1973 SPECIAL REPORT: "BROOKLYN SCHOOL INTEGRATION"

White parents in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn voted almost unanimously yesterday to end their month‐long boycott of district schools and accept a Board of Education plan that would zone out of the district black Brownsville students.
Nearly 700 residents at a Meeting at the Seaview Theater, Rockaway Parkway and the Belt Parkway, applauded and gave a collective sigh of relief, terming the board's action a complete victory for the area in the fivemonth, seesaw battle to halt the city's zoning of black youths into the mostly White area for purposes of integration.
After the meeting, Alan Eludiclunann, chairman of Concerned Citizens of Canarsie and a boycott leader, vowed that members of the group would be on hand today at the previously boycotted schools to see that the return to normalcy went smoothly.
Mr. Ehrlichmann, whose group, along with the local chapter of the Italian‐American Civil Rights League, had wrested leadership of the protest from the area parent associations, said that he saw broader ramifications in the board's decision.
“We've turned the tide in the city,” he said, referring to Board of Education attempts to integrate mostly white schools, “and promoted a victory where a month ago, against thousand‐to‐one odds, no victory was possible.”
Likewise similar, but more foreboding, repercussions were seen by the Rev. Wilbert Miller, pastor of Bronsville's St. Luke's Coinmunity Church and a spokesman for the area's Tilden Houses children, who are affected by the Beard of Education decision.
“This will seriously affect the educational climate in the city and the nation,” he said of, the decision, “and the Tilden parents are all in agreement that this is a sellout and cannot be accepted.”

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[@domenictv2880]

I got you keep the video coming .. bout to hit the cash app now

[@HezakyaNewz]

Thank you fam🙏🙏🙏 received

[@natashaswain7478]

I think integration was one of the worst things that ever happened to black people.

[@mikegeee3319]

You sound ridiculous.

[@tedkeenan3341]

@@mikegeee3319 what he said is absolutely true. Not only was it bad for black people, it was the worst thing for white people too. His statement is 100% correct.

[@Unrealma348]

Yes it was.

[@danielobrien8417]

The good old days,when you only have a $40,000 mortgage in Brooklyn.

[@joemorgan636]

Got to be joking It’s still equivalent to now that kind of money back in 1973 is a big big money is still the same as today just work it out from the wages they were getting them come on man

[@Gmenpg]

@@joemorgan636 not even close. 40k mortgage then is not equivalent to a 1.2 million dollar 2 bedroom home nowadays

[@AHAYAH88]

I was in Kindergarten in 1973. I'm now 53 years and nothing much really changed on this planet.

[@miarobinson847]

Awww 🥰

[@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736]

You’re not old. Maybe things will change in 100 years

[@danfield6030]

I'm 50. The whole world has changed !!! Nothing is the same

[@clemfarley7257]

The school and neighborhood did. Lol. You must be a macro guy. We live in micro worlds often.

[@lucyromano-cw9fv]

I was born and raised in greenpoint in brooklyn I don't remember this bs 1964 I am now 59

[@damianstarks3338]

Thanks for giving us these historic videos.

[@johndoe9362]

Damian Starks, "Historic" videos of blacks going where they're unwanted. Still happens every day.

[@damianstarks3338]

@@johndoe9362 yes it does.

[@bxdale83]

Now Canarsie is a overwhelmingly black neighborhood

[@teetot5276]

And carribbean..

[@pukysand]

So was the man in the glasses right on what was put in the newspaper?

[@onice33]

White flight 101

[@ianrampersad897]

The Italians and Jews starting leaving around the mid 80’s , they went to Long Island , Staten Island and New Jersey

[@Supervillainmc]

It looks like a bomb hit it now

[@dimviesel]

You always have the perfect beat to go with the video👍🏾 “We live in Brooklyn baby”

[@donnellvickers6314]

HEZAKYA videos are very VERY addictive. 🔥💥👍

[@dm-ub8me]

Fact

[@Tiger_Woods]

NYC schools still segregated till this day

[@frankjames6232]

But it's by choice and not laws

[@hereisayana8207]

My school in the North Bronx had African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans and then smaller numbers of a few other groups ... it was cool 1990's

[@joedimaggio6261]

@@frankjames6232 still segregated

[@kingk719]

@@frankjames6232 no it’s not by choice.

[@kingk719]

@@frankjames6232 I literally couldn’t go to a school that was 3 blocks away from me.

[@AP-we9pz]

Thank you so much for this , this is my grandmother, dad and my uncle. The pride family really appreciate you so much for this. It hit home for us!

[@johndoe9362]

A P, Your family is filled with criminals.

