Pam Grier Lied on The View

In this episode, we fact-check Pam Grier after her emotional recounting on The View about growing up in Columbus, Ohio, including claims about military base segregation and seeing lynchings as a child. We break down exactly what the historical record shows:

Ohio was a free state, not a slave state.

Documented lynchings in Ohio occurred long before Grier’s childhood, with the last known cases decades earlier.

There is no verified record of lynchings in Columbus during the 1940s or 1950s.

We also explore why no one on The View corrected these claims, and how emotionally charged narratives can take on authority without scrutiny.

This episode continues our series on how narratives about Black pain and history get amplified without fact checking, why Black anger is often unchallenged in media spaces, and the consequences of letting emotional storytelling override documented reality.

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