Ask Me Don’t Tell Me (1961)

San Francisco gang members contribute to society working on community service projects.

[@Riogi]

This is such a learning channel. I am never disappointed with its content.

[@ccth22]

So true

[@alfredmadain8167]

This is fantastic and poetic and prophetic. jazz and hip hop 1961. Thank you for sharing

[@capricornlove4816]

Love films like this, the music, the culture, just calm and peaceful Thanks! More films please 😊

[@theresamay9481]

This is the film that shows the work my dad Carl V. May was doing in San Francisco around 1960, his magnum opus. I was just a toddler but I remember his office and the young "delinquents" visiting at my house. They did some good work together.

[@jameycollins725]

Thanks for uploading this video! I was very happy to see the different ethnic groups working together. It seemed like most got along. I'm sure there were some that didn't. But as my wise dad has said, if you are put in a work situation with others especially in close contact, you learn real quickly to get along.

[@BFLPodcast]

I'm a Bayview Hunters Point native and this is just...wow.

[@latoyagarrison8980]

Just goes to show that one learns not by schools but from your own discoveries/research/and now recommendations :) . @reelblack Thank you for this...

[@brianarbenz7206]

Coolest music video that ever featured a state's attorney general speaking!

[@brianarbenz7206]

These are very good and hope-giving projects, but overall, housing segregation, financial inequality, and gentrification more than undo the good of efforts like these. More radical change, meaning change at the root of society, is needed.

[@juliuscolemon5728]

I'm a SF native. Bayview Hunters Point in fact. This footage is fascinating. My mother was born in 61, wish my grandparents were alive to have conversations with them about this

[@BFLPodcast]

All I can say is wow bruh...just wow

[@jamalgadson2541]

My mom born in 57

[@StandFast1611]

Just subbed! Love to know how things really were back then, please post more! Thx Blkreel

[@tailor-mademedia1406]

"Potrero Hill"? That's where O.J. Simpson is from.

[@fallofmanbrand]

amazing video

[@RohgishSun]

14:44 THIS is how I was introduced to CRIPPIN...prior to any "gangbang" context back in the early 80's....and its NEVER left my mentality of Hood Enrichment Organizing Context. #USlawISmereWHITEwant

[@africanamerican1818]

Dope seeing blacks and browns building

[@Thebrothaisback]

Man, Neil Curtis goes waaay back!

[@youtubin222]

what is the name of the song that starts at 19:19? was that made just for this film?

[@MnMsME]

Beautiful !! ThanQ 🍀🍀

[@abelvazquez5009]

Man whatever happened to jacket clubs

[@HVelez64]

Nice video

[@alliekat9022]

Those young men are hot!

[@edgaravelar8860]

Just real men of all races

[@TNTN1977]

☆☆☆☆☆

[@ewalker1057]

Hear him say how society, adults are responsible if youth are delinquent. When adults thought as adults. Just how us used to be when you went to a dance. The men would hug the walls. Notice how groups hung out on the corner. Early gangs. Due to the existing clubs (gangs), as Black people left the South, they were forced to form gangs for survival. How did these clubs eventually become gangs? (Rhetorical)

[@edgaravelar8860]

The only problem that gangs where small membership mybe 10or20 members in every gang and not a lot of gangs in every block and ever corner

[@edgaravelar8860]

Like LA Chicago New York or Florida.

[@edgaravelar8860]

At that time black or Latino no job excuse from the white men at that time

[@mariekatherine5238]

Before SF turned into a shit hole…

[@edgaravelar8860]

Good thing back in the days no skinny jeans no young boy and men with eating wrings and pony tails or cell phones.