Hosted by Chuck Lenahan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 27 episodes
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Committed to Misunderstanding is a podcast about history, accountability, and human behavior. Hosted by therapist Chuck Lenahan, the show examines erased histories and the patterns that allow harm to continue long after violence ends. Through a clinical lens and rigorous research, each episode explores how denial, minimization, and narrative control shape what we remember—and what we avoid. This isn’t sanitized history or performative outrage. It’s an examination of how societies justify harm, resist repair, and pass unfinished business forward.
Chuck Lenahan hosts Committed To Misunderstanding, a history show with 27 episodes published.
In the 1890s, Callie House organized 300,000 people — mostly poor Black women — to petition Congress for reparations for formerly enslaved Americans. The federal government charged her with mail fraud. The theory: organi
Show notesIn 1988, Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act — the formal government apology and $20,000 payment to Japanese American internment survivors. His signing statement made the case: military service, wrongful governm
Show notesIn 1951, Harvey Clark rented an apartment in Cicero, Illinois. He had a signed lease and a federal injunction. A mob of 4,000 burned his building down. Then the grand jury indicted him. That is not a story about one man.
Show notesSeven years ago I met the man I was going to marry. I learned pretty quickly — because he is a very proud Black man — what I did not know. I had spent most of my life in a very red, very white, very homogenous town. I kn
Show notesPicture a track. White runners start at the standard line. Black and brown runners start two hundred yards back. Same finish line. Same judges. And when the results come in, the people running the track say the Black and
Show notesIn 1995 a political scientist named John DiIulio predicted a coming wave of violent juvenile crime. He called them super predators. The term went everywhere — politicians, prosecutors, the press. Hillary Clinton used it
Show notesLinda Taylor was a real person. A woman in Chicago, convicted of welfare fraud in 1977. The documented amount she collected fraudulently was somewhere between eight and twenty-three thousand dollars. Ronald Reagan descri
Show notesMass media in the United States didn't reflect American attitudes about race, poverty, and crime. It manufactured them. From the minstrel stage to the evening news. From Birth of a Nation to nightly crime segments. From
Show notesEpisode 15 drops Friday. Linda Taylor committed welfare fraud. Ronald Reagan described her as collecting $150,000 a year under80 names. Most of those details weren't in any record. By 1980, the welfare queen was American
Show notesIn 1919, Mildred LewisRutherford, Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, distributed a pamphlet to school boards across the South specifying which history textbooks were acceptable and which were n
Show notesThey didn't just remove Black fathers from the home. Then they blamed Black mothers for the gap. That's not analysis. That's a policy decision dressed up as sociology.In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote an internal go
Show notesIn March 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote an internal government report meant to argue for federal investment in Black communities. The phrase he used to make that argument — 'tangle of pathology' — became one of the
Show notesIn 1965, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act put a hard stop between covered states and discriminatory voting law changes. Before you alter the rules, you ask permission. It worked — registration gaps that had stood for g
Show notesIn 1866, a man named Henry Adams was arrested in Mississippi for "walking without purpose." Eight months earlier, he'd been legally enslaved. The fine he couldn't pay sent him back to the same land, the same owner, the s
Show notesHow long does it take to execute a child in the United States of America? In 1944, South Carolina needed 83 days to take 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. from arrest to electric chair. No written confession. No defense wit
Show notesHow long does it take to execute a child in the United States of America?In 1944, the state of South Carolina needed 83 days to arrest a 14-year-old Black boy named George Stinney Jr., interrogate him without a parent or
Show notes15,000 Black workers built cars at the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Not one of them was allowed to live there. The mayor served 36 years and told The New York Times he favored "complete segregation." That was not th
Show notesIn 1919, an armed mob in Corbin, Kentucky went door to door through the Black neighborhood. More than two hundred people were marched to the train depot at gunpoint and shipped out of town. After the expulsion, no new Bl
Show notesThe federal government drew a map. That map still determines who has wealth and who does not. In Episode 8 of Committed to Misunderstanding, licensedclinical mental health therapist Chuck Lenahan examines redlining — not
Show notesWhat if the modern wealth gap wasn't an accident, but a completed transaction? This week, Chuck Lenahan examines the history of Special Field Order No. 15—the promise of "Forty Acres". We move past the "tragic misunderst
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