Committed To Misunderstanding

A right is only as real as the person willing to stand between you and the person who wants to take it away. As white men, we have inherent power. We’ve had it since before this country existed. So why do we keep deciding that standing in the gap is "too expensive"?We’re pulling the receipts on history’s longest record of human behavior. Committed To Misunderstanding: S1Ep 5: Unplugging...

Indigenous removal was not accidental. It was legislated. In this episode of Committed to Misunderstanding , we examine how the United States transformed displacement into national policy. Through Supreme Court decisions, congressional law, treaty manipulation, and military enforcement, Indigenous nations were forced from their land in a system designed to convert territory into wealth. We analyze...

They won in the Supreme Court. The president let the ruling die. Episode 4 of Committed to Misunderstanding proves that the forced removal of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands was not a tragic inevitability. It was a policy — with decision makers, documented motives, and a paper trail. We trace the legal doctrine issued by the Catholic Church in 1452 still being cited in U.S. Supre...

They called it hard work. The archive calls it something else entirely. In Episode 3 of Committed to Misunderstanding, licensed clinical mental health therapist Chuck Lenahan examines American chattel slavery not as a labor institution that included violence — but as a violence institution that produced labor. That distinction is not semantic. It determines everything about how we understand the s...

Tulsa (1921) and Wilmington (1898) weren’t just episodes of racial violence. They were case studies in how power protects itself after the damage is done. Tulsa shows what happens when destruction is too large to deny — so it gets renamed. Wilmington shows what happens when a coup d’état is reframed as a “race riot” and institutionalized as order. This episode breaks down the mechanism: language,...

They didn’t just burn towns. They erased the evidence. Episode 2 of Committed To Misunderstanding looks at how erasure works — not as an accident, but as a system. Through a therapeutic lens, we unpack how denial, shame, and narrative control turn real harm into “confusion” and make accountability, history, and towns disappear. Tulsa. Wilmington. Rosewood. Full episode drops Friday the 13th.

Before the first episode begins, this trailer introduces the story that sets the tone for the entire season. In 1923, the Black town of Rosewood, Florida was destroyed and then deliberately erased from public memory. This trailer outlines what Committed to Misunderstanding is about: how violence continues through silence, how history is rewritten to protect comfort, and why calling harm a “misunde...

Rosewood, Florida did not disappear because time passed. It disappeared because violence was followed by silence — and silence was allowed to stand in for truth. In January 1923, a prosperous Black town was destroyed after an unproven accusation was weaponized into racial terror. Homes were burned, people were hunted, men were lynched, and families fled into swamps to survive. What followed was no...