Gentrification in Portland, Ore. in the 1990s (documentary)

[@seanmoylan9630]

Also the single mon in this video reminds me exactly of my grandmother. God bless her, same exact situation.

[@joseamirandajr3723]

WE ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ...!!!

[@michaelshultz1590]

Really? You’re Native American? Are you aware that the Native Americans are not native to the Americas either? They travelled across the Bering Strait from Eurasia during the last ice age.

[@meliatortilla4625]

I was in elementary school at St. John the Apostle during the filming of this. Holy Redeemer was the funnest school to play basketball against

[@NiaMaria]

Poverty leads to violence.. I’m sad that this documentary doesn’t mention unemployment rates or lack of Black owned businesses...

[@SK-db1ri]

Redlining is the blueprint for all oppression, a legal loophole to discriminate and one that banks use to control black communities.

[@babeena_gt_3645]

How does poverty lead to violence?

[@michaelshultz1590]

@@SK-db1ri Redlining hasn’t been a thing in many years. It’s no longer a valid reason.

[@Azazel2024]

Excuses lead to bad behavior

[@alexw853]

What you failed to mention is the males who are gay or are laid up with all ethnic groups of white women (every female not black) and also NOT AMERICAN instead of building for you. I lived in Portland for three years and know the American black and bi racial men and those immigrant black males and their mixed race immigrant sons are not helping and doing what they are supposed to effing do. There's "black businesses"-- the foreign migrant groups like the cultures of Ethiopians and Jamaicans and now those Haitians who helped displace your asses..

[@NiaMaria]

But yet because of history we are at the bottom of the racial wealth gap and systematically keep from generating wealth in this country. Unlike other race groups, we can’t pass down inheritance. Just like the wealth from slavery is still in the system- the poverty is too. WE CANT IGNORE THAT! That’s the reason that the problem still exist!!!

[@sandimedeiros7395]

Nia Maria all this information breaks my heart.. EVERYONE SHOULD have the right to live with a SAFE drug free roof over our heads..the people that "don't see the negatives happening going on" need to OPEN their damn eyes! Having shelter ..SAFE shelter is a basic HUMAN right!

[@sandimedeiros7395]

Nia Maria 😢

[@portlandreviewer2143]

Weren't Asians also discrimated against in Portland? They were subjected to past laws preventing them from owning real estate. How come they are doing so well today?

[@sepulcher8263]

@@portlandreviewer2143 Because (East) Asians are smart/organized while also having their shit together. Any response about the legacy of slavery is a bullshit excuse from other blacks about why we as a group haven't progressed as much as other marginalized communities.

[@portlandreviewer2143]

@@sepulcher8263 I just Googled "income by ethnicity" and found that East Asian-Americans fall well below South and South East Asian-Americans in terms of income. It looks like the only East Asian-American ethnicity consistently in the top 5 are from Taiwan. Those from India and the Philippines have higher household incomes that those from Japan and Korea. The Chinese are closer to 20 on the list. I'm sure East Asian-Americans would love to erase these facts, since they discriminate against SE Asians. True, he poorest Asians in America are refugees from SE Asia, but the wealthiest Asians here are also from SE Asia.

[@Tigardelite8]

Now nobody can afford to live in those neighborhoods at all

[@michaelshultz1590]

Sure they can afford to live there. If you earn a proper education and meaningful degrees (nothing with the word, “studies” in the title) and then you will hard, then you can afford to live there. The neighborhood is cleaner, greener, safer, and relatively crime free.

[@joseamirandajr3723]

SO CALLED HOLIDAYS IS A BUSINESS IT IS REVENUES IN THEIR POCKETS...!!!

[@meliatortilla4625]

I have a problem with the soundtrack to this video

[@joseamirandajr3723]

********** IN THE WORDS OF MALCOLM X WE GO BACK 66 TRILLION YEARS... OUR RESUME DOES SPEAK FOR IT SELF...!!! **********. THIS IS AGREED...!!! ACTION IS NEEDED...!!!

[@michaelshultz1590]

Malcolm X was a racist, bigot, sexist, and a thug.

[@rolling_typhoon]

Solid documentary, glad it was recommended.

