The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: BURNED An Orphanage In NYC

Episode Date: February 20, 2024

On this episode of #IDKMYDE, we delve into a chapter of history as we explore the events that unfolded on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. Back during the Civil War, when the North needed more soldiers, a draft was implemented—but with a cruel twist. White folks could dodge the draft by paying, leaving the working-class white men to bear the burden. Fueled by anger and racism, they unleashed a horrific rampage, targeting innocent black men, women, and children. But amidst the chaos, there were tales of resilience as the children of the orphanage miraculously escaped unharmed. IG: @_idkmyde_ | @BdahtTV | @blackeffectSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A- Stan on the I heart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. One of the largest amounts of casualties during the civil war didn't happen on the battlefield. It happened in New York city at an orphanage. I didn't know. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

I didn't know. 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City was the location. It's now Midtown Manhattan. There was a black orphanage. And during the Civil War, the North needed more soldiers. So they had a draft in New York City. See, white folks could pay to dodge the draft. Remember, black folks weren't even citizens, so they had a draft in new york city see white folks could pay to dodge the draft remember black folks weren't even citizens so they couldn't be drafted so it was just a working class white men available for the draft and those white men were angry they were so angry at black folks that they went on another one of them good old white killing sprees where just being black was a death sentence massacres monday this season is dedicated to those very atrocities.

Then white folks went in the city and killed 120 black men, women, and children. Just unalived them. Then went to the Colored Orphans Asylum, broke in with bats and pickaxes, burnt it to the ground like Andre Rosin's house in the 90s. All of the childrens. All of the children escaped, none died. Many of them fled to Blackwell's Island, what is now Roosevelt Island in New York. Most of the other black folks in that now midtown Manhattan area fled to Harlem or Brooklyn and the demographics still show

those numbers today. On our commute to school in the morning, my 11 year old daughter and I, after completing our affirmations, we just have conversations about everything from integrity to civil rights to enslavement periods. And she asked me one morning, she said, Dad, when the KKK started beating up the black people, what will happen to the kids? And I looked in the rearview mirror and we locked eyes and I told my 11 year old baby girl, the Klan would beat up the kids too, Ryan. And she said, and they would kill the kids too. I said, yes, baby.

Those racist white Klansmen would kill the black kids too. And I could see the innocence leave her eyes. 120 black men, women, and children were killed that summer day, July 13th, 1863. 2,000 people were injured. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I didn't know. Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own?

I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.