now, back in my youth. The politicians continue to divide us. Don't fall for it, be united as the HUMAN RACE! ❤❤❤
@mattwilson8298
7 ай бұрын
I'm fom AL. Most of the state is sundown towns. It's crazy out there. Y'all stay safe.
@CJChicP
9 ай бұрын
Sundown town vibes still exist to this day. Ask Cullman, AL.
@someguyfromtheinternet5102
8 ай бұрын
Finally... someone said a real sun down town. Been there. Even heard a lot of things from folks out there in Birmingham. Talking about coming for this type of thing.
@missytusara8274
7 ай бұрын
I knew Arab was a sundown, but not Cullman...
@ESL-O.G.
2 ай бұрын
Wow, what they do is right there in the name. Cull Man
@FoolOfATuque
9 ай бұрын
Vidor, TX is a famous sun down town. They used to have a sign coming into town even.
@AutismAunnie
9 ай бұрын
Yup
@xblade149
9 ай бұрын
Yep. I heard stories about Vidor from my parents. And this was back in 2007
@hhlech2852
9 ай бұрын
Yes, very well known
@BrooklynNY1979
9 ай бұрын
Famous and very well known, yet STILL exists... nothing is don't about these places
@maurioneal1386
8 ай бұрын
Funny story... I was in the National Guard when hurricane Harvey hit Houston and flooded that whole area. While doing rescue and relief missions, I was pulled from a mission going to Vidor because the locals "didn't want to be saved by n-words". I was pissed off and thought all missions there should be cancelled!!!
@neophytepolymath649
2 ай бұрын
I just learned that this was a thing this year, and it's vile that this is a thing. Stay strapped brothaman
@eugenew2
9 ай бұрын
I think the Green Book still exists as well.
@BrooklynNY1979
9 ай бұрын
It does and it is STRICTLY adhered to... although some white devil attempted to mislead folks by offering safe haven to Blacks once in an attempt to commit violence upon them
@simpledimple652
8 ай бұрын
It does.
@Alara89933
9 ай бұрын
Holy shoot. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’m from Canada, and there are definitely towns out here to do something called a “starlight tour”. That’s where the police take a personal color, usually aborigina, drives them out of town, and just dump them in a snowbank to freeze to death. It’s a dark world out there. Stay safe, everyone.
@xblade149
9 ай бұрын
They still do that today?
@Alara89933
9 ай бұрын
@@xblade149 Most recent documented case was 2018, but it's still going on.
@AKu-xs5vg
5 ай бұрын
More like a ⚪ world
@nekoill
7 ай бұрын
Stay strapped, stay safe brother 🙏
@jenetalong6452
9 ай бұрын
I'm from upstate New York. I was driving to panama city florida and I stopped in alabama... I was going to stop ....when I pulled up to the gas station. Everyone was staring at me like I was an alien or something... My instance kicked in, and I kept driving. I was not gonna be another hashtag.
@AshleyJohnson-xd1ei
9 ай бұрын
You did the right thing. I'm from Alabama.
@AIBot929
8 ай бұрын
Darn skippy
@brittanylewis3984
8 ай бұрын
Yeah you did the right thing cause Alabama still with all the shyt
@juanderotinsley2284
9 ай бұрын
In Sam Cooke's (another Mississippian like myself), "A Change Gonna Come," he has a verse that speaks of a sundown town 🎶 "I go to the movies, and I go downtown..... but somebody tell me don't hang around"🎶. The sad part of this is that those places still exist to this day. They were never outlawed. It's one of the many reasons why I don't acknowledge being from Mississippi.
@zedmak
8 ай бұрын
Hopefully there is a list, but I pretty much stay away from the entire Bible Belt.
@CCoburn3
9 ай бұрын
When I was in college, a black family was driving through a neighboring county on the interstate. Their car broke down, and the sheriff put them in jail, saying he wasn't going to have "no murders" in his county. I'm not saying he allowed them to stay at the sheriff's office -- he locked them in a cell until their car was fixed. But when Katrina happened, some of the churches decided to help the people of New Orleans. They moved black families into the county. And there weren't any problems. Now that county has a sizable black and Hispanic population. So there is a possibility that the sheriff was just over-reacting when he jailed that family.
@isomatic
9 ай бұрын
maybe also a case of strength in numbers. With all the blacks and Hispanics now, people are less likely to mess with em
@dogomage9003
9 ай бұрын
that's what racisum is?
@roringusanda2837
9 ай бұрын
Well, better safe than sorry 😔
@PPuffNstuff
9 ай бұрын
Ya think??!
@danbotlien
9 ай бұрын
That or he done lost his job there. One can only hope anyway
@Abyssal_Light
9 ай бұрын
Remember folks, it's not a party until you bring the poppers. 😂😂
@grmpEqweer
8 ай бұрын
I've always thought the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives sounds like a party you'd have up in the East Texas woods.
@rlhunter42304
Ай бұрын
I've been in one, but the opposite of your description. It was an all black county in Mississippi where I had to install one of those phones for the hearing impaired. The husband offered to take us to the gas station if we needed gas and said "don't stop once the sun goes down, no matter what. if someone is 'broken down' drive around them as fast as you can". Super nice couple, and it was the nicest warning I ever got.
@CStuekey87
9 ай бұрын
The town my stepdad grew up in was a sun down town. He told me they used to have a really disgusting sign that said they'd hang n words caught out after dark. I'm glad he had the parents he had because they taught him that stuff was unacceptable and to treat everyone with kindness. I don't visit where i grew up much nowadays, but when I do, best believe the timer starts tickin as soon as i hit the county line. Small towns typically produce small minded folk.
@AppalachianCowboy3828
8 ай бұрын
Also produces all your food you small minded person.
@coco_rthritis6462
9 ай бұрын
There's an interactive map/list of sundowntowns called History and Social Justice. The criteria seems a little loose but idk all the towns I've heard in the comments were on it. It's interesting at the very least. I'm honestly just thankful I didn't see my town lol.
@cincinnati4391
2 ай бұрын
A lot of the towns it lists in my state that I recognize and are still probable (ohio) are just terrible in general tbf, nobody really likes going to those places or living there unless they have no other choice. I’m assuming it’s a bigger problem in less urbanized states, like our neighbor Indiana.
@j.t.hartzfeld1368
2 ай бұрын
If the "town" only has a single, all-in-one store and a church, and the restaurant/gas station/feed store there is called something like "Karen's Kwik Kitchen," that's one of 'em for sure. Or really, any town where it seems like they are avoiding the use of the letter Q. Yeah, there's a history there.
@MarloSoBalJr
2 ай бұрын
If it has less than 5 traffic lights, it's a sundown town... or it's Gary, Indiana 😅
@BrEEzE727
9 ай бұрын
Lived in Jackson for 3 years, one of the most dangerous cities in the US, Terry Rd and McDowell, place is wild day and night but way worse at night
@callsignkilroy334
9 ай бұрын
Wild how regional terms can change, where I’m from a sun down town is a retirement town filled with old people. Also all the businesses are closing because no one young wants to move there
@eliminoh_p7877
2 ай бұрын
I’m a white man that grew up in Indiana and even I know what a sun down town is. Never forget there are people that want to take us back to that time.
@draconicfeline6177
2 ай бұрын
That's why I can no longer respect the conservatives and the right - they truly get off on human suffering.
@Nedra812
2 ай бұрын
Many in government too
@brandonmurry8288
2 ай бұрын
Thank u for saying that. The Delusion is awkward
@eatwhatukiii2532
2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately those bad people are more and more in control.
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