Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — inclusively defined as the legacy kind and the transgender individuals — from the Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time.
The View guest recounts wildly ahistorical, revisionist lynching fantasy to much-empathetic nodding
As an aggressive avoider of pop culture, I have no idea who this BIPOC lady in a cowboy hat and valued guest at The View, Pam Grier, is or why the American public is meant to care about what she thinks.
Furthermore, in the service of maintaining blissful ignorance, I refuse on principle to spend three seconds looking her up on the Google machine, as there’s surely nothing redeeming to be found.
Ardent disinterest in BIPOC cowgirl Pam Grier notwithstanding, she recently graced The View with her brave and stunning presence, which suggests that she’s a very important person worthy of national attention.
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During her appearance, BIPOC cowgirl Pam Grier audaciously claimed that, during her childhood growing up in Ohio, not once, but multiple times, she witnessed black lynching victims hanging from trees while walking around town:
The military wouldn’t allow black families to live on the base. So you had to live in an apartment. And you couldn’t take a bus, [if] you couldn’t afford a car, you walked… And, sometimes, we would go from tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment, my brother and I and my mom, with bags. And my mom would go ‘don’t look, don’t look, don’t look.’ She’d pull us away because there’s someone hanging from a tree!
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— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) February 11, 2026
The traumatic recollection of her traumatic lived experience, as they say, was, as one might expect, met with audible sympathetic gasps of indignation and shock from the studio.
Which, one might offer, is totally unsurprising. After all, what kind of monster would offer any other kind of reaction to such cruel experiences inflicted on a mere child?
The problem, however, is that the BIPOC cowgirl’s recollection of events is on par with Jussie Smollett’s midnight attempted lynching in sub-zero temperatures in the middle of downtown Chicago but a couple of good old boys on the prowl screaming “this is MAGA country, [expletive], or Joe Biden claiming his uncle got downed in New Guinea during World War II and was eaten by cannibals.
It’s on par in the sense that no such thing ever happened and is evidently the product of a highly overactive imagination jump-started by DEI hysteria or possibly, in the case of the Brandon entity, dementia.
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Unfortunately for the BIPOC cowgirl, the last lynching in Ohio occurred in 1911 — 38 years before this lady was born in 1949 and far earlier than she could have conceivably been told by her mother to “look away” from the African-American lynching victims “hanging from trees.”
Now, one might be inclined to believe that, perhaps, a lynching in Ohio a half-century after the last recorded one might have simply slipped the attention of historians somehow. That might be plausible, except that, again, BIPOC cowgirl Pam Grier used the term “sometimes.”
“Sometimes,” she would see black lynching victims hanging from trees on walks — not “one time” — meaning this was a recurring event.
Why this is relevant to the central theme of this serial, the struggle for female liberation from the Patriarchy™, is that the absolute obsequious response, without a shred of incredulity, from the hostesses and the audience on this women’s show is predominantly a female trait, and a female liberal trait at that.
No matter how outlandish it might be, if a tale of woe befalling a protected class is conveyed with enough emotional heft, it’s meant to be believed and affirmed at all costs, including the sacrifice of basic common sense — hence the “Believe All Women” mantra of the #MeToo Cultural Revolution.