[@Azazel2024]

The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland

[@charlieterry6483]

@5:31 make sense of what guy is saying or no or i had too much coffee and am just overthinking🤔

[@raeorion]

18:30 they start talking about city program allowing grants to community organizations that can operate housing, these are the kids of solutions I hope stick. It takes a lot of work.

[@Azazel2024]

Because its worked so far 🤣

[@raeorion]

​@@Azazel2024in places people have been able to take advantage of those kinds of programs it totally has, so yeah

[@lengrasso3492]

It started in NW Portland back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Beautiful old homes torn down to put up condos and larger, modern homes. Now Portland is a pretentious place and unaffordable to the younger generation. Say "Hey Boomer" with a sneer. Keep in mind, the KKK marched in the Rose Festival parade at one time. Who remembers the Portland Police and the opossum incident?

[@alexw853]

Yall are still laid up and breeding with relatives of Klansmen and also laying up in bed with Spanish speaking whites, Eurasians, Middle Eastern and other "white racists". So STFU

[@seanmoylan9630]

I feel like people do not realize that gentrification especially in Portland effects not just black people but poor people in general. MANY asian, Hispanic, and caucasian people. My family lost our home on 6th and shaver that we had owned for over 65 years. I feel that if we stopped trying to paint this as just a black issue, and instead as an issue effecting EVERYONE, then we would be more successful in combating it.

[@bosslady2266]

Just like a selfish person thinks!!!! Blacks have always had it had... but Amen we woke and will stay woke

[@michaelshultz1590]

If your family had furthered their education they would have made enough to afford to live there. If your family owned the house then you should still own it. If your family did not own it, then it was not yours. Work harder and work smarter.

[@michaelshultz1590]

@@bosslady2266 Go woke, go broke. Btw, “woke” is painfully illiterate.

[@bosslady2266]

@@michaelshultz1590 you'll never understand!!!!

[@michaelshultz1590]

@@bosslady2266 I understand just fine. I have been busting my ass since I was 15. Nobody ever gave me anything. I had to earn it. I grew up fighting every day against racists that wanted to murder me and I won every fight. I thank my father for passing on his Marine Corp fighting techniques. They saved my life growing up in the hood. NE Portland is my neighborhood. I’ve lived in Woodlawn all of my life. I worked hard and I earned my way. I own my home. Gentrification simply meant that the neighborhood is now safe for my grandkids.

[@joseamirandajr3723]

THEIR 7 DAYS IS UP...!!!

[@joseamirandajr3723]

A CAR ENGINE DOES NOT RUN ON BULL SHIT FUMES, THE ENGINE RUNS ON REAL GAS...!!!

[@joseamirandajr3723]

( WE ARE THE ENERGY ) = INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WE ARE... WE ARE NUMBER ONE... BLESSINGS TO ALL MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WE ARE...!!! WE ARE THE WAVE FLOW, LET US RECONNECT OUR SELVES...!!!

[@dirtyy2k]

Baby girl needs to move in silence.

[@michaelshultz1590]

She needs to further her education so that she can earn more. She failed to plan and so she planned to fail.

[@joseamirandajr3723]

LET US RIDE TOGETHER AS ONE... LETS THROW OUT THE GARBAGE...!!!

[@ДмитрийВербицкий-у7д]

Miller Scott Young Linda Jones Michael

[@joseamirandajr3723]

OUR LANDS ARE FOR US TO INHERIT...!!!

[@michaelshultz1590]

They’re only yours if you earn them. You failed to earn them.

[@alexw853]

what land when you're Castilian? FOH.

[@Tubefish07]

To stop the redlining. Stop buying red bottoms!

[@cn9630]

We ALL have rough times! Ya just have to gird yourself up, like Job and deal with it... I get sick of hearing people complain all the time.... esp when so many are suffering REAL TRAGEDY!!! Try being a pancreatic patient for a day OR A LIFETIME (shortened lifetime, that is)!!! STOP USING EXCUSES AND GET UP AND OUT AND LIVE YOUR LIFE!

[@Scrambled3GGZ]

so... so your legit saying that racism isn't a tragedy??????? why???? what??? I cant even be mad this comment is so confusing.

[@michaelshultz1590]

@@Scrambled3GGZ Whining and crying rather than working hard and earning your way is a tragedy. Gentrification has nothing to do with racism.