‘The View’ Fact Checked After Actress Pam Grier Recalls Growing Up in Ohio Around Lynched People Hanging from Trees

Disney-owned ABC’s The View was fact-checked by the public after actress Pam Grier tearfully claimed that her mother had shielded her eyes from seeing a lynching victim “hanging from a tree” when she was a child living in Columbus, Ohio.

After being asked by The View co-host Sunny Hostin if she faced a lot of racism growing up in Columbus, Grier, the daughter of a member of the military, answered, “The military wouldn’t allow black families on the base, so you had to live in an apartment.”

“And you couldn’t to take a bus,” the Foxy Brown star continued. “You couldn’t afford a car, you walked. Your dads walked to the base.”

“Sometimes, we would go from tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment