Disney-owned ABCs daytime talk show The View is facing a wave of public skepticism after actress Pam Grier delivered an emotional account of allegedly seeing a lynching victim hanging from a tree as a child in Columbus, Ohio.
During Mondays broadcast, co-host Sunny Hostin asked Grier whether she had encountered significant racism growing up in Columbus, prompting the actress, whose father served in the military, to respond, The military wouldnt allow black families on the base, so you had to live in an apartment.
According to Breitbart, Grier elaborated on the alleged conditions of her childhood, claiming, And you couldnt to take a bus, before adding, You couldnt afford a car, you walked. Your dads walked to the base.
Grier, best known for her roles in Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown, painted a stark picture of daily life, recalling, Sometimes, we would go from tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment my brother and I, and my mom with bags. She then shifted to a more dramatic recollection, asserting that her mother once shielded her from the sight of a lynching victim hanging from a tree in Columbus.
My mom would go, Dont look! Dont look! Dont look! and shed pull us away, because there was someone hanging from a tree, Grier told the audience, drawing audible gasps from the studio crowd. They have a memorial for it now, where you can see where people were and left, the Crime Story actress added, suggesting an official commemoration of the alleged killing.
Grier further claimed that the memory still haunts her, stating, It triggers me today, to see that a voice can be silenced. She went on to assert, And if a white family supported a black [family], theyre going to get burned down, killed, or lynched as well.
Online, however, users quickly challenged the veracity of her story, with X adding a Community Note to a clip of the interview that read, The last lynching in Ohio took place in 1911 while Pam Grier was born in 1949, citing Americas Black Holocaust Museum. The same museums records also state that there has never been a documented lynching in Columbus, Ohio, directly contradicting Griers televised account.
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