[@positiveenergyseeker]

did she rep 305 Li*** Ave...? if so that's my grandmother's aunt

[@joemorgan636]

Is this your family

[@jimmycain8669]

We had been integrated 3 years before that in Canton, Mississippi. The day they integrated is the day I quit. Moved to Wayne County and graduated with an all white class two years later. And I still don’t go along with government BS.

[@opaljk4835]

At least you’re not in denial about being bigoted

[@8213apice]

They shouldn’t have integrated the schools.

[@INANYMIN]

That woman said you too old to have kids anyway ,lmao

[@markwill3515]

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!!!

[@marcusmoore7911]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@miarobinson847]

Yes she read the shit outta that old lady 😂

[@laurenchristianna2092]

It's a few of "the opposition" looking old ASF to have school aged kids. 😫

[@miarobinson847]

I hollered yo 🤦‍♀️ 😂

[@oohweeoohwee9222]

I agree. We should have stayed at our own schools.

[@DJJayWhit]

Stfu racist

[@user-xg5kh9ci4f]

Was born and raised in Milwaukee. Went through the 80s 90s. And I remember I hated being bused from the south side to the north side. It was more about a neighborhood thing than white and black thing

[@robertdipaola3447]

​@@user-xg5kh9ci4fabsolutely true

[@GBTWC]

One day people will learn to get their children out of government schools

[@YoungAbel15]

And then what, put them into private schools? Tuition is going to be mad high.

[@GBTWC]

@@YoungAbel15 home school if need be. Find a co-op

[@YoungAbel15]

@@GBTWC yeah that's a possibility, but many parents will be too busy working to teach their kids anything. Also, let's say there are parents who didn't understand math when they were in school. They'll be struggling to teach it to their OWN kids that subject. I'm not trying to knock you're idea, my guy. I'd just rather have someone with the time or patience teaching a child. Also let's not get PC here, call "government" schools what they really are: public schools.

[@GBTWC]

@@YoungAbel15 they are government run not public run. Most parents can afford to sacrifice for their children if they prioritise what they spend money on I’d rather live poor and save my child than have a flat screen TVs and a iPhone etc. Government schools are indoctrination camps

[@YoungAbel15]

@@GBTWC first let me say that I did look up the definition of "public school" and no lie, you're right. As for the sacrifice you mention, I completely agree with you that not every family needs expensive materialistic things. But again, what many parents can't do is sacrifice time away from work. There is no mandatory maternal leave here in the US like there is in other countries. There's no way companies or the government are paying parents to stay home and teach their kids. Now parents could teach their children on the weekends but at most kids will get two 12-hours lessons. That's not enough time. Again, I'm not hating on your idea I just don't think it'll have a positive outcome. Also I would like to know how government schools are "indoctrination camps"? How are they indoctrinating students?

[@kelvinjenkins7141]

The sad part about this is, 50 years later and they still do not have a high school in Brownsville Bklyn...they built a penitentiary instead...

[@j.porlando5091]

Rather build penitentiary then build schools to help the youth.

[@traceydixon6230]

Brooklyn Democracy Academy and Metropolitan Diploma HS exist in Brownsville. Choices are limited though. You are right about that!

[@carlajohnson9849]

I went to Brownsville Academdy, We had a sense of proud to be the best because this was the first HighSchool. This is an Eye opener

[@cashmayes2343]

1973 2021 nothing has changed with their attitudes hate filled. And this ain't the south

[@jaybloomfield5082]

There are a lot more integrated marriages nowadays.

[@shottashabazz6721]

Read the comments up here and you can tell nothing has changed. That’s the reason I stay clear of them. I don’t want to lose my freedom killing one of them doing some racist disrespectful sh*t towards me.

[@teresawicks-kq3bq]

Even today, white flight still happens and the integrated schools become black & brown

[@JohnnyTough]

Damn Brownsville look terrible in the 70s 😩

[@badgerden7080]

It doesn't look too good now.

[@brooklynred6762]

looks the same except that corner on belmont has a metro pcs now

[@TomikaKelly]

It looks terrible in 2024...😬🥴

[@JohnnyTough]

@@TomikaKelly that part 😆

[@CarlWinslow346]

Great choice on the intro song. Canarsie in the 70’s was a wild fucking place. Amazing video

[@azt69boyz72]

I was there. Worse than the South. Go to Harlem today and see the contrast.

[@IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady]

Memories 🥺 Bay Ridge High School For Girls. 64th & 4th. Italian and Polish guys chasing us with dogs and bottles and sticks while their moms and grandmothers egged them on. All Girls School!! Class of 1977 Annex and Main Building. We lived in Ocean Hill Brownsville.

[@magamaga1827]

1980s, Jamaica Queens. White kids had to take buses to the DMV but usually were chased out. At best they were robbed, most times beat up. Q44. But you don't give a fk. you racist pos.

[@IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady]

@@magamaga1827 You’re right.

[@treeshaholic]

Brownsville to Bay Ridge is a wild commute

[@IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady]

@@treeshaholic Absolutely 💯

[@je9212]

Keep up the good work da shinning smif n Wesson a classic album 💯💯💯💯💯

[@jesusisnotgod4265]

Thank you so much Hezakya

[@imackmusic7924]

Nothings Changed

[@MsJobs-fc9jp]

Bused from Brownsville to Flatbush's PS 197 at age 7 in 1963 was tough. The white adults and older teenagers didn't want us there. But we were little kids and didn't understand why we were shouted at, called awful names and sometimes chased. Enduring and adapting is all I remember.

[@danfield6030]

You sound like a complainer

[@ClintWestwood77]

As a white man. I apologize for the bigotry of the white race

[@gaylecoleman8567]

😢😢😢😢

[@richardloostburg2637]

They didn’t want you there because blacks commit so much violent crime. Truth is the truth. It was black behavior and not the black race that was the problem

[@REPR100]

Probably made it a worse school

[@dirkmassey7050]

I really appreciate what our people did, don't let me get anyone wrong. However, It sometimes appears that we threw, and still do at times, ourselves on people. I would've never put my child through that B.S., though I know they meant well by it. I would've made do wit' what I had and made up for what the school deprived them of at home or in my community. If every adult had pulled together and bought what they had to the table, they could've lifted their kids on their own merit. e.g., they could've occupied a church or civic center so many nights a week volunteering to tutor. When you bring so many people together, you'll find there will be different people with greater or superior aptitude in different areas than others. Then they could've organized from there. Again, 'think that would've filled in the blanks they weren't getting in the Black schools. It wasn't 'til I was in my early 20's that I really understood the difference between Malcolm X's ideology and MLK's. Now I'm not dispariging MLK, I appreciate everything he's done for me and the millions of other AA's. But when I heard him in one of his speaches say something like, " The day I see a white boy walkin' down the street hand and hand wit' a Black Girl...!" It was almost like he was asking for their acceptance through his rhetoric. Malcolm X would've never said anything like that. Other than that I do appreciate how he (MLK) got us the right to suffrage and got L.B. Johnson and J.F.K. to act on the civil rights problem we were having in this country. But as far as things like, forcing private owned establishments to serve us, especially restaurants, I don't approve of that, 'cause like Muhammad Ali said, they could or could've spit in that milkshake or even your food while they were in their kitchen. 'Why I havn't ate at Denny's in 30 years,.

[@markwill3515]

Well said.

[@hereisayana8207]

I definitely agree, I wouldn't put my kids through this either

[@kingofthecatnap6246]

Truth is power, Dirk. ☮

[@meinkorper2631]

The white people in this segment aren't white folks. Your assessment of the segment is off as you "think" to he Civil Rights Movement was black. If this would have been the case, how did blacks finance this expensive movement and had made it possible to televise it. I live in Harlem. Harlem is black but the real estate isn't. That means zoning laws as desegregation laws, and the department of buildings isn't black. The folks who make the laws aren't black either, if it's for construction or law enforcement or even traffic laws giving folks tickets=tax extension. Only because there are black folks to watch and see and read about, doesn't mean they follow their own directives. In 90% of the cases it isn't blacks that control their movements or leaders. You perceived this via education and mass media that blacks are these people. But they're not, because they act out an agenda of others. The blacks in this segment are very emotional. They "believe" that these are white people but they aren't. This is the first mistake and the last they do. Who told them that Brownsville is black. The real estate is owned nearly always by the nose people. Who are of course the slumlords not only of blacks but also of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Reservation Indians, Trailer Park whites. If a black area is black it means by living conditions. Ownership blacks nearly never have. They also can't control the drugs coming into their hoods. They have no control over homies selling and creating havoc. No control of the heating issue in winter. Every winter there are heating issues resulting in black folks getting hurt. Old ladies develop pneumonia, are moved to a Hospital and die mostly there. This happens since 60 years. There are no rights. As a right is backed up by a written law. This written law has to be executed otherwise it exists only on paper. As this criminal behavior towards blacks by the Pinnochios isn't prosecuted, it continues. The continuation of this is present in this segment and expressed by these black folks. The same blacks today have the same issues today. They own nothing - doesn't mean that the man with nose has to hurt them. The CIA that shipped drugs since at least 60 years into America is by directorship all the time a Pinnochio organization. How is this possible. If there is no prosecution, because blacks can't focus or are not able to get the correct information - for understanding that there are laws that they are able to use, these blacks will fail their children. Why would an honest black father don't point out the misery of the slums. The slums are not made by blacks. The people in charge have to be pointed out and prosecuted. If this effort isn't made, the Pinnochios will continue with the abuse. The community then sooner or later will change...change from a constant complaining group, to a depressed group that will take it's lot by becoming emotional sick. Now already young black kids are not interested to live anymore. They only eat and watch the idiot box and play video games. This has nothing to do with confidence. It's the opposite. Clinical obesity is a death wish. I know the entire American population has it, but by blacks it's so intense that you see in so many folks eyes, they gave up. Gave up not by being homeless through drinking and crime and drugs (this is minority), but by working, coming home and endulging in eating disorders meanwhile the community freezes, hearing shots being fired outside, loud music and party on weekends as if all is ok, car racing, and the cops can abuse as there is no prosecution. These folks in this segment are already in that phase. Look at them, they're sad that things never turn their way. And later on they watch the idiot box and forget how resisting is being done in a smart way. All of them have a idiot box at home that paralyzed them. But they believe it's the injustice of the system that they can't identify as what it really is. So the Pinnochios are confident that the confused blacks who can't identify them, won't have a chance as they control all Law Enforcement and law making for school curricular not to mention the important funding that comes with it. Meanwhile the black folks believe they have rights. To inform people in a proper way, one has to have guts. Type into KZbin:Professor Toni Martin. And click on his video: The Secret Relationship Between Blacks And Joos. This is one way to resist. He points out the Culprit. He doesn't complain. He won't watch mass media were blacks are demonized. He points out our problem with these chosen people in a historical perspective. Kids have to understand why they live in slums and their forefathers in 1901 didn't.

[@icecreamladydream]

most sensible comment i have read in a looooong time

[@lisapalmeno4488]

The kids went in and attended class "without incident." I think that proves that it was the adults who were protesting and acting up and not the kids.

[@jenniferazor9814]

Yikes!! Lmfao

[@lawrenceblack322]

Amen!

[@johndoe9362]

Lisa Palmeno, "Without incident?" LOLOLOLOL You have the brain of a child. Ummmm...... Don't you realize that integrating public schools in New York city was the beginning of THOUSANDS of future "incidents" of black on white crime in New York city public schools? That's EXACTLY what the white parents knew would happen if the schools were integrated. The white parents were RIGHT.

[@johndoe9362]

@@lawrenceblack322 Are you serious??? How many white kids would get mugged/beaten by black kids in public schools NATION-WIDE during the next few decades after this 1973 news story supposedly ended "without incident?" The white parents were RIGHT.

[@larrybee7713]

@@johndoe9362 Does it make you feel better to be able to harass and argue against and talk shit to other people who have commented on this post as if your opinion is the only opinion that matter? Just because you come out of the woodworks and start screaming at people behind your computer keyboard that everyone else is wrong except you does not make it right!

[@Honeymellan]

I'm from a rural town in Mississipp. The white people opened a private school during segregation. I hardly saw White people in the town growing up. I went to An all black public school with all black teachers. I didn't go to an HBCU because I needed to see what it was like to be around white people. I have a masters degree.

[@HezakyaNewz]

Let's Talk about that Masters...what's the Major?!

[@rickalphonse578]

Yup the segregation acadamies

[@teetot5276]

Now Canarsie is black/Caribbean

[@petej7002]

They meant what they said , skipped town No matter what 😂

[@Fightthepower718]

Facts and the neighborhood is changing for the worst in my opinion

[@SaturatedInLoveTarot]

god please make this man's children and grandchildren blessed and comforted @ 12:22 . He was/is genuinely a good person who wishes good unto others .

[@donnellvickers6314]

HELL YEAH, back wen rap was RAP. INTRO. 🔥

[@pukysand]

If the books, opportunities, and budgets would have been as they said separate but EQUAL, then schools wouldn't have been intergrated. So instead of blaming the people at the bottom and fighting one another, blame the people at the top such as your congressmen, superintendents, board of education, and governors because they knew distributing one heap of educational funds to an intergrated school are better distributing the same amount of educational fund's at two segregated schools. Some actual factual for your a**!

[@8213apice]

You shouldn’t have been fighting for acceptance to other schools. Our kids were smart before integrated schools. They were becoming lawyers, doctors, scientist, dentist, without the white folks school.

[@gaylecoleman8567]

Rockefeller's

[@drwalka10]

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF GOOD TEACHERS .. giving every economic class equal ____ is impossible, wake up

[@dukington101]

​@@drwalka10poor people can stop having so many children that would fix the problem in about 2 generations

[@Bkhouma]

@@dukington101holy shit this guy is a genius. He just solved the poverty high birthrate problem. Thank you so much!

[@bonifieddonlukatdon8812]

Wow...the neighborhood did change....Now everything WOO....🙃

[@celtiberian07]

Not for nothing canarsie is a black neighborhood for the last 30 or so years but they are middle class blacks mostly west Indian who worked very hard to be in a semi suburban area & probably don't want their kids going to school with kids from the ghetto getting their asses kicked and exposed to all kinda stuff they sheilded them from. I grew up in Brooklyn and was one of the white kids that got bused into black schools I was poor and from a single parent home so they probably didn't want me in my neighborhood school either

[@TurboComedy]

This is really awesome footage I would love to use this in my podcast! Born and raised in Bensonhurst this is such an amazing piece of history from my birthplace! Wow!

[@anthonymusto3537]

Canarsie!RIP!

[@pepsiccolausa8857]

People still segregate Living with there own. I guess it comes naturall.

[@zarario4444]

People who are not of color like to segregate when it comes to where they want to live. White flight!

[@TomikaKelly]

2:07 😮 She was WILDIN'!!

[@bxdale83]

The projects they were filming in is Van Dyke

[@teetot5276]

Wow brownsville…..

[@cashrule7356]

Facts the back of 419 by the baseball field which now is a tag football field

[@gregorycampagna8138]

Excellent video -- thank you

[@willdelarosa9440]

Nuffing new under the sun....its all about property value...Tony brown and Gil Noble did there thing back in the daze(days) reporting these issues in low income communities..

[@doommega]

I am always Stunned with this videos Like Dr Dre said... Aint Too Much Changed.... STILL....

[@ned272]

Your work is unmatched.

[@bobbyg433]

18:07 and that's EXACTLY what happened

[@davidleary3399]

Can you imagine how they were in the courts you didn't stand a chance u was not getting a fair shot

[@kingofthecatnap6246]

Thanks, Hezakya.

[@Spamps]

Wow I was 4 years old at the time. This was 3 blocks from my house. I heard about this but actually seeing the footage is unbelievable.

[@joemorgan636]

Wow really I was only 6 years old share madness

[@joemorgan636]

I didn’t experience any off this in London England

[@testament6100]

I’ve lived in canarsie since 1971 it was a nice quiet neighborhood with great schools. Instead of bringing kids from other neighborhoods here the city board of Ed politicians should have funded the schools in nyc equally so every kid has a good education. Sadly this does not happen. Most of the Jews and Italians moved because of this and the crime got worse. Today it is unsafe to be outside at night, we have many robberies, murders assaults and the home values have been going down since the neighborhood started changing in the 1990s . The schools are some of the worst in nyc. I worked in a elementary school in the 1990s and the students would fight and disrespect the teachers all the time . There is gangs and drug dealers here now. Everyone now has gated windows doors and alarms.

[@jessi1345]

I grew up in Canarsie and still live here now. You’re exaggerating about the neighborhood today like most of the racist white people who use to live here. Plus it’s 2022 who doesn’t have alarms in their homes? I can tell you that I feel safer today in Canarsie then I did 20 plus years ago because I vividly remember gangs of white kids chasing my older brothers trying to hurt them every day after school. So please stop with your BS

[@IllusArt]

@@jessi1345 100 percent agree. Usual suspects who state that Canarsie is a war zone and or over exaggerate are racist whit folks. I've been in Canarsie since 97 it has its ups and downs but nothing major. Overall a good neighborhood. Crime happens every where especially in the U.S...I know about the stories how racist Canarsie used to be and how they used to chase Blacks. Biased and racist comments that's all. Their cowards white flight.

[@Fightthepower718]

Correction the value definitely has not declined lol the average home in Canarsie is a 500k but i agree the neighborhood has taken a turn for the worst but still better than the surrounding neighborhoods such as east ny , brownsville Flatbush!!

[@available4comment433]

@@Fightthepower718 "still better than the surrounding neighborhoods such as east ny , brownsville Flatbush" I beg to differ. Canarsie is a shithole like all the other places you mentioned.

[@NathanThePrezPretlow]

How your neighborhood was so nice and you had the mob living all around there.And what about that Gemini Lounge that used to be on Flatlands Avenue that cut up people and bag them up. Yea real nice hood your were living in.Your old Canarsie was racist and dangerous as the South was.

[@LadyLiberty02]

It’s crazy out here. My great grandmother is in this video! Where did you get this??

[@positiveenergyseeker]

my great aunt - I wonder if we related?

[@positiveenergyseeker]

do you know if her father name was Edward??

[@Jebusite100]

Funny thing is Canarsie is 80% black now.

[@onemanarmy1873]

yup & The community is on the decline it still a decently community to live but i have to be honest CANARSIE HAS TAKEN A TURN FOR THE WORSE

[@Toxicplyer]

Force integration is the worst

[@neonnoir9692]

They were right. Integration was a terrible mistake.

[@robertnussberger6449]

Should have built there own schools Instead they destroyed some one else's school

[@dm-ub8me]

The song goes perfectly with the video

[@ericbaker9688]

3:36 definitely on the other side of the L. Rockaway and Pitkin! 🤔

[@Spillers72]

We need school choice. Vouchers for private school, charter schools, or tax credits for home schooling.

[@et781]

Vouchers are fine for elementary. The problem is that vouchers are when you take the "per pupil spending" a state pays for public school and use it instead for private school. Then, when a students enters middle or especially High School, the tuition is super expensive. Now, some great academic private High Schools can charge 20-30K per year! Even with assistance added, it may not be enough. I know quite a few families that are having this problem. Parents need to demand safer and better education and consequences for students who do not want to learn and that behave poorly. My son was zoned to a bad HS. School choice was not allowed 8 years ago at the time at our state. I went to the district office and brought the "Code of Conduct" they had issued and highlighted that my son has a right to a safe environment. The school did not help. He was threatened constantly because he was white. He did have some Latino and Haitian friends that were on the same soccer team that stood up for him, but it got ridiculous. I threatened to call the local news. Finally, after two months after I pulled him out and had him continue online, he got the transfer to a much better and safer HS, where he graduated with honors and no issues or threats. He was so much happier. So when I see this video above, I think, "Wow, how this has all been reversed!" Sadly it is still like this today. I worked as a secretary in a very good elementary school. It is about 75-80% black. However, the nearby middle and high school which is predominantly black is bad because of poor academic performance and violence. Why? It is not a ghetto area. There are decent looking single family homes there, but a friend who grew up there said the neighborhood went downhill about 30 years ago, when many people moved out.

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

So much for so called "Northern Enlightenment"

[@countdown2xstacy]

17:37-18:09 Man, that guy was 💯 correct. In a few years the school would become a shit hole.

[@DianaValence]

Blacks ruin everything.

[@CharliRay]

I went to a bussed school Harlem park in the 1980s it was amazing I learned so much street knowledge that I’m not your typical white man from my upbringing

[@christinagraham2915]

My dad was in Brownsville and was 15 yrs old in 1973

[@jv-sc1fs]

Wow I am from BK did not know this. Amazing smh

[@milescrawford1190]

Black ppl need to remember! Stay attached to your elders .so called black ppl the only group who have to fight every group and government in America! We need to know our history, and there’s. ! Ty 4 the documentary!

[@magamaga1827]

ya'll need to learn how to speak english and write correctly and stop killing.

[@ernestoalonso2992]

Integration never worked north or south the two races were meant to be segregated

[@jaybloomfield5082]

Good people are meant to marry and have children and have productive lives with each other regardless of their races

[@ernestoalonso2992]

@@jaybloomfield5082 jay that's the way it should be but in reality it's not if you read the bible god separated the two races Genesis chapter 11 stick with you own type he said that's why the Americas especially the USA has never been a place for black people had the separate but equal law worked we would still have segregation and blacks would have been better off than they're today

[@sofiabravo1994]

@Ernesto Alonso yes but Jesus never condoned racism in the Old Testament and New Testament. And the reason why he separated everyone was because people were trying to reach heaven in their own means with the Tower of Babel it was a spiritual thing not a racial thing. Don’t give racists excuses. Pride is a sin. Pride before the fall.

[@cubanpete1290]

@@ernestoalonso2992 How many slaves would you like to buy?

[@Fightthepower718]

@@cubanpete1290 let me buy you sound like a good slave cuban petey pablo is your new name

[@hereisayana8207]

21:31 is the first NY accent here.... the others are probably from the southern migration

[@futuristicbrooklyn1207]

They all probably came as kids from the south. My grandmother moved to Harlem from Virginia in 1955 and still has her southern accent

[@ray1love1]

My grandmother moved to Harlem in 1930 she really didn't have a southern accent anymore before she passed

[@hereisayana8207]

@@futuristicbrooklyn1207 yes mine also moved to Harlem too then ventured to the Bronx ❤

[@hereisayana8207]

@@ray1love1 mine didn't really have hers either anymore, and I'm sure your Grandmother had a NY swag though, just like mine used to ❤

[@positiveenergyseeker]

she does

[@mariekatherine5238]

“You’re too old to have any damn kids, anyway!” How rude! “Bussing,” as it was known in the 1970’s in the northeast, I don’t think, was so much about race as about forcing economic classes to blend. In a NYC, already crime-ridden by 1973, you had the gang issue, including the big boys’ gang, the Mafia. NY was already such a powder keg of crime that for everyone, black or white, moving young children out of their neighborhoods was scary. NYC schools as a whole, largest school district in the country, was also nearly 100% white run at the administrative level, were using neighborhoods and individual schools as pawns. The problem wasn’t really 32 kids, or 90 kids. Less than two years after this, Pres. Ford told all of NYC to “drop dead.” Volatile times!

[@MsLeighton41]

Yea but then you get called a racist. Ridiculousness fr. Kight have helped turn schools into war zones by late 80s

[@aydenmzgaming7894]

look at Brownsville now it's scary

[@brooklynred6762]

now? the ville since the jews lived there was scary that place has a curse on it i lived there

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

I don't even recognize it anymore!😟

[@doc-di2kc]

would had thought that dicrimation been done and gone but during the sexy seventies ? wow!!

[@tishainnis]

I had no idea that Canarsie used to be prominently white! 😮

[@onemanarmy1873]

Did you grown up in canarsie?

[@tishainnis]

@@onemanarmy1873 no. I’m from the Bronx.

[@LeslieAnneCookSustaita]

I grew up in Charleston, SC. I remember distinctly when the city began bussing the kids in from the inner city. In a word? Chaos. These kids didn't come to learn. They came to steal, assault, disrupt. It was bad. Really bad. We moved within a year.

[@thirsty57]

Sounds similar to what your ancestors did when they went to Africa and when they came to America. They stole, murdered, raped etc in a word? Barbaric

[@theybeonbody1309]

Charleston NC could never be Brooklyn, NY in 1973.

[@pepsiq11965]

When NYC was still about 80% mostly American New Yorkers of all Ethnic backgrounds. Now, Queens is 70% 3rd world. Brooklyn at least 55% and the Bronx forget about it Manhattan is full of transplants from across the country and Staten Island the only borough still mostly native New Yorkers FOR NOW

[@bxdale83]

Who can spot a young Al Sharpton in the video 😂

[@trevinhickman9022]

Where? Timestamp

[@trevinhickman9022]

@@airjor1 Yea I saw him, something else

[@lucyromano-cw9fv]

Dam

[@BUCKTOWNBABY]

Was born 20 years later. Crazy I never knew this type of shit took place in towns.

[@robbycatalina226]

BCC!!! Nice touch!!!

[@marcmeinzer8859]

The biggest problem with court ordered busing for integration of the schools has been the increasing reluctance of minority teachers to bother with teaching school anymore. Minority kids learn best when they are taught by people they can relate to better such as members of their own races or ethnic groups. Another problem is that your typical wimpy lower middle class white school teacher is extremely reluctant to impose disciplinary standards or even the most basic cultural standards such as demanding that the kids speak standard American English because they are AFRAID that they will be perceived as being bigoted. But in reality they ARE bigoted because they don’t for a minute believe that it is even possible to enforce such demands when dealing with students who are members of minority groups such as African-Americans and Hispanics. This is why public school will increasingly be run just like online academy as for instance ghetto teachers typically barely even bother to speak to their students.

[@drwalka10]

"Minority kids learn best when they are taught by people they can relate to better such as members of their own races or ethnic groups" This isn't needed for any other group .... also it's racist

[@marcmeinzer8859]

@@drwalka10 I’ve got news for you snowflake: everybody’s racist. Black ghetto kids think their white teachers are douchebags and have no intention of being anything like them. Maybe if more of their teachers were black men they’d be able to take school more seriously.

[@mob4336]

18:15-18:25. Unfortunately he called out what exactly happen

[@athanasiosmixas-xs5bk]

What's the group name.dope beat

[@angelos-o7x]

Now look at that neighborhood crime infested. It was such a beautiful neighborhood before they destroyed it 0:17

[@patriciagreen8245]

Amazing we were here first Unbelievable.❤

[@Animalfarm6cats]

I started school in 1974, there was nothing like this going on. As a child we don’t even notice anything different. That’s until some children are taught, to notice. I have a very good, long term memory. I remember being less than two years old. As an adult, I remember my classrooms were diverse. Ask me how I crossed the corner? A lot of times I don’t remember.

[@user-os9ge2we2b]

You didn't notice kids from bad areas were way more violent and disruptive than kids from good areas? Did you live in a bad area, or did you not have bad area kids bussed in?

[@lovelisa7009]

Well if the teachers were of equal quality I’m sure integration wouldn’t have been necessary. Every time blacks tried to have their own it was always of substandard quality, and if it was of quality and successful then the government looked at it as a threat.

[@MichaelSinclair-qr4fx]

Thanks.

[@michellejimenez79]

All sh~T FOR WHAT ?? DID THEY graduate or go to college ? Smith!

[@angelos-o7x]

Now look at that neighborhood crime infested. And destroyed

[@tooshort12]

Is it me or does the narrator sound like the guy on all those TikTok videos lol

[@angelos-o7x]

Now look at that neighborhood crime infested. It was such a beautiful neighborhood before they destroyed it

[@beesuarez6230]

I don’t agree with this as they needed to build a larger school, it’s ideal to go to school with the children from your neighborhood that way they can socialize afterschool

[@hereisayana8207]

Wow they said " down to the nitty-gritty " back then....lol

[@hereisayana8207]

@@emmanyc 🤣

[@miarobinson847]

😂

[@keithbentley6081]

The intro music is 20 years ahead of the film. At least it's not Paul McCartney this time.

[@moneyman65]

Is that a young Al Sharpton @12:28 👀

[@brooklynite4life255]

I was at P.S 242 went this occurred. 😮

[@jashary15]

I think it had more to do with just race, it also had a lot to do with character. Given the time period (1973, 50 years ago, just 9 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964), there was still obviously strong racial tensions between Blacks and Whites. But the issue was also over the quality or types of persons attempting to enter into a school system that didn't want them. Why would Black students want to integrate with a school just to prove a point when they could barely function as racial or academic equals in their own communities, in their own schools? What would be the point of trying to integrate into a school system when in many cases they were failing in their own school systems even then? What good would it have accomplished? 50 years later, given the failure of many inner-city schools today, we can all see more clearly that integration of that Brooklyn school wouldn't have been a good idea, it wouldn't have worked in the first place.

[@beautifulbarbiee4700]

No we wasent failing the school system was very racist to black they and they lived to dumb us down

[@curtisjackson2938]

We should've stayed segregated,we were at our BEST 🤔 about it!✊🏽

[@kidsavage86]

Wow born in Brooklyn in 86 i never hurd anything but my mom say anything about this

[@MrBeen992]

70 s !!!! NEW YORK !!!! That was just 50 years ago !!!! in NEW YORK !!!!

[@ScottRachelson777]

Human beings are so petty and superficial. Wow!!

[@athanasiosmixas-xs5bk]

The intro beat is dope what's the group's name r

[@garionbush5906]

Not even 50 years ago smh

[@miarobinson847]

47

[@louiedangelo3843]

@2:16 who bopped to that banger?...smif n wessun thats wasup

[@JeffNeckonoff]

Wow. This was totally horrible. People then, just like today, don't even realize they are racist. I was in 1st grade in PS 279 in Canarsie when this happened. I remember having a week off for some weird reason. Now I know why.

[@lucyromano-cw9fv]

I love you !!!!!!

[@lucyromano-cw9fv]

I was a baby in 3rd grade

[@discobean54]

I think it had a lot to do with people not knowing what exactly was happening in other neighborhoods but seeing the urban decay and rise in violence and drugs and stuff in other neighborhoods and but being comfortable having kids from those areas coming into theirs and worrying if there'll be bad influence and stuff. Like you're from one of those neighborhoods, I don't want my kids being exposed to that. It's fear of the unknown, ignorance and honestly a fair amount of acknowledgement of these concerns. People from working class communities that are still well functioning want to protect it. They see what's going wrong in worse areas that used to nice like theirs- safe, well maintained, etc. And see the violence and drugs and decay and don't knew fully why it doesn't work anymore, but that white flight occured and then that happened. These were fairly new societal and economic issues at the time and I'm actually pleased when I see how folks were not afraid to speak in plain terms, then. They weren't tiptoing around the main issues and trying to address them. It didn't really solve the issues but it brought them to the forefront to discuss. The only common denominator for many back then was race. White families leave blacks move in this is what happens to the neighborhood. It wasn't that simple but that's all they knew from an outsiders view. The guy with the mortgage says this much, having seen history, that other people who fear for a downturn in their neighborhood and value of homes going down will get scared and jump skip and sell/relocate before that can happen, if they suspect it's going to, to protect their investment. It's not entirely incorrect, that is what happened. Then because everyone is moving out property values go down so no one wants to move in and the cheaper it gets the socio economic status of incoming residents changes, tax revenue goes down, schools have less funding and decline, etc. The cheaper it gets it leaves the door open for lower quality of life tenants with all sorts of accompanying issues... drug abuse, unemployables, social dysfunction, ppl who can't get/hold/or want to work and can't afford to live anywhere decent... It's so many factors, it's really more complex than just race. Race was the must recognizable identifier at the time among segregated groups. Parents were afraid of kids from bad neighborhoods bullying theirs, bringing drugs to their schools, bad influence, etc.

[@BenBen-kh1dm]

I heard about up south fo years cant believe it tho🤔???

[@progressive29]

12:55 looks like a young Rev Al Sharpton

[@kayp.3377]

I thought that was him too..